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STAT+: Drug shortages reached a record high as 2023 drew to a close

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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. The number of ongoing and active drug shortages in the U.S.

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Opinion: I grew up in one of Africa’s largest informal settlements. Now I’m helping heal it

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In 2001, at the age of 13, I had come to Kenya’s largest informal settlement on the outskirts of Nairobi with my sister. I had only lived in Kibera for 15 minutes when I saw a police officer and was arrested. But it would be years before I saw a real doctor. When we arrived at 3 a.m.,

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REGiMMUNE Entered into a License Agreement with San Fu Biotech to Develop and Commercialize RGI-2001 for the Prophylaxis of Acute Graft-Versus-Host Disease

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REGiMMUNE’s RGI-2001 is currently in P-III trial for the prophylaxis of aGVHD Ref: Businesswire | Image: Regimmune Related News:- Omega Therapeutics Entered into a Clinical Supply Agreement with Roche to Evaluate OTX-2002 for Hepatocellular Carcinoma

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Suicides and homicides among young Americans jumped early in the pandemic, study says

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report examined the homicide and suicide rates among 10- to 24-year-olds from 2001 to 2021. The homicide rate for older U.S. Read the rest…

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Half of people worldwide at risk of developing mental health condition by age 75, per new study

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The study, published last week in The Lancet Psychiatry , analyzed answers that participants provided between 2001 and 2022 in response to a World Health Organization survey designed to assess the prevalence of major mental health disorders.

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Opinion: STAT+: A California court is setting a dangerous precedent over drug development (or lack thereof) liability

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In 2001, Gilead secured FDA approval of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF), one of first medicines to treat HIV — a product still on the market, despite the potential side effect of causing skeletal and kidney damage.

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Opinion: STAT+: 3 keys to successful biopharma-academia drug development collaborations

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Indeed, academic inventors or founders contributed to more than one-quarter of all medicines approved from 2001 through 2019. Academia can be an excellent source of novel drug targets and new technologies that can enhance medicinal discovery. Yet many sponsored research collaborations that hope to tap into academia fail.