Current AHA guidelines call for healthy Americans to bring LDL below 100 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) of blood, while ...

Pharmacy benefits manager CVS Health has warned that the new PCSK9 inhibitor class of cholesterol-lowering drugs poses an unprecedented challenge to the US healthcare system. In a blog post ...

The researchers hope the breakthrough will help scientists cure a genetic disorder that increases the likelihood of dying from coronary artery disease at a young age.

Amgen, Sanofi and Regeneron have been forced to cut the cost of their new cholesterol drugs in negotiations with America's most powerful healthcare gatekeeper. Express Scripts, the largest manager ...

Structures of ApoB100 show LDL receptor contact points ...

Two new drugs will soon be available to target little-known forms of high cholesterol, which are driven by our genes and which so far have lacked treatment options. Two clinical trials involving ...

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"the discovery of this mechanism opens up new opportunities to design targeted therapies to enhance the beneficial effect of ...

Five challenges that the pharmaceutical industry needs to overcome in 2020 Two provinces carry out special drug monitoring New cholesterol-lowering drugs Nilemdo and Nustendi approved in the EU ...

"This breakthrough is a big step forward in developing new malaria treatments," Yu said. "By focusing on PfNCR1, scientists could develop drugs that the parasite finds difficult to develop resistance ...

Women who have had strokes may be more likely than men to skip doses of medications that could help prevent a second stroke, ...