July 4, 2024
(Washington Post) – Officials are amplifying warnings about the risks of unregulated and sometimes illegal products advertised on social media and sold online or in vape shops. Public health experts and officials are amplifying theirwarnings about the risks of unregulated … Read More
July 4, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Online pharmacies and other consumer-health startups boomed during the pandemic. Venture funding in digital-health startups surged to $29 billion in 2021 from $14 billion a year earlier, according to Rock Health, an advisory and venture fund. … Read More
July 3, 2024
(NPR) – In this double-blind, randomized study of 5,300 cisgender women in South Africa and Uganda, 2,134 got the injection and the others took one of two types of daily PrEP pills. The trial began on August 2021 and, so … Read More
July 3, 2024
(Quartz) – Novo Nordisk’s blockbuster diabetes and weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy may have a potential link with an eye condition that causes vision loss, according to a new study published Wednesday in JAMA Ophthalmology. In a observational study, … Read More
July 3, 2024
(Chattanooga Times Free Press) – A Tennessee jury has awarded a former research scientist at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee $687,000 in back pay and damages after she was fired in 2021 for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine. Following a … Read More
July 2, 2024
(New York Times) – The drug, Kisunla, made by Eli Lilly, is the latest in a new class of treatments that could modestly slow cognitive decline in initial stages of the disease but also carry safety risks. The Food and … Read More
July 2, 2024
(Associated Press) – The U.S. government will pay the vaccine maker Moderna $176 million to accelerate development of a pandemic influenza vaccine that could be used to treat bird flu in people, as concern grows about cases in dairy cows … Read More
July 1, 2024
(Wired) – Rosas’ case illustrates the reality of new anti-obesity drugs: They don’t work equally well for everyone. Semaglutide, which goes by the brand names Ozempic and Wegovy, has shown around 15 percent weight loss in clinical trials, while tirzepatide—sold … Read More
July 1, 2024
(NPR) – Rapamycin was first approved by the FDA for use in transplant patients in the late 1990s. At high doses it suppresses the immune system. At low doses, Kaeberlein says it seems to help tamp down inflammation. It works … Read More
July 1, 2024
(Nature) – A single vaccine has been shown to protect people from both SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses — and with a higher effectiveness than vaccines that target one or the other, the pharmaceutical company Moderna has announced. Moderna, which is … Read More
June 28, 2024
(NBC News) – The vote, by the Ways and Means Committee, is one of the first steps needed to reverse a more than two-decades-old ban prohibiting the government from paying for the drugs. For more than two decades, a law … Read More
June 28, 2024
(Slate) – In the 1970s, a dangerous device hit the market. Today, millions of women use IUDs safely—but to many, they remain as mysterious as ever. There are decades’ worth of rigorous studies that validate the safety and efficacy of … Read More
June 26, 2024
(New York Times) – Some private insurers help pay for medications to treat obesity, but most Medicaid programs do so only to manage diabetes, and Medicare covers Wegovy and Zepbound only when they are prescribed for heart problems. Over the … Read More
June 26, 2024
(Reuters) – Finland plans to offer preemptive bird flu vaccination as soon as next week to some workers with exposure to animals, health authorities said on Tuesday, making it the first country in the world to do so. The Nordic … Read More
June 25, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – One employer was paying about $100 for a prescription for a generic antidepressant, though it could be bought elsewhere for about $12. At the urging of firms that manage their drug benefits, employers turned to mail-order … Read More
June 25, 2024
(Associated Press) – The Supreme Court on Monday rejected two appeals related to COVID-19 vaccines from Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine nonprofit founded by independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The justices did not comment in letting stand rulings against the … Read More
June 25, 2024
(The Hill) – Novo Nordisk announced plans on Monday to build a $4.1 billion facility in North Carolina, as demand for its popular weight-loss drugs has only increased in recent months. The plant will be the Danish company’s second fill and finishing … Read More
June 24, 2024
(The Atlantic) – I trained as a physician and have asked patients the very same question thousands of times, so I think hard about how to quantify the sum of the sore hips, the prickly thighs, and the numbing, itchy … Read More
June 24, 2024
(MedPage Today) – Cannabis use was significantly associated with a greater risk of severe outcomes following a COVID-19 infection, according to a retrospective study that spanned the first 2 years of the pandemic. Among more than 70,000 patients with a … Read More
June 24, 2024
(New York Times) – The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to consider a Tennessee law that bans certain medical treatments for transgender minors, the first time the justices will decide on the constitutionality of such statewide bans. The move could … Read More
June 24, 2024
(NBC News) – Researchers at the American Diabetes Association conference in Orlando are expected to present data on 27 GLP-1 drugs in development. Others target a different hormone. The next wave of obesity drugs is coming soon. Drug companies are … Read More
June 21, 2024
(New York Times) – Americans are paying too much for prescription drugs. It is a common, longstanding complaint. And the culprits seem obvious: Drug companies. Insurers. A dysfunctional federal government. But there is another collection of powerful forces that often … Read More
June 20, 2024
(New York Times) – In high-tech labs, workers are generating data to train A.I. algorithms to design better medicine, faster. But the transformation is just getting underway. The lab, about two-thirds the size of a football field, is a data … Read More
June 20, 2024
(Gizmodo) – Done Global, the online healthcare company that saw two executives arrested last week, issued a statement this week assuring patients it will do its best to continue operations despite the federal indictments by the U.S. Department of Justice. The executives … Read More
June 20, 2024
(New York Times) – South Africa’s public health care system has run out of the human insulin pens that it provides to people with diabetes, as the pharmaceutical industry shifts production priorities to blockbuster weight-loss drugs that use a similar … Read More
