The history of OxyContin, told through Purdue Pharma documents …
June 15, 1993 to April 15, 1994: Purdue conducted a clinical trial in elderly patients with osteoarthritis to test the safety and efficacy of OxyContin. It enrolled 133 patients, but only 63 ...
Why liver experts renamed NASH to MASH, and NAFLD to MASLD …
Dec 28, 2023 · A group of over 200 physicians, public health experts, industry representatives, regulatory officials, and patient advocates made the call in a supermajority vote: Non-alcoholic fatty liver ...
Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine - STAT
Health. Health. It turns out that both scientists and the public spend all their interest in the 0.1% of genetic variation that makes us different, not the 99.9% that makes us the same.
Calley and Casey Means: Making chronic disease a conservative …
Oct 7, 2024 · Calley and Casey Means push anti-corporate message to ‘Make America Healthy Again’. Casey Means, left, a physician, and her brother, Calley Means, right, an entrepreneur, have gotten the ...
FDA to reconsider removal of Eli Lilly weight loss drug from ... - STAT
Oct. 11, 2024. Health Tech Correspondent. The Food and Drug Administration on Friday said it would reconsider its decision to remove Eli Lilly’s tirzepatide, sold as Mounjaro for diabetes and ...
Life expectancy increases may have hit their limit, study shows
Oct 7, 2024 · advertisement. Global life expectancy has soared from 30 years in 1870 to 71 years in 2021, according to Our World in Data, an online scientific publication. The reasons for the increase are many ...
Medicare Advantage plans for 2025 will have some big changes
Oct. 4, 2024. Next year’s Medicare Advantage market will be two things at once: remarkably stable broadly, but rife with changes under the surface. Health insurance companies will still offer ...
2025 Medicare Advantage plans analysis: Humana, Aetna, United …
Sep 13, 2024 · When insurers release their 2025 plan offerings on Oct. 1, there likely will be fewer choices and freebies. advertisement. “They don’t want these patients anymore,” said Jared Holz, a health ...
Two-thirds of Congress cashed a pharma campaign check in 2020
Jun 9, 2021 · More than two-thirds of Congress cashed a pharma campaign check in 2020, new STAT analysis shows. STAT’s tool allows users to visualize individual drug companies’ corporate PAC spending ...
Humana reduces 2025 Medicare Advantage plan offerings | STAT
Sep 4, 2024 · The company will scrap Medicare Advantage plans in 2025 that currently cover about 560,000 members. Susan Diamond, Humana’s chief financial officer, detailed the company’s plans Wednesday at ...