May 6, 2024
(Washington Post) – He wonders whether he’d do better on a lower dose, “but I do what my oncologist tells me to do,” he said. Every day, he takes eight 120-milligram pills, sold under Amgen’s brand name Lumakras. Crosslin’s concern … Read More
May 6, 2024
(Medpage Today) – Some patients who newly started a GLP-1 receptor agonist quickly developed psychiatric symptoms, a few case reports detailed here. One case involved a female, age 42, with a history of bipolar I disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), … Read More
May 6, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Doctors are rallying around an audacious goal: eliminating a cancer for the first time. Cervical cancer rates in the U.S. have dropped by more than half since the 1970s. Pap tests enable doctors to purge precancerous … Read More
May 3, 2024
(NPR) – Moore largely credits the Camden Coalition, a team of nurses, social workers and care coordinators for his transformation. The nonprofit organization seeks out health care’s toughest patients — people whose medical and social problems combine to land them … Read More
May 3, 2024
(Medscape) – Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), which are used to control acid reflux, are associated with an increased risk for migraine and other severe headache types, new research showed. Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) … Read More
May 3, 2024
(New York Times) – Soon after their arrival in late December 2020, the Covid-19 vaccines turned the pandemic around and opened a path back to normalcy. They prevented about 14.4 million deaths worldwide, according to one estimate. In a small … Read More
May 3, 2024
(New York Times) – All vaccines have at least occasional side effects. But people who say they were injured by Covid vaccines believe their cases have been ignored. The Covid vaccines, a triumph of science and public health, are estimated … Read More
May 3, 2024
(The Atlantic) – Currently, recreational cannabis is legal for adults over the age of 21 in 24 states, which are home to more than half of the U.S. population. According to a recent Harris poll, about 40 percent of Americans … Read More
May 2, 2024
(NPR) – The benefits of hormone therapy for the treatment of menopause symptoms outweigh the risks. That’s the conclusion of a new study published in the medical journal JAMA. “Among women below the age of 60, we found hormone therapy … Read More
May 2, 2024
(The Atlantic) – It takes a certain amount of confidence to call your biotech company Grail. According to its website, the Menlo Park–based firm got its name because its “co-founders believed a simple blood test could be the ‘holy GRAIL’ … Read More
May 1, 2024
(ProPublica) – The agency issued a rule that brings new scrutiny to a range of critical lab-developed tests, including certain cancer and prenatal screenings. ProPublica previously reported how lab-test accuracy and marketing had skirted federal oversight. The Food and Drug … Read More
May 1, 2024
(CNBC) – Johnson & Johnson on Wednesday said it plans to pay $6.5 billion over 25 years to settle nearly all of the thousands of lawsuits in the U.S. claiming its talc-based products caused ovarian cancer, pending approval of the … Read More
April 30, 2024
(Associated Press) – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects across the … Read More
April 30, 2024
(ABC News) – Federal regulators are challenging patents on 20 brand-name drugs, including the blockbuster weight-loss injection Ozempic, in the latest effort by the Biden administration targeting pharmaceutical industry practices that drive up prices. (Read More)
April 29, 2024
(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Pfizer’s gene therapy for hemophilia B on Friday, the second such therapy for the rare bleeding disorder that typically requires regular infusions of a blood-clotting protein. People with hemophilia have a … Read More
April 22, 2024
(NPR) – When drug company reps visit doctors, it usually includes lunch or dinner and a conversation about a new drug. These direct-to-physician marketing interactions are tracked as payments in a public database, and a new study shows the meetings … Read More
April 22, 2024
(New York Times) – Twenty-three top Chinese swimmers tested positive for the same powerful banned substance seven months before the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021 but were allowed to escape public scrutiny and continue to compete after top Chinese officials … Read More
April 19, 2024
(Associated Press) – The World Health Organization has approved a version of a widely used cholera vaccine that could help address a surge in cases that has depleted the global vaccine stockpile and left poorer countries scrambling to contain epidemics. … Read More
April 19, 2024
(BBC) – Sammy [not her real name] is an unlikely drug trafficker. She is one of what international law enforcement agencies estimate could be thousands of online sales representatives, working for illicit Chinese pharmaceutical and chemical companies producing and smuggling … Read More
April 19, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – The friends and influencers on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube talking up drugs for weight loss aren’t always giving the full story. Social media is displacing physicians as the trusted authorities on whether patients should take one … Read More
April 18, 2024
(New York Times) – Nearly 1.5 million teenage girls in some of the world’s poorest countries will miss the chance to be protected from cervical cancer because the drugmaker Merck has said it will not be able to deliver millions … Read More
April 18, 2024
(The Atlantic) – “It really is a game changer,” says Steve Devine, the chief medical officer of the nonprofit NMDP, which runs the U.S. donor registry and has led research into the use of mismatched donors. Today, agonizing searches for … Read More
April 17, 2024
(New York Times) – “Have an abortion with me,” a single mother from Brooklyn named Sunni says as she twirls around her kitchen to light jazzy piano, before walking TikTok viewers through the steps she took to end her pregnancy … Read More
April 17, 2024
(NPR) – Norditropin, the growth hormone prescribed most often, went into shortage in the fall of 2022. It’s still scarce a year and a half later, despite assurances from Novo Nordisk, maker of the drug, that supplies would stabilize in … Read More
April 17, 2024
(New York Times) – A pill taken once a week. A shot administered at home once a month. Even a jab given at a clinic every six months. In the next five to 10 years, these options may be available … Read More
