How heart experts are at war with GPs who refuse to roll out cholesterol wonder drug
This £45 jab could save 30,000 lives in a decade but family doctors won’t prescribe it... even though it has been deemed safe
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AROW has erupted between cardiology experts and GP leaders over prescribing a breakthrough heart drug that could save tens of thousands of lives. The medicine, called inclisiran, is a twice-a-year jab that slashes levels of so-called ‘bad’ cholesterol by more than
The most widely prescribed drug in the world is a statin – atorvastatin – given more than 114million times in the US alone in 2020.
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