Oral PCSK9 inhibitors used to mean injections. The guideline your clinician follows was published four months before the first tablet was approved.

At-home cholesterol test accuracy is one question; who is accountable for your number is another. A firm that only mails your sample is not the lab.

Walk-in cholesterol testing is federally categorized as waived: simple and low-risk, but as the CDC puts it, not error-proof. Here is what to ask.

Cholesterol testing in older adults measures what it always did. What changed is the risk those same numbers describe, and who reads them with you.

A cholesterol test for children is not a nutrition assessment. It looks for a condition a child is born with, in a window puberty makes necessary.

Help a parent understand cholesterol results and one fact reframes it: two labs' reports cannot be compared, and "normal" is the lab's word, not a target.

Familial hypercholesterolemia signs hinge on a calculated LDL, not a measured one - and a particle the panel skips is counted inside that number.

Cholesterol test in the emergency room? The standard screening indications are family history and risk assessment - not one is an emergency.