BREAKING: Novo Nordisk CEO agrees to Bernie Sanders’ demand to testify on Ozempic, Wegovy prices statnews.com/2024/06/14/nov… via STAT Rachel Cohrs Zhang

This is so, so disgusting. reuters.com/investigates/s…

Well, that's pretty cool.

Classic journalism riddle: Two people have a conversation. Two people are familiar with the conversation those people had. Are those two people different than the two people who had the conversation?

.⁦CDC⁩ warns about a potential exacerbation of the ADHD drug shortage because of an alleged $100M health-care fraud. Discussing next on ⁦CNN⁩ cnn.com/2024/06/13/hea…

Latest from Helen Branswell 🇨🇦: In dribs and drabs, USDA reports suggest containing bird flu outbreak in dairy cows will be challenging statnews.com/2024/06/13/h5n… via STAT

NEW from E&C Chair CathyMcMorrisRodgers & Approps Health Chair Robert Aderholt: A sweeping NIH reform plan merging institutes/centers - from 27 to 15.

Approps 'will begin reflecting some of the applicable reforms as part of its FY 2025 govt funding process.'

statnews.com/2024/06/14/nih…

When I was a young producer at Radiolab 20 years ago..
I pitched the question “is my red your red?” so many times I got banned from pitching it. Cool question, but unanswerable. Then SindhuGnanasambandan found a story that unlocks part of it. Today we bring it to u!
radiolab.org/podcast/aphant…

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 $GILD IS AN OBESITY PLAY.

I repeat, $GiLD OBESITY.

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Everyone should’ve copied the decision we made at pillpack to completely avoid dispensing CII’s. And certainly, to build an entire business around them, was so obviously a bad idea from the jump. Coming home to roost now. apple.news/AoI0N7CFcT6aZ9…

Executives From ADHD Startup Arrested, Charged With Fraud apple.news/AoI0N7CFcT6aZ9…

Biopharma execs cheer Supreme Court for upholding FDA authority in abortion pill case statnews.com/2024/06/13/bio… via Sarah Owermohle

Here's one guy who was happy about the SCOTUS mifepristone decision: Dr. Robert M. Califf

statnews.com/2024/06/13/sup…

So cool. Vua ⁦Carl Zimmer⁩ nytimes.com/2024/06/11/sci…

Supreme Court allows mailed mifepristone abortion pills statnews.com/2024/06/13/sup…

SCOTUS ruling on FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine is out:

supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf…

Court found the Alliance does not have standing to challenge the FDA's approval of and subsequent expansion of access to mifepristone.

'He is an unsung hero. He was actually the mastermind of all of this.' (Re: Eli Lilly CEO being behind copay caps).

Capping copays is self serving for pharma cos! They can still charge insurers much more than $35. Insured people and taxpayers are paying for that.

Fascinating tale that started when early in her pregnancy, an engineering professor wanted to know how much caffeine was safe for her to consume.
Deborah J. Balthazar reports that it led to placenta-on-a-chip.
statnews.com/2024/06/13/pla… via STAT

Did #Covid leave us better prepared for the next pandemic? Watching the US respond to #H5N1 #birdflu has led Seth Berkley, former CEO of Gavi, to the conclusion that it did not. 'I’m not sure we have learned anything.' Andrew Joseph reports. statnews.com/2024/06/13/glo…

It was Eli Lilly's CEO, not Biden or Trump, who first proposed $35 insulin -- a pretty interesting sign of how hard the company has tried to maneuver out of a situation it helped create, but that was also driven by systemic problems like drug rebates to PBMs.

Probably ok to