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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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…

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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MAY 24, 2023

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

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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%

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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…

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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.

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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.

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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.  

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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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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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JANUARY 10, 2023

The Food and Drug Administration approved 378 new drugs between 2010 and 2019, a big chunk of which were cancer medicines. Biotechnology companies played a big role in developing many of these new treatments, and their successes could partly be seen in the stock market, where biotech stocks soared.

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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.

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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

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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.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

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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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…

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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.

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