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U.S. drug overdose deaths on pace to fall below 100,000 this year 

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drug overdose deaths are plummeting, putting the country on pace for its first year with fewer than 100,000 overdose deaths since 2020 — a powerful, if bleak, symbolic milestone.

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Opinion: Pediatricians and parents on the brink: This is their March 2020

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In March 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic swept across the United States, the nation’s pediatric providers and pediatric units immediately pitched in to treat adults sickened by this then-mysterious and deadly disease.

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STAT+: Sutter Health settles sweeping antitrust case, narrowly avoiding trial

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based Sutter want to be repaid for the money they spent on health insurance from 2011 through 2020.   Terms of the settlement were not immediately released on Monday, but it’s likely sizable given the scope of the case. The individuals and businesses suing Sacramento, Calif.-based Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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STAT+: The CRISPR companies are not OK

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No less an authority than a Nobel Prize committee announced, in 2020, that CRISPR “may make the dream of curing inherited diseases come true.”   The gene editing tool, wrested out of bacteria 13 years ago by a fractious group of biochemists, was supposed to change medicine.

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STAT+: Pfizer to pay $60 million to settle claims that Biohaven paid kickbacks to doctors

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The authorities alleged that, from March 2020 through September 2022, Biohaven improperly paid doctors speaking fees and for meals at “high end” restaurants in order to persuade them to prescribe Nurtec ODT, the centerpiece of the $11.6 Department of Justice. billion acquisition.

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Opinion: Gene therapy trials should emphasize transparency, not secrecy

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In 2020 and 2021, a clinical trial of a GT using yet a different viral vector and carrying a different genetic cargo resulted in the deaths of four boys soon after administration. He had received a similar viral vector via a different route of administration, carrying a different genetic cargo. Read the rest…

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STAT+: With $40 million, former DeepMind employees launch startup ‘laser-focused’ on AI protein design

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The Alphabet-owned AI company took the biology world by storm in 2020 with AlphaFold2 , the protein structure prediction AI platform that “solved” a decades-old biology problem. Where is DeepMind’s AI protein design spinout? In 2021, the company spun out Isomorphic Labs, an AI drug discovery company.

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