Drugs (Pharmaceuticals)

• ‘Chinese Peptides’ Are the Latest Biohacking Trend in the Tech World - The gray-market drugs flooding Silicon Valley reveal a community that believes it can move faster than the F.D.A.
• F.D.A. Approves Wegovy Weight-Loss Pill - The agency greenlit an oral version of the obesity drug Wegovy.
• Trump Announces Pricing Deals With Nine Drugmakers - The companies agreed to sell most of their drugs to Medicaid at the prices they charge in European countries and to sell drugs directly to consumers through a planned TrumpRx website.
• Mike Johnson Shuts Door on Key Health Care Vote, and a Dangerous New Drug Hits U.S. Cities - Plus, the subway stop that’s also a museum.
• Former F.D.A. Commissioners Sound Alarm on Plan to Change Vaccine Policy - Twelve former commissioners, in a New England Journal of Medicine article, said they were “deeply concerned” by a leaked memo from the agency’s vaccine regulator.
• To Avoid Pharma Tariffs, U.K. Agrees to Trump’s Demand to Pay More for Drugs - President Trump has complained that wealthy countries like Britain pay too little for drugs, leading America to bear much of the burden of the costs of medicines.