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

A study showed that hospitals bought by private equity firms were admitting disproportionately healthier patients with heart ...

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

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

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

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 ...

In two phase III studies, Merck & Co. Inc.’s oral, once monthly proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) inhibitor produced statistically significant and clinically meaningful cuts in low ...

Merck's oral cholesterol pill succeeded in two late-stage studies, marking a win for the drugmaker as it focuses on the ...

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