{"id":774371,"date":"2026-07-20T18:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T18:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/774371\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T18:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T18:51:08","slug":"fda-approves-new-pill-that-lowers-cholesterol-levels-by-nearly-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/774371\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA Approves New Pill That Lowers Cholesterol Levels By Nearly 60%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a daily pill, Lipfendra provides those with high cholesterol an alternative to needles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing able to have an oral version of this medication is really important,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memorialcare.org\/providers\/yu-ming-ni\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"content-link css-kxhged\">Yu-Ming Ni<\/a>, MD, a cardiologist and lipidologist at MemorialCare Heart and Vascular Institute at Orange Coast Medical Center in Fountain Valley, CA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a lot of people who are hesitant to even start because they don\u2019t want to give themselves injections,\u201d Ni told Healthline. \u201cNow you\u2019ve got this oral version. It\u2019s going to be a little bit easier for people to take a pill every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because Lipfendra works differently from a statin, people can use both medications. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emoryhealthcare.org\/providers\/anurag-mehta-4490742\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"content-link css-kxhged\">Anurag Mehta<\/a>, MD, a preventive cardiologist at Emory Healthcare and assistant professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, said the two drugs target \u201ctwo different biological pathways\u201d to reach \u201cthe same end result\u201d \u2014 lower LDL cholesterol. <\/p>\n<p>For individuals whose statin isn\u2019t enough on its own, \u201cthose patients would be candidates for this new medicine,\u201d Mehta said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a daily pill, Lipfendra provides those with high cholesterol an alternative to needles. \u201cBeing able to have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[97,243],"class_list":["post-774371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}