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A class of cholesterol-lowering drugs, also known as HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors.

Once again, the popular cholesterol-lowering statin drugs have been shown to be good for more than the heart: They may also lower your odds of dying of the flu.

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: We have an outbreak of scabies in our area. Will you explain how one gets them? Is it by shaking hands or from pushing a grocery cart in the supermarket? How does one get rid of them? - D.S. Scabies fills people with dread and disgust because they think it comes from poor personal hygiene.

Myocardial ischemic events at 30 days in these statin naA ve patients undergoing vascular surgery were cut in half .

Administering fluvastatin to patients in advance of vascular surgery can reduce the incidence of adverse cardiac events postoperatively, according to a study in the Sept.

Patients undergoing vascular surgery treated perioperatively with Lescol XL showed a significant improvement in postoperative cardiac outcome within 30 days of having the procedure compared with placebo, according to results of the DECREASE III study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine1.

Olaf Schouten, M.D., Ph.D., Eric Boersma, Ph.D., Sanne E. Hoeks, M.Sc., Robbert Benner, Ph.D., Hero van Urk, M.D., Ph.D., Marc R.H.M. van Sambeek, M.D., Ph.D., Hence J.M. Verhagen, M.D., Ph.D., Nisar A. Khan, Ph.D., Martin Dunkelgrun, M.D., Ph.D., Jeroen J. Bax, M.D., Ph.D., Don Poldermans, M.D., Ph.D., for the Dutch Echocardiographic Cardiac Risk ...

A dose of a cholesterol-lowering statin before vascular surgery reduces the risk of complications and death, new Dutch research shows.

Score another victory for the cheap, cholesterol-lowering wonder drugs known as statins.

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Statin drugs, typically used to manage high cholesterol, reduced hepatitis C virus replication and increased the activity of interferon and directly-targeted anti-HCV agents in laboratory studies, and prevented development of resistance, according to a report in the July 2009 issue of Hepatology .

Statin drugs, typically used to manage high cholesterol, reduced hepatitis C virus replication and increased the activity of interferon and directly-targeted anti-HCV agents in laboratory studies, and prevented development of resistance, according to a report in the July 2009 issue of Hepatology .

Aug. 3, 2009 - The FDA has approved a Livalo, a new cholesterol -lowering statin drug.

July 6, 2009 - Statin users with prolonged statin-related muscle pain may also experience muscle damage, even when a blood test used to identify muscle injury is normal, new research shows.

Abstract We performed a focused siRNA screen in an A549 dengue type 2 New Guinea C subgenomic replicon cell line that contains a Renilla luciferase cassette.

Dear Dr. Donohue: My doctor wants me to take a statin drug even though my total cholesterol is normal, and my LDL cholesterol isn't very high.

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: My doctor wants me to take a statin drug even though my total cholesterol is normal and my LDL cholesterol isn't very high.

In addition to being beneficial for secondary prevention, statin treatment for acute coronary syndromes leads to fewer major cardiovascular events and fewer rehospitalizations, according to a study presented at the American Heart Association's Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology Annual Conference, held from April 29 to May 1 in ...

Giving patients a cholesterol-busting statin drug during a coronary emergency can save lives and reduce the incidence of longer-term problems, Czech researchers say.