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US health agency has sent drug pricing pilot to the White House

By Patrick Wingrove NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Thursday sent the White House the details of a drug pricing pilot for official review, according to a government website.  The pilot, titled Global ...
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Trump extends Georgia health insurance program with work requirements, despite red tape findings

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s program that provides health insurance to some low-income adults that document work or other activities has been extended for 15 months by President Donald Trump’s administration. Republican Gov. Brian Kemp announced Thursday that the federal government approved that the Pathways to ...
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US medtech stocks fall as Trump administration opens import probe

(Reuters) -U.S. medtech stocks fell on Thursday after the U.S. Commerce Department opened a probe into imports of medical devices, a move that could ultimately lead to tariffs. Companies like GE HealthCare, Becton Dickinson, Stryker, Insulet, Intuitive Surgical and ResMed were among the worst performers ...
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Bristol Myers to sell psoriasis drug at over 80% discount to some US patients

(Reuters) -Bristol Myers Squibb said on Thursday it will sell its psoriasis drug Sotyktu directly to cash-paying U.S. patients at a more than 80% discount to its list price amid pressure from the Trump administration. President Donald Trump has been pressuring drugmakers to lower the ...
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Eli Lilly halts trial of experimental weight-loss drug

(Reuters) -Eli Lilly has halted a study of an experimental drug, which is designed to prevent obesity patients from losing too much muscle, due to strategic business reasons, according to a U.S. registry of clinical trials. The drugmaker was testing the drug, bimagrumab, alone or ...
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Parkinson’s disease at forefront of Bayer bet on cell and gene therapies

By Patricia Weiss FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Bayer’s pioneering cell and gene therapies for Parkinson’s disease are at the forefront of an exciting but risky test of CEO Bill Anderson’s development credentials as patent expiries on blockbuster drugs threaten the group’s long-term growth projects. Rivals in cell and ...
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Denmark’s ‘Novo Town’ holds its breath as Wegovy fever fades

By Soren Jeppesen and Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen KALUNDBORG, Denmark (Reuters) -In Denmark’s seaside town of Kalundborg, also known as “Novo Town”, therapist Heidi Thron Rune has learnt to live with the noise of building work as new facilities take shape to meet demand for Novo ...
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Philips in talks with US over probes of medical technology imports

(Reuters) -Philips is actively engaged with policymakers in Washington about investigations into U.S. imports of medical technology items but does not expect an immediate impact from the probes, it said on Thursday. The U.S. Department of Commerce said on Wednesday it had opened new ...
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The issue of drugs doesn’t usually get showcased at the UN General Assembly. This year is different

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Every year, tons of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and other drugs flow around the world, an underground river that crisscrosses borders and continents and spills over into violence, addiction and suffering. Yet when nations’ leaders give the U.N. their annual take ...
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Lilly plans to launch experimental weight-loss pill in India, exec says

By Rishika Sadam MUMBAI (Reuters) -Eli Lilly plans to bring its experimental oral weight-loss drug orforglipron to India as it sees market potential in the world’s most populous nation, a senior executive said on Thursday. “I do think there is promise for products like that (orforpligron) ...
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Doping-WADA to ban non-diagnostic use of carbon monoxide

(Reuters) -The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will add the non-diagnostic use of carbon monoxide to its prohibited methods list from next year, the organisation said. The gas is used in low doses to help measure critical blood metrics in athletes, especially haemoglobin levels, but there ...
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Lice concerns rise as children return to school. Here’s what parents can do

Children have returned to school and are bringing home stories about the things they learned and the friends they made. But some parents are concerned they could also be bringing home a tiny nuisance — lice. Though schools are not the only place transmission ...
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