Barry Sanders urges people to know about their cardiovascular health
Barry Sanders is urging people to talk with their physicians about their cardiovascular health.
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Barry Sanders is urging people to talk with their physicians about their cardiovascular health.
Researchers from Duke University say that even slightly high cholesterol levels in otherwise healthy adults between the ages of 35 and 55 can have long-term impacts on their heart.
Esperion Therapeutics Inc. Tuesday announced positive results from a Phase 2a study of its drug candidate ETC-1002 when added to statin therapy in patients with high levels of low density lipoprotein cholesterol, the so-called bad cholesterol, in their blood.
Esperion Therapeutics' proposed new cholesterol-busting drug cut the level of low-density lipoprotein, the so-called bad choleterol, up to 43 percent in a Phase 2 test of diabetic patients.
Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals Inc. has recalled several doses of its generic version of Lipitor because some batches of the cholesterol fighter may contain small glass particles.
It's a new drug that's hoped will do what no other drug can: Significantly raise the levels of good cholesterol in patients.
Think about this: It might be time to swap out that daily bagel.
Can eating an apple a day really keep the doctor away?
An experimental drug boosted good cholesterol so high and dropped bad cholesterol so low in a study that doctors were stunned and voiced renewed hopes for an entirely new way of preventing heart attacks and strokes.
