{"id":885074,"date":"2026-10-17T03:18:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T03:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/885074\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T03:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T03:18:22","slug":"merck-lipfendra-the-best-inventions-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/885074\/","title":{"rendered":"Merck Lipfendra: The Best Inventions of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">About 11% of U.S. adults have <a class=\"rich-text-link\" href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6962299\/borderline-high-cholesterol-what-to-do\/\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">high cholesterol<\/a>, raising their <a class=\"rich-text-link\" href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7361499\/heart-risk-prevent-calculator\/\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">risk of heart attack<\/a> and stroke. Many struggle to lower their LDL, or \u201cbad\u201d cholesterol, with mainstay treatments like statins. So Merck released <a class=\"rich-text-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lipfendra.com\/?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=US_PCS_LIPFENDRA-ONLY-OVLP_BRND_CONSD_2026_HCCO_SEARCH_NA_CPC_GOOGLE_EXCT_NA_NA&amp;utm_term=lipfendra&amp;utm_content=CPC_google_HCCO_US-PCS-00581_PRDAW_EXCT_TXT_NA_Merck_LIPFENDRA-ONLY&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwj7HTBhBiEiwA8s35Otuu-0XQmR-VkcId85LcpiNjgJCSkEqCJfBtr4s13noghNdA-oM9_xoC_70QAvD_BwE&amp;gclsrc=aw.ds&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=24066620875&amp;gbraid=0AAAABEUqPOFOV2x9IVoiqCoKSdWbZyLN5\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lipfendra<\/a>\u2014a once-daily pill form of an injectable medication that\u2019s been available for years\u2014which helps the body clear more LDL cholesterol by blocking the blood protein PCSK9. According to Dr. Puja Banka, associate vice president of clinical research and global clinical development at Merck, clinical trials show that the pill can lower LDL by about 60%. The FDA <a class=\"rich-text-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/16\/science\/the-fda-approves-a-new-pill-to-slash-cholesterol-levels.html\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">approved Lipfendra<\/a> in July. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About 11% of U.S. adults have high cholesterol, raising their risk of heart attack and stroke. Many struggle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[371463,25351,97,2849,243],"class_list":["post-885074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-best-inventions-2026","tag-franchise","tag-health","tag-list","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885074","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=885074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}