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Health Topics May 6 2025

When the heart and kidneys fail together: cardiorenal syndrome

This is a condition in which the heart and kidneys stop functioning properly because one affects the functioning of the other. When one of the two...

Health Topics January 22 2024

Is there a cholesterol vaccine?

The Spanish Medicines Agency has approved a drug that works in a "similar" way to a vaccine, to reduce blood cholesterol concentrations and which i...

Research October 26 2021

Daily consumption of walnuts reduces “bad" cholesterol and improves the quality of low-density lipoprotein (LDL)

The Hospital Clínic-IDIBAPS is carrying out a trial to explore the effects of a diet enriched with walnuts for two years on healthy ageing in indiv...

Health Topics March 11 2020

An effective monoclonal antibody for familial hypercholesterolaemia

People with familial hypercholesterolaemia find it difficult to reduce their blood cholesterol levels, even when taking the most effective medicine...