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FDA panel endorses Aegerion HoFH drug, but concerns raised over off-label use

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A US FDA panel of advisers on 17 October backed approval of Aegerion Pharmaceuticals' cholesterol-lowering drug lomitapide to treat a rare genetic lipid disorder, homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH), in which patients develop cardiovascular disease before age 20 - dying typically before 30.

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