July 21st, 2015: Pharmaceutical giant, Amgen, was awarded a stunning approval from the European Commission for Repatha, a breakthrough cholesterol-lowering drug as reported by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The drug…
Kathy Antilla recalls the moment she heard her son, Issac, say those words she thought she'd never hear: "Mom! Look at me! I'm just like a normal kid now." In…
Olivia Trueb lives every teenage girl's dream. As in, she’s got a team of professional football players that are wrapped around her finger, and much to her surprise, she can…
No one knows the dangers of bad cholesterol better than patients with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). According to the FH Foundation, there are two forms of FH. 1) HeFH, and 2)…
Most parents are eager for their child's first words. But as the Daily Mail in the UK reports, Stevie and David Taylor waited in vain for three years to hear…
Jake Krahe, a youngster from Montville Township, Ohio, has been living with a rare disease since he was 19 months old 19 Action News reports. The specific diagnosis is cystinosis, a…
If you’re one of the very few people in U.S. living with familial chylomicronemia syndrome (FCS), the odds are good you that you know more about it than your family…
Glucose. It means sugar, right? It's in your body, right? But how does it get transported, and how does your body know how much it needs to transport? Most importantly,…
Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia (or HeFH), ever heard of it? It’s a mouthful. It’s also a condition that causes highly dangerous cholesterol levels and, if left untreated, can lead to heart…
Mangled finger? Severe bone bruise? Broken back? Nope, this isn’t a catalog of injuries from Fight Club—these are some real injuries the Miami Herald describes that now 21 year old…
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