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WASHINGTON — Around the country, statehouses from Harrisburg, Penn. to Tallahassee, Fla., are being flooded with tobacco industry lobbyists, according to a new report from the anti-smoking advocacy group Action on Smoking and Health. There are now at least 950 lobbyists representing cigarette, vape, and snus companies in statehouses around the country,...
Caregivers for older adults and people with disabilities could see a bump in their wages in the coming years, thanks to a forthcoming rule by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The new rule brings sweeping changes to a bevy of Medicaid programs throughout the country, including fee-for-service and managed care delivery systems. One of...
Millions of Americans rely on the internet to answer questions about their own health. The public release of powerful artificial intelligence models like ChatGPT has only accelerated these trends. In a large survey, more than half of American adults reported putting their own health information into a large language model (LLM). And there’s reason...
Doctors have observed and treated bipolar disorder for thousands of years. Known throughout history by many names, like depression, mania, manic-depressive illness, or psychosis, the disorder is common and closely tied to that which makes us human: our thinking, our behavior, our hopes, and our ambitions. A solid foundation of science grounds the understanding...
Vivien Dugan isn’t getting much sleep these days. The director of the influenza division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dugan is leading the team of CDC scientists that is working with partners — in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration, and state and local health departments — to respond to the H5N1...
Amgen said Thursday that it will no longer develop an early-stage obesity pill, and will instead focus on a more advanced injectable candidate that’s seen as a potential competitor to Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy and Eli Lilly’s Zepbound. The injectable drug, called MariTide, is in a Phase 2 trial for obesity, and Chief Executive Bob Bradway said on an earnings...
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