Doctors in the US have a new medicine to treat
a rare disease that causes high cholesterol in kids.
The US. Food and Drug administration just approved the
expanded use of Regeneron's drug in Children aged 5 to
11. This drug will treat a condition called homozygous
familiar hypo cholesterol imia. The drug maker says about
200 pediatric patients have this condition. The expanded approval
makes Regeneron's drug called The first drug to treat kids
under 10 with this disorder, but this medicine is
not cheap. The company noted a list price of
$450,000 per year per patient.