How Does A Person Inherit Type 2 Diabetes?
A new drug that helps people with an inherited form of high cholesterol is showing promise in clinical trials. The drug, AEGR-733, is being tested to treat people with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia, a condition that causes cholesterol to be dangerously and abnormally high. Researchers are optimistic, but caution that the new trials were small and that the drug has shown potentially serious side effects.
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