McKinsey consulting firm agrees to pay another $650 million to avoid trial over US opioid crisis
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How opioid giant Endo escaped a $7 billion US federal penalty
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Hospitals gave patients meds during childbirth, then reported them for positive drug tests
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Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield reverses US policy that would have limited anesthesia periods
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A ‘yoga pill’ to end anxiety? Scientists find a brain circuit that instantly deflates stress.
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US Food and Drug Administration to pull common but ineffective cold medicine, phenylephrine, from market
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Amid backlash, US Food and Drug Administration changes course over shortage of weight-loss drugs
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Weight loss drugs appear to be having an effect at the population level
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Kentucky sues Express Scripts, alleging it had a role in the deadly opioid addiction crisis
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US Federal Trade Commission sues insulin middlemen, saying they pocket billions while patients face high costs
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First-ever mRNA vaccine halts pancreatic cancer in its tracks
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Epilepsy drug Sulthiame could help people with sleep apnea get a good night's rest, Swedish study finds
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New coronavirus vaccines are now approved
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Amid regulatory gaps, US telehealth prescribers flourish
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Why don’t we know how antidepressants work yet?
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The growing scientific case for using Ozempic and other GLP-1s to treat opioid, alcohol, and nicotine addiction
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The US will pay Moderna $176 million to develop an mRNA pandemic flu vaccine
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A new way to prevent HIV delivers dramatic results in trial
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Ozempic and Wegovy linked to rare blindness risk, study finds
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US Supreme Court rejects liability shield at center of Purdue Pharma settlement
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Novo Nordisk is to invest more than $4bn in US manufacturing as it battles to keep up with booming demand for its obesity and diabetes drugs Wegovy and Ozempic
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The opaque industry secretly inflating prices for prescription drugs
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Gilead shot prevents all HIV cases in trial of African women
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Rapid UTI test that cuts detection time to forty-five minutes awarded Longitude prize – could herald sea change in antibiotic use by identifying correct treatments
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mRNA melanoma vaccine halves the risk of death and recurrence
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Scientists pinpoint driver of IBD and other disorders; work under way to adapt existing drugs
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US, European nations consider vaccinating workers exposed to bird flu
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Denmark's economy contracts with drop in pharma production – Danish GDP fell 1.8% in the first quarter
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mRNA cancer vaccine reprograms immune system to tackle glioblastoma
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Towers of silence
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US biotech executive sentenced to seven years in jail for COVID test fraud
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How the entire country of Denmark became a company town – economists warn of "Nokia-style" overdependence on a single sector with Ozempic boom
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A pill to make exercise obsolete (2017)
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The war on recovery: how the US is sabotaging its best tools to prevent deaths in the opioid epidemic
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Cystic fibrosis breakthrough has given patients a chance to live longer
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German man deliberately receives 217 Covid vaccinations over twenty-nine months, with no adverse events or strong effect on immune system
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NEXT Life Sciences announces successful clinical evaluation of the delivery method for Plan A contraception for men
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US prescription market hamstrung for nine days (so far) by ransomware attack
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A US drugmaker’s feud with the DEA is exacerbating the ADHD meds crisis
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Finland used to have one of the highest suicide rates in the world – how the country halved it and saved countless lives
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Niacin has long been a public health darling. But an excess could be bad for the heart, study suggests.
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Research at the heart of a US lawsuit against the abortion pill has been retracted
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EBay will pay $59 million settlement over pill presses sold online as US undergoes overdose epidemic
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Pharma bro Martin Shkreli goes ballistic on US federal appeals court for upholding lifetime ban from pharma industry
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Gene therapy allows an 11-year-old American boy to hear for the first time
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Why are antidepressants so popular in Iceland? | Mindset
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Psychoactive drug ibogaine effectively treats traumatic brain injury in special ops military vets
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Can Denmark's world-beating drugs maker Novo Nordisk stay ahead after Wegovy propelled them into the big league?
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Aripiprazole (Abilify and generic brands): risk of pathological gambling
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A quiet merger trial between antitrust enforcers and a pharma data giant called IQVIA reveals how bro-style executives control US medical data
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