BOSTON - A new study finds that older adults should consider taking popular cholesterol-lowering medications.

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The risk of major cancers, including breast, prostate and cervical, is halved in patients taking the cholesterol-lowering ...

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If you’ve experienced a heart attack, your healthcare provider may prescribe certain medications to help prevent one from ...

Researchers say the findings support reconsidering the use of these drugs for most people over 70. A modeling study on the ...

Earlier this year I quizzed a few colleagues — five men under the age of 60 — to find out when was the last time they visited ...

The seven-year MS-STAT study, which involved almost 1,000 patients over 31 sites across the UK, concluded that simvastatin is ...

In this article, we discuss the global issue of drug shortages. We summarise our research where we developed a framework for ...

Drug shortages are becoming increasingly common. Shortages have been observed across a range of therapeutic areas, ...