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STAT+: FDA cracks down on websites that claim to sell chemicals in obesity drugs Wegovy, Zepbound

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The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on websites that claim to sell the underlying chemicals of popular diabetes and obesity drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Zepbound, saying that the websites are selling unapproved and misbranded drug products. The two websites did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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STAT+: Health care industry fights back against crackdowns on health data tracking

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These ubiquitous bits of code , invisibly embedded in most websites, are powerful tools that can reveal the pages you visit, the buttons you click, and the forms you fill to help advertisers tail and target you across the web.

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Hospitals pledge to protect patient privacy. Almost all their websites leak visitor data like a sieve

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And almost every one of them uses sophisticated data tools to track and share the personal information of visitors as soon as they start clicking on their websites. A new study found that 99% of U.S.

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Opinion: Doctors in states that ban abortion can still refer patients elsewhere. Why are so few doing that?

STAT

It’s still legal in two-thirds of the country, and numerous websites explain how to order medications from international pharmacies to end early pregnancies at home. But not all patients have equal access to reliable information. Even before Roe v. Wade’s reversal, the most vulnerable U.S.

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Meta faces mounting questions from Congress on health data privacy as hospitals remove Facebook tracker

STAT

Meta is facing mounting questions about its access to sensitive medical data following a Markup investigation that found the company’s pixel tracking tool collecting details about patients’ doctor’s appointments, prescriptions, and health conditions on hospital websites. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) Read the rest…

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STAT+: UPMC, Advocate Aurora, Duke fighting lawsuits over use of Meta’s tracking tool

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Five months after a media investigation revealed that hospitals were feeding Meta sensitive patient information through a tracking tool on their websites, prominent systems like UPMC, Advocate Aurora, and Duke Health are still contending with the resulting legal action.

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Dr Reddy’s launches D2C e-commerce website ‘Celevida Wellness’ for diabetes

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Dr Reddy’s Laboratories announced the launch of its first direct-to-consumer (D2C) e-commerce website ‘Celevida Wellness’ for diabetes patients by its wholly-owned subsidiary, Svaas Wellness. The website currently delivers to more than 18,000 pin codes across India.”

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