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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

And that’s about all they said. The offers will not be made public unless a manufacturer chooses to publicly disclose information about the talks, a senior administration official said. Companies have until March 2 to either accept the government’s offer or propose a counteroffer.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

trillion in federal and state health care expenditures in 2022 — about 41% of the nearly $4.5 trillion in both public and private health care spending the U.S. trillion, third-party programs, which are often government-funded, and public health programs accounted for another $600 billion in spending. On top of that $1.8

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MARCH 6, 2024

On Sunday, public health officials in two Michigan counties warned their residents that they may have been exposed to measles. Read the rest…

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MAY 7, 2024

At the end of the official public health emergency, Congress extended flexibilities that changed where and what kinds of care people could receive over telehealth, but those rules are set to expire at the end of the year. Telehealth use by Medicare enrollees remains above pre-pandemic levels for many specialities.

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MARCH 6, 2024

What makes for good public health guidance? That’s the conversation I was having with a colleague in her 40s railing against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s erstwhile guidance about alcohol consumption for women of “childbearing” years. That’s more than 77 million women in the U.S.

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

When Leena Danawala’s poetry was published in JAMA last month, the medical journal became just about the only place online to publicly showcase her art. Danawala, a 34-year-old rheumatologist in the Chicago area, had been writing poetry for over a decade but only posted about it occasionally on her Instagram.

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APRIL 28, 2024

The Food and Drug Administration, informed about the imbalance in severe cancer progressions, issued a warning letter to all physicians involved in the study, and is said to be monitoring the situation. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because the cases have not been reported publicly.

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MARCH 21, 2024

The adverse childhood experience (ACE) questionnaire has become a critical part of public health. However, the questionnaire is now outdated because it fails to ask about childhood exposure to gun violence. However, the questionnaire is now outdated because it fails to ask about childhood exposure to gun violence.

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MAY 9, 2024

Weeks after the global public health community sounded the alarm on the shortage of cholera vaccine, the World Health Organization moved to prequalify a new cholera vaccine last month. The vaccine is a simplified version of the two existing oral vaccines, both produced by Korean vaccine manufacturer EuBiologics Co.

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MARCH 18, 2024

I was wrong about Geron. For years, I’ve believed — and declared publicly — that Geron’s effort to develop a blood cancer drug called imetelstat would end in disappointment. The drug was never getting approved , I said. The strong endorsement makes an FDA approval highly likely.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

than ever, but little is known about the unique health challenges they may face. In a paper published Wednesday in JAMA Cardiology , a group of cardiologists write that there is an urgent need to begin collecting SOGIE data more systematically across electronic health records, public databases, registries, and clinical trials.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

Federal health technology regulators on Wednesday finalized new rules to force software vendors to disclose how artificial intelligence tools are trained, developed, and tested — a move to protect patients against biased and harmful decisions about their care. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Beyond complaining about price controls and unconstitutional mandates, the key message aimed at the American public has been that innovation will suffer. Ever since Medicare was given power to negotiate prices for certain medicines, the pharmaceutical industry has argued the move will end badly for patients.

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MARCH 20, 2024

  The immuno-oncology firm had just managed to weather the stormy public markets, which had battered its valuation. But within a few months, Ross, an oncologist who previously worked at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute before working at cancer startups like Surface and Bluebird Bio, heard about a startup that grabbed his attention.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

Every day, thousands of individuals across the United States call 911 due to concern about someone who is intoxicated in public. Their concern is warranted: The potential harms from public intoxication are significant. Yet, the number of people brought to the emergency department and to jail increases annually.

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JUNE 21, 2023

For years, public health guidance about opioid overdoses has been relatively simple: Administer naloxone , then call 911. But the days of simply spraying naloxone into an overdose victim’s nose, then watching that person resume breathing and wake up within minutes, are over. Read the rest…

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JUNE 6, 2023

Now that the Covid-19 public health emergency has ended, it’s awfully tempting to put the pandemic firmly behind us. But now is the time to look at what we have learned so that our public health communication can be more clear, consistent, and effective from now on. Read the rest…

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JUNE 30, 2023

The five cases of malaria diagnosed in Florida and Texas in recent weeks — the first cases of local transmission in the United States in 20 years — have worried some residents and led state and federal officials to issue public alerts about the cluster of infections. Read the rest…

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In an unusual step, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) confirmed it has opened an investigation into the Covid-19 contracts signed by the European Union, a move that comes shortly after numerous members of the European Parliament harshly criticized a lack of transparency surrounding an agreement with Pfizer.

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JANUARY 6, 2024

STAT now publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to First Opinion essays to encourage robust, good-faith discussion about difficult issues. Submit a Letter to the Editor  here , or find the submission form at the end of any First Opinion essay. Read the rest…

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan think tank, asked a random sample of 8,842 American adults this fall about their views on science and scientists. America’s trust in scientists and positive views of science has continued to decline, according to a new report. Read the rest…

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Doing so creates an incredibly rich database of information about the human brain for scientists to query in order to uncover how our brains work when we are healthy and go awry when we are sick. As part of its reporting on Mount Sinai and the Living Brain Project, STAT sent a list of written questions to Mount Sinai.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

Manil Suri and Daniel Morgan are an unusual team: Manil is a mathematics professor and author (of both fiction and nonfiction ), while Daniel is a physician and professor of epidemiology, public health, and infectious diseases. Read the rest…

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JANUARY 22, 2024

BOSTON — Doctors often don’t have a lot of time to chat with patients during medical appointments — which means that conversations about nutrition can wind up taking a backseat to other concerns. But during a recent weeklong course at Harvard T.H. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

is about to have not just one, but two, standalone publicly-traded oncology providers. Florida-based American Oncology Network, a company with more than 100 affiliated doctors across 18 states, announced last week it plans to go public. The news comes about a year after another large oncology provider chain hit the stock market.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

The decision by the executives came after a public pressure campaign by Sanders to get the two executives and Bristol Myers Squibb CEO Chris Boerner to testify about why prices for their drugs are higher in the United States than in other countries. 31, but canceled it on Friday. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Three years ago, Jamie Lin, an early-career nephrologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center, made findings that could potentially help both save the kidneys of cancer patients and propel her career as a physician-scientist hoping to one day run her own lab. “I’m sure that my career in research has just fallen off a cliff.”

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RayzeBio, which raised about $350 million in a September initial public offering, is working in radiopharmaceuticals , which pair the tumor-killing power of radiation with the precision of targeted cancer therapies. Bristol Myers Squibb will pay $4.1 Bristol Myers will pay $62.50 Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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On Thursday, at a press briefing at which they presented their 2023 earnings, AstraZeneca executives also played coy about the bargaining over the price of the company’s diabetes drug Farxiga. But neither government officials nor drugmakers are wanting to show their cards, at least publicly.

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APRIL 27, 2023

In public, hospitals rave about artificial intelligence. They trumpet the technology in press releases, plaster its use on billboards, and sprinkle AI into speeches touting its ability to detect diseases earlier and make health care faster, better, and cheaper. Read the rest…

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Generative AI could be a revolution in health care — but along the way, it will have to address concerns about whether tools meet standards of safety, privacy, equity, and practicality.   Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Although shortages are not new, the number of drugs in short supply has grown steadily for about two years. Although shortages are not new, the number of drugs in short supply has grown steadily for about two years. Shortages also have become more difficult to predict and are affecting drugs that are more critical.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Although the official statement did not include the particular type of cancer, it closed by noting that, “His Majesty has chosen to share his diagnosis to prevent speculation and in the hope it may assist public understanding for all those around the world who are affected by cancer. Read the rest…

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MAY 18, 2023

As the deans of the two public medical schools in Nevada, we are watching with pride as our recent graduates prepare to start their internships. But that pride is tempered by concern about a looming threat to the delivery of medical care in our state. Read the rest…

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Medicare officials made a clear statement four years ago about how best to audit the country’s Medicare Advantage insurers: Failing to take back all overpayments “would be contrary to the public interest.” The amount of taxpayer money that insurers will get to keep because of that decision: $2 billion.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine.  You’re reading the web edition of D.C.   Sign up here  to receive it in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Sanders (I-Vt.) is publicly continuing his pressure campaign with a press conference today.

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APRIL 23, 2024

The settlement was announced earlier this month, but the amount was not made public at that time. But the relatively modest settlement should please Sanofi investors, who worried about the financial fallout of thousands of U.S. Top of the morning to you, and a fine one it is. Please feel free to join us. Last week, the U.S.

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