Almost all (95%) Medicare drug plans cover Repatha. This includes standalone Part D prescription drug plans and Medicare Advantage plans that include prescription drug coverage. Repatha is a brand ...

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Aug. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Amgen (AMGN) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has broadened the approved use of Repatha ® (evolocumab) to include ...

Q. I developed severe depression while taking Repatha, the injectable cholesterol lowering drug. It took me a horrible nine months to realize the drug was making me suicidal. If I wasn’t sleeping, I ...

Repatha is the second in a new class of drugs called PCSK9 inhibitors to win FDA approval The drug is a second line of treatment for those who can't take or don't respond to widely used statins for ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved Amgen Inc's Repatha drug for patients with hereditary forms of high cholesterol and those with cardiovascular disease.

A. Your doctor was correct that depression and suicidal thoughts do not appear in the official prescribing information for evolocumab (Repatha) or a similar drug, alirocumab (Praluent). Both are ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Amgen's cholesterol-lowering medication, Repatha (evolocumab) injection, a human monoclonal antibody that inhibits proprotein convertase ...

Amgen has secured a recommendation for its new cholesterol drug Repatha (evolocumab) from NICE, giving it a major advantage on Sanofi/Regeneron's rival Praluent (alirocumab). NICE rejected any use of ...

A breakthrough drug can halve levels of bad cholesterol without the side effects of statins, according to major study. Repatha is in a race to become the first new cholesterol-busting medication since ...

Privately-held drug developer LIB Therapeutics has claimed FDA approval for a new once-monthly PCSK9 inhibitor – Lerochol – ...