Question: I recently noticed a strange growth on my bottom eyelid. It isn’t coming out of a hair follicle, and it isn’t a stye. It is painless and it looks like a bit of white skin that you ...

Statins, used to lower cholesterol, may also help stop cancer from spreading. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0) Once that happens, treatments become less effective, and survival rates drop.

Lepodisiran — an experimental drug made by the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly — has been found to slash this type of cholesterol by nearly 94% after a single dose.