There's two promising options to make statins tolerable again.

Since statins first came to market in the late 1980s, muscle aches, weakness, and fatigue have driven many patients to ...

A massive review of 23 randomized trials found that statins do not cause the vast majority of side effects listed on their ...

Statin labels should be revised to reflect their safety and to hopefully spur better uptake and adherence, say experts.

Statins are the most prescribed drugs in America. At last count, over 50 million people were taking medications such as atorvastatin, rosuvastatin, simvastatin, pravastatin or lovastatin to control ...

Statins are the most prescribed drugs in America. At last count, more than 50 million people were taking medications such as ...

A massive analysis of randomized trials suggests that most side effects listed on statin labels may not be caused by the drugs at all. Cardiovascular disease kills about 20 million people worldwide ...

What cardiologists say the findings may mean for you.

Product information leaflets for statins should be changed, because they don’t cause the majority of the possible side effects currently listed, say researchers. The University of Oxford’s Cholesterol ...

The results, in The Lancet journal, come from trials involving more than 120,000 people comparing statins with a dummy drug or placebo.

A landmark Lancet analysis of more than 150,000 trial participants challenges decades of statin side-effect warnings and calls for updated drug labels grounded in randomized evidence. Study: ...