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Rewriting a Cholesterol-Lowering Drug's Warning Label?

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Rewriting a Cholesterol-Lowering Drug's Warning Label?

image: A new study finds that a clinically approved cholesterol-lowering drug may be less toxic to the liver than previously thought. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 27, 2016 issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by G. Reyes-Soffer at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, NY, and colleagues was titled, "Complex effects of inhibiting hepatic apolipoprotein B100 synthesis in humans." view more 

Credit: Val Altounian / <i>Science Translational Medicine</i>


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