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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In 2017, at the age of 42, Susan Whitehead was diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer after discovering a lump in her breast. She embarked on a challenging path of treatment, including a recurrence with stage 2 cancer four years later. Susan underwent two lumpectomies, a mastectomy, radiation, and chemotherapy.

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JUNE 6, 2024

Federal officials, medical organizations, and reproductive health advocacy groups have expressed outrage in response to STAT’s recent investigation revealing that women with sickle cell disease have felt pressured into sterilizations as recently as 2017 and 2022.

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MAY 28, 2024

A new investigation, published on Friday in JAMA Network Open , confirmed the link to early deliveries at a massive scale, in a large cohort study capturing over half of the births that occurred in the United States between 1993 and 2017. Its results shed light on the way existing health inequities may be exacerbated by a worsening climate.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The act would have permitted health care facilities to stock up on compounded medications without forcing the supplying 503A pharmacies to register as outsourcing facilities.

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Med Ed 101

DECEMBER 3, 2017

For those of you looking for BCPS help in the next year or two, you better not wait any longer – This one time only initial offer will end Monday December 4th, 2017! The post Day 1 – ASHP Midyear Meeting 2017 appeared first on Med Ed 101.

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

Between 2017 and 2021, regulators in the U.S. Of 104 reports of supply chain issues with dozens of drugs, meaningful shortages were 40% less likely to occur in Canada than in the U.S., a new study found, and the difference was largely attributed to the approach taken by the Canadian government to the problem.

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APRIL 3, 2024

That was until 2017, when he founded a startup called Nucleai. For around 20 years, Avi Veidman spent his days in the Israeli intelligence community, analyzing satellite images. Now, he’s scouring biopsy samples for cancer cells. Nucleai’s technology is not searching out signs of danger.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Where are we at with 2017 Pharmacist Provider Status? The post 2017 Pharmacist Provider Status Update appeared first on Med Ed 101. Since the heated election, a host of topics and discussions have been held on National debt and Healthcare. There is really positive news regarding pharmacist provider status.

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JANUARY 7, 2018

I’m a few days late to the game here, but I wanted to share my 3 biggest clinical pharmacy changes from 2017. My opinion of course, and I’d love it if you would post one or two things below that you felt were important clinical updates in 2017. How did I select these? Without further […].

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Med Ed 101

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The post ASHP Midyear 2017 Day 4 appeared first on Med Ed 101. Hope you all enjoyed it, and maybe I will head back next year…we’ll see! Day 4 of ASHP Midyear took on a medication safety theme. I took part in a pain management in opioid use […].

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DECEMBER 5, 2017

The post ASHP Midyear Day 2 2017 appeared first on Med Ed 101. With ongoing discussions today with more pharmacists, residents and students, I can’t help but think what pharmacy is going to look like in 10 or 20 years. I think the key to identifying what’s going to happen is to think […].

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DECEMBER 13, 2017

The post New Hypertension Guideline Update – 2017 appeared first on Med Ed 101. I outline some of the important differences in the presentation below. I have also added this to the 20+ hour BCPS pharmacotherapy webinar. I’m giving year long access for […].

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MAY 6, 2024

Abrams, a frequent commentator about vaping in the news media, including CBS This Morning, CNN, and The New Yorker, coordinated extensively with Juul on public messaging in 2017 and 2018, according to company emails.

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MAY 21, 2024

She was seven months pregnant when the doctor brought it up in April 2017. She sat on the couch in the half-light, blinds shut against the heat. The whole thing made her feel less than, like some essential part of her had been removed. She shouldn’t eat before the operation.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

“We looked at anything and everything,” said Novak, who stepped down as CEO in 2017 but remained on the board until this year.  His company, along with two others, were founded to commercialize the new revolutionary gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 , which promised to cure numerous genetic diseases.

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STAT

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The kickback case began four years ago when the Department of Justice accused Teva of using the foundations to ensure that, from 2006 through 2017, Medicare patients did not have to make a copayment or deductible for the Copaxone multiple sclerosis drug. At the same time, Teva steadily raised the price of its drug by thousands of dollars.

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STAT

JUNE 30, 2023

When I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2017 and had bilateral mastectomies , I had more reconstruction options than my mother did. In 1983, I flew home from college to be with my mother as she woke up from a mastectomy. She opted out of breast reconstruction, choosing to “go flat” instead. Read the rest…

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AUGUST 16, 2023

Its trial was completed in 2017, but the company missed a deadline to seek a reporting extension. A  rule  went into effect in 2017 to strengthen reporting requirements. After receiving the FDA letter, Light Sciences posted results on Aug. 2, although outstanding issues remain with its submission.

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JULY 5, 2024

The massive sum spent by AbbVie, the maker of the mega blockbuster anti-inflammatory drug Humira, is the most a pharmaceutical company has spent on marketing to doctors since such data became available in 2017.

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APRIL 23, 2024

But the agency noted in a press release that it’s the largest year-over-year update for NIH-funded postdocs since 2017. The 8% pay bump is far short of the increase to $70,000 that was recommended by an NIH working group late last year.

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DECEMBER 5, 2017

Day 3 at ASHP 2017 has been a little more depressing due to the pharmacist job market. The post Pharmacist Job Market Outlook – ASHP Midyear 2017 Day 3 (Tuesday) appeared first on Med Ed 101. The post Pharmacist Job Market Outlook – ASHP Midyear 2017 Day 3 (Tuesday) appeared first on Med Ed 101.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

These practices, which occurred between 2009 and 2017, allegedly harmed the country and patients. At the same time, the agency is examining accusations that the drug company disseminated “defamatory claims and news” in hopes of influencing physicians and consumers to favor its own treatment over competing medicines.

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JUNE 23, 2024

My daughter, Mallory, died in 2017 at the age of 25 from a multiply resistant bacterial lung infection that followed a double-lung transplant necessitated by cystic fibrosis.

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APRIL 5, 2023

are charged with knowingly selling defective lead testing machines between 2013 and 2017 that generated inaccurate results for tens of thousands of children across the country and for clients of at least one international relief organization, federal prosecutors said. Three former executives at Magellan Diagnostics Inc.

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MARCH 5, 2024

The first continuous glucose monitor was approved by the FDA in 2017. The sensor will pair with a smartphone app, which will provide blood glucose measurements every 15 minutes. Dexcom has not yet released the price of the device.

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JUNE 21, 2024

The employee, patient testing technician Qiqiuia Young, alleged in a 100-page lawsuit filed in 2017 that problems began when her co-workers at Stanford Cancer Center dressed as members of the Ku Klux Klan around Halloween.

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JUNE 17, 2024

From 2017 to 2020, the company sold nearly 8,000 devices with the fake component. Under CEO Laura Perryman’s leadership, the company warped the design of their devices to earn more reimbursement money from insurers, resulting in unnecessary plastic parts that allowed doctors to claim around $18,000 more than they previously could.

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

Although the first CAR-T was approved in 2017 for children, after it cleared malignancies in some on the brink of death, researchers hoping to use the tool in other pediatric cancers have struggled.  The therapy eventually reached market as Breyanzi, one of three CAR-Ts approved for adult leukemia.   The story was emblematic.

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APRIL 11, 2024

In 2017, after receiving reports about the telehealth site, an investigator for the California medical board logged on to Lemonaid using an alias. Ho Anh had just started working at Lemonaid Health when he was caught up in a sting.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

In 2017, he was elevated to CEO. Samarth “Sam” Kulkarni has been there from almost the beginning. The former McKinsey partner joined CRISPR Therapeutics in 2015 as its chief business officer. STAT spoke to Kulkarni about how the company reached this point, and where the field of CRISPR-based medicine is going.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Founded in 2017, HumanFirst maintains a meticulously organized library of digital measurement tools, their underlying evidence, and information about how they have been used in clinical trials.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Her mom, Kathy Cronin, lived her life in fear of the disease, an anxiety both her children and her doctors dismissed, until, in the summer of 2017, she developed symptoms that were impossible to ignore.  It took her great-grandfather before she was born and her grandmother when she was 6 years old.

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OCTOBER 19, 2023

Laronde was founded by biotech creation firm Flagship Pioneering in 2017 to develop a new type of genetic medicine called endless RNA. RNA medicines startup Laronde is merging with another startup in the wake of a scientific misconduct issue that affected its leading drug candidates.

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JULY 13, 2023

New HIV infections were down 12% from 2017 to 2021, thanks to successful prevention efforts, including PrEP. In May, just before Pride Month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released news worth celebrating: 2021 saw the  lowest numbers  of new HIV diagnoses in decades.

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MARCH 25, 2024

The initial effort to raise and sell chickens without using antibiotics began in 2017 as the company bet consumers would absorb the added expense. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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Med Ed 101

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

As a practicing pharmacist, I continue to hear rumblings and news trickle in about the 2017 pharmacy job outlook. As I focus ahead to the 2017 pharmacy job outlook, Pharmacist […]. The post The 2017 Pharmacy Job Outlook – What A Facebook Ad Can Tell Us appeared first on Med Ed 101.

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DECEMBER 30, 2022

If the recent acceleration of new diagnoses persists, then 220,000 people younger than 20 would have type 2 diabetes in 2060, compared with 28,000 in 2017, the latest year for which data is available, according to projections published this month in Diabetes Care. The number of young people in the U.S.

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