Tag: patients
Plan for GPs to keep millions of patients out of hospital
A scheme to help GPs provide care and advice to patients without them joining long NHS hospital waiting lists is being expanded in England, the govern [...]
Patients Cut Off From Cheaper Obesity Drugs as FDA Halts Sales of Copycats
U.S. regulators are trying to shut down the industry for compounded weight-loss drugs, which could result in higher costs or suspend treatment for pat [...]
Elon Musk’s Neuralink seeks patients globally to try its brain chips
Elon Musk’s computer-chip brain implant company Neuralink is seeking patients all around the world to trial its device that allows one’s thoughts to c [...]
Remedy Supported by Kennedy Leaves Some Measles Patients More Ill
After the health secretary promoted vitamin A as a cure, parents in West Texas began giving their children high doses, sometimes to prevent infection. [...]
Keeping With Kennedy’s Advice, Measles Patients Turn to Unproven Treatments
In West Texas, some with severe illness have not been taken to a doctor until their conditions worsened, officials said.
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FDA Zepbound shortage ends, impacts patients, compounding pharmacies
An injection pen of Zepbound, Eli Lilly’s weight loss drug, is displayed in New York City on Dec. 11, 2023.Brendan McDermid | ReutersThe roughly $1,00 [...]
What Trump’s health pick RFK Jr. could mean for patients, drugmakers
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump attend a campaign event sponsored by conservative gro [...]
Mental health patients to get job coach visits, says minister
BBCJob coaches will visit seriously ill patients on mental health wards to try to get them back to work, the government has said.Trials of employment [...]
Wes Streeting tells GPs work-to-rule ‘only punishes patients’
The health secretary has urged GPs in England to end collective action and warned it will "only punish patients".Addressing the Royal College of GPs c [...]
Leqembi could give Alzheimer’s patients more time, but road to treatment is long
Hannah Yoon | The Washington Post | Getty ImagesLeqembi, an Alzheimer's drug from Biogen and Eisai, isn't a cure for the mind-damaging disease. But t [...]
Infected blood authority can now pay patients, minister says
ReutersSome 30,000 people were infected with HIV and hepatitis C from contaminated blood products and transfusions between 1970 and 1991Ministers have [...]
Ro launches GLP-1 supply tracker to help patients navigate shortages
GLP-1 Supply Tracker from Ro. Courtesy: RoTelehealth company Ro on Wednesday launched a new tracker to help patients find a popular class of weight lo [...]
Sunak says NHS failed patients over blood infections
The PM said the NHS provided "life saving care" every day but it was clear there were "significant failings" which caused people to receive infected b [...]
Wegovy patients maintain weight loss for 4 years: Novo Nordisk study
Boxes of Wegovy made by Novo Nordisk are seen at a pharmacy in London, Britain March 8, 2024. Hollie Adams | ReutersPatients taking Novo Nordisk's obe [...]
3.6 million Medicare patients could get heart health coverage
More than 3 million people with Medicare could be eligible for coverage of Wegovy now that the blockbuster weight loss drug is also approved in the U. [...]