Year: 2023

By now, we’re all familiar with the newfound popularity of Ozempic, a drug created to help manage type 2 diabetes, being used as the new miracle weight loss drug. Recent studies have shown that the active ingredient in Ozempic, semaglutide, can cause weight loss and in 2021, the FDA approved a drug with a higher … Read more

China approved its first messenger RNA vaccine for Covid-19, clearing a shot from a local drugmaker that harnesses the powerful technology months after the world’s most-populous nation abandoned pandemic curbs. The mRNA vaccine, developed by CSPC Pharmaceutical Group Ltd. and which targets the omicron variant, has been approved for emergency use, according to a statement … Read more

Federal health official announces plans to break up the monopoly power of the United Network for Organ Sharing, which has run the system for nearly four decades. View original article Contributor: Lenny Bernstein

Wyoming’s Constitution guarantees a right to make individual health care decisions. The new ban attempts to circumvent that right by declaring that abortion is not health care. View original article Contributor: Pam Belluck

As local data sources become less reliable, The Times will instead report information collected by the C.D.C. on its virus tracking pages. View original article Contributor: Wilson Andrews and Lisa Waananen Jones

A Senate homeland security committee examined growing health care shortages amid reports of rationing within hospitals. View original article Contributor: Christina Jewett