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His book on the opioid crisis flopped in 2003. It now has a new life on Netflix

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A new Netflix TV show about the origins and consequences of the opioid epidemic is coming to the small screen. The show, “Painkiller,” is a fictional story based on real events that transpired around the Sackler family, Purdue Pharma, and the marketing and distribution of their drug, OxyContin.

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Texas dairy farm worker’s case may be first where bird flu virus spread from mammal to human, scientists say

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Nearly 900 people in 23 countries have been infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus since it started spreading from Southeast Asia in late 2003. But previous human cases were all linked to transmission from infected birds, typically domestic poultry. Read the rest…

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National Academies proposes reimagining health care to fix ‘fundamental flaws’ that underlie inequity

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The nation’s longstanding racial and ethnic health inequities will not improve unless Congress steps in to provide affordable health insurance for all and federal agencies start enforcing existing laws against discrimination and improve collection of racial and ethnic data, said the authors of a new report released Wednesday.

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Allen Institute CEO Rui Costa on mapping the brain and paying early-career scientists decent salaries

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The nonprofit research institute, based in Seattle, was founded in 2003 by Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul Allen to go after big and basic scientific questions. Mapping the billions of cells that make up the brain is a task mammoth enough to keep hundreds of researchers across continents busy for years.

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Feds bar Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes from government health programs

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Holmes was sentenced in November 2022 to 11 years in prison following a trial that determined she knew her blood-testing startup, which was founded in 2003 and which claimed to be able to test for a range of diseases and risks with one finger prick, produced inaccurate and faulty results. military to use its tests on the battlefield.

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STAT+: Boehringer Ingelheim layoffs are a sign of dysfunctional Humira biosimilar market

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  The price of Humira rose 470% in the 20 years following its launch in 2003 to reach upward of $84,000 annually. Cyltezo is one of the only biosimilars that can be substituted for Humira at the pharmacy counter without a doctor’s permission, so it is in a better competitive position than most others. 

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Older adults are vulnerable in a warming climate. Better buildings could help protect them

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In 2003, during Europe’s worst heat wave in centuries, almost 15,000 people died in France. About three-quarters of those deaths occurred indoors , and approximately 80% of the people who died were over 75 , an age at which people tend to be less capable of perceiving heat and less well-equipped to adapt to it.

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