Boca Raton, FL - A new meta-analysis of major pravastatin secondary-prevention trials has shown that the benefits from aspirin and statins are additive and may even be synergistic. The authors of the ...

Prevastatin is prescribed for conditions including high cholesterol in adults and some children. It’s a generic medication that isn’t available as a brand-name drug. The drug comes as an oral tablet.

Statins improve serum lipid parameters in adults who have received a kidney transplant, but data in the pediatric renal transplant population are scarce. For this 12-month cohort study, renal ...

Objective: To determine pharmacokinetic data for pravastatin in children, since current data are insufficient in this age group. Conclusions: Body surface area and gender did not influence the ...

For the first time a statin drug has been shown to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes, according to a study published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. Dallas, Jan. 22, 2001 - ...

Pravastatin is a generic version of Pravachol®. Pravastatin is a statin medication that works by lowering bad cholesterol (LDL) and increasing good cholesterol (HDL) in the blood. This helps prevent ...

Pravastatin was provided as a gift from Daiichi Sankyo Co. Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan). The antibodies used in this study and their commercial sources were as follows: anti-phospho-AMPK (p-Thr172), anti-AMPK, ...

NEW YORK (CNN) -- A new study shows patients with plaque build-up in their arteries may benefit from taking cholesterol-lowering drugs, even if their cholesterol levels are not all that high. The New ...

Q. I’m taking pravastatin to keep my cholesterol at optimal levels because I had quintuple bypass more than 20 years ago. At what point would this medication affect my muscles? And how would I ...

New research that looked at whether two commonly prescribed statin medicines, used to lower low-density lipoprotein or 'bad cholesterol' levels in the blood, can adversely affect cognitive function ...

Shares of Sunshine Biopharma (SBFM) rose 11% on Thursday morning after the company announced that its Canadian unit, Nora Pharma, launched a generic version of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Pravachol. The ...