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Columbia medical school gets $400 million gift to fund long-shot basic research

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  The gift, from Columbia alumni Roy and Diana Vagelos, is the largest single donation given to the school and brings to $900 million the total given to Columbia by the couple since 2010. Roy Vagelos is widely known in medicine as the former chair and CEO of the drugmaker Merck. Read the rest…

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11 experts on why gains in cardiovascular disease are stalling and what we can do about it

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Deaths did decrease by 15% from 2010, but it was a “disappointment” that fatalities linked to conditions like high blood pressure, heart failure, and atrial fibrillation were not falling more. It also promised in its scientific journal to move all Americans toward “ideal cardiovascular health.”

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Opinion: Close a regulatory loophole in the ACA to provide vaccine access for all Americans

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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act , (generally known as the ACA), was signed into law in 2010. It expanded access to affordable, quality health care, and today is helping 45 million people — the highest total on record — be covered by health insurance.

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Here’s why we’re not prepared for the next wave of biotech innovation

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It was 2010. I was standing by the Long Island Sound in Sachem’s Head, Conn., in the shadow of an 11-foot-tall granite Stonehenge replica built by Jonathan Rothberg, a biotech entrepreneur, as he talked up his newest gadget, a tabletop DNA sequencer. Read the rest…

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The Themes of The World Pharmacists Day 2010-2020

Pharma Mirror

World Pharmacist Day is celebrated on 25th September every year since 2010 on the day FIP (International Pharmaceutical Federation) started their journey. The post The Themes of The World Pharmacists Day 2010-2020 appeared first on Pharma Mirror Magazine.

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Air quality improvements belie rising racial and ethnic disparities in pollutant-related deaths, study finds

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Researchers found an overall drop from 2010 and 2019 in death and disease linked to nitrogen dioxide (NO2), an air pollutant produced from fossil fuel burning, and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) Deaths attributable to PM2.5

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STAT+: Medical device trials still don’t enroll enough women, study finds

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  In a paper published in JAMA Internal Medicine on Monday, researchers found that the percentage of women represented in high-risk medical device trials did not increase from 2010 to 2020. Women generally made up just 33% of participants when the team reviewed 195 trials published from 2016 to 2022.

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