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Andrew Joseph

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Reporter at STAT

Reporter at @statnews, covering health and medicine out of Europe. Past: SA Express-News, SF Chronicle. [email protected]

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  • GSK blood cancer therapy, once pulled from the market, is approved in the U.K.

    1 week ago | statnews.com | Andrew Joseph

    GSK’s blood cancer drug Blenrep won regulatory approval in the U.K. on Thursday, marking the medicine’s return to the market after it was withdrawn several years ago. The drug, which treats multiple myeloma, will be used in combination with other medicines in patients whose cancer has resurged after an earlier line of treatment, under the approval from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.

  • Daily pill from Eli Lilly helps patients control blood sugar, lose weight, Phase 3 study shows

    1 week ago | statnews.com | Andrew Joseph |Elaine Chen

    A daily pill from Eli Lilly helped patients with type 2 diabetes improve their blood sugar and shed weight, the company said Thursday, late-stage results that could propel the next-generation treatment onto the market. The drug, orforglipron, produced results that were nearly comparable to the benefits of available GLP-1 drugs, which are primarily weekly injectable treatments. Companies have been racing to develop more convenient, as well as more powerful, obesity treatments, including pills.

  • U.K. officials signal willingness to embrace reform in bid to attract pharma investment

    3 weeks ago | statnews.com | Andrew Joseph

    LONDON — The U.K. government is starting to recognize that the country needs to change how it pays for medicines if it is to attract more investment from the pharmaceutical industry, a government official said Thursday. The pharma industry has for several years complained about the scheme under which the National Health Service buys medicines, with drug companies having to pay a portion of their sales back to the government when drug spending increases past a certain level.

  • 'We've vanished': U.S. aid cuts leave health workers around the world reeling

    1 month ago | statnews.com | Andrew Joseph

    For eight years, Ntombi, who worked at a health organization in Johannesburg, helped caregivers tell their HIV-positive children about the disease they had. She made sure those children stayed on the medications that suppressed the virus. She visited her patients at their homes to get them any food and financial support they needed. But then, one day in late January, she was told she had to stop her work, immediately.

  • Measles outbreak likely larger than reported, experts say | STAT

    1 month ago | statnews.com | Andrew Joseph

    Public health officials believe they are capturing only a fraction of cases because of societal factors; number of deaths suggest more widespread infection.

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