Does CagriSema Have a Brand Name Yet?
CagriSema has no announced brand name as of September 4, 2026. Novo Nordisk owns eleven invented names it could use, and it bought the matching web address for only six of them.
GLP-1, Preventive Health
Preventive Health
GLP-1, Preventive Health
Does Retatrutide Have a Brand Name Yet?
Retatrutide still has no brand name. But Lilly filed 20 new trademarks in a month and 19 are built on reta, from VYNRETA to YEZRETA. Here is the whole list, which domains Lilly quietly bought first, and what happened the last time it did this.
GLP-1, Preventive Health
Retatrutide vs Zepbound: Is Lilly’s Next Weight-Loss Shot Worth Waiting For?
Retatrutide beat Zepbound’s numbers in its own trials, and it did not need its top dose to do it. I take Zepbound, I lost about 170 pounds on it, and I am staying put.
Medicine 3.0, Preventive Health
A Zero Calcium Score Isn’t the Whole Story. But the $2,000 Scan Isn’t Either.
My coronary calcium score is zero. What a zero doesn’t rule out, what a new NEJM study found about plaque without calcium, and whether the $2,000 AI heart scan (Cleerly or HeartFlow) is worth it at 53.
Cholesterol, Heart & Bloodwork, Medicine 3.0, Preventive Health
Heart Attacks Were 43% Lower With a Statin in Adults Over 70. Cardiovascular Deaths Were Not.
I do not take a statin. I got my ApoB to 59 with about 170 pounds of weight loss and a generic ezetimibe that runs me twenty dollars a month, so when a big statin trial reads out I have nothing invested in the answer. I have also written here about why most of the
Medicine 3.0, Preventive Health
Moderna Nearly Tripled on a Cancer Vaccine Without Showing the Phase 3 Numbers
Melanoma flips male after 50 and keeps climbing. Merck and Moderna announced a Phase 3 win with no efficacy numbers attached, so here is what is actually known about the drug, and what is worth knowing about your own skin.
Medicine 3.0, Preventive Health
FDA-Approved Isn’t a Purity Guarantee. It’s an Accountability Guarantee.
I inject a drug made by a compounding pharmacy with a warning letter to its name. Reading that letter is what taught me how to buy every drug I take.
Preventive Health, Strength & Conditioning
Big Toe Arthritis Surgery Won the First Real Trial. My Doctor Still Says Wait.
I’ve got severe big toe arthritis. The first real trial on big toe arthritis surgery beat waiting. My foot doctor still says I’m not a candidate yet.
Preventive Health
Seven Vaccines After 50, and Nobody Is Keeping the List for You
What each shot is for, how often it comes around, how to pull your own record, and what that record cannot tell you.
Preventive Health
The RSV Vaccine Age Floor Dropped to 50. Whether It Includes You Is on a Page Written for Doctors.
What changed for adults 50 to 74, where the real eligibility list is kept, and why a 53-year-old with a genuine cardiovascular problem still cannot tell whether it includes him.