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By Scott Baltic

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Eicosapentaenoic acid, or EPA -- the essential omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid abundant in oily fish -- may help protect stroke patients from suffering a second stroke, a Japanese study shows.

In a study of people with high cholesterol who were taking a low dose of a cholesterol-lowering "statin," researchers found that adding EPA did not reduce the occurrence of a first stroke but did lower recurrence rates in those with a history of stroke.

Cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins have a profound effect on an elite group of cells important to brain health as we age, scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center have found.

Nothing is as refreshing as ice cream on a hot summer day. The following recipes use healthful and tasty ingredients to make your own nutritious frozen treats for your July Fourth celebration.

Low levels of high-density lipoproteins -- the "good" cholesterol -- in middle age may increase the risk of memory loss and lead to dementia later in life, researchers reported in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis ...

General Practitioners play a central role in controlling an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, i.e. cholesterol levels in serum.

The good cholesterol that removes fatty plaque from the body may also be linked to memory, and low levels may indicate a risk for dementia, a British study found.

Main Category: Hypertension Also Included In: Cholesterol Article Date: 23 Jun 2008 - 2:00 PDT Pfizer Inc announced that it has entered into an agreement with generics manufacturer Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd.

Spending on statins, drugs used to reduce artery-clogging cholesterol, increased 156 percent between 2000 and 2005, according to the latest News and Numbers from the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and ...

WASHINGTON - Use of cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins rose by 156 percent between 2000 and 2005, with spending jumping from $7.7 billion to $19.7 billion, the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and ...

As Canada's population ages, more and more people will incur costs for medication and other products and services to keep themselves healthy.

Walgreens is getting more aggressive about marketing its prescription savings club card in a tough economy with cut-throat competition for cheap generics.

I'm sure you've heard of 'statins' like Lipitor , Zocor , and Pravachol . These powerful cholesterol-lowering medicines are widely used some people make jokes about adding them to the water supply.

Results of a new analysis of the Treating to New Targets study show that intensive low-density lipoprotein cholesterol-lowering in patients with stable coronary heart disease whose systolic blood pressure was ...

Jun 20, 2008 - Merck & Co., Inc. today provided an update on the regulatory status in the United States of its investigational medicines MK-0524A and MK-0524B for the treatment of primary hypercholesterolemia ...

A gene variation may be why cholesterol-lowering drugs dont work in some people.

Concerns that neither Pfizer nor Ranbaxy might have got a better deal than the other depressed investor confidence that took a toll on the stock prices of the two companies on their respective stock exchanges.

Differences in the way people process genetic information may explain why some get a huge benefit from cholesterol-fighting drugs known as statins, while others get very little, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

Sanofi-Aventis' offer for Zentiva , which is based in the Czech republic, comes as the big drugmaker struggles with the usual twin problems afflicting pharma - thinning pipelines and expiring patents.