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(MedPage Today) -- Novo Nordisk sued rival drugmaker Eli Lilly, alleging false advertising claims about relative weight-loss drug performance. (Reuters via NBC News) GLP-1 drug use surged from 2017 to 2022, jumping 230% in adults with diabetes...
Read full article →As part of the Trump administration's ongoing war on fraud, waste and abuse in healthcare, a new report looks at how states can improve the volume of fraud referrals from managed care organizations.
Read full article →A trio of bills signed into law this week outline the latest state-level action on contentious issues affecting healthcare affordability and access.
Read full article →The pharmaceuticals and specialty products distributor plans to buy AdaptHealth's diabetes health business unit and medical supply provider Strive Medical in separate deals worth $360 million.
Read full article →Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s recently reformed committee on compounding pharmacies will meet this week to discuss adding more peptides to the list of substances that pharmacies can produce. But industry observers are conflicted over treating peptides — which Kennedy has said he's a "big fan of" — like pharmaceuticals. The Pharmacy Compounding Advisory...
Read full article →Screening for mental health symptoms in patients with significant allergic disease is not overreach The post How Diagnostic Precision in Allergy Care Supports Mental Well-Being appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →Plus, GOP voters want a crackdown on health care fraud, and how PBMs are skirting state laws.
Read full article →The poet didn’t say “sing to me, Muse, of a man with optimized endocrine panels," writes urologist Elizabeth Dray.
Read full article →The administration is shifting some funding to states, but community groups are set to lose out.
Read full article →THC drinks, which have exploded in popularity in recent years, are sold in retail stores beside sodas, iced tea, and even chocolate milk, often in violation of state laws.
Read full article →A new study finds that consumers who are paying a premium for foods advertised as made with avocado oil are probably not getting what they think they're buying.
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- MONTREAL -- Complement inhibitors to treat geographic atrophy (GA) were associated with thickening of the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL), which could be helpful or pathologic, according to a study reported here. Both FDA...
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