Cholesterol lowering - The statin 'wonder' drugs - Statins are the new wonder drugs now used to prevent everything from heart disease to Alzheimer's. But new evidence from a Finnish doctor shows that s...

Low cholesterol levels increase mortality - Lowering serum cholesterol levels may actually increase the risk of death from stroke, recent research suggests. ...

High cholesterol - High cholesterol, or hypercholesterinaemia, is conventionally treated with a low-fat diet, and a statin or anion-exchange resin drug. The drugs, howev...

Low cholesterol equals high risk of death in the elderly - More evidence of adverse effects due to low cholesterol levels has emerged in a study carried out in Hawaii. ...

Cholesterol lowering: - Diet is as good as a statin - Your cholesterol levels are a little on the high side. Almost without thinking, your doctor reaches for his pad to write a prescription for a statin...

Cholesterol: Too high or too low and it can lead to cancer in diabetics - Low – and high - levels of LDL cholesterol may cause cancer in diabetics, a new study has found.

Low-fat diet may lead to high cholesterol - In India, as many as 10 per cent of the affluent urban upper classes now fall victim to coronary artery disease, a figure approaching the levels of th...

Lung cancer - A reader’s friend has been recently diagnosed with lung cancer. She has been told it is inoperable and is just starting chemotherapy. Do readers know...