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The original guidelines , issued in 2016, helped further drive down opioid prescribing levels that had been in decline since 2012, as the country grappled with its legacy of overprescribing that contributed to the overdose epidemic.

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This latest revision, known as the DSM-5-TR, was prepared between 2016 and 2019, and published in 2022. -based physicians who helped assemble a recent revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which is often referred to as the bible of psychiatry.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

After his death in 2016, his mother, Paula, launched a campaign to mandate training on intellectual disability and autism for health care workers. A few days later, Oliver suffered a lethal neurological side effect. A week later, he was taken off life support. An inquest into his death found that the drug had led to the rapid deterioration.

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JUNE 13, 2024

With some of the highest obesity levels in South America, the country had begun enforcing strict regulations on Frosted Flakes and other foods that exceeded set thresholds for sugar, calories, salt, or saturated fat in 2016. Read the rest…

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In 2016, the Arkansas Legal Aid Center was flooded with calls. People on a Medicaid program that provided in-home care assistance were having their caregiving hours cut. Reducing the hours for somebody with quadriplegia or cerebral palsy was devastating, said Kevin De Liban, an attorney with the organization at the time.

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The appointment follows a bitter board fight that ended with the departure of Francis deSouza, who had been Illumina’s CEO since 2016. Illumina, the largest maker of DNA-sequencing technology and a storied name in the biotechnology industry, named Jacob Thaysen, a 10-year-veteran at life sciences-tools firm Agilent, as its new CEO.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

WASHINGTON — Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) knew when he hit rock bottom.

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JUNE 10, 2024

Women generally made up just 33% of participants when the team reviewed 195 trials published from 2016 to 2022.   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.   The issue isn’t new.

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

Philips Respironics, a subsidiary of Philips, allegedly gave out masks from 2016 to 2021. The masks, according to a press release from the Department of Justice, were used to diagnose and treat sleep disorders. The case never went to court. The DOJ says Philips violated the Anti-Kickback Statute as well as the False Claims Act.

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The company earned its first clearance from the Food and Drug Administration in 2016 , and went public in 2019 at a share price of $17.  According to a press statement, Shockwave has treated 400,000 patients with this method globally.

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In 2016, when Simmone Taitt had her first pregnancy loss, she was very well insured, had a high-paying job as a tech executive, and had access to one of the top OB-GYNs in New York City. When Black people receive maternal care, they are often not treated the same as white people.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

In 2016, a trial for a hormonal male birth control pill was halted after men reported side effects including acne and mood swings — though such side effects are also experienced by women on various hormonal contraceptives. Attempts to change the status quo have been scarce and unsuccessful.

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After the brain tumor diagnosis in 2016, Gatton would undergo two brain surgeries, radiation treatment, chemotherapy, followed by an embryo transfer that failed. She was rushed to the hospital, where doctors diagnosed the then 29-year-old with a brain tumor.

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JUNE 23, 2023

The study is the most comprehensive Medicaid analysis of opioid addiction to date, analyzing a national claims dataset with 76 million patient data points between 2016 and 2018. A new study published Friday in JAMA Health Forum drives home how lack of access to lifesaving medications could contribute to these preventable deaths.

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APRIL 19, 2024

They examined data spanning January 2016 through June 2021 at 619 U.S. “There is an urgent need to understand why clinicians at hospitals with access to newer agents do not always prefer newer agents,” the researchers wrote in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

They’re investing in insurance brokerages, marketers, in-home assessment companies, and “insurtechs,” the report said, based on a new analysis of deals in the space since 2016.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Intarcia started developing its lead therapy, a small, skinny bar implanted under the skin, for type 2 diabetes patients in 2016. The agency is not bound to advisory panel decisions, though it tends to follow their advice.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Good Therapeutics, a private company that raised just $30 million in venture financing since its 2016 foundation, said Wednesday it had signed a deal to sell itself to Roche for $250 million without ever running a clinical trial.

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When he was hospitalized in August 2016, hospital staff used a needle to drain 7 liters of fluid from his abdomen. The final years of Carl Hoffer’s life were, in his words, “living hell.” ” His legs were so swollen they’d crack and leak white fluid. Read the rest…

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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Although that annual growth rate is the lowest since 2016, the private plans now catch roughly half of the entire Medicare population. million seniors and people with disabilities are now enrolled in a private Medicare plan, known as Medicare Advantage, according to new federal government data analyzed by STAT. That total is 7.1%

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JANUARY 18, 2024

In 2016, the 21 st Century Cures Act required that the U.S. make progress toward interoperability, which it defined as “all electronically accessible health information” to be accessed, exchanged and used “without special effort on the part of the user.”

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Her teammate Tianna Madison wrote on Instagram , “THREE (3) of the FOUR (4) of us who ran on the SECOND fastest 4x100m relay of all time, the 2016 Olympic Champions have nearly died or died in childbirth.”

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billion in 2016. Since it began more than 30 years ago, the program has ballooned and fed into the national clash over the cost of medicines. Some $38 billion in prescription medications were purchased under the 340B program in 2020, for instance, which was up from $16.2 Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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JULY 17, 2023

Blue Shield of California evaded $111 million in taxes between 2016 and 2020, according to a complaint that was filed with the Internal Revenue Service on June 27. These claims renew concerns about whether health insurance companies have skirted the tax code and to what extent tax fraud could exist in the industry.

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AUGUST 8, 2024

Approximately six months later, on Halloween night 2016, a young man in Rhode Island died of a drug overdose. At age five, he needed a second transplant, but his mother was told it was unlikely that a child’s liver of suitable size would become available in time.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

Illumina, a storied name that had delivered investors strong returns over two decades, spun out Grail in 2016 in order to raise money to fund the company’s work. The decision opens what should be the final chapter in one of the most disastrous attempted mergers in biotech history. Then, it announced plans to re-acquire the firm for $7.1

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Virginia Mason in Seattle was fatally damaged by the sad end of its decades-long partnership with Group Health in 2016 and is now part of CommonSpirit. Geisinger is only the latest member of an elite group of large regional multispecialty medical groups to lose their independence and join large hospital systems or corporations.

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MARCH 18, 2024

The final rule marks a major expansion of EPA regulation under  a landmark 2016 law  that overhauled regulations governing tens of thousands of toxic chemicals in everyday products, from household cleaners to clothing and furniture. Read the rest…

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The plan gained national renown among employers and health care price reform advocates when, in 2016, it established maximum amounts the health plan would pay for all inpatient and outpatient services. Those amounts were pegged to Medicare reimbursement rates.

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

In 2016, a number of states filed what eventually became the first in a trio of lawsuits against many of the largest generic companies for allegedly coordinating efforts to fix and maintain prices for dozens of medications to treat a variety of ailments.

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MARCH 9, 2023

billion over the next few years to be channeled to the Cancer Moonshot, a mission to end cancer that he first launched as vice president in 2016, less than a year after his son Beau’s death from brain cancer. In a long-awaited 2024 budget proposal released Thursday, the president asked for a combined $3.6

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In 2016, 340B sales were $16.2 Since it began 30 years ago, the program has ballooned and fed into the national clash over the cost of medicines. Some $44 billion in medicines were purchased under the 340B program in 2021, which was up from $38 billion the previous year. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

But Bristol stumbled in 2016 when its immunotherapy Opdivo failed to help patients with non-small cell cancer more than chemotherapy. Opdivo remained a big seller, but its failure allowed Merck’s rival Keytruda to move into position to become the best-selling medicine in the world.

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MAY 9, 2023

It will be the first FDA advisory panel hearing for a Duchenne drug from Sarepta since 2016, when hundreds of patients and family members traveled to the FDA campus in Maryland to plead with experts to authorize an earlier therapy from the company despite limited evidence.

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JULY 6, 2023

When then-Vice President Biden launched the Cancer Moonshot in 2016, there was reason to be optimistic. Decades of rigorous science had transformed many cancers from a death sentence to a manageable chronic disease. New treatment advances — including gene and cell therapies and immunotherapies — were showing stunning results.

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Thanks to changes in tax law six years ago, several of the largest pharmaceutical companies saw their tax rates fall substantially, but they also reported that most of their profits were shifted offshore in an effort to avoid paying U.S. taxes, according to a memo by a U.S. Senate Committee. in 2020, down from 19.6%

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