New cholesterol-busting pill, costly but powerful, gets FDA's OK

The federal Food and Drug Administration has approved a first-of-its-kind pill that sharply reduces artery-clogging cholesterol in people who remain at high risk of heart attacks despite taking statins. The pill, named enlicitide, will be sold under the name Lipfenrda. Taken daily, it helps rid the body of cholesterol in a way that until now could be done only with injected medicines and significantly more than statins do. Expected to be available within weeks, it won't come cheap. According to…