Faculty and fellow cardiologists at the University of Florida’s department of medicine, including first author David Winchester, M.D. and lead researcher Anthony A Bavry, M.D., M.P.H, are pointing to a new use for an old therapy. Giving patients cholesterol-lowering statins before surgery and other invasive procedures can halve the risk of heart attacks, deaths and other complications, they report in the Journal of American College of Cardiology. <Click here to learn more>