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Columbia medical school gets $400 million gift to fund long-shot basic research

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  The gift, from Columbia alumni Roy and Diana Vagelos, is the largest single donation given to the school and brings to $900 million the total given to Columbia by the couple since 2010. Roy Vagelos is widely known in medicine as the former chair and CEO of the drugmaker Merck. Read the rest…

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Opinion: Close a regulatory loophole in the ACA to provide vaccine access for all Americans

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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act , (generally known as the ACA), was signed into law in 2010. It expanded access to affordable, quality health care, and today is helping 45 million people — the highest total on record — be covered by health insurance.

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The Themes of The World Pharmacists Day 2010-2020

Pharma Mirror

World Pharmacist Day is celebrated on 25th September every year since 2010 on the day FIP (International Pharmaceutical Federation) started their journey. The post The Themes of The World Pharmacists Day 2010-2020 appeared first on Pharma Mirror Magazine.

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Here’s why we’re not prepared for the next wave of biotech innovation

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It was 2010. I was standing by the Long Island Sound in Sachem’s Head, Conn., in the shadow of an 11-foot-tall granite Stonehenge replica built by Jonathan Rothberg, a biotech entrepreneur, as he talked up his newest gadget, a tabletop DNA sequencer. Read the rest…

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STAT+: Medical device trials still don’t enroll enough women, study finds

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  In a paper published in JAMA Internal Medicine on Monday, researchers found that the percentage of women represented in high-risk medical device trials did not increase from 2010 to 2020. Women generally made up just 33% of participants when the team reviewed 195 trials published from 2016 to 2022.

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STAT+: Peter Orszag wants the FTC and DOJ to stop challenging health care mergers

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He lamented last week how antitrust reviewers at Lina Khan’s Federal Trade Commission and Jonathan Kanter’s Antitrust Division at the Department of Justice are increasingly thwarting or stalling deals that have proliferated since the law went into effect in 2010.    Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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STAT+: Former medical device CEO who sold fake plastic parts sentenced to 6 years in prison

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Perryman led the company from 2010 to 2019.  Under CEO Laura Perryman’s leadership, the company warped the design of their devices to earn more reimbursement money from insurers, resulting in unnecessary plastic parts that allowed doctors to claim around $18,000 more than they previously could. attorney Damian Williams.

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