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By Jonathan Stempel(Reuters) -Pfizer and supplier Tris Pharma reached a $41.5 million settlement with Texas to resolve a lawsuit claiming they defrauded the state’s Medicaid program over alleged quality control lapses in a medicine to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children.Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said on Wednesday the settlement resolves a November 2023 lawsuit accusing the companies of manipulating testing for Quillivant XR between 2012 and 2018, to ensure it would comply with federal law and remain eligible for sale.Paxton said properly done tests often showed the liquid medicine failed to dissolve in the body and was therefore…
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) recently seized the sixth-largest amount of counterfeit fentanyl pills in U.S. history.The DEA’s Rocky Mountain Field Division announced on Nov. 17 the seizure of 1.7 million counterfeit fentanyl pills and 12 kilograms of fentanyl powder (capable of 6 million pills) from a storage unit in Highland Ranch, Colorado, a suburb of Denver. The seizure is the largest one-time seizure of counterfeit pills in Colorado history, according to the DEA.Colorado’s Douglas County Sheriff’s Office was notified of the storage unit’s contents when it was purchased by a winning bidder, according to the DEA.”This played out like…
Adobe said on Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire search engine optimization company Semrush for about $1.9 billion in cash, as the Photoshop maker seeks to augment its suite of marketing offerings. In a statement, Adobe said it would offer $12 per share for Semrush, almost double the latter’s closing price of $6.89 on Tuesday, before news of the deal. Semrush had a market capitalization of about $1 billion as of Tuesday’s close. By acquiring Semrush, Adobe is betting that companies will choose to invest in optimizing their content and web pages to be more visible to AI tools,…
OpenAI is pushing deeper into retail, with Target set to debut a new ChatGPT-powered app for shoppers in coming weeks. The news follows OpenAI’s move last month to start adding dedicated retail apps to ChatGPT, including Canva, Coursera, Figma, Expedia, Spotify, and Zillow. It also comes as OpenAI races to rake in AI-driven commerce via new products like “Instant Checkout” that let users make purchases within conversations with retailers like Etsy and Shopify. The Target app in ChatGPT will launch in beta next week, and it will let shoppers ask for ideas, browse and build multi-item baskets, shop for food,…
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has resigned from OpenAI’s board days after Congress released an extensive cache of emails with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, which included details of intimate affairs. Summers is also a former president of Harvard University and a current professor. The university will open its own probe into Summers’s connections with Epstein, reports the student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson. The university newspaper also reported that Summers will step back from public commitments. His departure comes a day after both the House and the Senate voted to release the Epstein files. Over the past few days, a…
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has resigned from OpenAI’s board days after Congress released an extensive cache of emails with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, which included details of intimate affairs. Summers is also a former president of Harvard University and a current professor. The university will open its own probe into Summers’ connections with Epstein, reports the student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson. The university newspaper also reported that Summers will step back from public commitments. His departure comes a day after both the House and the Senate voted to release the Epstein files. Over the past few days, a…
U.S. consumers who have had their fill of finding protein added to everything from cereal to ice cream are about to meet the next big food fad: fiber.Americans have been boosting their protein intake for years; even Pop-Tarts and Starbucks are selling protein-enhanced products. But the number of new products promoted with high or added fiber saw a big uptick in the U.S. this year, according to market research team Mintel. Hundreds of videos on social media celebrate the benefits of dietary fiber and share recipes to help viewers get more of it.There’s even a term for trying to meet…
The life and political legacy of former Vice President Dick Cheney, who died on Nov. 4, 2025, at the age of 84, has been well documented. But his decades-long battle with heart disease may be less appreciated.Cheney benefited from almost every major advance made in cardiovascular medicine. These breakthroughs enabled him to sustain an active political career and gave him additional years of an enjoyable life after he moved away from the political spotlight.As a cardiologist who specializes in both sports medicine and heart disease, as well as advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology, I frequently provide care for patients…
(This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays.)By Nancy Lapid(Reuters) -The worldwide prevalence of high blood pressure in children and adolescents nearly doubled between 2000 and 2020, new research shows, with obesity potentially driving the increase.In 2000, about 3.2% of children had hypertension. By 2020, the prevalence had increased to more than 6.2% of children and adolescents under age 19, affecting 114 million young people around the world, according to a report in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.The study also found that an additional 8.2% of children and…
FRANCONIA, N.H. (AP) — For more than two decades, residents in this tiny tourist town in the shadow of the White Mountains knew they could just drive a few minutes down the road to their community health center for a physical, a Vitamin B-12 shot or to get checked out for a case of the sniffles or high blood pressure.But that changed last month, when this site of the Ammonoosuc Community Health Services in Franconia closed.The nearly 1,400 patients, who are often older and with more health problems than others in New Hampshire, will have to drive farther for their…