Cholesterol disorders affect millions of people globally and are among the leading risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, including heart attack and stroke. Statins are the first-line therapy for ...

Anthracyclines are widely used to treat hematological and solid-tumor cancers, but past research suggests their use may be associated with late cardiac effects, including heart failure, among patients ...

Statins reduce the incidence of cardiovascular events in persons with type 2 diabetes mellitus. However, the benefit of statins in such patients receiving hemodialysis, who are at high risk for ...

More than 140,000 bottles of a popular drug commonly prescribed to reduce cholesterol have been recalled for a defect that ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Patients with lymphoma on anthracycline-based chemotherapy who took atorvastatin (Lipitor) for a year were less likely to experience cardiac dysfunction, according to the STOP-CA trial.

If you take cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins, you may have noticed a flurry of news coverage since late October about an extensive recall of thousands of bottles of atorvastatin, the generic ...

Over 141,000 bottles of cholesterol medication have been recalled due to “failed dissolution specifications,” suggesting that ...

Newark, New Castle, USA, June 19, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to a recent report by Growth Plus Reports, the global atorvastatin drug market was valued at US$ 4.55 billion in 2022 and is ...

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. For patients with COVID-19 admitted to intensive care, giving atorvastatin 20 mg/d did not result ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with atorvastatin, rosuvastatin is associated with increased risks of hematuria, proteinuria and kidney ...

Ranbaxy, the often-troubled manufacturer of generic drugs, will temporarily stop manufacturing generic atorvastatin. On November 9, 2012 the company announced a voluntary recall of some lots of ...