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STAT+: Ozempic linked to lower risk of Alzheimer’s diagnosis in observational study

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Novo Nordisk’s drug Ozempic was linked to a lower risk of getting diagnosed with Alzheimer’s among people with type 2 diabetes, an analysis of medical records found, supporting the case for further research of the blockbuster GLP-1 drug in neurodegenerative diseases.

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STAT+: Wearable devices generate powerful data but it’s not useful to doctors, yet

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“Yesterday, I saw a patient with type 2 diabetes who has a continuous glucose monitor, and so she’s been tracking her blood sugar every five minutes,” said Ida Sim, a primary care physician and chief research informatics officer at the University of California, San Francisco.

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about Lilly selling drugs directly, UCB leaving BIO, and more news

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The new service, called Lilly Direct, also will offer delivery of certain Lilly insulin products for people with diabetes and a migraine drug. Both Ozempic for type 2 diabetes and the obesity treatment Wegovy have the same active ingredient, semaglutide. The analysis of electronic medical record data from more than 1.8

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Ozempic linked with lower dementia risk, nicotine use, British study finds

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Novo Nordisk’s popular diabetes treatment Ozempic could be tied to a lower risk of cognitive problems, according to an observational study published by researchers at Oxford University. The study, published in the Lancet’s eClinicalMedicine journal, explored more than 100 million medical records of the United States (U.S.)

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about Bavarian Nordic’s mpox shot, a crackdown on Ozempic prescribing and more

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insurer is taking an unusually hard line on doctors who it says improperly prescribed the diabetes treatment Ozempic, escalating the ongoing war over drugs that have become wildly popular for weight loss , Bloomberg News reports. Enjoy, and see you soon… A major U.S.

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What can we learn from women’s health data?

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Pregnancy can also act as a cardiometabolic stress test for women and reveal underlying susceptibilities to conditions such as diabetes or hypertension. Last year it was estimated that 20% of pregnant women in the UK were affected by gestational diabetes , while each year, up to 15% of pregnancies are affected by hypertension.

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The tech revolution reshaping European healthcare

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In the European hospital setting, the first to digitise were the picture archiving systems (PACS) in radiology departments then electronic medical records (EMRs), patient administration systems and departmental IT flow work solutions (eg, laboratory information systems and radiology information systems).

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