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A new STAT special report found that just a handful of networks of doctors, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants are writing prescriptions for dozens of websites offering GLP-1s online, including the compounded versions that have been highly debated. Companies are rarely transparent about the medical groups behind the screens. Telehealth sites prescribing GLP-1s can get off the ground in a matter of days by “renting” the services of these medical groups, which have established themselves as an invisible but critical piece of the puzzle enabling the digital cash grab surrounding the weight loss drugs. https://trib.al/E8h79MJ #weightlossdrugs #GLP1s
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The use of GLP-1 drugs was linked to a lower risk of opioid overdose or alcohol intoxication among people with opioid or alcohol use disorder, according to a new study from researchers at Loyola University. They found that prescriptions for drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Trulicity were associated with 40% lower rates of hospitalizations for heroin overdoses and 50% lower rates for alcohol intoxication, based on eight years of observational data from de-identified electronic records of more than 1.5 million Americans. https://trib.al/1tknw8f
More evidence on GLP-1s and opioid addiction
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Mark Cuban is confident he can disrupt health care - he joins First Opinion podcast host Torie Bosch and STAT senior writer Matthew Herper on this week's show to talk drug costs, healthcare, politics, and more. https://lnkd.in/eMZ5saU8
Mark Cuban has no doubt he can disrupt health care
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The FDA expanded the approval of Novocure’s Optune device to include the treatment of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer. The study achieved its primary goal, but some experts said the results were uninterpretable and outside current clinical practice. Learn more in The Readout: https://trib.al/728i26d
A controversial approval for Novocure's device
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Recording artist and venture capital investor D.A. Wallach's perspective on medicine changed when his wife died after giving birth. Hear what he had to say at the #STATSummit about the lobbying groups that keep health care from truly helping everyone, including patients.
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Alnylam Pharmaceuticals' Dr. Yvonne Greenstreet said she believes the company's experimental #heartdrug vutrisiran will become a multibillion-dollar product for ATTR-cardiomyopathy, despite increasing competition. For the last 20 years, Alnylam has converted Nobel-winning research on RNA-based gene-silencing into medicines, winning approvals for drugs delivered to the liver. That’s where some misfolded proteins are made, and in an increasingly diagnosed heart disease called ATTR cardiomyopathy, they eventually jam up muscles in the heart and contribute to heart failure. But ATTR isn't the company's only target. If vutrisiran is approved next year to treat ATTR-CM, Greenstreet is ready to embrace competition. Read more from her appearance at #STATSummit here: https://trib.al/2dPvm2J
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Shelby Campbell, a young girl with beta thalassemia, received bluebird bio’s gene therapy for the disease which offered her a one-time cure. But it also meant enduring a difficult, months-long journey. She shared her story alongside her mother Michelle at #STATSummit. Read more about the family's journey here: https://trib.al/V8a4NoY #genetherapy #raredisease #betathalassemia
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Ramisa Fariha, PhD, a biomedical engineer at Brown University’s RNA Center, credits the famed wrestler Dave Bautista as her inspiration for a career in science. Watch this clip to understand why. Read more from three of this year's #STATWunderkinds who discussed the importance of translational research with Nicholas St. Fleur at #STATSummit: https://trib.al/PRl4HH7
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“What do they have right as you’re trying to check out? All of the junk food. The last thing I want is my grandkids pitching a fit in front of everybody in the store. So you buy it,” said Robert Califf. The cardiologist and commissioner of the U.S. FDA has been deeply involved in cardiovascular research: investigating health outcomes, health care quality, and clinical research in large, complex studies. As part of a series of interviews with STAT, Califf discussed why cardiovascular health is moving in the wrong direction, how primary care is the missing piece, where technology might make a difference, and the impact of obesity drugs. https://trib.al/jV3414g
Q&A: FDA chief on why our hearts are less healthy, how obesity drugs impress him, and what worries him
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