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Early in her pregnancy in 2015, Nicole Hashemi wanted to know how much caffeine was safe for her to consume. “I was actually advised not to drink a lot of caffeine,” Hashemi, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Iowa State University, told STAT.
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dissertation one day in 2015, I slipped and fell on Iowa’s formidable winter ice. As I hurried to an important meeting about my Ph.D. I quickly jumped up to prevent anyone from seeing me on the ground and got into my car. The immediate, excruciating pain told me that something really bad had happened.
Here, we share the self-reported gender and racial/ethnic demographics of our staff from STAT’s inception in 2015 through 2023, as well as our 2023 new hire demographics. The STAT Diversity and Inclusion Committee presents STAT’s 2024 Diversity and Inclusion Report. Read the rest…
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This year, Congress began considering changes to the Medicare physician pay system for the first time since creating the current version in 2015. Committees in the House and Senate have held hearings on the matter, including the powerful Senate Finance Committee, which recently published a 30-page paper on potential changes.
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” 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.”
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.
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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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.
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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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.,
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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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.
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.”
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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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.
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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