The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines(thebeliever.net)
265 points by gaplong | 247 comments
A Believer magazine essay about the difficulty of tapering off and withdrawing from benzodiazepine medications.
#pharmaceuticals on Hacker News
8 stories tagged pharmaceuticals, newest first.
Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly Report GLP-1 Signals of Slowed Biological Aging at ARDD(trial.medpath.com)
49 points by hnburnsy | 26 comments
News article reporting that Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly presented data at the ARDD conference suggesting GLP-1 drugs may slow biological aging.
Now That's an Impurity Story(science.org)
36 points by dcminter | 2 comments
A Science.org blog post (likely Derek Lowe's In the Pipeline) about a chemical impurity story; the capture shows only a Cloudflare verification page.
FDA has approved Yeztugo, a drug that provides protection against HIV infection(newatlas.com)
332 points by MBCook | 135 comments
New Atlas article reporting FDA approval of Yeztugo (lenacapavir), a twice-yearly injectable HIV prevention drug, and its planned global rollout.
GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)(wildfirelabs.substack.com)
336 points by herbertl | 451 comments
A Substack essay by Todd Gagne arguing that GLP-1 weight-loss drugs could be a massive economic disruptor affecting jobs, investments, and industries.
How long til we're all on Ozempic?(asteriskmag.com)
377 points by thehoff | 1281 comments
An Asterisk Magazine forecast essay by Greg Justice on how long until the 100+ million Americans who could benefit from GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic can access them.
Gilead shot prevents all HIV cases in trial(bloomberg.com)
775 points by toomuchtodo | 345 comments
Bloomberg news article reporting that Gilead's twice-yearly HIV prevention shot prevented all infections in a large trial of African women.
Antidepressants or Tolkien(antidepressantsortolkien.vercel.app)
357 points by mdturnerphys | 77 comments
A browser quiz game asking players to guess whether a given word is the name of an antidepressant drug or a Tolkien character or place.