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Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs, 9amHealth Collaborate to Make Obesity Medications Affordable

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Approximately 31% of people in the United States were overweight and 42% were obese in 2017 to 2018, compared with 34% and 30.5% " Obesity has risen considerably over the past 3 years, according to data from the Pew Research Center. in 1999 to 2000, respectively.

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Independent Pharmacists’ Unique Role During Disaster Management Efforts

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from 1999 to 2018. adults, 1999-2018. Natural disasters can be especially harmful to patients in polypharmacy prescription regimens, a term for patients taking 5 or more prescription medications concurrently. Safe drug use after a natural disaster. August 28, 2019. Accessed April 10, 2025. Wang X, Liu K, Shirai K, et al. 2023;8(1):25.

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Healthy Diet Provides Health Benefits, Even Without Weight Loss

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Updated March 20, 2018. A Dietary Intervention- Randomized Controlled Trial (DIRECT) Study; BGU-Harvard-Robarts Collaboration. ClinicalTrials.gov identification: NCT00160108. Accessed June 12, 2025. Diet and Body Composition (CENTRAL). ClinicalTrials.gov identification: NCT01530724. Updated October 23, 2020. Accessed June 12, 2025.

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Steatosis Liver Disease Shows Increased Risk of Diabetes for Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

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The study investigators included patients who developed AF between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2018, and were included in the National Health Insurance Service of South Korea. 1 Investigators included a total of 195,195 patients with AD, who had a mean age of 64.4 years and 57.5% were men.

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Normunity de-stealths, launches Series A immune normalisers

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has exited stealth with a $65 million Series A to create a new class of medicines that target novel I-O mechanisms, which free the body’s normal immunity against cancer. Called “immune normalisers”, these targets are drawn from an ongoing and interactive academic-biotech research alliance within the Yale School of Medicine.

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STAT+: Medicare would have saved $3.7 billion on Part B drugs if inflationary rebates were around in a recent three-year period

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More specifically, 70 of the 93 top-selling drugs covered by the Medicare Part B program – which are typically pricier medicines that are administered by physicians or in hospitals – between 2018 and 2020 would have been subject to inflationary rebates each year, according to the analysis published in JAMA.

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Bringing the promise of immunotherapy to a broader population

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When James P Allison and Tasuku Honjo were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2018 for their discovery of cancer therapy through inhibition of negative immune regulation, it shone a light on decades of research into recruiting the immune system to fight cancer. That’s what makes them such a tricky detective mystery!