Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
Medical Reporter at NBC News
Medical Reporter @NBCNews, covering FDA and Pharma 💊 IG: BerkeleyJr
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4 days ago |
nbcnews.com | Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
The Supreme Court on Monday is set to hear arguments in a case challenging a provision of the Affordable Care Act that requires private insurers to cover health care screenings, tests and checkups for free. Experts say the court’s ruling in the case, called Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, could have sweeping consequences for patient access to preventive health care across the United States.
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5 days ago |
nbcnews.com | Berkeley Lovelace Jr. |Sara G. Miller
A daily pill from Eli Lilly lowered blood sugar levels and induced weight loss in people with Type 2 diabetes, the company announced Thursday. The experimental pill, called orforglipron, is a GLP-1 drug — the same class of medicine as the blockbuster diabetes and weight loss drugs Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro. Orforglipron is taken orally, however, not as a weekly injection.
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6 days ago |
nbcnews.com | Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
WASHINGTON — Health Secretary Robert F.
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1 week ago |
nbcnewyork.com | Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
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1 week ago |
nbcnews.com | Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday urged patients and doctors to check that their Ozempic prescriptions are legitimate after the agency seized several hundred units of fake versions of the diabetes drug in the U.S. Novo Nordisk, the maker of Ozempic and the weight loss drug Wegovy, told the FDA on April 3 that counterfeit 1-milligram injections were being distributed outside its authorized supply chain in the U.S., the agency said in a news release.
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RT @benryanwriter: My colleague, @BerkeleyJr has the story for @NBCNews, with some details that @WSJ didn't get: https://t.co/XkjcF8VHwt
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