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Key Takeaways From Supreme Court Arguments on Abortion Pill Access

A majority of the Supreme Court seemed inclined on Tuesday to reject a bid to sharply limit access to abortion pills. During about 90 minutes of argument, most of the justices seemed doubtful that the plaintiffs, who do not prescribe abortion pills or regularly treat abortion patients, even had standing to bring the challenge. The …

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The First Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill Is Here

The first birth control pill that people can buy without a prescription, called Opill, is shipping to stores this week. Perrigo, the Ireland-based company that makes Opill, said the pills should be available to purchase at retail pharmacies and online by the end of March. The pills are designed to be taken daily at about …

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Novo Nordisk Has a Weight-Loss Pill But Can’t Make It Yet

Novo Nordisk A/S has a successor waiting in the wings for the generation of weight-loss shots it pioneered: a pill that helps people shed pounds without the drawbacks of an injection. The medicine is the next frontier in the obesity fight, promising further billions in revenue, and Novo is leading once again. Trouble is, it …

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Supreme Court Preserves Access to Abortion Pill for Now

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday preserved women’s access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion, rejecting lower-court restrictions while a lawsuit continues. The justices granted emergency requests from the Biden administration and New York-based Danco Laboratories, maker of the drug mifepristone. They are appealing a lower court ruling that …

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Supreme Court Expected to Decide on Abortion Pill Access: What to Know

WASHINGTON — The future of a commonly used abortion pill is at the center of a pitched legal battle before the Supreme Court, which is poised for the second time in a year to consider a major effort to severely limit access to abortion. The court is expected to decide by Friday night whether to …

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Hear From the FDA Commissioner Who Approved Abortion Pill

When former U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Dr. Jane Henney approved the abortion pill mifepristone in 2000, she knew the decision was an important one for women’s health. It would also become incredibly contentious. Henney, now 76, finds herself still defending that approval more than two decades later in 2023. She talked to …

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Health Secretary Slams Abortion Pill Ruling as ‘Not America’

WASHINGTON — The nation’s top health official said Sunday that a court ruling threatening the availability of a main drug used in medication abortionwas “not America” and he did not rule out defying the judge’s order if necessary. “We want the courts to overturn this reckless decision,” Xavier Becerra, President Joe Biden’s health secretary, told …

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The Pill Club reaches $18.3M settlement for alleged Medicaid fraud in California

Online birth control pharmacy The Pill Club reached an $18.3 million settlement with California authorities for allegedly defrauding the state’s Medicaid program. According to the California Department of Justice, the company billed Medi-Cal for services it hadn’t provided, allegedly submitting claims for 30-minute face-to-face counseling sessions when its nurse practitioners didn’t have direct or real-time …

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