The Food and Drug Administration is recommending that the use of drugs that contain 80 mg of simvastatin – the highest approved dose of the popular cholesterol – lowering statin – be sharply curtailed ...

Are you taking Simvastatin? Are you aware of the dangers of combining Simvastatin with certain foods, herbs, or alcohol? Drug-food-interactions are seldom discussed but can lead to undesirable side ...

March 19, 2010 — Simvastatin (Zocor, Merck/Schering-Plough Pharmaceuticals), used at the highest approved dose of 80 mg, is associated with an increased risk for myopathy, including rhabdomyolysis, ...

Data from an open-label, fixed-sequence study showed that although sacubitril inhibited organic anion-transporting polypeptides (OATP)1B1 and OATP1B3 in vitro, this did not translate to any clinically ...

Patients with intermediate and mild Parkinson disease, defined by a Hoehn & Yahr stage of 3 or less, experienced an additional deterioration in motor function with simvastatin compared with placebo ...

Liver transplant recipients who received livers from donors treated with simvastatin (FloLipid) had a higher rate of graft survival at 3 months and 6 months, a researcher said. In a randomized phase ...

Simvastatin could be an effective therapy for portal hypertension, according to a study by Abraldes and colleagues, which shows that the drug decreases portal hypertension and improves liver perfusion ...

Simvastatin is prescribed for high cholesterol. It’s a generic medication, available as the brand-name drug Zocor. It comes as an oral tablet and an oral solution. The cost of simvastatin can vary, ...

Oncotarget recently published "Simvastatin is a potential candidate drug in ovarian clear cell carcinomas" which reported that based on previous studies, the authors assessed the anti-proliferative ...

Researchers writing in the journal NeuroToxicology (March 2026) report that rosuvastatin affects the function of brain cells called microglia.

Q: After my doctor prescribed simvastatin, I gradually began to lose my libido. I didn't realize that this medication was responsible, but after I dumped the drug because of severe muscle pain, my sex ...