"Now, for the first time, a Planned Parenthood affiliate is offering what's called the "advance provision" of abortion medication. The initiative, shared exclusively with NPR, launched Thursday and is called 'Just In Case Abortion Pills.' It means people can have the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol on their shelf to be used in the future if they want to end an early pregnancy."

npr.org/2026/05/21/nx-s1-58274…

#healthcare #ReproHealth #ReproJustice #pregnancy #abortion #PrescriptionDrugs

"President Donald Trump earlier this year bought as much as $680,000 in stock of Eli Lilly, the maker of blockbuster obesity drugs, as the agencies he oversees undertook an agenda that largely benefited the company."

kffhealthnews.org/health-indus…

#healthcare #PrescriptionDrugs #CMS #medicare #medicaid #USpol #corruption

"Drugmakers and insurers are aiming to take advantage of lawmakers’ worries about affordability to convince them it’s the hospitals they should regulate, and not them, if they want to bring down Americans’ bills. Some of the changes the drugmakers and insurers are pursuing would pad their own profits."

politico.com/news/2026/05/17/h…

#healthcare #hospitals #PhRMA #PrescriptionDrugs #insurance #insurers #medicaid #medicare #CostsOfCare #DrugPrices

"India got it earlier this year, and Canada approved it last month. But when is the United States going to get a generic version of Ozempic?

Not this decade, experts say.

Thanks largely to loopholes in the U.S. patent system, Americans aren’t expected to get generic forms of semaglutide, the drug in Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Wegovy, until at least the end of 2031."

nbcnews.com/health/health-news…

#healthcare #PrescriptionDrugs #GenericDrugs #PatentLaw #semaglutide #DrugPrices #CostsOfCare

"If one of the defining stories of the 2024 election was that young men swung to Trump in part because they felt masculinity had been demonized, what does it mean that so many men now believe they need to take testosterone to feel more like men?"

nytimes.com/2026/05/12/magazin…

#healthcare #testosterone #gender #masculinity #PrescriptionDrugs #FDA #USpol #longread

"The head of the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Marty Makary, is resigning after a rocky tenure that drew months of complaints from health industry executives, anti-abortion activists, vaping lobbyists and other allies of President Donald Trump."

apnews.com/article/fda-trump-m…

#healthcare #PublicHealth #FDA #PrescriptionDrugs #ultraprocessed #ReproHealth #mifepristone #vaping #ecigarettes #USpol