Nearly a year after its approval, the first medical treatment that uses the Nobel Prize–winning technology Crispr is now being given to patients. Called Casgevy, the gene-editing treatment is for …
“Today’s ecosystem is based around living volunteers,” Ossium’s CEO and cofounder, Kevin Caldwell, says. While the US organ donor system has existed for decades, bone marrow has never been regularly …
In a long-sought move, the US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday formally began the process of abandoning oral doses of a common over-the-counter decongestant that the agency concluded last …
One of these, called the Argus II, was approved for commercial use in Europe in 2011 and in the US in 2013. That implant involved larger electrodes that were placed …
Smaller Panadol pack sizes will appear on shelves this month, ahead of the new Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) rules restricting the quantity of paracetamol sold within a single product. The …
Drugmaker Novo Nordisk is taking action to curb the massively popular compounded semaglutide industry, which provides copies of its blockbuster weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy to patients—often for much lower …
If you’re a man, you are more likely to suffer a health condition that kills you. But if you’re a woman, you are more likely to live in ill health. …
Eli Lilly has sent cease-and-desist letters to hundreds of compounding pharmacies, telehealth companies, and medical spas making and selling “compounded” versions of tirzepatide. This hawkish legal strategy indicates that a …
“A lot of these patients have now been left flat-footed. They’ve got a prescription for a compounded drug that can’t be filled anymore,” says Alliance for Pharmacy Compounding CEO Scott …
Kate* always had long and painful periods, some of which made her think “I can’t live like this” — but, like many women, she never really questioned whether the severity …