Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is continuing the fight to persuade federal regulators to limit the power of patent protection when patents help drugmakers keep the prices of important medicines high.

The Massachusetts Democratic joined with Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas and 13 other members of the House and Senate to call on U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to waive the patents Novo Nordisk uses to protect two popular GLP-1 agonist drugs, Ozempic and Wegovy.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.