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Redundant paperwork, conflicting incentives, unpredictable costs: patients are fed up with Big Pharma drug pricing

America should reward innovation that comes from integration—not punish it In the American economy, scale is often misunderstood. When businesses grow more efficient, more agile, and more aligned across operations, critics call it consolidation. When those efficiencies lower costs, improve service, and boost innovation, critics still cry foul. But the truth is this: vertical integration isn’t a threat to competition—it’s the engine of American competitiveness. Vertical integration is the natural result of companies solving inefficiencies in...

Trump signs order looking to decrease number of drug ads on TV and on social media

Current regulations specify that drug ads cannot create a “misleading impression” and must provide a “fair balance” of information. But FDA enforcement in recent years has been lax.

This Breakthrough Drug May Be the Ultimate Baldness Cure

Men's Health – Researchers have developed a new drug that regrows hair by reactivating dormant hair follicle cells. The approach is different than current treatments, which only slow down hair loss. It reactivates hair follicles by boosting the body’s natural availability of lactate, which directly affects the follicles’ ability to grow hair. Safety trials are done and a trial to test its effectiveness is planned for next year. For millennia, thick, healthy hair has symbolized both masculine...

The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S.

ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013. Our list provides the names of the drugs or ingredients and their manufacturers, many of which are no longer banned.

Daily oral GLP-1 pill could be just as effective as weekly shots

Medical breakthrough in new weight-loss pill

Trump Demands That Drugmakers Lower Some of Their U.S. Prices by September

The administration has not put forward a clear legal authority to compel drugmakers to reduce their prices.

Park Avenue killer had prescription anti-psychotic medication

The man who gunned down four people at a Park Avenue office building left anti-psychotic medication in his Las Vegas apartment, and a note.

FDA Posts 200 Letters Citing Initial Concerns About Approved Drugs

KFF HEALTH NEWS – The FDA published a database of letters sent to drugmakers during the review process of medications that provide information on the agency's initial feedback or requirements for more data. These communications are not usually made public. Reuters: US FDA Publishes 200 Complete Response Letters From Archive In Transparency Drive Typically, the FDA sends the letters, or CRLs, to drugmakers whose treatments are not approved, detailing reasons and whether additional data is required,...

FDA increases enforcement of regs for imports including seafood, papayas, cantaloupe and more

FOOD SAFETY NEWS – The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed. Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as posted by the agency, are listed below. Click here to go to the FDA page with links to details on specific alerts. source FDA Commissioner: ‘We want to focus on food’ THE HILL – As part of the “Make...

Antidepressant Withdrawal Is a Major Public Health Issue, Experts Warn Health

Almost one-third of long-term users reported symptoms that lasted for more than three months. Four-fifths of these patients were unable to stop their antidepressants despite trying.

Pharmacists Stockpile Most Common Drugs on Chance of Targeted Trump Tariffs

KFF HEALTH NEWS – In the dim basement of a Salt Lake City pharmacy, hundreds of amber-colored plastic pill bottles sit stacked in rows, one man’s defensive wall in a tariff war. Independent pharmacist Benjamin Jolley and his colleagues worry that the tariffs, aimed at bringing drug production to the United States, could instead drive companies out of business while raising prices and creating more of the drug shortages that have plagued American patients for...

UnitedHealth Group CEO Resigns ‘For Personal Reasons’; Shares Keep Falling

KFF HEALTH NEWS – UnitedHealth chief executive Andrew Witty vowed to help fix the health care industry in the wake of CEO Brian Thompson's 2024 killing. Other industry news is on Atrium Health's pay raises; a strike among doctors and health care workers at PeaceHealth; and more. Axios: UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty Leaves "For Personal Reasons" The CEO of the health care giant whose insurance leader was killed in New York in December is abruptly leaving the...

Medication taken by 1 in 8 Americans linked to substantial increase in the risk of sudden cardiac death

FORTUNE – New research links antidepressants to potential heart health risks. Over 20 million American adults and 3.7 million kids ages 12 to 17 live with depression, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. And for about one in eight Americans, antidepressants are a vital tool to help manage the condition. But new research presented at the European Heart Rhythm Association’s 2025 Congress shows that this widely used medication is associated with a...

A letter from Mark Cuban. COST-PLUS DRUGS

Find and afford the drugs you need Know what your medication costs Track your order in real time COSTPLUSDRUGS.COM – We started Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company because every American should have access to safe, affordable medicines. If you don’t have insurance or have a high deductible plan, you know that even the most basic medications can cost a fortune. Many people are spending crazy amounts of money each month just to stay...

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