May 28, 2024
(CBS News) – MDMA is part of a new wave of psychoactive drugs that show great potential for treating conditions such as severe depression and PTSD. Investors are piling into the nascent field, and a host of medications based on … Read More
May 24, 2024
(Nature) – The blockbuster diabetes drug Ozempic — also sold as the obesity drug Wegovy — can add another health condition to the list of maladies it alleviates. Researchers presented clinical-trial data today at a conference in Stockholm, showing that … Read More
May 23, 2024
(Reuters) – A group of cancer victims sued Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N), on Wednesday, accusing the healthcare company of committing fraud through repeated and continued efforts to use a shell company’s bankruptcy to resolve tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging … Read More
May 22, 2024
(NBC News) – The Louisiana House approved a bill Tuesday that would add two medications commonly used to induce abortions to the state’s list of controlled dangerous substances, making possession of the drugs without valid prescriptions a crime punishable by … Read More
May 22, 2024
(Associated Press) – Authorities have opened an investigation into how Matthew Perry received the supply of ketamine that killed him, police said Tuesday. Los Angeles police are working with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service … Read More
May 22, 2024
(The Atlantic) – GLP-1 drugs do work remarkably well, inducing more weight loss more quickly than any other obesity medication on the market, but some doctors now wonder whether patients need to be on GLP-1 drugs, specifically, forever. “??What if … Read More
May 21, 2024
(New York Times) – He also identified the virus, which can cause infants to be born with severe physical and mental impairments as well as causing miscarriages and stillbirths. Dr. Paul D. Parkman, whose research was instrumental in identifying the … Read More
May 21, 2024
(Quartz) – New research this month is the latest to link the use of Ozempic, Wegovy, and other GLP-1 drugs to a greater risk of gastroparesis, a potentially serious medical condition. So what exactly is gastroparesis and how worried should … Read More
May 21, 2024
(Associated Press) – In an isolated part of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters known as the 12th-floor “bubble,” chief Anne Milgram made an unusual request of top deputies summoned in March for what she called the “Marijuana Meeting”: Nobody … Read More
May 21, 2024
(Reuters) – GSK has been sued by an independent Connecticut laboratory that accused the drugmaker of defrauding the U.S. government and taxpayers by concealing cancer risks in Zantac, once a blockbuster heartburn drug. In a whistleblower complaint filed on Monday, … Read More
May 20, 2024
(Axios) – A new chapter in drug advertising begins Monday when a federal transparency rule takes effect requiring commercials to clearly spell out potential side effects and when a person should avoid the medicine. Why it matters: The effort, more … Read More
May 20, 2024
(Washington Post via MSN) – TikTok has emerged as a go-to hub for information on how to obtain GLP-1 drugs, such as Ozempic, that have become blockbusters and cultural sensations thanks to how they help people lose weight. Seeking to … Read More
May 16, 2024
(Axios) – Patients prescribed highly effective anti-obesity medications are growing anxious about the increasing difficulty of obtaining them amid long-running shortages driven by blockbuster demand for the drugs. Why it matters: Their ongoing struggle to locate reliable supplies of drugs … Read More
May 16, 2024
(Axios) – Fatal drug overdoses in the United States declined last year for the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic, new preliminary federal data show. The big picture: It’s a rare glimmer of positive news amid a drug epidemic … Read More
May 16, 2024
(Associated Press) – The Justice Department on Thursday formally moved to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift in generations of U.S. drug policy. A proposed rule sent to the federal register recognizes the medical uses of … Read More
May 15, 2024
(Axios) – Lawmakers in the House of Representatives on Wednesday are expected to set in motion a massive reordering of how U.S. pharmaceuticals are developed and made, by advancing a contracting ban on five key Chinese research firms. Why it … Read More
May 15, 2024
(NPR) – In April, the co-CEOs of Amylyx Pharmaceuticals fulfilled a promise they made years earlier to people with the deadly disease ALS. Justin Klee and Josh Cohen, who started Amylyx while they were students at Brown University, announced that … Read More
May 15, 2024
(New York Times) – Dr. Hilary Cass published a landmark report that led to restrictions on youth gender care in Britain. U.S. health groups said it did not change their support of the care. The National Health Service asked Dr. … Read More
May 14, 2024
(CNN) – New analyses of the longest clinical trial yet of the weight-loss drug Wegovy are shedding light on how quickly it helps people lose weight, how long they sustain that weight loss and how safe the medicine is over … Read More
May 13, 2024
(NPR) – A new study shows a dramatic spike in the number of counterfeit fentanyl pills being seized by law enforcement, an indication of the growing illicit drug supply driving the country’s historic opioid crisis. (Read More)
May 9, 2024
(CNN) – Numerous women have shared stories of “Ozempic babies” on social media. But the joy some experience in discovering pregnancies may come with anxiety about the unknowns, as these medicines haven’t been studied in people who are pregnant. “We … Read More
May 9, 2024
(Axios) – Approximately 321,566 children in the U.S. lost a parent to drug overdose in the decade between 2011 and 2021, according to a new study. Why it matters: The findings underscore the human toll of the increase in drug … Read More
May 8, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Researchers including the team at Columbia and drugmakers are trying to solve the biggest problem in the weight-loss industry today: how to keep weight off once you lose it. Hundreds of thousands of people have shed … Read More
May 8, 2024
(Associated Press) – The pharma giant AstraZeneca has requested that the European authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine be pulled, according to the EU medicines regulator. In an update on the European Medicines Agency’s website Wednesday, the regulator said that the … Read More
May 7, 2024
(The New Yorker) – So you’re on the spectrum, or you’ve got borderline personality disorder, or you’re a sociopath: once you’re sure that’s who you are, you’ve got a personal stake in a very creaky diagnostic system. The DSM as … Read More
