Mona Lisa Suffered Sky-High Cholesterol
Leonardo da Vinci's model for the Mona Lisa was smiling despite some serious health problems, according to an Italian pathologist applying his knowledge to Renaissance painting. Professor Vito Franco...
View ArticleAggressive Treatment Doesn't Help Diabetics
Rigorous treatment to lower blood pressure or cholesterol below current guidelines does not benefit—and may actually hurt—diabetics, a new study shows. The findings, published online in the New England...
View ArticleEat Some Nuts to Lower Cholesterol
Eating a small amount of peanuts every day can help keep cholesterol within healthy levels, a new study suggests. Regular consumers of nuts of all varieties had lower cholesterol, say researchers who...
View ArticleHow Drinking Leads to Longer Lives
After plenty of us raised a glass to the news that heavy drinkers live longer than abstainers, we drained that glass ... then got really pensive ... then started wondering, hey, how is that possible?...
View ArticleUSDA: Eggs Actually Aren't Cholesterol Bombs
The USDA backtracked yesterday on that whole "eggs can be bad for you" thing: Turns out eggs are actually lower in cholesterol and higher in vitamin D than previously thought. Specifically, 14% lower...
View ArticleBoosting 'Good' Cholesterol Doesn't Help, May Hurt
Raising your “good” HDL cholesterol might not be such a good idea. A federally funded study into the effectiveness of the HDL booster niacin has been abruptly cut off, after it became clear that the...
View ArticlePfizer Hopes to Sell Lipitor Over the Counter
Pfizer hopes to sell an over-the-counter version of its popular cholesterol drug Lipitor, the Wall Street Journal reports. But first it will have to convince a skeptical FDA, which is wary about...
View ArticleSave Your Heart: Walk Before the Big Meal
The best time to walk off a gut-busting Thanksgiving dinner is at least 12 hours before you eat it, researchers say. Studies have found that light exercise, like a half-hour walk, done 12 to 16 hours...
View ArticleAs Lipitor Patent Expires, Pfizer Fights to Keep Users
The biggest-selling drug of all time—Lipitor—is now available for production in generic form as Pfizer's patent on the cholesterol-lowering pill expired today, reports AFP . It's such a huge...
View ArticleUS Cholesterol Levels On the Decline
Americans don't often get good news collectively when it comes to health, so enjoy: The nation's cholesterol levels show genuine long-range improvement. Federal researchers say that over the last two...
View ArticleJust 3% of Americans Have 'Ideal' Heart Health
How's this for a gloomy stat? Only 3% of Americans have "ideal" heart health, according to a new report from the American Heart Association . Using data collected on 350,000 Americans in 2009, it...
View ArticleAnti-Cholesterol Eye Drops Could Fight Blindness
Cholesterol-lowering eye drops may soon have another use: fighting blindness associated with macular degeneration. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine found that immune cells known...
View ArticleHow Eggs and Your Gut Can Give You a Heart Attack
Eggs could be hazardous to your heart health, and not just for cholesterol-related reasons. A group of researchers has discovered that a compound called lecithin interacts with our gut bacteria to...
View ArticleEat These 7 'Unhealthy' Foods
If you religiously stay away from eggs (cholesterol!), wheat (gluten!), potatoes (carbs!), and the like, dietitian and author Katherine Tallmadge has good news for you. On LiveScience , she outlines...
View ArticleExperimental Drug Makes High Cholesterol Vanish
Might high cholesterol one day be a thing of the past? A story in the New York Times about an experimental drug suggests as much. Three companies—Amgen, Pfizer and Sanofi—are racing to complete tests...
View ArticleCDC: 200K Americans Die Needlessly Each Year
Quitting smoking, keeping blood pressure and cholesterol levels down, and popping the odd aspirin could stop hundreds of thousands of Americans from dying unnecessarily every year. That's according to...
View ArticleBig Shift: Forget Focus on Bad Cholesterol Levels
Two leading heart groups have announced changes being described as "tectonic" and "profound" in the way doctors prescribe cholesterol-lowering statins. The shift from the American Heart Association and...
View ArticleBig Problem With Last Week's Big Cholesterol News
The changes to the way doctors prescribe cholesterol-lowering statins were described last week as "tectonic" and "profound"; today, the New York Times uses the phrase "major embarrassment." The issue:...
View ArticleNot Getting Pregnant? Check Your Cholesterol
High cholesterol is bad for more than just your arteries. A study released this week found that high cholesterol may make it tougher for couples to get pregnant, the Washington Post reports....
View ArticleStudies: Popular Cholesterol Treatment Too Dangerous
Niacin sure sounds like a safe drug—it's a B vitamin; you can get it over the counter and in your cereal . And for years, doctors have been prescribing it in the hopes of cutting LDL, or "bad...
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