Statins

Akira Endo, Scholar of Statins That Reduce Heart Disease, Dies at 90

Akira Endo, a Japanese biochemist whose research on fungi helped to lay the groundwork for widely prescribed drugs that lower…

3 weeks ago

Japan biochemist who discovered statins, Akira Endo, dies

Akira Endo experimented on thousands of microbes to reach his 1973 discovery of mevastatin. Japanese biochemist Akira Endo, who discovered…

3 weeks ago

Groundbreaking New Study Reveals That Statins Could Prevent Cancer

A recent study from Mass General Cancer Center reveals that statins might block a pathway involved in cancer development due…

1 month ago

Study suggests statins could help fight gum disease

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Could taking statins benefit your mouth in addition to your arteries? A new study conducted in…

3 months ago

Statins | The BMJ

Practical Prescribing is a series produced in conjunction with the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin to highlight important issues for prescribers…

5 months ago

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