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U.N.: Progress on reducing global maternal mortality has stalled since 2015

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The progress the world has made in reducing maternal mortality has stalled in recent years, with some regions — including Europe and Northern America — backsliding since 2015, according to a new report from United Nations agencies.

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STAT’s Inaugural Diversity Report and Commitment to a Workplace of Diversity and Inclusion

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Here, we share the self-reported gender and racial/ethnic demographics of our staff from STAT’s inception in 2015 through 2022. Snapshot of our findings In 2015, women were underrepresented on staff and in management. The percentage of the entire staff who are people of color has doubled since 2015, growing from 15% to 31%.

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Zuckerberg and Chan announce a New York biohub to build disease-fighting cellular machines

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The new initiative, publicly revealed at the 2023 STAT Summit and previewed exclusively to STAT, is the latest program from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, or CZI, a company the couple founded in 2015 to help cure, prevent, or manage all disease by 2100. Read the rest…

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STAT+: UnitedHealth executive to head health insurance group AHIP

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Notably, UnitedHealth group is not a member of AHIP after the company left in 2015. AHIP has selected Mike Tuffin, who’s currently UnitedHealth’s senior vice president for external affairs and head of U.S. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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STAT+: A Q&A with the CEO of CRISPR Therapeutics on a historic approval and the road ahead

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The former McKinsey partner joined CRISPR Therapeutics in 2015 as its chief business officer. With the approval of Casgevy , the world’s first gene-edited therapy and a potential cure for sickle cell disease, CRISPR Therapeutics won the race. Samarth “Sam” Kulkarni has been there from almost the beginning.

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STAT+: New NIH head says government has fallen behind pharma on clinical trials

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” A Johns Hopkins University study published in 2015 showed that the pharmaceutical industry funds six times more clinical trials than the government. “If you go and look at the number of people who go on pharma-sponsored trials, it’s just this commitment and this increase.”

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STAT+: New insights into how tumor cells hijack brain plasticity to drive cancer

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First reported in Cell in 2015, research led by Stanford neuro-oncologist Michelle Monje showed that active nerve cells could promote the growth of high-grade gliomas, a form of brain cancer with a poor prognosis.

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