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STAT+: A new PIPE lawsuit challenges the fairness of sharing confidential, stock-moving information

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The fairness of PIPEs, particularly the preferential sharing of confidential, stock-moving information, is now a legal question.   Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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Opinion: Done right, AI can give patients crucial information on the quality of their care

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Yet even as AI is providing doctors with increasingly sophisticated data, the information available to patients has stagnated. Whether you have cancer, need a knee replacement, or face serious heart surgery, reliable comparative information is difficult to find and use. And what is available is often years old. Read the rest…

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Opinion: STAT+: Some countries are moving to digital prescription drug information for patients. The U.S. shouldn’t follow suit

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Having all of these details in accessible, printed documents keeps patients informed and mitigates the risk of medication errors. However, there’s a growing movement across the world to eliminate printed medication information, making it harder for patients to learn about the drugs that, in many cases, save their lives.

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STAT+: FTC says pharmacy benefit managers are stonewalling requests for information

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A much-anticipated inquiry by U.S. antitrust regulators into pharmaceutical industry middlemen has been stymied because the companies have failed to provide many of the documents that, in some cases, were requested as far back as June 2022.

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Opinion: Patients might finally receive practical information with prescriptions — if the FDA doesn’t blow it

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After years of deliberation, the FDA has proposed giving patients a simple one-pager for every prescription drug with the information needed for safe and effective use. The Food and Drug Administration knows many of the answers. It wants patients to know them, too.

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Opinion: I grew up in one of Africa’s largest informal settlements. Now I’m helping heal it

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In 2001, at the age of 13, I had come to Kenya’s largest informal settlement on the outskirts of Nairobi with my sister. I had only lived in Kibera for 15 minutes when I saw a police officer and was arrested. But it would be years before I saw a real doctor. When we arrived at 3 a.m.,

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GoodRx leaked sensitive health information to Facebook and Google, FTC alleges

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The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday accused GoodRx, the prescription drug discount platform, of sharing sensitive personal information about its users’ prescriptions and health conditions with big tech companies. GoodRx, which also runs a marketplace for telehealth services, agreed to pay a $1.5

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