Zocor (simvastatin) and Lipitor (atorvastatin) are both statin drugs, which are medications used to lower cholesterol levels in the blood. Statins primarily work by inhibiting the enzyme HMG-CoA ...

Well, for one thing, your cholesterol levels could reach such stratospheric levels that lipids start oozing from your blood vessels, forming yellowish nodules on your skin. That was the disturbing ...

The lesion was exactly located on the site where she had had her ear pierced 5 years previously ... diagnosis of sarcoidosis, foreign-body granuloma, and allergic contact granuloma was put ...

If you’ve been diagnosed with or are at risk for high cholesterol (meaning you have too much of this waxy substance in your blood), your doctor may recommend a low-cholesterol diet. Learn what a ...

A zero calcium score with high cholesterol may mean a person is at a lower risk of coronary heart disease. It means imaging does not show a buildup of calcified plaque in the heart’s blood vessels.

In 2019, a 9-year-old boy in Connecticut developed a buzzing in his ear after a tick became lodged in his ear drum, according to a case report published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Since the late 1980s, statins have been the mainstay of cholesterol management, lowering low-density lipoprotein (LDL) levels and preventing countless heart attacks. Yet many patients do not ...

So when I walked by the Bebird booth, I thought I spotted a new pair of over-ear headphones. To my surprise, they were actually advanced ear cleaners. They say you shouldn't judge a book by its ...