Utah explores AI for renewing mental health prescriptions
If you’ve ever faced long waits to refill a mental health prescription, you understand the frustration it brings. Now, picture managing that refill via a chatbot instead of your doctor—which is starting to happen. In Utah, a new pilot program is allowing Legion Health’s artificial intelligence to renew certain psychiatric medications without requiring direct approval […]
Oregon Saw a Rise in Assisted Suicide Prescriptions in 2025
Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act Sees Increased Usage According to a recent report, more individuals in Oregon are expected to be prescribed lethal medications in 2025 than in any previous year. In the past year, doctors issued 637 prescriptions under the state’s Death with Dignity Act, which essentially refers to physician-assisted suicide. Notably, this marks […]
California doctor under investigation for telehealth abortion pill prescriptions
California Doctor Faces Warrant in Louisiana Abortion Case Authorities in Louisiana have issued an arrest warrant for a doctor from California who is accused of sending abortion pills to a woman she has never communicated with. Court documents reveal that Dr. Remy Coetau allegedly mailed pills to Rosalie Marchezic, a Louisiana resident, in 2023. Marchezic […]
MAHA’s upcoming FDA action will prevent fluoride prescriptions for children amid growing health risk evidence.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on Tuesday that it will begin eliminating certain fluoride prescription drugs for children, aiming to move away from outdated practices connected to child health. According to Andrew Nixon, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, this initiative is part of broader efforts to safeguard the […]
Wegovy producer Novo Nordisk lowers profit expectations as US prescriptions decline.
Novo Nordisk in Denmark has cut its annual revenue and profit projections due to a slowdown in Wegovy sales, a weight loss medication, as prescriptions in the US have declined. The success of Wegovy, along with booming sales of diabetes drugs, elevated these companies to the status of Europe’s most valuable publicly traded firms, reaching […]
Walgreens to pay up to $350M for filling illegal opioid prescriptions, Justice Department says
Please see what you are clicking on foxbusiness.com. Walgreens agreed to pay up to $350 million as part of a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, and the company illegally buried millions of invalid prescriptions of opioids and other controlled substances, and asked for payment of many of the invalid prescriptions from Medicare and […]
Walgreens settles allegations around opioid prescriptions for $300M: DOJ
Walgreens, a nationwide drug retailer, has agreed to pay at least $300 million to resolve allegations that have illegally met millions of invalid controlled substance prescriptions over more than a decade. Under the terms of the settlement, Walgreens will pay $300 million to the federal government between August 2012 and March 2023 to resolve allegations […]
DOJ hits Walgreens with lawsuit for filling 'unlawful' opioid prescriptions
The Department of Justice (DOJ) this week sued drugstore chain Walgreens for filling “illegal” opioid prescriptions without a “legitimate” medical purpose for more than a decade. The lawsuit is submitted On Thursday, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, a Walgreens pharmacist dispensed millions of prescriptions despite “red flags” that indicated […]
‘Listen my soul to the glad refrain’: poetry prescriptions to beat the January blues | Books
“Last year is over, they seem to say,” wrote Philip Larkin in his poem “The Trees.” “Let’s start anew, anew, anew.” As we try to make sense of things in the middle of winter (when the world is in such turmoil, both literally and figuratively), the distilled nature of poetry creates a kind of alchemy. […]
DOJ sues CVS, alleging it filled unlawful prescriptions
FOX Business' Lauren Simonetti explains more about Varney & Co. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a civil lawsuit in federal court alleging that CVS Pharmacy filled illegal prescriptions in violation of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) and the False Claims Act (FCA). The government's complaint targets the country's largest pharmaceutical company, which […]