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Costco to Sell Popular Weight-Loss Drugs Ozempic and Wegovy  The New York Times Costco to sell Ozempic and Wegovy at a large discount for people without insurance  NBC News Major retailer to offer weight-loss jabs at discounted price  The Independent Costco Will Sell Ozempic and Wegovy at Half Price  People.com Costco members will soon have access to weight-loss shots at a major discount  Fox Business …

Autism rates in the US have increased approximately 380 percent since monitoring began in 2000, with recent data showing one in 31 children are affected.  Health experts around the world have been trying to find a cause for the rapid rise, and last month President Donald Trump pointed to acetaminophen, commonly known as Tylenol, as a potential factor despite inconclusive research.  Experts …

New information revealed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shows an illegal immigrant who was working as a school superintendant in Iowa has “a long record of criminal conduct in the United States.” Ian Andre Robert, of Guyana, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on September 26. Ahead of his arrest, he was making nearly $300,000 …

A Swedish-led research team at Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital has shown in a new randomized clinical trial that a low dose of the well-known medicine aspirin halves the risk of recurrence after surgery in patients with colon and rectal cancer with a certain type of genetic alteration in the tumor. Every year, nearly two million people worldwide are …

Obsessive, intrusive thoughts about eating – known as food noise – can be quieted through semaglutide drugs such as Ozempic, new research has revealed, further boosting the effectiveness of these treatments for weight loss. These drugs are known as receptor agonists, triggering cell responses to mimic the body’s natural glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) hormone, and reduce appetite and slow digestion. We …

President Donald Trump announced the latest addition to his personal branding empire this week: TrumpRx, a government website that claims it will offer deeply discounted drugs to many Americans. News of the website’s forthcoming launch was accompanied by an announcement from Pfizer that it would voluntarily reduce the prices it charges the Medicaid program. It all sounds like genuinely good …

Novo, Lilly weight-loss drugs should be first option obesity treatments, European doctors say  Reuters A systematic review and meta-analysis of the efficacy and safety of pharmacological treatments for obesity in adults  Nature Semaglutide, tirzepatide recommended as first-line treatment of obesity and most of its complications in new guidance  Medical Xpress Weight loss jabs Mounjaro and Wegovy are so effective they should be the …

Axsome Therapeutics has three drugs on the market and five in the pipeline, with the potential to help some 150 million Americans suffering from brain disorders. When Herriot Tabuteau started a drug development company in 2012, he decided to do so differently. First, he’d focus on brain disorders, treatments for which are notoriously difficult to develop and whose efficacy can …

President Donald Trump is expected to announce on Tuesday a multipronged effort aimed at lowering drug costs in the United States, including the creation of a “TrumpRx” direct-to-consumer website where Americans can buy medicine at discounted prices and a deal with Pfizer to reduce the cost of its medications, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. Details of the deal …

Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting.  The Washington Post Opinion | The Tax on Being a Girl  The New York Times Unsafe abortions and no antenatal care: aid cuts hit women hardest in one of Africa’s poorest countries  The Guardian How African communities are responding to the aid cuts  Devex Let’s spend $12B Trump has left to use before year-end to …