ApoB Test Cost: 13 Services Priced at Checkout, $19 to $69 All-In
I priced one standalone ApoB test at thirteen services on the same day. The advertised prices start at $11; the checkout totals start at $19.
Healthcare, Heart & Bloodwork
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.
GLP-1, Investigations
Sam Sulek’s NewBioRx Sells “Research Only” Retatrutide. A NewBioRx-Branded Site Showed You How to Inject It, Until This Weekend.
Sam Sulek’s peptide company sold retatrutide in a pre-filled pen “for research use only,” while a site under the same NewBioRx branding walked you through putting it in your body. On Sunday afternoon the pen vanished from the store and the instructions site went dark. The vials are still for sale.
Intro
Bank of America Calls Your Health an Investment. Starbucks Calls It a Cost.
Bank of America defends $250M a year in GLP-1 spending. Starbucks cuts it. Inside the employer split over weight-loss drug coverage, and what it means for you.
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.
GLP-1
There’s No Legal Retatrutide to Buy. Lilly Just Sued Six Sellers of It.
Eli Lilly just sued six sellers of retatrutide. The catch is that the drug isn’t approved anywhere, so there is no legitimate version to buy. Whatever these sites are shipping came from outside the drug supply.
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.
Preventive Health
The First mRNA Flu Shot Is Here. It Did Not Use mRNA’s Biggest Advantage
Moderna’s mFLUSIVA was approved on August 5. The most interesting thing about it is what its own approval failed to demonstrate.