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DECEMBER 27, 2023

Philips Respironics, a subsidiary of Philips, allegedly gave out masks from 2016 to 2021. The masks, according to a press release from the Department of Justice, were used to diagnose and treat sleep disorders. The case never went to court. The DOJ says Philips violated the Anti-Kickback Statute as well as the False Claims Act.

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

It joins the original San Francisco Biohub founded in 2016 and a Chicago Biohub founded earlier this year. Read the rest…

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

They’re investing in insurance brokerages, marketers, in-home assessment companies, and “insurtechs,” the report said, based on a new analysis of deals in the space since 2016.

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

I first met Wes Ely in 2016, when I wrote about ICU delirium and Ely’s attempts, as a critical-care physician at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, to urge fellow health care workers to rethink the use of heavy sedation in ICUs. Well, a lot’s happened since 2016.

Hospitals 291

Hospitals 291

STAT

DECEMBER 11, 2023

After his death in 2016, his mother, Paula, launched a campaign to mandate training on intellectual disability and autism for health care workers. A few days later, Oliver suffered a lethal neurological side effect. A week later, he was taken off life support. An inquest into his death found that the drug had led to the rapid deterioration.

Medical Schools 358

Medical Schools Communication Hospitals 358

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The original guidelines , issued in 2016, helped further drive down opioid prescribing levels that had been in decline since 2012, as the country grappled with its legacy of overprescribing that contributed to the overdose epidemic.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

This latest revision, known as the DSM-5-TR, was prepared between 2016 and 2019, and published in 2022. -based physicians who helped assemble a recent revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which is often referred to as the bible of psychiatry.

Pharmaceutical Companies 357

Pharmaceutical Companies Pharmaceutical Companies 357

pharmaphorum

JUNE 27, 2016

As a snapshot, 2014 saw 40,000 tweets and 140m+ impressions over the conference days, 2015 grew to 60,000 tweets and 250m+ impressions and the 2016 buzz is already louder and more plentiful than last year.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The appointment follows a bitter board fight that ended with the departure of Francis deSouza, who had been Illumina’s CEO since 2016. Illumina, the largest maker of DNA-sequencing technology and a storied name in the biotechnology industry, named Jacob Thaysen, a 10-year-veteran at life sciences-tools firm Agilent, as its new CEO.

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DECEMBER 14, 2022

When he was hospitalized in August 2016, hospital staff used a needle to drain 7 liters of fluid from his abdomen. The final years of Carl Hoffer’s life were, in his words, “living hell.” ” His legs were so swollen they’d crack and leak white fluid. Read the rest…

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Hospitals 234

STAT

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In 2016, a trial for a hormonal male birth control pill was halted after men reported side effects including acne and mood swings — though such side effects are also experienced by women on various hormonal contraceptives. Attempts to change the status quo have been scarce and unsuccessful.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Intarcia started developing its lead therapy, a small, skinny bar implanted under the skin, for type 2 diabetes patients in 2016. The agency is not bound to advisory panel decisions, though it tends to follow their advice.

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Diabetes 308

STAT

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Although that annual growth rate is the lowest since 2016, the private plans now catch roughly half of the entire Medicare population. million seniors and people with disabilities are now enrolled in a private Medicare plan, known as Medicare Advantage, according to new federal government data analyzed by STAT. That total is 7.1%

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

Illumina, a storied name that had delivered investors strong returns over two decades, spun out Grail in 2016 in order to raise money to fund the company’s work. The decision opens what should be the final chapter in one of the most disastrous attempted mergers in biotech history. Then, it announced plans to re-acquire the firm for $7.1

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FEBRUARY 12, 2017

The 2016 NAPLEX Pass Rate was posted a little while back. I wasn’t surprised by a drop in the pass rate for 2016. The 2016 NAPLEX Pass Rate and What Went Wrong appeared first on Med Ed 101. What I was surprised by was how BIG the drop in the NAPLEX pass rate was. I wrote a while back about […]. The post Wow.

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JUNE 23, 2023

The study is the most comprehensive Medicaid analysis of opioid addiction to date, analyzing a national claims dataset with 76 million patient data points between 2016 and 2018. A new study published Friday in JAMA Health Forum drives home how lack of access to lifesaving medications could contribute to these preventable deaths.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

WASHINGTON — Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) knew when he hit rock bottom.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In 2016, 340B sales were $16.2 Since it began 30 years ago, the program has ballooned and fed into the national clash over the cost of medicines. Some $44 billion in medicines were purchased under the 340B program in 2021, which was up from $38 billion the previous year. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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Hospitals 271

STAT

JULY 17, 2023

Blue Shield of California evaded $111 million in taxes between 2016 and 2020, according to a complaint that was filed with the Internal Revenue Service on June 27. These claims renew concerns about whether health insurance companies have skirted the tax code and to what extent tax fraud could exist in the industry.

Health Insurance Companies 245

Health Insurance Companies 245

STAT

MAY 11, 2023

Thanks to changes in tax law six years ago, several of the largest pharmaceutical companies saw their tax rates fall substantially, but they also reported that most of their profits were shifted offshore in an effort to avoid paying U.S. taxes, according to a memo by a U.S. Senate Committee. in 2020, down from 19.6%

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Pharmaceutical Companies Pharmaceutical Companies 225

STAT

MARCH 9, 2023

billion over the next few years to be channeled to the Cancer Moonshot, a mission to end cancer that he first launched as vice president in 2016, less than a year after his son Beau’s death from brain cancer. In a long-awaited 2024 budget proposal released Thursday, the president asked for a combined $3.6

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The FDA previously moved to withdraw approval of the antibiotic in 2016 over carcinogenicity , but the manufacturer, Phibro Animal Health, fought the effort by arguing, in part, that its drug is medically necessary.

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JUNE 21, 2023

Her teammate Tianna Madison wrote on Instagram , “THREE (3) of the FOUR (4) of us who ran on the SECOND fastest 4x100m relay of all time, the 2016 Olympic Champions have nearly died or died in childbirth.”

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MARCH 23, 2023

Directly observed  therapy — where a health professional watches someone take a medication — has been the standard of care for tuberculosis treatment in the United States since 2016. Now DOT, as it’s called, has an approved video alternative.

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MAY 9, 2023

It will be the first FDA advisory panel hearing for a Duchenne drug from Sarepta since 2016, when hundreds of patients and family members traveled to the FDA campus in Maryland to plead with experts to authorize an earlier therapy from the company despite limited evidence.

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Pharmacy Joe

MARCH 27, 2024

Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher The CHEST guidelines on venous thromboembolism disease are an invaluable resource, but one flaw that has persisted since 2016 has made referencing the guidelines awkward and inconvenient. Statment 11.2

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Good Therapeutics, a private company that raised just $30 million in venture financing since its 2016 foundation, said Wednesday it had signed a deal to sell itself to Roche for $250 million without ever running a clinical trial.

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

But Bristol stumbled in 2016 when its immunotherapy Opdivo failed to help patients with non-small cell cancer more than chemotherapy. Opdivo remained a big seller, but its failure allowed Merck’s rival Keytruda to move into position to become the best-selling medicine in the world.

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Chemotherapy 298

STAT

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

” The probe covers everything from January 2016 to the present day. attorney general is specifically looking at “communications with AKF, documents relating to donations to the AKF, and communications with patients, providers, and insurers regarding the AKF.” Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The report estimated that there were 287,000 maternal deaths globally in 2020, a slight decrease compared to an estimated 309,000 maternal deaths in 2016. The rate of 223 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2020 meant that, on average, someone died from pregnancy- or childbirth-related issues every two minutes.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Humira’s main patent expired in 2016, but a byzantine patent saga has kept other drugmakers from offering their own version of the monoclonal antibody used to treat conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn’s disease. Humira has been the world’s best-selling medicine since it arrived on the market in 2002.

Biosimilars 225

Biosimilars 225

STAT

JULY 6, 2023

When then-Vice President Biden launched the Cancer Moonshot in 2016, there was reason to be optimistic. Decades of rigorous science had transformed many cancers from a death sentence to a manageable chronic disease. New treatment advances — including gene and cell therapies and immunotherapies — were showing stunning results.

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OCTOBER 5, 2022

After the brain tumor diagnosis in 2016, Gatton would undergo two brain surgeries, radiation treatment, chemotherapy, followed by an embryo transfer that failed. She was rushed to the hospital, where doctors diagnosed the then 29-year-old with a brain tumor.

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Chemotherapy Hospitals 257

STAT

JANUARY 17, 2024

Virginia Mason in Seattle was fatally damaged by the sad end of its decades-long partnership with Group Health in 2016 and is now part of CommonSpirit. Geisinger is only the latest member of an elite group of large regional multispecialty medical groups to lose their independence and join large hospital systems or corporations.

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Hospitals 325

STAT

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Founded in 2016, BehaVR is currently pursuing multiple avenues for commercializing therapeutic virtual reality, including partnerships with Japanese drugmaker Sumitomo Pharma and musculoskeletal care conglomerate Confluent Health.

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Pharmacy Times

JULY 22, 2022

The increase in prescriptions for non-opioid pain medications coincided with a significant drop in opioid prescribing over the same period.

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The Pharmacist

APRIL 24, 2024

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) has published updated patient safety standards to reflect legislative, regulatory, and national developments since the standards’ previous iteration in 2016.

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Community Pharmacies 64