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ing a meeting convened by the FDA to analyze the data on the drug. Some doctors argued its use should be restricted mainly to patients with FH. But Mark Schoenebaum, Evercore ISI's pharmaceutical analyst, says that investors were initially disappointed because they had hoped the FDA would greenlight the drug for

ople who have heart disease, like those who've had heart attacks or strokes, who are already taking the maximum dose of a statin they can tolerate. Regeneron and its marketing partner Sanofi say Praluent will have a wholesale cost of $40 a day, or $14,600 a year, for either of two doses, 75 milligrams or

equately controlled by existing drugs called statins. It might be a big step in the battle against heart disease — and the approval is a triumph for Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, the Tarrytown, N.Y.-based biotechnology company that invented it. Praluent is likely to be more widely used, and to cost more, than W

owing a meeting convened by the FDA to analyze the data on the drug. Some doctors argued its use should be restricted mainly to patients with FH. But Mark Schoenebaum, Evercore ISI’s pharmaceutical analyst, says that investors were initially disappointed because they had hoped the FDA would greenlight the drug for

equately controlled by existing drugs called statins. It might be a big step in the battle against heart disease — and the approval is a triumph for Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, the Tarrytown, N.Y.-based biotechnology company that invented it. Praluent is likely to be more widely used, and to cost more, than W

owing a meeting convened by the FDA to analyze the data on the drug. Some doctors argued its use should be restricted mainly to patients with FH. But Mark Schoenebaum, Evercore ISI’s pharmaceutical analyst, says that investors were initially disappointed because they had hoped the FDA would greenlight the drug for