Trump ends push to slash prescription drug costs
With a sweep of the pen, President Donald Trump has ended a Biden administration effort to lower the cost of prescription drugs for people on Medicare and Medicaid.
Jan 22, 2025
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Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins: News and Research on Insulin
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Discovery could eliminate need to refrigerate vaccines and protein-based drugs
A new storage technique can keep protein-based drugs and vaccines stable without keeping them cold. The discovery, led by researchers at Penn State, could eliminate the need for refrigeration for hundreds of life-saving medicines ...
Jan 16, 2025
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Enzyme G6PC2's role in regulating blood sugar levels offers new diabetes insights
A new study has uncovered a critical role for the enzyme Glucose-6-phosphatase 2 (G6PC2) in regulating blood sugar levels. The research sheds new light on how this enzyme influences glucagon secretion in pancreatic alpha ...
Jan 16, 2025
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Oral glucose-lowering agents are potential alternatives to insulin for gestational diabetes
With respect to the proportion of infants born large for gestational age, treatment of gestational diabetes with metformin and glyburide, if needed, does not meet the criteria for noninferiority versus insulin, according ...
Jan 9, 2025
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Health care is Newsom's biggest unfinished project: Trump complicates that task
Six years after he entered office vowing to be California's "health care governor," Democrat Gavin Newsom has steered tens of billions in public funding to safety net services for the state's neediest residents while engineering ...
Jan 9, 2025
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What are pharmacy benefit managers? A health economist explains how lack of competition drives up drug prices
Wegovy and Ozempic are weight loss drugs that promise to transform the treatment of obesity, heart disease and other chronic conditions that afflict millions of Americans. But while everyone agrees these drugs have the potential ...
Dec 19, 2024
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Research uncovers key bariatric surgery complication cause
Postprandial hypoglycemia is one of the main complications of bariatric surgery and can affect up to 30% of patients. Unlike ordinary hypoglycemia, in which low blood sugar is usually associated with little food, postprandial ...
Dec 10, 2024
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What other countries could teach the US about bringing down drug prices
Last year, Kevin Schulman, a health economist at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford School of Medicine, taught a course on health information technology and strategy. Sitting in on the class was Iselin Dahlen ...
Dec 3, 2024
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No need to overload your cranberry sauce with sugar—food scientist explains cooking with fewer added sweeteners
The holidays are full of delicious and indulgent food and drinks. It's hard to resist dreaming about cookies, specialty cakes, rich meats and super saucy side dishes.
Nov 25, 2024
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Nerve damage reduced in prediabetic mice with diet, exercise
A low calorie diet and high intensity exercise can reduce nerve damage in prediabetic mice, according to a Michigan Medicine study.
Nov 21, 2024
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