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MAY 6, 2025

DeSalvo, who likes to introduce herself as Dr. Karen, joined Google in 2019 and became the face of the company’s health efforts in 2021 when VP of health David Feinberg left to join EHR company Cerner (Now part of Oracle Health).   Sign up to get it  delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Around 6% of middle and high school students used vapes in 2024, down from 8% last year, and a record high of 20% in 2019, according to a survey released Thursday by the FDA and the CDC. The number of U.S. The vape brand Juul fueled this surge, but has since receded in popularity after FDA actions and legal challenges.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

After his son Michael was diagnosed with a devastating, ultra-rare disease in 2019, Terry Pirovolakis dedicated himself to eradicating it.    Pirovolakis, a Canadian IT director, recruited academics and raised $3 million to design a gene therapy.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

More than 100,000 doctors have  left private practice  and become employees of hospitals and other corporate entities since 2019. Today, nearly  three in four physicians  are employees of larger health care entities or other corporations — a record high.

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

  Laura Perryman led Stimwave, which sold nerve stimulation devices to combat pain, from 2010 to 2019, when the fraud came to light. The Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday charged the former CEO of Stimwave, a company that sold devices containing dummy pieces of plastic, with defrauding investors out of $41 million. 

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AUGUST 21, 2024

Megan Hanson was eight weeks pregnant in 2019 when she experienced a miscarriage — her sixth consecutive loss in as many years. It felt particularly cruel after a second IVF transfer.

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MARCH 13, 2023

Meanwhile, medical notes in June 2019 showed Walter’s pain was maxing out the scales and that she could not dress herself, go to the bathroom, or even push a walker without help. Read the rest…

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JANUARY 12, 2023

Vaccinations among children remain high, but the trend — with coverage dropping from about 95% in the 2019-2020 school year to 94% in 2020-2021 to 93% in 2021-2022, according to the data released Thursday — has health officials concerned. The percentage of U.S.

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

Contractors in England are currently working under the terms of a contractual framework agreed in 2019, that expired in March this year. Negotiations for the community pharmacy contract in England will not begin until next year, pharmacy minister Stephen Kinnock has confirmed.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

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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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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MARCH 7, 2024

Laura Perryman led Stimwave, which sold nerve stimulation devices to combat pain, from 2010 to 2019. STAT published new details about the Stimwave story in May, after former employees described how Perryman broke into Stimwave’s Florida headquarters to steal back devices after her termination in 2019.

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

  Narayan, a professor of computer science at Princeton University, went viral in 2019 for a talk he gave at MIT on how to recognize overblown declarations about AI’s capabilities. Now he’s teamed up with his Ph.D. student Kapoor to publish the book “ AI Snake Oil ,” which came out Sep.

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JULY 17, 2024

Merdad Parsey, who joined Gilead in 2019, will stay in his post until the first quarter of next year as the company looks for a successor, Gilead said in a press release Wednesday. Gilead has faced multiple setbacks in its attempt to move away from its stronghold in virology and into other areas like cancer.

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OCTOBER 1, 2024

Performed by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, the study found that between 2012 and 2019, 8.8% . Now, a data analysis commissioned by STAT shows that the rate of postpartum sterilization is significantly higher in Americans with sickle cell disease than in those without. of births to unaffected mothers did.

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MAY 24, 2023

Over the last few years, Daniel Cleggett Jr. appeared to be living a charmed life.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

You know that part of “Little Women” (2019) when Jo says “I can’t believe that childhood is over,” while collapsed on the ground at her sister’s feet? Want to stay on top of health news?    Sign up  to get our Morning Rounds newsletter in your inbox. Good morning!

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APRIL 17, 2024

Results shared this week by the New Nets Project, an initiative funded by Unitaid and the Global Fund, highlighted a pair of second-generation bed nets tested in endemic areas between 2019 and 2022.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

year-on-year in 2023 and prescribing levels are now in line with those seen in 2019, according to national surveillance data published by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). Antibiotic use rose by 2.4%

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AUGUST 1, 2023

Curaleaf, one the largest cannabis companies in the world, spent nearly 40% less on lobbying in the first half of 2023 than it did at its peak in 2019. Together, their spending on advocacy has dipped by more than 50% since 2019, back when federal weed lobbying was at its height. Read the rest…

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The organization looked at four blockbuster drugs — Humira, Avastin, Rituxan, and Lantus — that had biosimilars launched between 2019 and 2023. years of unchallenged market presence.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The short history of CRISPR gene editing in humans has, with rare exception, been a history of triumphant progress: A patient apparently cured of sickle cell in 2019, six patients with toxic DNA knocked out of their liver last year, another six patients with a different strand of toxic liver DNA knocked out last week.  

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JULY 24, 2024

In January 2019, provincial health authorities found that He’s human CRISPR experiments violated national regulations against gene-editing for reproductive purposes.

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OCTOBER 25, 2023

The researchers examined Medicare beneficiaries who were diagnosed with cancer and received treatment from 2014 through 2019. Overall, the proportion of patients who were prescribed so-called low-value drugs was higher when their oncologist accepted industry payments, according to the study, published in the BMJ.

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JUNE 28, 2023

The 26,000-person, Phase 3 study, set to begin next year, will test a vaccine known as M72/AS01 that showed promising results from a smaller trial in 2019. The Gates Foundation unveiled plans Wednesday to fund a long-awaited trial for what, if proven effective, would be the first new tuberculosis vaccine in over a century.

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JUNE 4, 2024

This was also the highest rate of product discontinuations since 2019. These low prices also translated into more product discontinuations, which rose by 40% from 2022 to 2023, and from 100 drugs to 140 during that time. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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JANUARY 10, 2023

The Food and Drug Administration approved 378 new drugs between 2010 and 2019, a big chunk of which were cancer medicines. Biotechnology companies played a big role in developing many of these new treatments, and their successes could partly be seen in the stock market, where biotech stocks soared.

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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.

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

A company called Bluebird Bio won European approval in 2019 for a gene therapy for thalassemia, a cutting-edge medicine that involves delivering a healthy copy of the gene that’s mutated in patients directly into their cells. A few years ago, the chance for a post-thalassemia life seemed within reach.

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

Research dating back to the early 2000s has shown that ketamine and esketamine — which is derived from ketamine — are effective in cases of so-called treatment-resistant depression, and the nasal spray version of the drug was specifically approved for this indication in 2019. Read the rest…

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

drug supply are still struggling to get back to where they were in 2019, before the  Covid-19 pandemic  upended  factory inspections in the U.S.  and Federal regulators responsible for the safety of the U.S.  and across the world, The Associated Press has found.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The regulatory uncertainty adds to the many challenges dogging young health tech ventures today: Last year investments in digital health startups shriveled to their lowest annual total since 2019, and leaders are desperate to preserve what little funds they have, including through layoffs. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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APRIL 5, 2024

The company earned its first clearance from the Food and Drug Administration in 2016 , and went public in 2019 at a share price of $17.  According to a press statement, Shockwave has treated 400,000 patients with this method globally.

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OCTOBER 8, 2024

The law, which was enacted in 2019, was designed to ensure that pharmacy benefit managers maintain access to a large number of pharmacies and do not steer patients to favored outlets, among other things.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Formed through a 2019 merger and headquartered in Chicago, CommonSpirit is one of the country’s largest not-for-profit health systems, with north of 140 hospitals. CommonSpirit Health keeps adding more hospitals — and billions in new debt — even as it bleeds money. billion on operations in the past two years.

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MARCH 31, 2023

Indeed, academic inventors or founders contributed to more than one-quarter of all medicines approved from 2001 through 2019. Academia can be an excellent source of novel drug targets and new technologies that can enhance medicinal discovery. Yet many sponsored research collaborations that hope to tap into academia fail.

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MARCH 25, 2024

a decade after the chain announced it would implement a “No Antibiotics Ever” policy by 2019.  The change will occur this spring at the slightly more than 3,000 Chick-fil-A locations around the U.S, The move comes amid changes by key suppliers.

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