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Bernie Sanders Is Taking on Ozempic’s ‘Astronomically High’ Price Tag

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https://ift.tt/9ImRo7S https://sites.google.com/view/idealhealthcare/car-accident-chiropractor Bernie Sanders Is Taking on Ozempic’s ‘Astronomically High’ Price Tag Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is taking aim at one of Big Pharma’s newest cash cows: the latest generation of effective obesity medications. On Wednesday, Sanders’ office announced that the senator is launching an investigation into Novo Nordisk over the “astronomically high” list prices of their drugs Wegovy and Ozempic. Both drugs can cost around $1,000 a month or more without insurance coverage. Wegovy and Ozempic are made with the same active ingredient, semaglutide, which is a long-lasting mimic of the hormone GLP-1. Ozempic was approved in 2017 to treat type 2 diabetes, while Wegovy was approved in 2021 to treat obesity. Though not formally approved for obesity, Ozempic has become increasingly prescribed off-label for it. In clinical trials, those taking Wegovy have lost on average 15% of their baseline weight—...

Amazon in Seattle: The Role of Business in Causing and Solving a Housing CrisisNavigation MenuAccount MenuAccount MenuSearch MenuClose menuSearch

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https://ift.tt/kdu9piT https://sites.google.com/view/idealhealthcare/car-accident-chiropractor Amazon in Seattle: The Role of Business in Causing and Solving a Housing CrisisNavigation MenuAccount MenuAccount MenuSearch MenuClose menuSearch What role should business play in solving societal issues that it helps to create? In 2020, Amazon built a shelter for women and families experiencing houselessness on its campus in Seattle, Washington. The shelter was operated in partnership with a nonprofit organization known as Mary’s Place and was designed to address what had become an urgent problem for Seattle and many other wealthy American cities, where communities were being displaced by a lack of affordable housing. Amazon’s partnership with Mary’s Place was an experiment in addressing this problem at its core, using some of the firm’s own resources to fund living space for unhoused families. But critics argued that Amazon’s apparent charity was misplaced because the company and ot...

Grantham: Award for 'incredible' octogenarian foster carers - BBC News

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https://bit.ly/44BL7Kn https://sites.google.com/view/idealhealthcare/car-accident-chiropractor Grantham: Award for 'incredible' octogenarian foster carers - BBC News A couple in their 80s who have fostered more than 150 children say they have no plans to retire. Margaret Isdale and her husband Robert, from Grantham, Lincolnshire, took in their first child in 1978. They have been given a lifetime achievement award to mark their decades of dedication to families. Asked how they continue to care for newborns, Mrs Isdale laughed: "I don't know! We just enjoy doing it, and I can't imagine not doing it now." The couple, who have been married for 58 years and have two children of their own, are currently caring for an eight-month-old baby. Mr Isdale, 81, said of their award: "It's really quite humbling. It's not about us, it's about the kids we look after - they're the important ones." Paying tribute to them, Michelle Sawmynaden,...