October 4, 2024
(Nature) – Nature talks to the mpox coordinator for Africa’s public-health agency about how the continent is handling its first jabs ever. Mpox has spread to 15 African countries in 2024, six of which had never seen a single case … Read More
October 4, 2024
(New York Times) – The drug, legal in much of the country, is widely seen as nonaddictive and safe. For some users, these assumptions are dangerously wrong. In midcoast Maine, a pediatrician sees teenagers so dependent on cannabis that they … Read More
October 4, 2024
(Reuters) – Rwanda will start cinical trials of experimental vaccines and treatments for Marburg disease in the next few weeks, its health minister said on Thursday, to fight the country’s first outbreak of the viral fever, which has so far … Read More
October 4, 2024
(The Atlantic) – Lithium, in other words, has become firmly entrenched in the wellness industry’s extensive library of supplements. But in crucial ways, it is unlike the other trendy products that dance across your Instagram stories. At higher doses, lithium … Read More
October 3, 2024
(Associated Press) – A San Diego doctor became the third person to plead guilty in the case of Matthew Perry ’s fatal drug overdose, as prosecutors collect cooperators in an attempt to convict two bigger targets they say are responsible … Read More
October 2, 2024
(Associated Press) – On Tuesday, Louisiana will become the first state in the U.S. to categorize two widely used abortion pills as “controlled dangerous substances.” Opponents argue the classification could have catastrophic impacts in a state that already has a … Read More
October 2, 2024
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 391, no. 11, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
October 1, 2024
(ProPublica) – Until recently, opioids almost exclusively claimed the lives of adults. Since COVID-19 began, though, the rate of overdose deaths among teenagers has rocketed, more than doubling in three years. It’s not that more teens are using drugs, but … Read More
September 30, 2024
(The Atlantic) – Before my visit to Blue Cliff, I had been thinking about how so many people taking GLP-1 medications find that, without even trying, they’ve suddenly released their desires for food, alcohol, tobacco, shopping, and more—and how Buddhists … Read More
September 30, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Drug middlemen are duking it out to buy their customers. Most Americans pick up their prescription drugs at the local pharmacy, but many pricey medications are bought directly by medical providers. Think, for example, of a … Read More
September 30, 2024
(Axios) – Drug developers are pursuing a new option for reproductive care in the post-Roe landscape: birth control pills for men. Why it matters: Mounting abortion restrictions across the U.S. are driving a search for new contraceptive methods that can … Read More
September 27, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – The first new kind of treatment for schizophrenia patients in decades is arriving. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the drug on Thursday, greenlighting the first of a new class of treatments that could help … Read More
September 27, 2024
(NBC News) – Black and Latino people use 10% to 40% fewer prescription drugs because of high costs, according to a report by Patients for Affordable Drugs. Prices for prescription pharmaceutical drugs have skyrocketed, disproportionately making them harder for people … Read More
September 27, 2024
(New York Times) – Health experts, gathering at the U.N., have begun to shift their focus to try to provide access to basic drugs in countries where preventable deaths from infections occur too frequently. For more than a decade, antimicrobial … Read More
September 27, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – The owner of Silicon Valley’s Done Global was arrested, but the telehealth company’s staff in China still provides easy access to stimulants for Americans Federal authorities came down hard on Done Global, the California-based telehealth startup … Read More
September 26, 2024
(Axios) – The Food and Drug Administration is slated to decide Thursday whether to approve the first new schizophrenia drug in at least three decades. Why it matters: The complex condition is currently treated with antipsychotics that carry safety risks … Read More
September 26, 2024
(Undark) – The rate of antipsychotic drug use in nursing homes has remained stubbornly high. Experts are concerned about misuse. A new analysis of more than 12,000 nursing homes by the Long Term Care Community Coalition, or LTCCC, a New … Read More
September 26, 2024
(MedPage Today) – Other than staying on drug, there’s no evidence-based strategy to maintain weight loss Looking at the data from clinical trials of new GLP-1 agonists, it’s clear that patients will need to stay on the drugs to maintain … Read More
September 26, 2024
(NPR) – A 2021 study of 30 adult male participants with Fragile X found that taking zatolmilast for 12 weeks improved performance on a range of memory and language measures. Now, two larger studies are underway that will determine whether … Read More
September 25, 2024
(Axios) – A new artificial intelligence tool could supercharge efforts to find new uses for old drugs, particularly rare diseases without a Food and Drug Administration-approved treatment. The big picture: The Harvard Medical School researchers behind the tool, called TxGNN, … Read More
September 25, 2024
(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday the donation of 1 million mpox vaccine doses and at least $500 million to African countries to support their response to the outbreak. Biden made the announcement at the United Nations … Read More
September 24, 2024
(Axios) – Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. counties lacked opioid treatment programs or any office-based providers of buprenorphine, which reduces the risk of future overdoses, according to a federal review of whether drugs for opioid abuse are reaching areas of … Read More
September 24, 2024
(Washington Post via MSN) – Ozempic and Mounjaro, used to treat diabetes, and their respective counterparts for weight loss, Wegovy and Zepbound, were approved by the Food and Drug Administration as “forever” drugs that are supposed to be taken in … Read More
September 23, 2024
(Knowable Magazine) – Some people of West African descent face a higher risk of renal failure. New drugs based on gene research may help right the ship — if they can reach everyone who needs them. The result was exciting. … Read More
September 23, 2024
(CBS News) – Drugmakers have decided to stop selling a kind of controversial fentanyl painkiller at the end of this month, the Food and Drug Administration said this week, marking an end to a controversial brand of “fentanyl lollipops” and … Read More
