One year after President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, the future of the law's signature drug pricing policy — Medicare negotiations — is up in the air.
When Valci Carvalho was a teenager, newly moved to Martha’s Vineyard from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he took a job at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Still a student at the regional high school, the kitchen gig was a way to help out his family financially, caught like so many others in the “Vineyard housing shuffle.”
Eli Lilly is riding a wave of investor optimism and media hype about new treatments for two of the biggest public health problems: obesity and Alzheimer's.
Patients who take blockbuster drugs like Wegovy or Ozempic for weight loss may face life-threatening complications if they need surgery or other procedures that require empty stomachs for anesthesia.