American Heart Month perfect time to learn about cholesterol

Cholesterol can be helpful and harmful, depending on how much you have in your body and what it’s doing. Given that there are both good and bad types of cholesterol, and that high cholesterol can have different causes in different people, it makes managing cholesterol levels a bit complicated. But with good information, you have the power to do something about your cholesterol.

It's 'Buyer Beware' When Getting Statins Off the Internet

THURSDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Be wary of buying the cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins on the Internet, British researchers say.

Most Web sites selling statins chaotic

PORTSMOUTH, England, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Internet sites selling drugs to consumers for use in lowering cholesterol levels are widespread -- and most provide poor information, British researchers say.

Websites advertising cholesterol-lowering drugs of poor quality

( Wiley-Blackwell ) A new study published in the journal Pharmacoepidemiology & Drug Safety reveals that internet sites selling prescription statins directly to consumers are widespread, and that most websites advertising statins for sale to the general public contain very poor levels of information relevant to safe use of the medicine and side effects.

VAP Test Improves Identification of CIMT Progression

Expanded cholesterol assessment of moderate risk patients can play an important role in identifying and monitoring the progression of atherosclerosis. That’s according to a clinica