All posts tagged "Pharmaceutical"

Washington (AFP) - Like many Americans struggling to lose weight, Marissa Montanino felt compelled to try Ozempic or one of the other new so-called "wonder drugs" described as revolutionary in the fight against obesity. "I would work out sometimes three times a day, I was doing hours worth of classes. I was eating really, really clean… and nothing was changing" the 36-year-old esthetician told AFP in a recent interview. "I heard about Ozempic for a while and then you start to see other people doing it like celebrities and then dropping weight super fast," she said. Fearing gastrointestinal iss......

New York (AFP) - A group of pharmaceutical companies and distributors agreed to pay $590 million to settle lawsuits connected to opioid addiction among US Native American tribes, according to a US court filing Tuesday.  The companies include Johnson & Johnson and McKesson, according to a filing by the plaintiff's committee in US District Court in Ohio.  The settlement is separate from a prior agreement that resulted in $75 million in payments to the Cherokee Nation from three of the companies. The agreement is the latest in the wake of the US opioid crisis, which has claimed more than 500,000 ......