11-21-2010, 01:39 PM
An experimental drug boosted good cholesterol so high and dropped bad cholesterol so low in a study that doctors were stunned and voiced renewed hopes for an entirely new way of preventing heart attacks and strokes. "We are the most excited we have been in decades," said Dr Christopher Cannon of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, who led the study of the novel drug for Merck & Co. The drug, Anacetrapib would be the first drug of its kind that will help keep fat particles attached to HDL, which carries them in the bloodstream to the liver to be disposed of.
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