Millions of older adults already take cholesterol-lowering statins for heart health, and a growing body of observational ...

Scientists created a tool to help doctors predict a patient’s risk of severe muscle problems from taking a statin.

Roughly 40 million people with high cholesterol in the U.S. take statins to help bring their numbers back into a healthy ...

Dave Ricks steered the 150-year-old drug giant to a $1 trillion market cap. Can he defeat pharma’s boom and bust cycle?

Earlier this year, Canada became the first major market in the world where generic forms of semaglutide became legal. The competition was on: Manufacturers raced to secure Health Canada approval so ...

The average drug now costs more than US$1 billion to develop and takes more than a decade to reach the market 1. And for every success, there are nine drug candidates that fail clinical trials 2. “In ...

If you take cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins, you may have noticed a flurry of news coverage since late October 2025 about an extensive recall of thousands of bottles of atorvastatin, the ...

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