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JULY 23, 2024

This arrangement was noted in a contract that began in 2015 with the Illinois Department of Central Management Services. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul began investigating CVS Caremark over concerns that rebates were not being passed back to the state, according to a June 24, 2024, settlement agreement between the state and the PBM.

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DECEMBER 14, 2022

That’s compared with just 4% at the end of 2015. Among the 193 North American health care companies Moody’s rates, the agency had placed almost 18% at or below its rating that indicates credit stress, B3 negative, as of Nov. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

” A Johns Hopkins University study published in 2015 showed that the pharmaceutical industry funds six times more clinical trials than the government. “If you go and look at the number of people who go on pharma-sponsored trials, it’s just this commitment and this increase.”

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

The former McKinsey partner joined CRISPR Therapeutics in 2015 as its chief business officer. With the approval of Casgevy , the world’s first gene-edited therapy and a potential cure for sickle cell disease, CRISPR Therapeutics won the race. Samarth “Sam” Kulkarni has been there from almost the beginning.

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MAY 30, 2024

Lawmakers are considering changes to the way Medicare pays doctors for the first time since Congress passed a law in 2015 that leaned heavily on value-based payment. A key House committee took up the matter last fall.

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JUNE 18, 2024

Around the world, the viral infection kills about 70,000 people a year — and since as early as 2015, groups including Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, have had plans to shore up vaccine efforts to reduce the number. Rabies has been in global health’s crosshairs for years.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

Since 2015, the country’s National Medical Products Administration has issued one milestone regulation after another, greatly accelerating the process of reviewing new drugs. The growth of China’s industry can be attributed to a number of factors, including beneficial state policies and fresh injections of funding.

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AUGUST 22, 2024

In 2015, the FDA began reporting on the representation of individuals in clinical trials, with the hope that raising awareness would drive meaningful change. Lack of diversity occurs at all levels of the pharmaceutical ecosystem, from the makeup of C-suite and research staffs to participation in clinical trials.

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JUNE 3, 2024

It’s the second time Illumina has spun off Grail, which initially began as a unit within the DNA sequencing giant in 2015. Illumina will retain a 14.5% stake in the company, which will trade under the ticker $GRAL. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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JUNE 24, 2024

Grail was spun out by the DNA sequencing giant Illumina in 2015. On Tuesday, shares of Grail, the liquid biopsy company that hopes that its test, Galleri, will be widely used to screen for cancer, will become a publicly traded stock (with the ticker GRAL) that any investor can buy or sell on the Nasdaq.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

People with unmet mental health needs are 16 times more likely to be killed by police, and a quarter of all those killed by police since 2015 were perceived to be suffering from a mental health crisis. Meanwhile, there is now an historic amount of money flowing through the mental health industry, and the U.S.

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MAY 1, 2024

To answer those questions, researchers launched a large, 10-year study in 2015 to understand the biological impact of physical activity in both rats and humans. Yet science doesn’t have a clear understanding of what makes moving so good for us, including what molecular mechanisms are activated by exercise.

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OCTOBER 19, 2023

In 2015, when the self-described science nerds pledged 99 percent of their Facebook fortune to philanthropic causes over their lifetimes, they did not specify how they might spread their wealth.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

First reported in Cell in 2015, research led by Stanford neuro-oncologist Michelle Monje showed that active nerve cells could promote the growth of high-grade gliomas, a form of brain cancer with a poor prognosis.

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AUGUST 30, 2023

Founded in 2015, Biofourmis has been developing a dizzying array of tech-enabled care offerings, including home-based care services for hospitals, clinical trials support for biopharma companies, and a pipeline of software-based interventions for heart failure and other conditions. The Boston-based company was valued at $1.3

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

Notably, UnitedHealth group is not a member of AHIP after the company left in 2015. AHIP has selected Mike Tuffin, who’s currently UnitedHealth’s senior vice president for external affairs and head of U.S. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

When Caforio took over in May 2015, Bristol was known as a big pharmaceutical firm with the high-flying stock of a biotechnology company, largely due to its role as the company that brought cancer immunotherapy to market. It’s changing of the guard time at pharmaceutical giant Bristol Myers Squibb.

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MARCH 30, 2023

company that spun out of the lab of ​​Harvard University biologist Greg Verdine in 2015. Mammen, previously a candidate for the top job at Biogen , will take over as chairman, president, and CEO of FogPharma, a Cambridge, Mass.,

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APRIL 30, 2024

A controversial provision of a federal law designed to speed copycat drugs to market and foster competition saved Medicare Part D nearly $15 billion from 2015 to 2021 on just 15 medicines during that period, according to a new analysis.

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JUNE 18, 2024

The technology earned Food and Drug Administration approval in 2015.   Silk Road Medical’s devices are the only commercially available products for this specific procedure, called transcarotid artery revascularization. Other big players in the vascular device world are LeMaitre Vascular and Baxter.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2023

launched in 2015 and was one of the first companies in the microbiome field, which seeks to treat disease by leveraging bacteria naturally found in and around the body. The biotech, which was based in Cambridge, Mass.,

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MARCH 22, 2023

Since those first 2015 papers, dozens more have been published and multiple startups have launched, spurred by the hope that CRISPR could outperform the gene therapy approaches now nearing approval.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

This purportedly contributed to nearly 6,000 deaths from the disease between 2015 and 2017, according to documents filed with the Administrative Council for Economic Defense. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

billion from 2015 to 2020 — or nearly 5% of the $30.2 A hotly contested provision of a federal law designed to speed copycat drugs to market and foster competition saved Medicare $1.5 billion spent by the health care program — on just five medicines during that period, according to a new analysis.

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MAY 17, 2023

In 2015, the year I turned 40, the American Cancer Society updated its guidelines for breast cancer screenings. Instead of urging women to get mammograms beginning at 40, it would now recommend yearly mammograms beginning at age 45, and then every two years from age 55 on. I was greatly relieved by this news.

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MARCH 1, 2023

Between July 2015 and December 2019, Medicare Part D plans covered more than 7,500 prescriptions for so-called TIRF opioid painkillers, which contain fentanyl and are administered through the nose or mouth.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

And a journal spokesperson confirmed that Tessier-Lavigne contacted Cell about those issues in 2015. Minor concerns had been raised about alleged alterations in three images in this paper in the past. At the time, the editors determined that no action was warranted.

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JUNE 7, 2024

He’s also head of science for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, or CZI, a company Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan founded in 2015 with the expressed intent to help “cure, prevent or manage all diseases by the end of this century.” 

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

the first biosimilar was launched in September 2015. I believe there are other metrics, like cost savings or signs of greater patient access, that should also be used to define biosimilars’ successes or failures. In the U.S., As I write this, there are 38 FDA-approved biosimilars ; 22 of them are commercially available.

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JULY 21, 2023

Yet so far there have been few attempts to quantify misdiagnoses in terms of deaths and permanent disability, and the full scale of their impact has been underestimated by the medical community, according to a 2015 report by the National Academy of Medicine.    A new study, published this week in BMJ , finally addresses that gap.

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Mentorship is the guiding principle of MedTech Innovator, a Los Angeles-based accelerator for early-stage medtech companies that Grand founded in 2015. “I always used to say, if I grew up in Silicon Valley instead of North Miami Beach, Florida, I would have been a booming entrepreneur at age 16,” Grand told STAT.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

 Bayer launched its venture arm, Leaps by Bayer, in 2015. … Over the last six years, a venture capital team run by Bayer invested roughly $1.5 billion into small biotech startups and now the unit is ramping up with plans to invest a nearly identical pot of money — this time, $1.3

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MAY 26, 2023

Although warfarin has been approved for human use since 1951 and is commonly lifesaving, geno-typed guided dosing was not available until 2015 in part because much prior research included insufficient numbers of people of African or Asian ancestry. mg per day). Lack of representation is also costing us hundreds of billions of dollars.

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JUNE 20, 2024

Almost two-thirds of pharmacies in England have decreased their opening hours since 2015, latest analysis from the National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has suggested. The research, based on a sample of 110 pharmacies, found that on average there has been a 6.1-hour hour (10%) reduction in opening hours for every pharmacy.

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JULY 24, 2024

This arrangement was noted in a contract that began in 2015 with the Illinois Department of Central Management Services. Pfizer maintained that its gene therapy for hemophilia A successfully reduced patient bleeds for at least 15 months in a large Phase 3 trial , STAT says.

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AUGUST 6, 2024

Mallinckrodt agrees to sell Therakos to private equity firm CVC $925m, well below the $1.33bn it paid for the business in 2015

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

New data published by the NHSBSA claim that 2023/24 saw the 'highest number of active dispensing contractors since 2015/16'. But it […] The post Concern over ‘incorrect and misleading’ pharmacy figures appeared first on The Pharmacist.

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