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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Specifically, the team has designed a strategy to inhibit the expression of PCSK9, a protein that plays a decisive role in modulating plasma levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C).