Cholesterol-lowering drug shrinks enlarged prostates in hamster model

Thursday, October 21, 2010 - 16:20 in Health & Medicine

A cholesterol-lowering drug reduced the enlarged prostates of hamsters to the same extent as a drug commonly used to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), report researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and their colleagues in the October issue of the Journal of Urology. Together, the drugs worked even better.

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