The "Great Cholesterol Myth" has been the foundation of the boneheaded dietary advice you and I have been saddled with for the past 30 years, "official" dietary advice that has directly contributed to the greatest epidemic of obesity, diabetes and heart disease in history.

Statins are medications that lower cholesterol by inhibiting an enzyme involved in its production by the liver and other organs. First approved by the FDA in 1987, statins are arguably the most widely-prescribed medicine in the industrialized world today.

We alone are responsible for our own health. Physicians are guides, but we all need to feel more entitled to direct our medical care.

By Melinda Wenner Moyer (Click here for the original article) Everyone over 50 should take statins to lower their cholesterol, an editorial argued...

Tirades are, by their very nature, apt to gain a lot of attention and "go viral." They are dramatic. They are extreme, provocative, and full of intrigue. Hype sells. Unfortunately, much of the time -- it is wrong.

By Debra Sherman and Ransdell Pierson CHICAGO, March 24 (Reuters) - Patients who view images of their hearts and see for themselves th...

Menopause is not something that happens to you! Nor is it something that you have no control over. Menopause is actually about coming home to yourself.

New research suggests that statins might have a very helpful antiviral effect at high dose, and they may even hold promise as an effective new treatment for CFS and fibromyalgia.

A recent editorial proposes that fast food restaurants consider giving out a cholesterol-lowering statin drug with each meal, just as they give away little packets of ketchup. Surely, this must be a joke, right?

Today, a majority of people who use statins are doing so for primary prevention of heart attacks and strokes. It is this use of statins that has come ...

TRENTON, N.J. — The European Union has approved a new chewable form of cholesterol blockbuster Lipitor for children 10 and up with high levels o...

CHICAGO — Should healthy people with low cholesterol take a pill to lower their cholesterol even more in hopes of preventing heart problems? The...

Re "Plan to Widen Use of Statins Has Skeptics" (front page, March 31): The wrong question is being asked. It's not: "Should Crestor be given to reduce...

I'm sure that many of you read about the study showing that Crestor, a popular statin drug manufactured by AstraZeneca, has been found to confer an ad...

If you say your genes are responsible, you are mostly wrong. It is the environment working on your genes that determines your risk. In other words, it is the way you eat, how much you exercise, how you deal with stress and the effects of environmental toxins.

One article in bmj shows that half of doctors prescribe their patients placebos; another shows that 23% of patients on statins were women without heart disease.

The American Academy of Pediatrics released new guidelines this week, recommending some children as young as 8 take cholesterol-fighting drugs to ward off future heart problems.