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These firms — which pool funds from wealthy investors and are exempt from many of the regulations and disclosure requirements that apply to other types of investments — have spent a half-trillion dollars since 2018 buying up medical resources.

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JUNE 13, 2024

” So read the headline of a front-page story in The New York Times in 2018 on a dramatic step Chile was taking to fight obesity. “In Sweeping War on Obesity, Chile slays Tony the Tiger.”

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

Whichever the case, product recalls by the Food and Drug Administration and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) more than doubled between 2018 and 2022, according to new research published on Wednesday by life sciences software company MasterControl. In 2018, the agency only recalled 22 products. In 2022, it recalled 310.

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million patients with type 2 diabetes from 2005 to 2018 who were prescribed GLP-1s, insulin, or metformin. New research finds that the GLP-1 class of drugs — glucagon-like peptide receptor agonists — is more effective in mitigating the risk of 10 obesity-associated cancers than its type 2 diabetes drug alternatives.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

  The proposal would reauthorize a number of programs first created by the SUPPORT Act, an addiction-focused bill that Congress first passed in 2018.

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AUGUST 31, 2023

The first miscarriage happened in June 2018, almost as soon as she found out she was pregnant. — By the time Taylor Teske came to be sitting on an exam table in an obstetrician’s office in Minnesota, her medical records marked a devastating journey: nine pregnancies, one baby, eight miscarriages.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Documents released this week shed new light on an aggressive strategy from vape maker Juul to court Black leaders, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, to publicly support its e-cigarettes.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

WASHINGTON — A new trove of internal emails and other documents from the e-cigarette maker Juul reveals the company’s extensive behind-the-scenes efforts to promote its interests in Washington — a rare insight into the otherwise opaque methods corporations use to influence the government.

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OCTOBER 1, 2024

billion acquisition of Cerevel Therapeutics , a spinout of Pfizer assets that Bain helped finance back in 2018.  The investors have also brought in a familiar face: Ron Renaud, who recently oversaw the $8.7

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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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SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

A Phase 2 study of “dapi” in systemic lupus, conducted in 2018, was negative, although Biogen and UCB saw enough evidence of a treatment effect to keep investing in the drug.    Still, the positive outcome is likely to be viewed favorably by investors given the drug’s mixed history.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Generate was founded in 2018 by venture-creation firm Flagship Pioneering to use machine learning algorithms to identify antibodies, peptides, cell therapies, and other medicines. It launched its first clinical trial in July for a Covid monoclonal antibody, and is working on starting another clinical trial for an asthma treatment.

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JANUARY 7, 2024

Insitro, a South San Francisco firm, was founded in 2018 by Daphne Koller, who had previously been a Stanford professor, a 2004 MacArthur “genius” grant recipient, and the co-founder and co-CEO of the online course company Coursera. But in biotech, one of the most well-funded AI players has been quiet.

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MAY 1, 2024

The company, which absorbed the health insurer Aetna in 2018, marketed its Medicare Advantage plans aggressively last year and expanded its geographic reach more than any insurer. CVS’ operating income fell by 34% — roughly $1.2 Now, that strategy is proving a detriment to its bottom line.

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OCTOBER 8, 2024

That’s a familiar enough story in biotech: Alnylam won regulatory approval of the first RNAi treatment in 2018, and several other such therapies have followed.    City Therapeutics, based in Cambridge, Mass.,

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Universities have also expanded their course offerings, with the number of new students enrolled in accredited midwifery programs growing from 1,006 students in 2014 to 1,214 in 2018 , according to the latest data available. Read the rest…

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Frustrated by drug shortages and the price spikes that typically ensue, executives from large hospital systems launched the nonprofit Civica Rx to deal with the problem in September 2018. Months later, the publicly traded group purchasing organization Premier created a subsidiary , ProvideGx, with the same aim.

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APRIL 18, 2024

The biotech is also being led by Spark Therapeutics co-founder Steven Altschuler, who joined Ziff Capital in 2018 as its managing director of health care ventures. Corner Therapeutics’ Series A round was led by Ziff Capital Partners, a little-known family office started by billionaire Dirk Ziff.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

At Amgen, where he’s led drug research and development since 2018, Reese said this moment has finally arrived. David Reese calls it a “hinge moment” — the turning point when biotech and big tech merge to attack human disease with artificial intelligence.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Even before the Covid pandemic, a 2018 paper reported that new genetic tests, many of them for increasingly rare conditions, were being released at the rate of 10 a day. You can now avail yourself of noninvasive diagnostics that claim to screen for rare birth defects, cancer-associated mutations, and even Alzheimer’s.

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OCTOBER 8, 2024

He rose to international infamy in 2018, when it came to light that he had performed a series of secretive, ethically fraught , scientifically sloppy genetic experiments that resulted in the birth of three CRISPR’d children.

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JULY 24, 2024

Jiankui He, the Chinese scientist who s parked a global uproar in 2018 when he revealed he had created the first gene-edited children , is again out on his own after being dismissed from an academic post.

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MAY 17, 2024

In 2018, during her chemistry Nobel Prize lecture, Frances Arnold noted that scientists had arrived at a point where they could read, write, and edit any sequence of DNA. But composing whole genes or even whole genomes from scratch — that was something only evolution could do.

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MAY 15, 2024

In a 2018 survey, 45% of respondents managing diabetes reported having intentionally foregone insulin treatment for a period because of the financial burden. Many avoid or ration their treatment because of the high cost. Each new generation of insulin products has been marked by an increase in price.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

In 2018, we came together across party lines to pass the SUPPORT Act, which established vital infrastructure for communities in New Hampshire and across the country to treat addiction, help people recover, and prevent substance misuse in the first place.

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JUNE 20, 2024

  Gestational diabetes has long been diagnosed between weeks 24 and 28 of pregnancy.

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MARCH 12, 2024

Delta 8 THC is a quasi-legal psychoactive version of cannabis, which has skyrocketed in popularity after a loophole found in a 2018 federal law allowed it to be sold nationwide without the same restrictions placed on traditional marijuana.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

For now, the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services will no longer require drug companies to compile annual reports on price increases, a key feature of a transparency law that was enacted in 2018. The reporting requirements stem from a pair of laws that were enacted in 2018 and 2019. However, a U.S.

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APRIL 11, 2024

That care, the medical board charged in 2018, was negligent: Anh didn’t collect vital signs, get a reliable medical history, or otherwise verify that his patients were actually sick and needed antibiotics. Another undercover investigator, “Mary Peters,” got antibiotics for a nonexistent urinary tract infection.

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JULY 5, 2024

One night in November 2018, I fell while crossing a street in Subic Bay, a U.S. naval logistics station in The Philippines. My face whacked the asphalt. Lying in the path of oncoming traffic, I couldn’t move a muscle. After 45 seconds of terror, I was able to stand up and haul myself to the other side.

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APRIL 1, 2024

Rejoyn has been in development since 2018 and Otsuka is the first drug company to receive FDA clearance for a digital treatment for a mental health condition. ” Patients also receive cognitive behavioral therapy.

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APRIL 29, 2024

A tentative settlement has been reached in a long-running shareholder lawsuit that accused health care activist investor Alex Denner of making nearly $50 million from insider trading in connection with the 2018 acquisition of Bioverativ.

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APRIL 29, 2024

The previous survey found that 60% of the groups indicated the industry had an “excellent” or “good” reputation, which amounted to a substantial, year-over-year improvement from the 41% of the groups that expressed such a view in 2018. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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MAY 15, 2024

In 2018, New York University became the first U.S. medical school to go tuition free. Since then, a handful of others have followed with many more considering similar programs.

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MARCH 26, 2024

And the FDA was unable to complete about 30% of one type of common inspection within the requested time frames from fiscal year 2018 through July 2023. By comparison, the FDA inspected 976 clinical study sites in 2017.

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

Wallach met Tim Wright in 2018 at a beachside restaurant in Del Mar, Calif., Wallach’s first meeting with his business partner could have been the setting of a romantic comedy. where they dissected the health care industry over seafood. “Then we ended up, if I remember correctly, walking on the beach.

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Narasimhan has been CEO of Novartis since 2018. Last week there was a change at the top of PhRMA, the trade group representing the drug industry. Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan became the chair of the board of directors.

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