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
September 20, 2024
(New York Times) – The Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorized at-home use of FluMist, opening the door for needle-shy people to have easy access to a nasal spray vaccine that is potentially lifesaving. The approval will allow, for … Read More
September 20, 2024
(New York Times) – The case takes aim at the major pharmacy benefit managers, agency officials said, claiming that they favored more expensive insulin products and forced patients to pay more. The Federal Trade Commission said on Friday that it … Read More
September 20, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Makers Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly are offering discounts to encourage more insurance coverage of the medicines A price battle has broken out in the hot market for weight-loss drugs. Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk, the … Read More
September 18, 2024
(NPR) – For the first time in decades, public health data shows a sudden and hopeful drop in drug overdose deaths across the U.S. “This is exciting,” said Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute On Drug Abuse [NIDA], … Read More
September 17, 2024
(Nature) – Evidence shows that blockbuster weight-loss medications can reduce obesity even in children aged 6–11, but their long-term effects on growing bodies are unknown. Millions of adults around the world take potent drugs such as Wegovy to shed pounds. … Read More
September 17, 2024
(NPR) – PURPOSE 2, the name for the latest trial sponsored by Gilead Science, the California-based maker of lenacapavir, found the drug to be 96% effective in preventing HIV infections in the newly released results of a clinical trial of … Read More
September 17, 2024
(TIME) – AMR is becoming an especially large problem for the elderly. Adults above the age of 70 have experienced an over 80% increase in deaths attributed to AMR from 1990 to 2021, while deaths among children have decreased by … Read More
September 16, 2024
(Washington Post via MSN) – More than 39 million people could die of antibiotic-resistant infections between now and 2050, according to a study published Monday in The Lancet. The authors of the study forecast a nearly 70 percent increase in … Read More
September 16, 2024
(Axios) – Patients are increasingly joining online communities to learn how to make pirated versions of abortion pills, GLP-1s and other prescription drugs and medical treatments. Why it matters: It’s an outgrowth of frustration with high prices and bottlenecks in … Read More
September 13, 2024
(Vox) – From prebiotic sodas to collagen waters, beverages are trying to do the most. Consumers are drinking it up. Consumer demand for drinks that offer added health benefits — known as functional beverages — is booming, and manufacturers are … Read More
September 13, 2024
(NBC News) – In updated guidance for health care providersreleased Thursday, the Florida Health Department and state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo questioned the safety and effectiveness of the mRNA Covid vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, including for older adults and … Read More
September 12, 2024
(Gizmodo) – People taking the experimental drug amycretin were found to lose almost twice as much weight over a 12-week period as the average weight loss seen with semaglutide. Pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk isn’t sitting on its laurels when it … Read More
September 12, 2024
(New York Times) – New research suggests that dosage plays a role in a rare side effect of A.D.H.D. stimulants. Psychosis and mania are each known side effects of stimulant medications, and the Food and Drug Administration has added warnings … Read More
September 10, 2024
(ABC News) – A 12-day campaign to stop the polio outbreak in the Gaza Strip moved into its third and final phase today, an effort to vaccinate about 150,000 children in the northern part of the war-torn territory. Its previous … Read More
September 10, 2024
(Axios) – A fightis brewing between drug giantsand pharmacy compounders that have seized on the consumer demand for blockbuster obesity drugs. Why it matters: The clash is testing the boundaries of Food and Drug Administration policy that allows pharmacies to … Read More
September 10, 2024
(Wired) – With antibiotics losing their effectiveness, one company is turning to gene editing and bacteriophages—viruses that infect bacteria—to combat infections. The global rise in antibiotic resistance is making bacterial infections harder to treat and increasing the risk of disease … Read More
September 10, 2024
(Knowable Magazine) – In promising experiments, phage therapy forces bacteria into a no-win dilemma that lowers their defenses against drugs they’d evolved to withstand In the decades that followed, d’Hérelle and others used this phage therapy to treat bubonic plague … Read More
September 9, 2024
(KFF Health News) – Such promotion was banned until 1997, when the FDA reluctantly allowed pharmaceutical ads on TV, so long as they gave an accurate accounting of a medicine’s true benefits and risks, including a list of potential side … Read More
September 6, 2024
(Vogue) – We are an anxious nation, an anxious world. Look at the news and it is there for everyone to see. Some 16 percent of the US adult population takes medication for mental health (a figure measured pre-pandemic; one … Read More
September 6, 2024
(Politico) – America’s sky-high rate of fatal fentanyl overdoses could be halved if users were treated with another opioid, Biden administration officials and a bipartisan group of senators believe. They and others who support expanded access to methadone argue that … Read More
September 6, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Chinese authorities have detained several employees of British-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca on suspicion of bringing an unapproved cancer drug into the country, people familiar with the matter said. Chinese authorities have recently given closer scrutiny to cases … Read More
September 6, 2024
Neuroethics (vol. 17, no. 3, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 5, 2024
(NPR) – It seems as if getting mpox vaccines to Congo should have been straightforward — one country needs vaccines, other countries are willing to give them. The U.S. in fact has been ready to send doses to Africa for … Read More
September 5, 2024
(NBC News) – Millions of Americans have turned to prescription medications to lose weight and treat diabetes. But do drug labels warn enough about potential side effects? Juanita Gantt was prescribed both Wegovy and Ozempic. She later needed emergency surgery … Read More
