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OCTOBER 26, 2023

Researchers compared survey data from 2018 and 2022, finding that health workers experienced poorer mental health outcomes post-pandemic. Of those surveyed, 46% of health workers reported feeling burnout often or very often in 2022, compared to 32% in 2018. Read the rest…

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

Whichever the case, product recalls by the Food and Drug Administration and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) more than doubled between 2018 and 2022, according to new research published on Wednesday by life sciences software company MasterControl. In 2018, the agency only recalled 22 products. In 2022, it recalled 310.

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MAY 14, 2024

WASHINGTON — On a bright June day in 2018, one of the nation’s top regulators waved groceries in the air, quizzing the secretary of agriculture on which agency is charged with monitoring different types of food.

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JUNE 13, 2024

” So read the headline of a front-page story in The New York Times in 2018 on a dramatic step Chile was taking to fight obesity. “In Sweeping War on Obesity, Chile slays Tony the Tiger.”

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JUNE 3, 2024

Other countries recognized the problem earlier: the United Kingdom appointed a minister for loneliness in 2018; Japan did the same in 2021. It’s been one year since the U.S. surgeon general issued a national warning about an epidemic of loneliness.

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JULY 5, 2024

million patients with type 2 diabetes from 2005 to 2018 who were prescribed GLP-1s, insulin, or metformin. New research finds that the GLP-1 class of drugs — glucagon-like peptide receptor agonists — is more effective in mitigating the risk of 10 obesity-associated cancers than its type 2 diabetes drug alternatives.

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APRIL 18, 2018

The 2018 NAPLEX Exam is coming for some of you and I’m sure if you are anything like me, you have a mix of excitement, nervousness, and fear! I’ve been working diligently to update my 2018 NAPLEX practice exams and thought I’d share some ideas on preparing for and taking the NAPLEX exam. I get […].

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NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Overdose deaths among pregnant or postpartum people skyrocketed between 2018 and 2021, according to new research published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Documents released this week shed new light on an aggressive strategy from vape maker Juul to court Black leaders, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, to publicly support its e-cigarettes.

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JUNE 7, 2024

They estimated that somewhere between 52,480 and 55,710 people in California died prematurely between 2008-2018 due to chronic exposure to the dangerous particulate matter in wildfire smoke. In a paper published Friday in Science Advances , researchers at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health tried to chip away at that knowledge gap.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

In late 2018, ACC and AHA came out with an update to their cholesterol guidelines. The post My Biggest Takeaway from the 2018 Cholesterol Guidelines appeared first on Med Ed 101. The post My Biggest Takeaway from the 2018 Cholesterol Guidelines appeared first on Med Ed 101.

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JULY 5, 2024

One night in November 2018, I fell while crossing a street in Subic Bay, a U.S. naval logistics station in The Philippines. My face whacked the asphalt. Lying in the path of oncoming traffic, I couldn’t move a muscle. After 45 seconds of terror, I was able to stand up and haul myself to the other side.

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JANUARY 3, 2018

I literally got the email this morning that a majority of senators support the 2018 Pharmacist Provider Status legislation! Dr. Jaclyn Boyle was kind enough to share some insight on 2018 Pharmacist Provider Status progress in the article below. This happens to be an incredibly timely post from an expert on provider status.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

For now, the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services will no longer require drug companies to compile annual reports on price increases, a key feature of a transparency law that was enacted in 2018. The reporting requirements stem from a pair of laws that were enacted in 2018 and 2019. However, a U.S.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

WASHINGTON — A new trove of internal emails and other documents from the e-cigarette maker Juul reveals the company’s extensive behind-the-scenes efforts to promote its interests in Washington — a rare insight into the otherwise opaque methods corporations use to influence the government.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

  The proposal would reauthorize a number of programs first created by the SUPPORT Act, an addiction-focused bill that Congress first passed in 2018.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

But since Verve Therapeutics was founded in 2018, it’s had a wider aperture: using the molecular tools of genome editing to go after the most common cause of death in the world. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco this week.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2018

In the video above I break down some examples of deficiencies that have already happened here in 2018. The post 2018 Consultant Pharmacy Nursing Home Survey Deficiencies appeared first on Med Ed 101. You can find the most up to date deficiency reports on the Minnesota Department of Health website.

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APRIL 18, 2024

The biotech is also being led by Spark Therapeutics co-founder Steven Altschuler, who joined Ziff Capital in 2018 as its managing director of health care ventures. Corner Therapeutics’ Series A round was led by Ziff Capital Partners, a little-known family office started by billionaire Dirk Ziff.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2018

As of October 1st, 2018, there has been a big update in long term care. The post Section N MDS – Drug Regimen Review October 2018 Updates appeared first on Med Ed 101. The post Section N MDS – Drug Regimen Review October 2018 Updates appeared first on Med Ed 101. CMS will begin tracking this new quality measure.

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JULY 24, 2024

Jiankui He, the Chinese scientist who s parked a global uproar in 2018 when he revealed he had created the first gene-edited children , is again out on his own after being dismissed from an academic post.

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MAY 6, 2024

Abrams, a frequent commentator about vaping in the news media, including CBS This Morning, CNN, and The New Yorker, coordinated extensively with Juul on public messaging in 2017 and 2018, according to company emails.

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AUGUST 31, 2023

The first miscarriage happened in June 2018, almost as soon as she found out she was pregnant. — By the time Taylor Teske came to be sitting on an exam table in an obstetrician’s office in Minnesota, her medical records marked a devastating journey: nine pregnancies, one baby, eight miscarriages.

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MAY 1, 2024

The company, which absorbed the health insurer Aetna in 2018, marketed its Medicare Advantage plans aggressively last year and expanded its geographic reach more than any insurer. CVS’ operating income fell by 34% — roughly $1.2 Now, that strategy is proving a detriment to its bottom line.

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MAY 15, 2024

In a 2018 survey, 45% of respondents managing diabetes reported having intentionally foregone insulin treatment for a period because of the financial burden. Many avoid or ration their treatment because of the high cost. Each new generation of insulin products has been marked by an increase in price.

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JANUARY 7, 2024

Insitro, a South San Francisco firm, was founded in 2018 by Daphne Koller, who had previously been a Stanford professor, a 2004 MacArthur “genius” grant recipient, and the co-founder and co-CEO of the online course company Coursera. But in biotech, one of the most well-funded AI players has been quiet.

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MARCH 12, 2024

Delta 8 THC is a quasi-legal psychoactive version of cannabis, which has skyrocketed in popularity after a loophole found in a 2018 federal law allowed it to be sold nationwide without the same restrictions placed on traditional marijuana.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

At Amgen, where he’s led drug research and development since 2018, Reese said this moment has finally arrived. David Reese calls it a “hinge moment” — the turning point when biotech and big tech merge to attack human disease with artificial intelligence.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

 In 2018, research found that obesity is the No. Estimates indicate that treating obesity will be expensive, but those sums pale in comparison to the estimated direct and indirect costs of $1.7 trillion that obesity places on the U.S. health care system today. In 2 cause of preventable death in the United States.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

In 2018, we came together across party lines to pass the SUPPORT Act, which established vital infrastructure for communities in New Hampshire and across the country to treat addiction, help people recover, and prevent substance misuse in the first place.

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APRIL 11, 2024

That care, the medical board charged in 2018, was negligent: Anh didn’t collect vital signs, get a reliable medical history, or otherwise verify that his patients were actually sick and needed antibiotics. Another undercover investigator, “Mary Peters,” got antibiotics for a nonexistent urinary tract infection.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Generate was founded in 2018 by venture-creation firm Flagship Pioneering to use machine learning algorithms to identify antibodies, peptides, cell therapies, and other medicines. It launched its first clinical trial in July for a Covid monoclonal antibody, and is working on starting another clinical trial for an asthma treatment.

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JULY 18, 2018

The post BCGP Pass Rate for Spring 2018 = 43%?!? I had a request from a follower to comment on this given the recent drop in the BCGP pass rate. The BCGP credential has switched over to the BPS umbrella now. Prior to the switch, pass rates were around the […]. What Gives? appeared first on Med Ed 101.

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JULY 19, 2024

He joined the company in 2018 and, most recently, was senior vice president of drug discovery. And here is our regular feature in which we highlight a different person each week. This time around, we note that  Nuvalent promoted Henry Pelish as chief scientific officer. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Even before the Covid pandemic, a 2018 paper reported that new genetic tests, many of them for increasingly rare conditions, were being released at the rate of 10 a day. You can now avail yourself of noninvasive diagnostics that claim to screen for rare birth defects, cancer-associated mutations, and even Alzheimer’s.

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DECEMBER 16, 2018

I was unable to attend ASHP Midyear 2018 and was honestly a little sad about it. The post Some Midyear Magic: A quick recap of ASHP Midyear 2018 Conference, Anaheim, CA appeared first on Med Ed 101. The post Some Midyear Magic: A quick recap of ASHP Midyear 2018 Conference, Anaheim, CA appeared first on Med Ed 101.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Frustrated by drug shortages and the price spikes that typically ensue, executives from large hospital systems launched the nonprofit Civica Rx to deal with the problem in September 2018. Months later, the publicly traded group purchasing organization Premier created a subsidiary , ProvideGx, with the same aim.

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