The 30-Year Statin Panic Is Finally Over

Fifty-five years ago, a Japanese biochemist by the name of Akira Endo isolated a compound from a mold growing on rice in a Kyoto grain shop. It would go on to prevent more heart attacks than almost any other discovery in medicine. But in 1966, all that lay in the future. Akira Endo had just arrived in New York City. He'd grown up on a farm in northern Japan, fascinated by mushrooms and mold from…