Cholesterol is an essential ingredient for human life, a building block for cells that’s used to create hormones, bile, and other vital substances. But too much cholesterol in your blood greatly ...

Bioengineer: Stanley Hazen, a molecular medicine professor at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, commented on a study he and his colleagues conducted that uncovered a new pathway linked to ...

Researchers found that vitamin B3 (niacin) can suppress miR-93, a key driver of fatty liver disease. In mice, niacin restored ...

After the failure of Pfizer's good cholesterol-boosting drug, torcetrapib, some Wall Street analysts believe the most promising new treatment option could be a group of niacin-based medicines. Federal ...

April 19, 2012 (Baltimore, Maryland) — When the Atherothrombosis Intervention in Metabolic Syndrome with Low HDL Cholesterol/High Triglyceride and Impact on Global Health Outcomes (AIM-HIGH) study was ...