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JULY 30, 2024

Rates of mental illness and substance use remained largely stable in 2023, according to federal data, underscoring the severity of the long-running U.S. mental health crisis and worst-in-the-world rates of illicit drug use. And while overall rates of nicotine use also remained roughly even, the way people consumed it shifted slightly.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2023

2023.02.011 , PMID 36967275 Author information Chris Belcher, MD Editor, ALiEM AIR Series Assistant Professor and Assistant Program Director Department of Emergency Medicine University of Kentucky College of Medicine | Twitter | The post ALiEM AIR Series | Trauma 2023 Module appeared first on ALiEM. Ann Emerg Med. 2023;82(1):55-65.

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

Let’s get right to the main course: David Ricks of Eli Lilly is the runaway, rock star, who-else-could-it-be Best Biopharma CEO of 2023. More on those high-achieving folks later. What an incredible year it’s been for Ricks and the Lilly executive team who helped him achieve so much.

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DECEMBER 12, 2024

During 2023, drugmakers substantially raised prices on five 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 $815 million last year, according to a new report.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

That trend of vertical integration was on full display in 2023, a year when the country’s biggest pharmacy chain bought a primary care provider, and the biggest private insurer branched further into home health. Companies that were once just insurers or just pharmacies are tacking on new business lines.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

LONDON — Three scientists whose work on electrons widened the world’s understanding of the particles’ behavior inside atoms and molecules won the 2023 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday.  

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JANUARY 4, 2023

Continuing economic uncertainty and the threat of a recession are casting a pall over health tech in 2023 — a dramatic shift for an industry that enjoyed abundant funding in the pandemic’s early stages.

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OCTOBER 19, 2023

Live from Boston at the 2023 STAT Summit, we discuss the latest news in the life sciences, including a milestone in genome editing, a twist in the search for ALS treatments, and the polarizing process of saying words in biotech. And how do you pronounce “Bayer”?

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

LONDON — The 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded Wednesday to three scientists for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots, tiny particles that have fueled innovations in nanotechnology from televisions to mapping different tissues in the body.  

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JULY 18, 2023

This article is adapted from the 2023 edition of STAT’s annual report, “Ranking biotech’s top venture capital firms.”   Read the rest…

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

By some measures, private equity investment lagged in 2023, a year marked by growing distress and high-profile downfalls among private equity-backed health care companies. Each of the three niches continue to generate buzz among investors, even as other areas fizzle.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

This year's inductees to the PharmaVoice 100 "hall of fame" are leaders who have been at the forefront — and will stay at the forefront — of industry change.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The winners of the 2023 awards, announced on Thursday in New York, distinguished themselves in AI-enabled protein modeling, groundbreaking eye test technology, and in a wide-ranging career in medical science that combined innovative discoveries with attention to mentorship and leadership.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

This year’s many firsts included a vaccine for RSV and a drug that slows Alzheimer’s disease.

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APRIL 4, 2023

The New York University College of Dentistry team that won 2023’s STAT Madness competition developed a gel that could eventually replace painful cleanings for gum disease. It started with mice molars and a hunch.

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APRIL 10, 2024

The number of ongoing and active drug shortages in the U.S. stood at 323 during the fourth quarter of last year — the highest figure reached since such data began being tracked in 2001 — underscoring growing concerns about patient harm across the country.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

It’s our last episode of 2023, so we look back on the biggest stories of the year, discuss the best and worst CEOs in the industry, and make some reasonably informed guesses on what 2024 has in store for the drug industry. And can you go to too many J.P. Morgan parties?

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

The last year showed how some of the world’s biggest pharma companies are leveraging AI tech.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In 2023, enrollment in Medicare Advantage, the version of Medicare run by private insurers, surpassed 50% of eligible beneficiaries for the very first time. Companies like CVS Health and UnitedHealth Group saw losses of 5.2% respectively, while Humana, whose business model relies heavily on the MA program, fell an astonishing 14.2%.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

The year 2023 was rough for everyone in this sector, including recruiters. Perhaps most notably: I didn’t encounter nearly as many “can you please help me find a job?” ” requests as last year. That suggests to me that 2024 will be a better year for the industry’s job seekers.

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OCTOBER 17, 2023

E ach year, STAT sets out to celebrate the unheralded heroes of science and medicine, poring over hundreds of nominations from across North America in search for the next generation of scientific superstars. This year’s class of 28 Wunderkinds were selected from more than 170 brilliant researchers.

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JULY 5, 2024

WASHINGTON — Pharmaceutical giant AbbVie paid health care providers roughly $145.7 million last year to promote its drugs, according to a STAT analysis of newly released government data.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Entries for this year’s STAT Madness, our annual, bracket-style competition in biomedical research, include some of 2022’s biggest discoveries, in areas ranging from Covid-19 and cancer treatment to medical imaging and surgery.

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MARCH 22, 2024

  The drug, known as Pemgarda and marketed by the biotech Invivyd, is the first such drug to become available since the agency pulled AstraZeneca’s Evusheld off the market in January 2023. New Omicron variants had rendered Evusheld ineffective. Read the rest…

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MARCH 5, 2024

overdose deaths in 2023. Over 2 million Americans have opioid use disorder, according to some estimates. Illicit opioids such as heroin and fentanyl were responsible for over 80,000 U.S. Despite the known risks, these drugs are notoriously hard to stop using — due in large part to how debilitating withdrawal can be.

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APRIL 1, 2024

The net prices that health plans paid for medicines — after subtracting rebates, discounts, and fees — fell by 2.8% in last year’s fourth quarter, the largest decline ever measured by SSR Health, a research firm that tracks the pharmaceutical industry and its pricing trends.

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APRIL 23, 2024

The genetic data point to a single spillover event that probably occurred in late 2023, Michael Worobey, an evolutionary virologist at the University of Arizona, told STAT on Tuesday. Department of Agriculture. Read the rest…

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AUGUST 8, 2024

Overall, deaths in 2023 were 6.1% It roared into third place in 2020 but has now fallen to 10th place, the National Center for Health Statistics reported Thursday.    Heart disease and cancer remained the first and second leading causes of death, followed by unintentional injuries as No. lower than 2022. Read the rest…

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AUGUST 5, 2024

uninsured rate in 2023 was a record low at the time, but didn’t factor in any of the people who were losing their Medicaid coverage. The national uninsured rate rose from 7.7% Read the rest…

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JANUARY 8, 2024

A persistent theme for health insurance companies throughout 2023 has been their Medicare Advantage members using more care than their actuaries projected, which has been eating into the profits they get from federally funded health care premiums.

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AUGUST 9, 2024

from an assessment of a related virus conducted in April 2023. The new assessment , developed using the CDC’s influenza risk assessment tool or IRAT, gauged the risk the virus might someday cause a pandemic at 5.79, up from a previous score of 5.12 Both numbers are within what the CDC tool terms a “moderate” risk of 4.0

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JUNE 11, 2024

Morris is suing Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital in Warren, Michigan over his April 2023 treatment, alleging racial discrimination and false imprisonment, among other counts. The federal lawsuit , filed on Monday in the Eastern District of Michigan, lists the hospital, a nurse, and a security guard who were involved in the incident.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

After a big 2023, Yoshi Shitaka said the company is banking on gene therapies, KRAS degraders and more to keep the momentum.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Despite widespread promises of reform after the murder of George Floyd in 2020, in 2023, police killed at least 1,246 people — the most in more than a decade. Meanwhile, there is now an historic amount of money flowing through the mental health industry, and the U.S. spends more on mental health services than almost any other nation.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

It’s the first billion-dollar medical device deal of 2024 — a rare occurrence in 2023, which saw just a handful of medtech acquisitions reaching the billion threshold. The device maker bought Apollo Endosurgery , a company selling surgical tools to combat obesity, for $615 million in 2023. The deal is worth $3.7

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

Novavax scored a new COVID vaccine go-ahead for the 2023-24 season, but is it the boost the company needs?

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MAY 15, 2024

drug deaths decreased slightly in 2023, according to new data, the first decrease in five years. Last year saw 107,543 U.S. drug overdose deaths, according to preliminary statistics released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, roughly a 3% drop from 2022. Read the rest…

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