Mounjaro Is Now Approved to Lower the Risk of Heart Events
The new indication for Eli Lilly's drug is for people with Type 2 diabetes.
Alice Park
Park is a senior health correspondent at TIME. She covers the COVID-19 pandemic, new drug developments in cancer and Alzheimer’s disease, mental health, HIV, CRISPR, and advances in gene therapy, among other issues in health and science. She also covers the Olympics and co-chaired TIME’s inaugural TIME 100 Health Summit in 2019. Her work has won awards from the New York Press Club and recognition from the Deadline Club. In addition, she is the author of The Stem Cell Hope: How Stem Cell Medicine Can Change Our Lives. Follow her on Instagram at @aliceparktime.
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Combining a vaccine and immunotherapy approach could open new ways to treat cancer.
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FDA Approves the First mRNA Flu Vaccine
The shot, made by Moderna, will be available for this year's upcoming flu season.
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Alpha-gal syndrome is a strange tick-borne illness that induces an allergy to a specific type of su...
Taco Bell's Shredded Lettuce Linked to Cyclospora Parasite Outbreak
While investigations are ongoing, health officials suspect shredded lettuce may be partly responsibl...
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Blood Tests for Alzheimer's Disease Are Showing Promise
New studies point to the power of testing for and treating tau, a protein that builds up in Alzheime...
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Hundreds of people in the U.S. have gotten sick so far from cyclosporiasis.
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The latest screwworm outbreak in cattle has led to clashing ideas about how to control it.
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