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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today?    Sign up  to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Good morning, everyone. Damian here with a look at a resurgence in psychiatric drug development, a big day for biotech stocks, and some innovation in the world of quarterly earnings. Read the rest…

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

During 2021, drugmakers substantially raised prices on seven widely used medicines without any new clinical evidence to justify the increases, leading patients and health insurers in the U.S. to spend an additional $805 million last year, according to a new report.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

kindergartners who’ve received standard childhood vaccines took a small but notable dip into the 2021-2022 school year, health officials said Thursday, amid disruptions related to Covid-19 and fears that anti-vaccine sentiment stirred up by the pandemic could be spreading to other shots. The percentage of U.S. Read the rest…

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

Ian Quigley was employee #13 at AI drug company Recursion until 2021, when he quit and turned the basement of his Utah home into a lab to develop AI models for predicting which proteins small molecule drugs might target — a tool he and co-founder Andrew Blevins found was missing during their time at Recursion. 

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FEBRUARY 12, 2025

In 2021, the company spun out Isomorphic Labs, an AI drug discovery company. 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.

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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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MARCH 31, 2025

Jana Miller owned a company that provided home health and other services to people with developmental disabilities, but in early 2021, she was found to have engaged in fraudulent billing.    Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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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, 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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MARCH 3, 2025

Recommendations for cancer treatments were reviewed through December 2021. The analysis tallied a total of 258 approved drugs for which companies submitted applications between 2009 and 2020, and then examined funding recommendations that were subsequently made through December 2020 for most drugs.

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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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MARCH 22, 2025

Drug companies notified the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) about disruptions to supply 1,938 times during last year the highest number since the 1,967 seen in 2021. Continue reading.

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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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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

That’s a sizable step down from the nearly 58% of graduates who went on to do a postdoc in 2021. Among newly minted life science Ph.D.s in 2022 who had firm next steps, roughly 53% planned to pursue postdoctoral research, a temporary period of additional training that is virtually a requirement for those hoping to land a faculty job.

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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 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 23, 2023

In 2021, Vertex announced dramatic results from the first man to receive the treatment, but researchers cautioned it was just one person, who had only been followed for 90 days.

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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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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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AUGUST 27, 2024

In 2021, Katey Frederking had reached the end of her rope. The 29-year-old was struggling with frequent migraines, which started after a concussion from a fall on an icy patch near her home in Chicago.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Nearly 334,000  health care professionals left the workforce in 2021. These workforce challenges are compounded by the fact that America — both physicians  and our patient population — is also aging, and the number of available doctors is shrinking.

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

If the trend continues, autoimmune companies could raise double the amount of money that they raised at the height of the biotech market in 2021, according to data compiled by HSBC. In the first half of 2024, venture capitalists pledged more than $1.7 Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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JULY 13, 2023

In May, just before Pride Month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released news worth celebrating: 2021 saw the  lowest numbers  of new HIV diagnoses in decades. New HIV infections were down 12% from 2017 to 2021, thanks to successful prevention efforts, including PrEP.

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JANUARY 19, 2023

agency’s lower number of novel drug approvals followed several controversies surrounding a 2021 Alzheimer’s approval.

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JULY 17, 2023

Global childhood immunization coverage has nearly rebounded to pre-pandemic levels, according to a new report, with 4 million more children receiving full immunization in 2022 compared to 2021. million children who missed at least one dose in 2021. million children who missed at least one dose in 2021. Overall, 20.5 Overall, 20.5

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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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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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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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