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Obesity Drugs Are Getting Easier and Cheaper to Find

More apps, new markets and novel compounds will further ease access.
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The FDA’s chief medical officer Vinay Prasad will depart the agency for the second time next month, after once-unheard-of public clashes with drugmakers. Republican Senator Ron Johnson is looking into some rare disease denials that he tied to “bureaucratic idiocy.”