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

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

What cardiologists say the findings may mean for you.

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 ...

If you've avoided taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs because you're worried about the risk of developing memory loss, depression or other scary side effects, this scenario plays out more often ...

Most statin side effects listed on drug packaging are not supported by strong evidence, a new review suggests. Of 66 potential side effects, researchers identified only 4 linked to statins.

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

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

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 ...

Statin hysteria has made it hard to convince people that this effective drug is actually very safe.