New Type of Cholesterol-Lowering Drug Shows Promise
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TUESDAY, Dec. 18 (HealthDay News) -- A new kind of drug designed to lower levels of "bad" low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and reduce heart disease risk has proved safe and effective in a phase II clinical trial, researchers report.
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Blueberries, already the darlings of the fruit world for their potential disease-fighting ability, may have yet another compound to help lower cholesterol.
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Reducing the levels of a certain protein may be as powerful a tool in preventing cardiac-related death as lowering cholesterol.
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A disappointing study of the heart drug Vytorin has led some doctors to reconsider what makes statin drugs so effective at fighting heart disease.
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SAN DIEGO -- A new obesity wonder pill could become one of the best selling drugs on the market if it lives up to its clinical trials.
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An aggressive, high-dose regimen of cholesterol-lowering drugs within days after a heart attack may reduce further heart problems, says a new large-scale study.
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A new HIV drug shows promising results in people for whom other treatments no longer work, a study suggests.
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The biggest test yet of an experimental drug that offers the fairy-tale promise of helping people lose weight and quit smoking found that it helped people not only drop
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Reducing the levels of a certain protein secreted by the body may be as powerful a tool in preventing cardiac-related death as lowering cholesterol.
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A pill that helps you lose weight and quit smoking? That was amazing enough to capture headlines this past week. But scientists say the experimental drug might be even more versatile, providing a new tool
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NEW YORK  - Early treatment with Lipitor  (atorvastatin), a "statin" cholesterol-lowering drug, reduces  the build-up of artery-clogging plaque in patients who've had a  recent heart attack, new research suggests.
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Not content with having a drug that might merely fight obesity and smoking, the company developing this eagerly anticipated pill will soon launch studies to see if it can treat and prevent clogged arteries and heart disease.
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MONDAY, Jan. 14 (HealthDay News)-- The long-awaited results of a trial of Zetia, a cholesterol-lowering drug prescribed to about a million Americans, shows the drug confers no medical benefit to users.
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Blueberries, already the darlings of the fruit world for their potential disease-fighting ability, may have yet another compound to help lower cholesterol. A compound called pterostilbene performed better, at least in a lab study with rats, than a common cholesterol-lowering drug.
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A new type of drug shows growing promise as a more potent way for many breast cancer patients to significantly cut their risk of a recurrence, researchers reported yesterday.
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AtheroGenics announces the path forward for its lead drug.
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Duke researchers recently uncovered that an immediate and aggressive dosing regime of statins, cholesterol-lowering drugs, successfully reduces the future risk of heart attacks.