November 26, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Middlemen negotiate widely different prices for prescriptions, depending on your Medicare insurance plan The cost of prescription drugs in the U.S. isn’t like the tabs for other products. The price for a single medicine can range … Read More
November 26, 2024
(Reuters) – More than 200,000 prescriptions for copies of Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss drug Wegovy are getting filled by U.S. patients each month, an industry group told the U.S. drugs regulator in a letter, saying it should consider their role in … Read More
November 25, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – A mother found success with a weight-loss drug after a lifelong battle. Noticing her daughter start down the same path, she decided to have her try semaglutide. Pediatric use of GLP-1 drugs—which the manufacturers and most … Read More
November 22, 2024
(Associated Press) – Four cities, spanning Portland suburbs and rural and coastal towns, added new voter-approved prohibitions for the federally illegal compound in the Nov. 5 election. A dozen other communities that approved two-year moratoriums in 2022, when a majority … Read More
November 21, 2024
(Wired) – Chinese black market operators are openly recruiting government agency insiders, paying them for access to surveillance data and then reselling it online—no questions asked. China has long been a billion-plus-person experiment in total state surveillance, with virtually no … Read More
November 20, 2024
(Wired) – AI-generated influencers based on stolen images of real-life adult content creators are flooding social media. Instagram is flooded with hundreds of AI-generated influencers who are stealing videos from real models and adult content creators, giving them AI-generated faces, … Read More
November 20, 2024
(NPR) – The compounded versions are especially popular as cheaper alternatives for people whose insurance doesn’t cover them. But now the brand name manufacturers are pushing the compounding pharmacies to stop. Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly are moving to end … Read More
November 20, 2024
(KFF Health News) – Checking the “donor” box on a driver’s license application, people may picture their heart, kidneys, or other organs saving another person’s life should the worst happen. They are less likely to consider that tissues — corneas, … Read More
November 19, 2024
(National Academies) – Over the past several decades, more than half of all U.S. states have legalized cannabis for adult and/or medical use, but it remains illegal at the federal level. The public health consequences of cannabis policy changes have … Read More
November 19, 2024
(New York Times) – Privacy experts cringed when people started feeding their medical images to the A.I. tool Grok. Over the past few weeks, users on X have been submitting X-rays, MRIs, CT scans and other medical images to Grok, … Read More
November 18, 2024
(The Conversation) – Halassy is a success story of self-experimentation in medicine. She joins other examples, like Barry Marshall, who won the 2005 Noble prize in medicine following his work ingesting the Helicobacter bacterium to prove its role in gastritis … Read More
November 18, 2024
(Axios) – The Drug Enforcement Administration and Health and Human Services ended an impasse over the virtual prescribing of controlled substances that threatened access to drugs like Adderall by extending pandemic-era flexibilities through the end of 2025. Why it matters: … Read More
November 18, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Keratopigmentation could be dangerous, doctors warn. Patients say it’s worth the risks. Some people getting the procedure say they want to look better and feel more confident. Others did it to look more like family members. … Read More
November 15, 2024
(MedPage Today) – MedPage Today analysis finds large increases in prescribing of GLP-1 agonists Many obesity specialists told MedPage Today they generally feel comfortable prescribing GLP-1 drugs to children if they have ruled out most other options, and if the … Read More
November 15, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – Women are also often subjected to medical advice designed to protect a potential fetus, whether they are pregnant or not. Official guidelines on how much mercury-containing fish it is safe to eat can be different for … Read More
November 15, 2024
(New Scientist) – Popular semaglutide-based drugs used for weight loss may reduce chronic and acute pain, which could make them a promising alternative to opioids Medications like Ozempic and Wegovy may be able to reduce both chronic and acute pain. … Read More
November 14, 2024
(MedPage Today) – The ever-present TV drug ads showing patients hiking, biking, or enjoying a day at the beach could soon have a different look, as new rules require drugmakers to be clearer and more direct when explaining their medications’ … Read More
November 14, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Intermittent fasting probably isn’t the health hack you hoped it would be. More studies suggest the tactic can help you lose weight, but likely isn’t a silver bullet for other health improvements like lowering your inflammation … Read More
November 13, 2024
(New York Times) – The pounding that sailors’ brains take from years of high-speed wave-slamming in the Special Boat Teams can cause symptoms that wreck their careers — and their lives. Seeking an edge in combat, the Navy has created … Read More
November 13, 2024
(Los Angeles Times) – Public health researchers at UC San Diego tested whether 78 online retailers complied with federal and local rules on flavored vaping products. For most, the answer was no. To try to keep young people from becoming … Read More
November 13, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Joanna Stern strapped chatbots from Meta, Google, OpenAI and Microsoft to a tripod and took them to the woods to uncover the secrets of AI friendship My new friends are just hilarious. One suggested I de-stress … Read More
November 13, 2024
(Wired) – San Francisco–based Ossium Health has carried out three transplants for cancer patients using stem cells from deceased donors’ bone marrow in recent months. A donor must have closely matched genes for human leukocyte antigens, or HLA, to be … Read More
November 13, 2024
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy (vol. 27, no. 4, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
November 12, 2024
(The New Atlantis) – Ontario’s euthanasia regulators have tracked 428 cases of possible criminal violations — and not referred a single case to law enforcement, say leaked documents. For years, there have been clear signals that euthanasia providers in Canada … Read More
November 11, 2024
(NBC News) – The hormone is recommended for women only at low doses for low libido. Do women have a testosterone problem? Social media influencers believe they do. And with the rise of telemedicine and testosterone replacement clinics opening up … Read More
