{"id":14620,"date":"2026-07-19T17:15:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T17:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=14620"},"modified":"2026-07-19T17:15:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T17:15:34","slug":"merck-pill-becomes-first-oral-option-in-growing-class-of-cholesterol-lowering-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=14620","title":{"rendered":"Merck Pill Becomes First Oral Option in Growing Class of Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/07\/merck-ldl-cholesterol-lipfendra-enlicitide-macrocyclic-peptide-pcsk9-inhibitor-mrk\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Merck\u2019s Lipfendra is the first FDA-approved pill in the class of cholesterol-lowering drugs called PCSK9 inhibitors. While peptides are typically injected, Lipfendra is a macrocyclic peptide designed for formulation as an oral drug. <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/07\/merck-ldl-cholesterol-lipfendra-enlicitide-macrocyclic-peptide-pcsk9-inhibitor-mrk\/\">Merck Pill Becomes First Oral Option in Growing Class of Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merck\u2019s Lipfendra is the first FDA-approved pill in the class of cholesterol-lowering drugs called PCSK9 inhibitors. While peptides are typically injected, Lipfendra is a macrocyclic peptide designed for formulation as an oral drug. The post Merck Pill Becomes First Oral Option in Growing Class of Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs appeared first on MedCity News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}