STAT+: Popular insulin product enters shortage as other pens leave market
The Lantus Solostar insulin pen isn't in official FDA shortage, but patients are having a tough time finding it.
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Tracking Medicare news, policy, and coverage changes.
Senate health panel delays vote on CDC nominee
Too few senators were in attendance to proceed with a vote on the CDC director nominee.
Read full article →STAT+: What’s in the last-minute flurry of health care bills?
Congress is scrambling to advance a slew of health care bills before an August recess. Price transparency and prior authorization top the list.
Read full article →FDA panel confronting peptide controversy
Today's biotech news features the FDA weighing the fate of peptides; approvals for RevMed, GSK; and data on Lilly's "triple-G."
Read full article →A father’s mission to save his daughter, and allegations on telehealth GLP-1 prescribing
Has a wanted fugitive been posing as a biotech executive? And what does it take to develop a therapy for an ultra-rare disease? Find out on this week's episode of…
Read full article →STAT+: Vote on key federal health nominee delayed amid questions over vaccine views
Sean Kaufman, nominated to run ASPR, has a track record of questioning the safety of vaccines.
Read full article →STAT+: Trump promised redemption for troops who refused Covid shots. A year later, many are still waiting
Veterans who want to rejoin the military are often bogged down in bureaucratic red tape.
Read full article →This AI tool promises a 'second pair of eyes' to clinicians. Did patients benefit?
Medical workers in a Nairobi clinic used an AI tool to check their work. A new study evaluates the result.
Read full article →Available Ebola Vaccine May Protect Against Bundibugyo Virus, Study Suggests
(MedPage Today) -- An available vaccine for Ebola might provide partial protection against the ongoing outbreak of Bundibugyo virus, which has no licensed vaccines or therapeutics, according to new research. Using 179 serum samples from children...
Read full article →Death at Lifestyle Clinic; Consequences for J6 Doc; $4.7M Kickback Settlement
(MedPage Today) -- A 27-year-old woman died after getting a nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) injection from an unlicensed doctor at a lifestyle clinic in the Bronx, N.Y. (CBS News) Jacquelyn Starer, MD, of Massachusetts, has lost the right...
Read full article →Judge Questions Hegseth's Testosterone Policy Amid Military's Transgender Care Ban
(MedPage Today) -- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's new initiative to test and treat troops for low testosterone has prompted a federal judge to question the differences between that kind of testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) and hormone treatment...
Read full article →Another Diarrhea Bug Outbreak; Med School Race Probe; Baseballer's Ruptured Testicle
(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. A new outbreak of cyclosporiasis is being investigated by the FDA, with 72 cases tied to an as-yet-unidentified source. (Reuters via AOL) Amid these outbreaks...
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