Via Bloomberg
Original story published on October 8, 2012
Christian Jacobs, 20, was diagnosed with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia, a rare genetic disease, at age 2. It led his cholesterol levels to be 4 times higher that of a healthy adult.
Like any patient at risk of a heart attack, … Read More
FDA Advisory Committee Information:
Notices of the upcoming Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee meetings have been made available on the FDA website: http://www.fda.gov/advisorycommittees/default.htm
Date and Time: The meetings will be held on October 17 and 18, 2012, from 8 a.m. … Read More
Diann Goolsby of Crosby has a mission in life. Goolsby was born with a defective gene that has her living with dangerously high levels of cholesterol.
TENS of thousands of patients who have inherited a dangerously high risk of a heart attack in early life are going undetected, warn cardiologists, who are calling for a new integrated screening system to pick up their condition before it becomes life-threatening.
The condition, called familial … Read More
