October 17, 2025
(New York Times) – A new analysis found that nearly 700 drugs approved for use in the United States depend on chemicals solely produced in China. For years, Democrats and Republicans have sounded the alarm about America’s dependence on China … Read More
October 17, 2025
(NBC News) – As measles keeps popping up in some pockets of the United States, the possibility of being exposed to the highly contagious virus continues. At least 1,596 measles cases have been confirmed in 2025, according to data from … Read More
October 15, 2025
(Reuters) – Roche Diagnostics said on Monday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared its and partner Eli Lilly’s blood test as an aid in the initial assessment for Alzheimer’s disease. This comes at the heel of FDA’s nod for … Read More
October 15, 2025
(New York Times) – Studies based on the medical records of millions of people taking GLP-1s for obesity or diabetes have revealed strong signals of their potential as addiction treatment. The research shows reductions of 30 to 70 percent in … Read More
October 14, 2025
(New York Times) – The U.N. health agency found that one in six infections worldwide was resistant to the most commonly available antibiotics. Across the world, the spread of dangerous infections that do not respond to antibiotics has been increasing … Read More
October 13, 2025
(New York Times) – Scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency found that they could develop methods to identify traces of the medication if necessary — a practice long sought by the anti-abortion movement. Senior officials at the Environmental Protection Agency … Read More
October 9, 2025
(The Verge) – The Amazon Pharmacy kiosks will enable patients to get their meds before leaving the doctor’s office. Amazon is adding vending machines stocked with prescription drugs to its One Medical clinics, allowing patients to pick up their medications … Read More
October 9, 2025
(New York Times) – As Americans take more gummies, pills and powders than ever, some physicians are trying to convince patients to be a bit more careful. A wide variety of gummies, pills and powders are categorized as supplements, including … Read More
October 8, 2025
(Wired) – A Facebook group set up to share information about leucovorin has been spammed by affiliate links and supplement companies trying to shame parents of autistic kids. For decades, the parents of autistic children have been sold false hope … Read More
October 6, 2025
(New York Times) – Many drug trials are vetted by companies with ties to the drugmakers, raising concerns about conflicts of interest and patient safety. The first ethics panels, created in response to testing scandals in the 1960s and ’70s, … Read More
September 29, 2025
(Discover) – The vaccine is a modified version of the COVID-19 mRNA lipid nanoparticle vaccines. To create the allergy vaccine, researchers adjusted the mRNA message: instead of producing spike proteins like in the COVID-19 vaccine, the allergy vaccine instructs cells … Read More
September 29, 2025
(Wired) – Serena Williams, Elon Musk and Whoopi Goldberg have all spoken about using weight-loss injections. Some are now prescribed by the NHS, including Wegovy and Mounjaro, generating scores of headlines. Really, this should have made it a great leveller. … Read More
September 26, 2025
(Nature) – Untreated fevers during pregnancy can cause more harm than taking paracetamol will, scientists say. Researchers are concerned about what will happen should pregnant women follow US President Donald Trump’s advice to avoid the painkiller Tylenol — also called … Read More
September 26, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – A growing contingent of doctors and policymakers say they have grown wary of federal health guidance since longtime vaccine skeptic Kennedy became Health and Human Services Secretary—and they are forming a parallel public-health universe outside the … Read More
September 25, 2025
(New York Times) – Low- and middle-income countries will be able to purchase an effective preventative at a reduced price. The arrangements may help stem the epidemic 40 years after it began. A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. … Read More
September 24, 2025
(CBS News) – Infection rates from drug-resistant “nightmare bacteria” rose almost 70% between 2019 and 2023, according to a new report from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientists. Bacteria that are difficult to treat due to the so-called NDM … Read More
September 24, 2025
(BBC) – One of the cruellest and most devastating diseases – Huntington’s – has been successfully treated for the first time, say doctors. The disease runs through families, relentlessly kills brain cells and resembles a combination of dementia, Parkinson’s and … Read More
September 23, 2025
(NPR) – Health officials around the globe are rejecting President Trump’s assertion that pregnant women should avoid taking acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, during pregnancy because of unfounded links to autism. “Available evidence has found no link between the … Read More
September 18, 2025
(Reuters via MSN) – Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law a bill to crack down on mail-order distribution of abortion medications, already banned in his state, by empowering private citizens to sue individuals and companies for shipping the pills … Read More
September 17, 2025
(NBC News) – Eli Lilly on Tuesday said it will spend $5 billion to build a manufacturing facility in Goochland County, Virginia, to boost production capacity for targeted cancer drugs and other treatments — the first in a string of … Read More
September 16, 2025
(UPI) – Half of people who start taking the GLP-1 weight-loss drug Ozempic drop it within a year, a new study says. About 52% of people in Denmark prescribed semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) for weight loss stopped taking it after one … Read More
September 16, 2025
(USA Today) – About 1 in 6 parents have skipped or delayed vaccinating their children against diseases other than COVID-19 or the flu, according to a new poll from The Washington Post and health care policy nonprofit KFF. The … Read More
September 15, 2025
(New York Times) – Some researchers suspect that rising prescription drug use may explain a disturbing trend. In 2023, the most recent year of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 41,000 Americans over 65 died … Read More
September 12, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – In a hastily scheduled meeting, Kenvue’s Kirk Perry sought to dissuade the health secretary, arguing there is no clear link The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Kennedy plans to cite the use of acetaminophen—the … Read More
September 12, 2025
(New York Times) – The agency plans to highlight possible links between the shots and accounts of deaths involving children and birth defects to an influential C.D.C. panel meeting next week. The Food and Drug Administration is examining rare cases … Read More
