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Opinion: HIV self-testing is easy, effective — and underutilized

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In May 2024, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health released a troubling report on a cluster of HIV infections, with more than 200 new cases since 2018 attributable to injection drug use in the Boston region.

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Opinion: STAT+: There’s a better way to get drugs on the market: progressive approval

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In 2018, the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA) authorized the FDA to apply an accelerated approval mechanism more broadly and created the breakthrough therapy designation, both of which would likely have been considered faster horses by Henry Ford.

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What will it take to end health care worker burnout?

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Researchers compared survey data from 2018 and 2022, finding that health workers experienced poorer mental health outcomes post-pandemic. Of those surveyed, 46% of health workers reported feeling burnout often or very often in 2022, compared to 32% in 2018. Read the rest…

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STAT+: The U.S. has relied on cheap, effective generic drugs for 40 years. Now that promise is under threat

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Then, in 2018, she finally found a drug that kept her ADHD in check.  STAT is co-publishing this article by Tradeoffs. Lisa Ann Trainor struggled to stay on top of schoolwork, hold a job or even perform basic tasks like laundry for six exhausting years.   Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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The XBI biotech index hit its lowest point since 2018. No one knows what comes next.

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Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today?    Sign up  to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Hello, everyone. Damian here with a look at biotech’s latest nadir, the virtues of Neanderthal DNA, and the sudden success of a decades-old idea in oncology. Read the rest…

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USDA, FDA turf battles hamper responses to outbreaks like H5N1 bird flu

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WASHINGTON — On a bright June day in 2018, one of the nation’s top regulators waved groceries in the air, quizzing the secretary of agriculture on which agency is charged with monitoring different types of food.

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Opinion: Private equity: health care’s vampire

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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.