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Accelerated by the pandemic’s forced adoption of telehealth and other digital health solutions, 2021 saw more than 30 health technology startups go public, raising hundreds of millions and in some cases billions of dollars. Today, three members of the class of 2021 have gone bankrupt.
In the most recent 2021 Clinical Practice Guideline, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) aims to provide guidance with 3 separate age-based algorithms for the evaluation and management of the well-appearing febrile infant [4]. 2021 Apr;231:94-101.e2. Unfortunately, delayed or missed diagnosis can be devastating [1-3]. 2020.10.033.
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million in 2021, the latest year for which data is available. CommonSpirit Health, the massive not-for-profit health system formed through a 2019 merger, paid its former CEO $35.5 The size of Lloyd Dean’s pay package is likely to reignite questions about health system CEO pay, especially at tax-exempt organizations.
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DNA sequencer manufacturer Illumina has also invested $20 million in the project, which builds on a 2021 investment and partnership from Microsoft, which will provide the cloud infrastructure for the project. Pharmaceutical company Regeneron has invested $119.5 Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…
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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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.
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.,
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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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.
Overdose deaths among pregnant or postpartum people skyrocketed between 2018 and 2021, according to new research published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry.
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.
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.
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…
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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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.
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.
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…
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…
It was late 2021, and Campbell was nearing the end of a clinical trial testing out a device to help paralyzed patients regain movement. One of them, jarringly, was his body’s inability to sweat. So when Campbell started sweating on his stationary bike for the first time in seven years, it felt surreal.
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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…
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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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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
LONDON — European regulators on Thursday detailed their demands that Illumina divest the cancer diagnostics firm Grail, the latest fallout from the sequencing giant’s troubled 2021 acquisition. The move was just the most recent regulatory action against the deal.
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