Millions of people take statins like Simvastatin (above) to lower their cholesterol levels. Newer PCSK9 inhibitor drugs can drop levels even further. Someone in the United States dies from heart ...

GoodRx released a list of 19 of the most influential drugs and vaccines approved by the FDA in 2024 to treat a variety of ...

Both of those can be triggered by fatty cholesterol ... with many other medications, including those used to control blood pressure. This is not a comprehensive list. Your doctor may advise ...

Most statin drugs are FDA-approved for children and teens under age 18, but only if they have a genetic condition that cause extremely high levels of LDL (bad) cholesterol. Yet in 2009 ...

Novartis' cholesterol-lowering drug Leqvio will be made available on the NHS in England and Wales, and could help to prevent up to 30,000 deaths, according to NICE.

The cholesterol-lowering drug has been classed as a breakthrough therapy for homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia (HoFH) by the FDA, which is due to deliver a decision on the marketing ...

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The ceiling prices of seven other drugs were revised to include the impact of the 0.00551 per cent increase in drug prices in ...

Statin drugs are some of the most commonly prescribed medications in the world. They are used to lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes. For millions of people ...

Aug. 14, 2024 — More than a quarter of Australians over the age of 50 take cholesterol-lowering drugs to prevent heart disease and strokes, but our bodies also need cholesterol to survive.

NewAmsterdam Pharma said Tuesday its cholesterol drug lowered the risk of major cardiovascular events — like a heart attack or stroke — and the biotech stock catapulted. Please watch the video ...

NPPA fixes retail prices for 65 new drug formulations and ceiling prices for 13, including vaccines and essential drugs.