Clinicians receive conflicting advice on whether to order blood tests to screen for lipids in children. A new study could add to the confusion. Researchers found that a combination of physical proxy ...

Most people rely on a standard lipid panel to gauge their heart health, but experts say those numbers don’t always tell the full story. While cholesterol levels provide a baseline, they don’t capture ...

Many diseases can be successfully treated in the simple environment of a cell culture dish, but to successfully treat real people, the drug agent has to take a journey through the infinitely more ...

Is your head spinning over the conflicting messages you hear about fat and cholesterol? That’s not surprising. Cholesterol is a waxy substance found in animal-based foods that we eat and in our body’s ...