In a pilot study of people living with HIV or high levels of cholesterol, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers found that a six-week course of a cholesterol-lowering medication improved the function of ...

Cholesterol drugs side effects go beyond cholesterol. New research links statins to brain changes, weight gain, and lower ...

In a pilot study of people living with HIV or high levels of cholesterol, researchers found that a six-week course of a cholesterol-lowering medication improved the function of the coronary arteries ...

One of the world's largest studies on the impact of cholesterol-lowering medication has good and bad news for the 200 million people who take statins or other medication for high cholesterol. One of ...

Cholesterol is a substance that the body needs to function. High or low cholesterol levels can cause adverse effects and are a health risk. The substance has a range of essential functions in the body ...

High blood cholesterol is associated with increased risk of heart disease, but it is also essential for brain function. Dr ...

Cholesterol refers to a diverse group of fats that serve a number of necessary functions in the body. Cholesterol helps keep cells from freezing, helps absorb fat soluble vitamins, serves as an ...

Senior Author: Paul A. Slesinger, PhD, Lillian and Henry M. Stratton Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Center for Neurotechnology and Behavior, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New ...

For more than a decade, scientists have accepted that cholesterol - a key component of cell membranes - did not uniformly affect membranes of different types. But a new study led by Assistant ...

Through a structural and functional approach, researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Stanford University Medical Center identified physical binding sites for cholesterol in ...