When the amount of cholesterol in the blood is too high, hypercholesterolemia can develop, causing serious damage to the ...

Enlicitide decanoate demonstrated meaningful LDL lowering in patients with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia and ...

Merck & Co.’s ambition to get the first oral PCSK9 inhibitor to market came one step closer this morning as the pharma ...

Topline data were announced from two phase 3 trials evaluating enlicitide decanoate for the treatment of adults with hyperlipidemia.

Enlicitide, which could be the first oral medication that blocks the protein PCSK9, helped cut cholesterol levels in a pair ...

A new method, based on the use of molecules known as polypurine hairpins, facilitates the uptake of cholesterol by cells and ...

Currently available PCSK9-targeting therapies are Amgen's Repatha (evolocumab) and Sanofi/Regeneron's Praluent (alirocumab), ...

The patients came in with high cholesterol. And it was the kind that clings stubbornly to arteries and shadows families for ...

Merck said early Monday that a new cholesterol-lowering pill worked well in two late-stage trials, boosting the stock in ...

Results from the Phase III CORALreef HeFH and CORALreef AddOn studies demonstrated tatistically significant and clinically ...

A protein called PCSK9 determines how pancreatic cancer cells metastasize to different parts of the body.

Scientists have discovered how pancreatic cancer cells thrive in the lungs or liver, environments that are as distinct to cells as the ocean and desert are to animals. The spread of cancer cells to ...