Cholesterol

Switching from red meat to chicken to keep your cholesterol down may not be a great strategy, according to a new…

A surprising new genetic study shows that some people with naturally high levels of HDL cholesterol—the supposedly…

Many new studies are complicating our understanding of the role cholesterol plays in heart disease. And last month,…

For years we've been told to reduce our consumption of saturated fats as a sure-fire way to prevent heart disease.…

Cholesterol is bad and lowering cholesterol is good. Well, at least this is what we’ve been led to believe for…

Over the past few decades, scientists have suggested that high levels of HDL—which has come to be known as "good…

Scientists have developed a test that detects whether the large, misshapen, mutant cells that indicate you're due…

By tweaking an enzyme in mice, researchers expected to get rodents with low cholesterol, but fatty livers. Instead…