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STAT+: Why a British hospital, and not a drugmaker, is trying to get a rare disease therapy approved

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Now, in an unusual step, the hospital where she works is trying to get the medicine approved on its own. LONDON — Claire Booth, a gene therapy researcher in London, had hoped that a biotech company would take her team’s work on an experimental medication for an ultra-rare children’s disease and get it to market.

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STAT+: Congressional probe questions clinical trials run in China, citing Army involvement

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biopharmaceutical companies conducted clinical trials with China’s military organizations, and specifically with medical centers and hospitals affiliated with the People’s Liberation Army’s,” according to an Aug. 19 letter that the House China committee sent to the Food and Drug Administration. 

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STAT+: For-profit hospitals are getting a boost from a flood of patients

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You’re reading the web version of Health Care Inc.,    STAT’s weekly newsletter  following the flow of money in medicine.    Sign up  to get it in your inbox every Monday. Inside UnitedHealth’s physician empire UnitedHealth Group is everywhere.

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STAT+: Pharmacists can make shortage drugs, but at what cost?

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Pharmacists increasingly are being asked to make drugs in bulk for hospitals that are in short supply, and they’re even beginning to make chemotherapies. Hospitals’ reliance on pharmacist-made drugs, a practice called compounding, has risen in step with worsening drug shortages.

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STAT+: FDA panel unanimously endorses Eisai’s Alzheimer’s drug

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“I thought the clinical results were robust,” said Merit Cudkowicz, a neurologist from Massachusetts General Hospital and one of the experts invited to review Leqembi. The agency, which is not required to follow the suggestions of its advisers, is expected to make a final decision on Leqembi by July 6.

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Capturing transporter structure paves the way for drug development

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Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center studied the structure and function of a transporter involved in cancer and immunity. The findings, published in Cell, have implications for drug development. The findings, published in Cell, have implications for drug development.

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