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Confusion Still Surrounds Saturated Fats and Cholesterol
2015-11-24 17:37:00| Food Processing
If you're still eating a low-fat diet, you're following outdated recommendations.
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Merck continuing study of cholesterol drug in new class
2015-11-13 19:27:25| Biotech - Topix.net
Merck & Co. will continue a huge patient study of an experimental cholesterol medicine - the last one standing in a once-promising new drug class - after an independent monitoring committee recommended the study continue.
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Express Scripts to cover pricey new cholesterol treatments Repatha, Praluent with conditions
2015-10-06 23:47:23| Biotech - Topix.net
The nation's biggest pharmacy benefits manager has decided to cover two new drugs that lower artery-clogging cholesterol but raise concern over prices that can top $14,000 a year. Express Scripts said Tuesday that it will pay for prescriptions of Amgen Inc.'s Repatha as well as Praluent from Sanofi and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. under a few conditions designed to control costs.
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Nonprofit finds new cholesterol drugs far too costly
2015-09-09 18:26:53| Biotech - Topix.net
An independent nonprofit organization that evaluates clinical and cost effectiveness of new medicines said announced prices for a just-approved class of potent cholesterol lowering drugs were far too high, according to a draft report released on Tuesday. The Boston-based Institute for Clinical and Economic Review said its analyses indicated "that the price that best represents the overall benefits" the drugs may provide patients would be between $3,615 and $4,811 a year, a 67 percent discount off the list prices.
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Amgen wins approval for second biotech cholesterol drug
2015-08-31 08:29:18| Biotech - Topix.net
This undated image provided by Amgen Inc. shows Repatha. Amgen Inc. has won federal approval for the second medicine in a new class of pricey biotech drugs that reduce artery-clogging cholesterol more than older statin drugs that have been used for decades.
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