Tag: medication

McKinsey & Company agrees to pay $650 million to settle federal probe over opioids work

WASHINGTON -- McKinsey & Company consulting firm has agreed to pay $650 million to settle a federal investigation into its work for opioids...

How should the opioid settlements be spent? Those hit hardest often don’t have a say

People with substance use disorder across the country are not getting a formal say in how most of the approximately $50 billion in...

Better drugs through AI? Insitro CEO on what machine learning can teach Big Pharma

WASHINGTON -- Artificial intelligence is changing the way companies do business — helping programmers write code and fielding customer service calls with chatbots.But...

A twice-yearly shot could help end AIDS. But will it get to everyone who needs it?

MEXICO CITY -- It’s been called the closest the world has ever come to a vaccine against the AIDS virus.The twice-yearly shot was...

Biden proposes Medicare and Medicaid cover costly weight-loss drugs for millions of obese Americans

WASHINGTON -- Millions of Americans with obesity would be eligible to have popular weight-loss drugs like Wegovy or Ozempic covered by Medicare or...

Even with access to blockbuster obesity drugs, some people don't lose weight

Unlike scores of people who scrambled for the blockbuster drugs Ozempic and Wegovy to lose weight in recent years, Danielle Griffin had no...