August 20, 2024
(Axios) – For a third year, back-to-school preparations will include a scramble to find popular drugs used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Why it matters: Despite signs from the Food and Drug Administration that manufacturers were catching up to … Read More
August 19, 2024
(New York Times) – In huge numbers, older people are taking gabapentin for a variety of conditions, including itching, alcohol dependence and sciatica. “It’s crazy,” one expert said. The only conditions for which gabapentin has been approved for adult use … Read More
August 19, 2024
(ABC News) – Congo will receive the first vaccine doses to address its mpox outbreak next week from the United States, the country’s health minister said Monday, days after the World Health Organization declared mpox outbreaks in Africa a global … Read More
August 19, 2024
(New York Times) – A nasal spray can tamp down potentially fatal reactions, a boon to the many patients in crisis who fear using EpiPens. Patient advocates and allergists, who regularly see the consequences of needle aversion, have been awaiting … Read More
August 16, 2024
(The Atlantic) – Lisa is among a small number of patients who have taken to hacking their injection pens. (I’m identifying Lisa and other patients in this story by only their first names to protect their medical privacy.) As new … Read More
August 14, 2024
(Wired) – With demand for GLP-1 drugs sky-high, the supplement industry is elbowing into the market. Some products are meant to complement meds like Ozempic. Others are positioned as “natural” alternatives. The supplement industry has a long, tangled history with … Read More
August 14, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Amid risks, volunteers are mobilizing to assist networks that mail abortion medication to women in states with strict limits The women huddling around the conference table shuttled the small cardboard boxes along, assembly-line style. Into each … Read More
August 13, 2024
(New York Times) – The temperatures inside delivery trucks can reach twice the recommended threshold, but federal rules on drug storage conditions do not apply to the booming world of mail-order delivery. Melted capsules. Cloudy insulin. Pills that may no … Read More
August 13, 2024
(Fox 13 Tampa Bay) – The southern Kentucky city of Bowling Green has reportedly emerged as a major center for weight loss drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro. The share of people prescribed GLP-1 agonist drug prescriptions in and around … Read More
August 12, 2024
(New York Times) – The psychedelic treatment, for PTSD, was rejected last week by government regulators. The journal Psychopharmacology has retracted three papers about MDMA-assisted therapy based on what the publication said was unethical conduct at one of the study … Read More
August 12, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Many who have died of overdoses in this retirement haven in recent years have a common thread. They were Medicare patients of Dr. Ricky Lockett, a local pain specialist. Lockett is one of the nation’s most … Read More
August 9, 2024
(New York Times) – Many patients are eager to discontinue Wegovy or Zepbound when their weight loss plateaus. But doctors say it’s difficult to go cold turkey. “I can’t stop cold turkey or I will gain it back — that … Read More
August 9, 2024
(Reuters) – The global and U.S. anti-doping agencies are at odds over undercover tactics used by the American body to try to catch drug cheats, Reuters has learned. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) says U.S. agency USADA broke the global … Read More
August 8, 2024
(Axios) – For insurers like UnitedHealth Group and Cigna, the road to ever-larger profits increasingly leads through anything but health insurance. Why it matters: A host of earnings reports in recent weeks reinforce how much pharmacy, physician networks and other … Read More
August 8, 2024
(BBC) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced plans to send 1.2 million polio vaccines to Gaza after the virus was detected in wastewater. The agency’s chief, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, outlined plans for two rounds of vaccination, targeting … Read More
August 5, 2024
Public Health Ethics (vol. 17, no. 1-2, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 1, 2024
(KFF Health News) – As many as 1 in 8 American adults has tried one of the GLP-1 anti-obesity drugs, but a surprising number aren’t getting their supplies from pharma giants Novo Nordisk or Eli Lilly. Up to 30 percent … Read More
August 1, 2024
(BBC) – The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) says it is “unfairly caught” in a row between the US and China, with their geopolitical tensions spilling onto the Olympic stage. China’s top swimmers have been in the spotlight after a slew … Read More
July 31, 2024
(ABC News) – The World Health Organization announced Monday that it has launched an initiative to help accelerate the development of a human bird flu vaccine using messenger RNA (mRNA) technology. The project, which will be led by Argentinian pharmaceutical … Read More
July 31, 2024
(New York Times) – New York State’s stockpile of antiviral medications for flu contains only one drug, Tamiflu, leaving no fallback plan. New York has only one type of flu antiviral drug, Tamiflu, which might prove less effective than hoped … Read More
July 31, 2024
(CNN) – A small clinical trial suggests that drugs like Ozempic could potentially be used not just for diabetes and weight loss but to protect the brain, slowing the rate at which people with Alzheimer’s disease lose their ability to … Read More
July 30, 2024
(NPR) – What if your entire economy was based on one product? TV commercials joke that America runs on Dunkin’, but for all intents and purposes, Denmark quite literally runs on Ozempic, a diabetes medication that is now widely used … Read More
July 30, 2024
(Reuters) – At the tap of a buyer’s smartphone, Chinese chemical sellers will air-ship fentanyl ingredients door-to-door to North America. Reuters purchased enough to make 3 million pills. Such deals are astonishingly easy – and reveal how drug traffickers are … Read More
July 30, 2024
(Axios) – The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a blood test to detect colorectal cancer in individuals age 45 and older, adding another screening option for the second-most common cause of U.S. cancer deaths. Why it matters: More … Read More
July 26, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – A cavernous factory in northeastern Tennessee, by the Virginia border, is one of the last in the country that makes a vitally important medicine. Each day the USAntibiotics plant churns out a million doses of the … Read More
