Rachel Worsley

Chinese doctors say the young boy had 'extremely high' LDL-cholesterol levels that refused to budge with statin therapy An eight-year-old boy with acute coronary syndrome is believed to be the youngest ever case of homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia treated with filtration plasma and percutaneous coronary intervention, doctors are reporting. Computer tomography angiography showing stenosis of the patient's aortic arch (white arrow).

A novel drug and stem cell combination may pave the way for new type 1 diabetes therapies A world-first Australian discovery facilitating the regeneration of insulin in pancreatic stem cells destroyed by type 1 diabetes could lead to new treatment options for the disease. In groundbreaking research, a Monash University team has demonstrated in a preclinical study that adding a novel compound to donor stem cells reactivates the Login or join to see the rest of this article

Data from nearly a million patients link rosuvastatin to a higher risk of kidney damage in a dose-response manner Rosuvastatin is linked to slightly increased risk of kidney failure compared with atorvastatin, underlining the need to start and stay low with patients who have chronic kidney disease, according to US researchers.