2019 - Pharmacist Digest

Rural-urban divide in cervical cancer means more cases and deaths

STAT

MARCH 3, 2025

Cases were 25% higher and deaths were 42% higher in rural counties compared to urban counties through 2019. The cross-sectional study found incidence and mortality rates have been climbing in rural counties in the United States since 2012, going in the wrong direction after declining since 2001. Read the rest…

Vaccines

Gender-affirming surgeries tripled in the U.S. between 2016-2019, study finds

STAT

AUGUST 23, 2023

nearly tripled between 2016 and 2019, according to new national estimates from a cohort study in JAMA Network Open. The number of gender-affirming surgeries taking place in the U.S.

Study reveals how often medical device makers report safety incidents late to FDA

STAT

MARCH 13, 2025

million manufacturer reports between 2019 and 2022, about 600,000, or nearly 14% came in late. In a new study in the BMJ , researchers analyzed the Food and Drug Administration database where manufactures report adverse events and found that a huge number of reports come in late. Over 600,000 came in with missing or invalid dates.

More than 31,000 ARRS staff recruited since 2019

The Pharmacist

OCTOBER 18, 2023

More than 31,000 staff – including pharmacists, mental health practitioners and social prescribers – have been recruited to work in general practice under the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) since 2019.

Ambitious federal study failed to curb opioid deaths, NIH announces

STAT

JUNE 16, 2024

In 2019, amid an ever-worsening drug crisis, the federal government launched a research study with an ambitious goal: to lower opioid overdoses in participating communities by 40% using evidence-based interventions like distributing naloxone and providing access to addiction medications.

STAT+: AI versus AI: The emerging arms race over health insurance denials

STAT

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The software engineer’s disillusionment began in 2019, when her insurer, UnitedHealthcare, balked at covering physical therapy after she was hit by a car and could not walk. Like many Americans, Holden Karau said she was fed up with health insurance.

STAT+: As Medicare spending on remote patient monitoring jumps, HHS watchdog warns of fraud, misuse

STAT

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

In just four years from the beginning of 2019 through 2022, according to the report, the number of Medicare patients receiving RPM increased tenfold, from 55,000 to 570,000. Remote patient monitoring has exploded since the pandemic. Medicare Advantage use increased 14 times over. Medicare Advantage use increased 14 times over.

APAC leads in asthma clinical trials between 2019-2023: GlobalData

Express Pharma

MAY 6, 2024

According to GlobalData’s Clinical Trials Database, during 2019-23, 51.8 The post APAC leads in asthma clinical trials between 2019-2023: GlobalData appeared first on Express Pharma. per cent of asthma trials were initiated in the APAC region.

Youth vaping continues its tumble from a Juul-fueled high

STAT

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Around 6% of middle and high school students used vapes in 2024, down from 8% last year, and a record high of 20% in 2019, according to a survey released Thursday by the FDA and the CDC. The number of U.S. The vape brand Juul fueled this surge, but has since receded in popularity after FDA actions and legal challenges.

STAT+: SEC charges former CEO of pain relief device company with $41 million fraud

STAT

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Laura Perryman led Stimwave, which sold nerve stimulation devices to combat pain, from 2010 to 2019, when the fraud came to light. The Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday charged the former CEO of Stimwave, a company that sold devices containing dummy pieces of plastic, with defrauding investors out of $41 million.

STAT+: A rare disease program, portrayed as both lifeline and pharma handout, is set to expire

STAT

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

After his son Michael was diagnosed with a devastating, ultra-rare disease in 2019, Terry Pirovolakis dedicated himself to eradicating it. Pirovolakis, a Canadian IT director, recruited academics and raised $3 million to design a gene therapy.

STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a FTC PBM report, a Kroger deal on opioids, and more news

STAT

JANUARY 10, 2025

In a lawsuit filed in state court in February, Coleman had alleged that Kroger’s more than 100 Kentucky pharmacies had been responsible for over 11% of all opioid pills dispensed in the state from 2006 to 2019, or about 444 million opioid doses.

Independent Pharmacies

Opinion: The coronavirus lab leak hypothesis is damaging science

STAT

AUGUST 2, 2024

Where and when the Covid-19 pandemic began — in Wuhan, China in late 2019 — is well known. How it began is a matter of heated controversy. There are two competing hypotheses, one of which is hindering the process of scientific discovery and could hold back the development of vaccines and other antiviral agents in the U.S.

Vaccines

Alcohol is driving a half-dozen types of cancer in the U.S., study finds

STAT

JULY 11, 2024

Data was from 2019 in order to avoid the influence of the pandemic, when cancer diagnoses declined because of delayed care. The results were published in the American Cancer Society’s journal, CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.

STAT+: Pfizer pulls sickle cell treatment Oxbryta off global markets

STAT

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The decision is a stunning blow for a drug that was approved in 2019 , heralded as a new way to treat the inherited blood disorder. Pfizer said Wednesday that it was removing Oxbryta, a pill for the treatment of sickle cell disease, from all markets globally due to high risks of severe safety events, including deaths.

Opinion: Independent doctors like me are becoming an endangered species

STAT

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

More than 100,000 doctors have left private practice and become employees of hospitals and other corporate entities since 2019. Today, nearly three in four physicians are employees of larger health care entities or other corporations — a record high.

Hospitals

STAT+: Former medical device CEO who sold dummy, plastic parts convicted of fraud

STAT

MARCH 7, 2024

Laura Perryman led Stimwave, which sold nerve stimulation devices to combat pain, from 2010 to 2019. STAT published new details about the Stimwave story in May, after former employees described how Perryman broke into Stimwave’s Florida headquarters to steal back devices after her termination in 2019.

There’s a knowledge gap about miscarriages in the U.S., and researchers hope to close it

STAT

AUGUST 21, 2024

Megan Hanson was eight weeks pregnant in 2019 when she experienced a miscarriage — her sixth consecutive loss in as many years. It felt particularly cruel after a second IVF transfer.

Denied by AI: How Medicare Advantage plans use algorithms to cut off care for seniors in need

STAT

MARCH 13, 2023

Meanwhile, medical notes in June 2019 showed Walter’s pain was maxing out the scales and that she could not dress herself, go to the bathroom, or even push a walker without help. Read the rest…

Nursing Homes

Routine vaccinations drop among U.S. kindergartners for the third year in a row

STAT

JANUARY 12, 2023

Vaccinations among children remain high, but the trend — with coverage dropping from about 95% in the 2019-2020 school year to 94% in 2020-2021 to 93% in 2021-2022, according to the data released Thursday — has health officials concerned. The percentage of U.S.

Vaccines

BREAKING: Pharmacy contract negotiations to start 'early in the new year'

The Pharmacist

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Contractors in England are currently working under the terms of a contractual framework agreed in 2019, that expired in March this year. Negotiations for the community pharmacy contract in England will not begin until next year, pharmacy minister Stephen Kinnock has confirmed.

Community Pharmacies

Is the future of AI in health care just a lot of hype?

STAT

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Narayan, a professor of computer science at Princeton University, went viral in 2019 for a talk he gave at MIT on how to recognize overblown declarations about AI’s capabilities. Now he’s teamed up with his Ph.D. student Kapoor to publish the book “ AI Snake Oil ,” which came out Sep.

Drug Development

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Nurses and health care support workers at higher risk of suicide, study finds

STAT

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

million employed people (both within the health care field and outside) observed from 2008 to 2019. While other research has examined the incidence of mental health issues and suicide risk among physicians, the same isn’t necessarily true of other health care professions.

Second-generation mosquito nets prevented 13 million malaria cases in large pilot programs

STAT

APRIL 17, 2024

Results shared this week by the New Nets Project, an initiative funded by Unitaid and the Global Fund, highlighted a pair of second-generation bed nets tested in endemic areas between 2019 and 2022.

STAT+: Gilead’s chief medical officer to leave as R&D efforts stall

STAT

JULY 17, 2024

Merdad Parsey, who joined Gilead in 2019, will stay in his post until the first quarter of next year as the company looks for a successor, Gilead said in a press release Wednesday. Gilead has faced multiple setbacks in its attempt to move away from its stronghold in virology and into other areas like cancer.

Juul’s internal playbook opens a rare window into influence in Washington

STAT

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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A STAT Investigation: Embedded Bias

STAT

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

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Drug Development

Life expectancy for men in U.S. falls to 73 years — six years less than for women, per study

STAT

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

years in 2019 to 77 in 2020 and 76.1 At least partially as a consequence of over 1 million Covid-19 deaths, life expectancy in the U.S. has declined significantly over the past few years, falling from 78.8 in 2022 — undoing over two decades of progress. and Italy all enjoy a life expectancy of 80 years or more.

STAT+: U.S. drug shortages have reached a decade high and are lasting longer, too

STAT

JUNE 4, 2024

This was also the highest rate of product discontinuations since 2019. These low prices also translated into more product discontinuations, which rose by 40% from 2022 to 2023, and from 100 drugs to 140 during that time. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

STAT+: In a big reversal, Walmart to shut down medical clinics and online care

STAT

APRIL 30, 2024

Walmart had grand ambitions , back in 2019, to grow a network of cheaper primary care clinics attached to its ubiquitous stores. Those ambitions are now dead. The retail giant said Tuesday it is shuttering its 51 medical clinics across five states, as well as its virtual care offering.

Air quality improvements belie rising racial and ethnic disparities in pollutant-related deaths, study finds

STAT

MARCH 5, 2024

Researchers found an overall drop from 2010 and 2019 in death and disease linked to nitrogen dioxide (NO2), an air pollutant produced from fossil fuel burning, and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) Deaths attributable to PM2.5

STAT+: After early wins, CRISPR gene editing is about to get a lot harder

STAT

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The short history of CRISPR gene editing in humans has, with rare exception, been a history of triumphant progress: A patient apparently cured of sickle cell in 2019, six patients with toxic DNA knocked out of their liver last year, another six patients with a different strand of toxic liver DNA knocked out last week.

New analysis reveals postpartum sterilization rates are higher among U.S. women with sickle cell

STAT

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Performed by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, the study found that between 2012 and 2019, 8.8% . Now, a data analysis commissioned by STAT shows that the rate of postpartum sterilization is significantly higher in Americans with sickle cell disease than in those without. of births to unaffected mothers did.

STAT+: Addiction treatment center founder indicted in sprawling fraud scheme

STAT

MAY 24, 2023

Over the last few years, Daniel Cleggett Jr. appeared to be living a charmed life.

Gates Foundation to fund trial of long-awaited new tuberculosis vaccine candidate

STAT

JUNE 28, 2023

The 26,000-person, Phase 3 study, set to begin next year, will test a vaccine known as M72/AS01 that showed promising results from a smaller trial in 2019. The Gates Foundation unveiled plans Wednesday to fund a long-awaited trial for what, if proven effective, would be the first new tuberculosis vaccine in over a century.

Vaccines

STAT+: Johnson & Johnson to buy Shockwave Medical for $13.1 billion

STAT

APRIL 5, 2024

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.

Latest UKHSA figures show rise in both antibiotic use and resistance

The Pharmacist

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

year-on-year in 2023 and prescribing levels are now in line with those seen in 2019, according to national surveillance data published by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). Antibiotic use rose by 2.4%

STAT+: Former medical device CEO who sold fake plastic parts sentenced to 6 years in prison

STAT

JUNE 17, 2024

Perryman led the company from 2010 to 2019. Stimwave was thus able to sell their devices for more money. From 2017 to 2020, the company sold nearly 8,000 devices with the fake component. “Laura Perryman callously created a dummy medical device component and told doctors to implant it into patients,” said U.S.

STAT+: Just how much money do drugmakers gain from patent extensions?

STAT

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The organization looked at four blockbuster drugs — Humira, Avastin, Rituxan, and Lantus — that had biosimilars launched between 2019 and 2023. years of unchallenged market presence.

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Drug Pricing Biosimilars Drug Development

Esketamine tops quetiapine for treatment-resistant depression in head-to-head trial

STAT

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Research dating back to the early 2000s has shown that ketamine and esketamine — which is derived from ketamine — are effective in cases of so-called treatment-resistant depression, and the nasal spray version of the drug was specifically approved for this indication in 2019. Read the rest…

STAT+: New antibiotics were underprescribed for hard-to-treat infections, study finds

STAT

APRIL 19, 2024

hospitals and then tracked usage of seven antibiotics that were approved by the Food and Drug Administration between 2014 and 2019. They examined data spanning January 2016 through June 2021 at 619 U.S. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

Hospitals

Cannabis industry scales back its lobbying in Washington

STAT

AUGUST 1, 2023

Curaleaf, one the largest cannabis companies in the world, spent nearly 40% less on lobbying in the first half of 2023 than it did at its peak in 2019. Together, their spending on advocacy has dipped by more than 50% since 2019, back when federal weed lobbying was at its height. Read the rest…

STAT+: Jiankui He, creator of CRISPR-edited children, relocates to a Chinese medical tourism hub

STAT

JULY 24, 2024

In January 2019, provincial health authorities found that He’s human CRISPR experiments violated national regulations against gene-editing for reproductive purposes.

STAT+: Oncologists more likely to provide low-value care after receiving pharma money, study finds

STAT

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The researchers examined Medicare beneficiaries who were diagnosed with cancer and received treatment from 2014 through 2019. Overall, the proportion of patients who were prescribed so-called low-value drugs was higher when their oncologist accepted industry payments, according to the study, published in the BMJ.

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Rural-urban divide in cervical cancer means more cases and deaths

Gender-affirming surgeries tripled in the U.S. between 2016-2019, study finds

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Study reveals how often medical device makers report safety incidents late to FDA

More than 31,000 ARRS staff recruited since 2019

Ambitious federal study failed to curb opioid deaths, NIH announces

STAT+: AI versus AI: The emerging arms race over health insurance denials

STAT+: As Medicare spending on remote patient monitoring jumps, HHS watchdog warns of fraud, misuse

APAC leads in asthma clinical trials between 2019-2023: GlobalData

Youth vaping continues its tumble from a Juul-fueled high

STAT+: SEC charges former CEO of pain relief device company with $41 million fraud

STAT+: A rare disease program, portrayed as both lifeline and pharma handout, is set to expire

STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a FTC PBM report, a Kroger deal on opioids, and more news

Opinion: The coronavirus lab leak hypothesis is damaging science

Alcohol is driving a half-dozen types of cancer in the U.S., study finds

STAT+: Pfizer pulls sickle cell treatment Oxbryta off global markets

Opinion: Independent doctors like me are becoming an endangered species

STAT+: Former medical device CEO who sold dummy, plastic parts convicted of fraud

There’s a knowledge gap about miscarriages in the U.S., and researchers hope to close it

Denied by AI: How Medicare Advantage plans use algorithms to cut off care for seniors in need

Routine vaccinations drop among U.S. kindergartners for the third year in a row

BREAKING: Pharmacy contract negotiations to start 'early in the new year'

Is the future of AI in health care just a lot of hype?

Nurses and health care support workers at higher risk of suicide, study finds

Second-generation mosquito nets prevented 13 million malaria cases in large pilot programs

STAT+: Gilead’s chief medical officer to leave as R&D efforts stall

Juul’s internal playbook opens a rare window into influence in Washington

A STAT Investigation: Embedded Bias

Life expectancy for men in U.S. falls to 73 years — six years less than for women, per study

STAT+: U.S. drug shortages have reached a decade high and are lasting longer, too

STAT+: In a big reversal, Walmart to shut down medical clinics and online care

Air quality improvements belie rising racial and ethnic disparities in pollutant-related deaths, study finds

STAT+: After early wins, CRISPR gene editing is about to get a lot harder

New analysis reveals postpartum sterilization rates are higher among U.S. women with sickle cell

STAT+: Addiction treatment center founder indicted in sprawling fraud scheme

Gates Foundation to fund trial of long-awaited new tuberculosis vaccine candidate

STAT+: Johnson & Johnson to buy Shockwave Medical for $13.1 billion

Latest UKHSA figures show rise in both antibiotic use and resistance

STAT+: Former medical device CEO who sold fake plastic parts sentenced to 6 years in prison

STAT+: Just how much money do drugmakers gain from patent extensions?

Esketamine tops quetiapine for treatment-resistant depression in head-to-head trial

STAT+: New antibiotics were underprescribed for hard-to-treat infections, study finds

Cannabis industry scales back its lobbying in Washington

STAT+: Jiankui He, creator of CRISPR-edited children, relocates to a Chinese medical tourism hub

STAT+: Oncologists more likely to provide low-value care after receiving pharma money, study finds

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