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Apple Watch can help track Parkinson’s disease symptoms, research shows
Apple’s quest to put a smartwatch on every wrist continues with its latest health research: a new study showing the Apple Watch can be used...
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Opinion: Kids don’t need Covid-19 vaccines to return to school
The notion is out there that public school students should not return to in-person learning until they’ve been vaccinated. That...
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STAT+: Pharmalittle: GSK to partner with CureVac on Covid-19 vaccine; Jazz to buy GW Pharma in $7.2 billion deal
Hello, everyone, and welcome to the middle of the week. Congratulations on making it this far and remember there are only a few more days until...
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Jazz Pharma to acquire GW Pharma for $7.2 billion, adding CBD-based treatment for severe epilepsy
Jazz Pharmaceuticals said Wednesday that it is acquiring GW Pharma, adding an approved childhood epilepsy medicine derived from marijuana to its...
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Opinion: Community health centers can help stamp out Covid-19
“I f you are having difficulty breathing, go to an emergency room or call 911.” This previously routine advisory made its last...
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Opinion: Debt from attending an elite medical school shouldn’t keep new doctors from working in underserved areas
A medical degree from one of America’s elite private medical schools adds prestige to a new doctor’s resume. But it can also come...
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STAT+: Explore STAT’s database of FDA-cleared AI tools
The Food and Drug Administration has cleared scores of AI tools for use in the clinic, but there remains little publicly available data on how...
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STAT+: As the FDA clears a flood of AI tools, missing data raise troubling questions on safety and fairness
A rtificial intelligence is the fastest-growing frontier in medicine, but it is also among the most lawless. U.S. regulators have approved...
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STAT+: Biden administration pumps brakes on signature Trump drug pricing proposal
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has agreed to delay for a year the implementation of one of President Trump’s signature drug...
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A viral mystery: Can one infection prevent another?
In September 2009, the H1N1 swine flu had arrived in Portugal, Spain, and the UK, so France braced itself for cases of the infection. Indeed,...
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Trump officials actively lobbied to deny states money for vaccine rollout last fall
WASHINGTON — Top Trump officials actively lobbied Congress to deny state governments any extra funding for the Covid-19 vaccine rollout...
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Additional Covid-19 vaccines bring choices — and complications — to the rollout
It’s always good for consumers to have options, right? And indeed, the United States should soon have three Covid-19 vaccines being...
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STAT+: Pharmalittle: J&J and Novavax vaccines are effective to varying degrees; FDA delays decision on Biogen Alzheimer’s drug
And so, another working week will soon draw to a close. Not a moment too soon, yes? This is, you may recall, our treasured signal to daydream...
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J&J one-dose Covid vaccine is 66% effective, a weapon but not a knockout punch
Johnson & Johnson said Friday that its single-dose Covid-19 vaccine reduced rates of moderate and severe disease, but the shot appeared less...
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STAT+: FDA delays approval decision for Biogen’s Alzheimer’s treatment
The Food and Drug Administration is delaying its decision on Biogen’s closely watched Alzheimer’s drug aducanumab, requesting more...
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Opinion: Decentralized clinical trials: Collaboration is needed to drive their adoption and impact
Despite groundbreaking advances in basic and clinical science and technology, clinical trial methods have not kept up with the pace of change and...
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Science communication in the Covid-19 era is a brave new world, for better and worse
Before 2020, the biggest debates in science communication were often about balancing hope and hype when it came to novel discoveries. The Covid-19...
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Pediatricians pivot to vaccines on the go as immunization rates drop during the pandemic
At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Eileen Costello, the chief of ambulatory pediatrics at Boston Medical Center, had been forced to reduce...
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‘Our top headache’: How data collection is posing new challenges in the Covid-19 vaccination effort
After a long day of doling out Covid-19 vaccines, workers in Utah County toil late into the night entering data on every single dose. What they...
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Listen: J&J’s imminent vaccine data, CRISPR’s confusing boom, and navigating scientific misinformation
When are we getting more Covid-19 vaccine data? Is CRISPR having a dot-com moment? And how to separate disinformation from healthy dissent? We...
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Novavax says its Covid-19 vaccine is 90% effective, but far less so against one variant
A Covid-19 vaccine from Novavax proved nearly 90% effective in preliminary results from a key clinical trial in the United Kingdom, the company...
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STAT+: ‘A milestone in oncology’: Amgen’s KRAS-blocking drug proves effective for lung cancer patients in clinical trial
A drug from Amgen designed to block the cancer protein known as KRAS shrank tumors in 37% of patients with advanced lung cancer and delayed tumor...
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Having pandemic panic attacks about virus variants? National preparation is the cure
The most frightening aspect of a pandemic, on a primal level, involves the emergence of new strains. If you were writing a thriller about a...
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South Carolina identifies the first U.S. cases of coronavirus variant first seen in South Africa
Health authorities have identified the first U.S. cases of Covid-19 caused by a fast-spreading form of the coronavirus initially seen in South...
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Virtual event: Preventing a black market for Covid-19 vaccines
Editor’s note: A recording of this event is embedded below. Some experts say that it is inevitable that the rich and powerful...