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Starting next year, patients in California will be able to receive HIV prevention drugs without a prescription. A bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday authorizes pharmacists to furnish pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to those who are at high risk of contracting HIV and dispense post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) to people who may have been exposed to the virus. According […]
After aging out of his family’s private health insurance, Josh Wilkerson could no longer afford the prescription brand of insulin he needed. So, in an effort to save costs and manage his type 1 diabetes, the 27-year-old Virginia man switched to a cheaper, less-effective brand. And it cost him his life. According to the Washington Post, Wilkerson’s […]
Double Olympic champion Caster Semenya has lost her appeal against the introduction of a 2018 ruling that can require female athletes to take hormonal contraception to reduce testosterone levels. Semenya, who is hyperandrogenous and has higher levels of testosterone than most women, will have to take medication if she is to compete at the 2020 Tokyo […]
CBD products will now be sold at CVS locations. Curaleaf Holdings Inc. has announced that CVS will sell its CBD products in roughly 800 locations upon launch, per MarketWatch’s report on a Curaleaf earnings conference call held Wednesday. As CVS currently stands as the biggest drugstore chain in the nation, the move marks the latest coup […]
