The procedures are far more complicated, costly and painful than many want-to-be mothers realize — with no guarantee at the end. View original article Contributor: Blake Turck
Dr. Robert M. Califf, an academic and clinical trial researcher who ran the agency in 2016, has also consulted for pharmaceutical companies. View original article Contributor: Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Sheila Kaplan
The Medicare prescription drug pricing plan Democrats unveiled this week is not nearly as ambitious as many lawmakers sought, but they and drug policy experts say the provisions crack open … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:
Q. Last weekend I fell off my bicycle and landed on my left shoulder. I felt a crunch and couldn’t lift my arm. X-rays done at the emergency room revealed … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:
School nurses, who were already stretched thin before the pandemic, say that they are overworked and overwhelmed. View original article Contributor: Emily Anthes
Complex restrictions are preventing patients from accessing medical aid in dying, even in states where it is allowed. New legal and legislative efforts are pushing to change that. View original article Contributor: Paula Span
New confirmed cases of COVID-19 are once again rising across a broad region of the United States in what could be an early indication of a fifth wave of infections and related deaths. The timing is particularly inopportune, as millions of Americans prepare to gather for Thanksgiving. While the insurgent virus never strikes everywhere at … Read more
Johnson & Johnson is peeling off a consumer health business that helped it become the world’s biggest health care products maker. The company said Friday that it will separate its segment that sells Band-Aids, Listerine and over-the-counter medicines like Tylenol from its pharmaceutical and medical device business. Company leaders told analysts that the split into … Read more
After performing funeral rites for 40 of his neighbors, Gary Lupe tested positive for COVID-19 in October. Lupe, a 56-year-old minister on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in Whiteriver, Ariz., had spent the previous months in quiet expectation despite being vaccinated in January. On Oct. 10, as he was experiencing flu-like symptoms, a nurse at … Read more
To say that Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug aduhelm is controversial wouldn’t do its rocky road to approval justice. To say it’s complicated is even less satisfying, given that the studies leading to its approval were started, stopped and started again. Add to that reports of questionable meetings between the drug company’s scientists from Biogen and Food … Read more