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OCTOBER 27, 2023

The American College of Emergency Physicians predicted in a 2021 study that there would be a surplus of nearly 8,000 emergency physicians by 2030. While much of the health care workforce is battling staff shortages, the emergency medicine field is trying to figure out how to manage a potential oversupply of physicians. Read the rest…

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

Life expectancy for Americans fell for the second straight year in 2021, largely driven by increases in deaths from Covid-19 and drug overdoses, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. in 2021 has a life expectancy of 76.4 in 2021 has a life expectancy of 76.4 A baby born in the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Kay Kay Lineweaver’s first birthing experience in 2021 didn’t go as planned. Her baby was breech and the doctor wouldn’t allow her to try to give birth vaginally, so she ended up with an unwanted cesarean section.

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JUNE 3, 2024

Other countries recognized the problem earlier: the United Kingdom appointed a minister for loneliness in 2018; Japan did the same in 2021. It’s been one year since the U.S. surgeon general issued a national warning about an epidemic of loneliness.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2023

This represents more than 5 million square feet of unclaimed space, up from just 300,000 square feet of available space on the market in 2021. The demand from companies looking for space has dropped from about 8 million square feet in 2021 to about 2 million square feet today.

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AUGUST 14, 2024

In February 2021, I received my second Covid-19 shot — the newly developed vaccine that would eventually save millions of lives worldwide — with great anticipation. It was as if an audible dog whistle began blaring right next to me.

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APRIL 3, 2024

In 2020 and 2021, Covid-19 was the second-leading cause, pushing stroke to third position.    Read the rest…

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NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Overdose deaths among pregnant or postpartum people skyrocketed between 2018 and 2021, according to new research published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry.

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APRIL 24, 2024

death certificate data from 1999 through 2021, revealing a steady drop in deaths until 2012, when rates plateaued, then began to rise steadily, and accelerated upward once the Covid-19 pandemic arrived. The concerning conclusion comes as newer medications are raising hopes for better outcomes in the years to come.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

million square feet at the end of 2021 to 10.1 million square feet at the end of 2021 to 10.1 million square feet by the second quarter of this year across eight top life science markets: Boston, the Bay Area, San Diego, Raleigh-Durham, Philadelphia, Seattle, Los Angeles, and the Washington, D.C.,

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OCTOBER 13, 2024

  Launched in 2021, SalioGen was among a group of new startups developing technology for inserting full-length genes into patients — a feat that can’t readily be accomplished with older approaches based on the gene-editing technology CRISPR. A spokesperson for SalioGen declined to comment. 

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OCTOBER 25, 2023

Since 2021, his lab here at the University of Pennsylvania has built algorithms to trawl genetic databases for protein fragments, called peptides, with microbe-squashing properties. PHILADELPHIA — Cesar de la Fuente believes the next breakthrough antibiotic might come from animals that have been dead for thousands of years.

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APRIL 3, 2023

hospitals employed online data trackers in 2021 that transmitted visitors’ information to a broad network of outside parties, including major technology companies, data brokers, and private equity firms. A new study found that 99% of U.S. Read the rest…

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JANUARY 31, 2024

Biogen is giving up its ownership of Aduhelm , the Alzheimer’s disease treatment whose 2021 approval led to scrutiny and outrage, turning the page on a tempestuous chapter in the company’s long history.

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JUNE 3, 2024

To get a little inspiration, check out our past lists from 2023 , 2022 , and 2021. We invite our readers to fill out the form below, and you may see your pick in our upcoming annual roundup.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In 2021, another leading contender, Adverum, was set back after a patient with a related disease went blind in one eye.  In one 30-person Phase 2 study, patients’ need for standard-of-care injections fell by 89% after receiving gene therapy, and 73% did not need another standard-of-care shot for at least 32 weeks. 

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In 2021, that meant that women paid about 20% more than men — only 2% of which could be accounted for by maternity care. Women of all ages pay a total of $15.4 billion more than men on annual out-of-pocket medical expenses, according to a new report from Deloitte. chief health equity officer.

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

Instead, the new analysis suggests that cancer diagnoses recovered to pre-pandemic levels by the end of 2021 — but didn’t make up for any of the lost cases from earlier in the pandemic. A new paper published Monday in JAMA Network Open suggests that didn’t happen as quickly as experts had hoped.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

In 2020 and 2021, the jolt of pandemic and favorable economic conditions created an explosion of adoption and investment for companies that hoped to transform some corner of the stodgy health care system with technology. Is it too early to say that the health tech boom feels like a million years ago?

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JANUARY 3, 2023

Notably, the number of people hospitalized with Covid — roughly 40,000 — is still far below the winter waves of 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 (the wave driven by the original Omicron variant) as well as the Delta wave in summer and fall 2021. Read the rest…

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JUNE 24, 2024

million adults 60 and older without cardiovascular disease reported using preventative aspirin in 2021. The study , published on Monday in Annals of Internal Medicine, found that 18.5 Of those, 3.3 million were using the pills without medical advice. Read the rest…

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

Philips Respironics, a subsidiary of Philips, allegedly gave out masks from 2016 to 2021. The masks, according to a press release from the Department of Justice, were used to diagnose and treat sleep disorders. The case never went to court. The DOJ says Philips violated the Anti-Kickback Statute as well as the False Claims Act.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

billion in 2021. Nevertheless, the concept of software-based tools designed to manage or treat medical conditions has received enormous attention in the U.S. as proponents tout their potential to both widen access to care and improve patient outcomes.

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MARCH 23, 2023

This is a significant increase from the 2021 estimate of 1 in 44 , which was a big jump from 1 in 110 in 2006. In a pair of new reports — one focused on 8-year-olds and one on 4-year-olds — the CDC found that 1 out of every 36 children has autism. This increase may sound scary.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The latest rollout of Covid-19 vaccines has been messy, with people facing more challenges getting one of the updated shots than they may have experienced since the frantic start of the very first vaccination campaign in late 2020 and the first half of 2021.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

And his remarks, which ran in December 2021, prompted a complaint from an advocacy group that argued Bourla was inappropriately touting Covid-19 vaccines. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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JULY 10, 2024

Its last fundraising in 2021 yielded $3.4 Flagship did not immediately respond to questions about the side funds. Flagship had originally set a $3 billion cap for its latest fundraising, according to an SEC filing. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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MARCH 1, 2024

  CMS has been working on implementing the pathway since 2021. In a letter sent to the agency and shared with STAT, the group urged CMS to act on finalizing a pathway that would make reimbursement for breakthrough devices easier.  A CMS spokesperson told STAT the agency is working “expeditiously” to finalize it.

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JUNE 25, 2024

Between 2004 to 2021, the Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority, a self-regulatory body overseen by the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, ruled on more than 1,100 cases involving nearly 160 companies where there was a breach of the industry code. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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JULY 22, 2024

The report , which was released in March but received little if any public attention, examined drug spending between 2016 and 2021 within the health plan that covers more than 200,000 unionized mail carriers and post office workers, as well as retirees.

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APRIL 18, 2024

Even as evidence grew that coronavirus-laced particles could linger in the air indoors and infect people nearby, and researchers raised the alarm about the risks this posed to health care workers and the general public, the WHO didn’t acknowledge that Covid was airborne until late 2021. Read the rest…

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JANUARY 9, 2024

On a sweltering day in August 2021, as the engines of a hulking C-17 cargo plane drowned out pops of gunfire and Taliban rocket explosions around them, the young Afghan couple looked down at their 4-month-old son, Mohammad, and felt a shuddering wave of relief.

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MARCH 15, 2023

In the summer and fall of 2021, West Nile virus spread rapidly through Arizona’s Maricopa County and other areas of the state. The outbreak, with more than 1,700 cases reported and 127 deaths. was the largest in the United States since the mosquito-borne virus first emerged in this country in 1999.

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JUNE 11, 2024

  The move wasn’t too surprising: in 2021, she and her husband and co-chair, then in the middle of their divorce, agreed that if they found themselves unable to work together, she’d step out and receive resources from her ex-husband to continue her philanthropic work.

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

The last shot they tested, in 2021, didn’t do much of anything, and the 66-year-old worries that if this fails, he might not get another chance to redesign it.  Louis Picker is nervous. Last month, the first volunteer was injected with an HIV vaccine he spent over 20 years designing. It’s prototype No.

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JUNE 25, 2024

Called Exsilio Therapeutics, the startup emerged from stealth with $82 million in Series A funding and a seed round led by OrbiMed, where Zaks has been a partner since shortly after he left Moderna in 2021. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

  She would have been waiting even longer had it not been for a shift, in 2021, in the way that physicians calculate kidney function for Black patients like her.  “Now I say the fireworks are for me,” said Evans, who was diagnosed with kidney disease when she was 17.    Read the rest…

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