According to the National Capital Poison Center, a not-for-profit poison control organization, at least 85 drugs—including ...

Like pretty much all fruits and vegetables, grapefruit can help improve your health in many ways. It’s packed with vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and other plant compounds that do a body good. Let’s ...

Drinking “large amounts” of alcohol while taking statins is also dangerous. The NHS adds: “If you're prescribed a statin, you ...

The NHS has issued a warning about the dangers of drinking a certain type of fruit juice for those taking a common kind of ...

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 ...

Several medications such as statins and calcium-channel blockers shouldn’t be taken with grapefruit or its juice because of its enzyme-binding ability, which means the medications may pass from ...

Aim: It has been shown that HMG-CoA inhibitors, also called statins, may interfere with the tubular reabsorption of albumin, increasing urinary albumin excretion. Patients & methods: We have ...

Statins are a standard of care in many clinical settings such as acute myocardial infarction and for patients having or at risk of cardiovascular (CV) disease. This is based on a plethora of data ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 74-year-old woman who has been on 40 mg of atorvastatin for years. During the past year or two, I started feeling tired all the time. I did have spurts of energy at times ...

Dear Dr Roach: I am a 74-year-old woman who has been on 40 mg of atorvastatin for years. During the past year or two, I started feeling tired all the time. I did have spurts of energy at times ...