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Measuring the long-term cost of restricting abortion access

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When Diana Greene Foster and her team at the University of California, San Francisco, started their study on the lives of women who were denied abortions in 2008, they sought to investigate a rather commonly held view: That having an abortion hurt women’s mental and physical health, including by leading to PTSD and drug and alcohol use disorder. (..)

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Nurses and health care support workers at higher risk of suicide, study finds

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million employed people (both within the health care field and outside) observed from 2008 to 2019. While other research has examined the incidence of mental health issues and suicide risk among physicians, the same isn’t necessarily true of other health care professions.

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Cross-border ‘twinning programs’ may reduce survival disparities for childhood leukemia

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In 2008, researchers and clinicians at Rady Children’s Hospital, the University of California, San Diego, and Hospital General-Tijuana created one of these twinning programs, where two “sister hospitals” share training, expertise, research, and other resources for the mutual benefit of patients in both countries.

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STAT+: ‘Learning each other’s language’: FDA, patent office seek to work together to lower drug prices

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Patent & Trademark Office granted two more patents, but did not do so until 2008. The move meant that the company, which is now part of Bristol Myers Squibb, won several more years of valuable patent protection than it would have received had it applied for the extra patents when submitting its data to the FDA.

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Mistakes happen in research papers. But corrections often don’t

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Five studies co-authored by Tessier-Lavigne are now under the microscope for containing alleged altered images: a 1999 Cell study , a 2008 paper in the EMBO Journal, a 2003 Nature study, and two studies published in 2001 in Science.

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Discrimination lawsuit against HHMI spotlights barriers faced by scientists with disabilities

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University of Michigan pediatric neurologist Vivian Cheung made a name for herself studying rare genetic diseases, and in 2008 — when she was on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania — was hired as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, an honor for which she received $1 million a year over the next 12 years to further (..)

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STAT+: BioNTech CEO lays out vision for how mRNA and AI can power personalized medicine

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SAN FRANCISCO — When BioNTech was founded in 2008, messenger RNA therapies and vaccines were still an unproven idea. The German company has now shipped out billions of doses of its mRNA Covid-19 vaccine worldwide — and BioNTech’s leaders say that’s just the beginning of a larger revolution in medicine.

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