The weight-loss drugs that have swept into the cultural conversation crash into a holiday that’s all about food.
Category: Drugs (Pharmaceuticals)
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Amazon to Stop Selling Seven Eyedrops After F.D.A. Warning
The Food and Drug Administration told the online retailer in a letter this week that the products were not approved for sale in the United States.
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Gonorrhea Is Becoming Drug Resistant. Scientists Just Found a Solution.
A new antibiotic, zoliflodacin, is as effective as the current standard of care. Its creation may hasten the arrival of other needed antibiotics.
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Calls for Financial Details Stall Charity Watch Auction
A social media outcry over its more than $100 million in donations led Only Watch, one of the industry’s most high-profile events, to cancel its Nov. 5 sale.
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Why Pharmacy Workers at CVS and Walgreens Are Protesting
The actions coincided with a period of increasing labor activism by workers in other sectors, including the auto industry and Hollywood.
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Panel Tells F.D.A. That CRISPR Sickle Cell Cure Is Safe Enough for Patients
The decision by an advisory committee may lead to Food and Drug Administration approval of the first treatment for humans that uses the CRISPR gene-editing system.
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F.D.A. Experts Will Vote on a Cure for Sickle Cell Disease
The treatment from the company Vertex would be the first medicine to use the gene editing tool CRISPR.
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Eyedrops From Major Brands May Cause Infection, F.D.A. Says
Target, CVS and Rite Aid are pulling products from shelves after federal investigators found unsanitary conditions and recommended a recall.
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How Much Do Ozempic and Wegovy Cost? Not What You Think.
Drug companies are making billions from a new class of in-demand weight-loss treatments. But the prices are not what they seem.
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Rite Aid Is Closing 154 Stores
The pharmacy chain, once the largest in the United States, detailed a batch of store closures in a bankruptcy court filing.
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Rite Aid Files for Bankruptcy, Facing Slumping Sales and Opioid Suits
The pharmacy chain, one of the country’s largest, faces more than a thousand lawsuits that say it filled illegal prescriptions for painkillers.
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Scientists Investigating Alzheimer’s Drug Faulted in Leaked Report
A professor at the City College of New York engaged in “significant research misconduct,” an investigating committee concluded.