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STAT+: Pharmalittle: Activist investor targets Cardinal Health; 340B drug sales rose to $44 billion last year
Top of the morning to you, and a fine one it is. Crystal clear blue skies and cool breezes are wafting about the Pharmalot campus, where the short...
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STAT+: Merck, a loser in the Covid vaccine race, reinvests in mRNA through a Cambridge startup
Among the most notable aspects of the Covid-19 vaccine race was who won it: Pfizer and two small biotechs, while most of the world’s...
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Opinion: STAT+: Clinical validation will save digital health’s reputation
The meteoric rise of telehealth and other types of virtual care during the Covid-19 pandemic sparked some of the highest funding in digital...
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STAT+: Unpacking the drug pricing policies that Congress just approved
WASHINGTON — Medicare coverage for prescription drugs will look very different when President Biden signs into law the new reforms...
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Opinion: As a pediatric cancer researcher, I admired the FDA. Then I got ALS
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), as I have unfortunately come to learn, is a terrible disease with no cure. Some exciting treatments are on...
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A complicated fall vaccine campaign: Updated Covid boosters, flu shots, and how to time the jabs
For the health officials who steer vaccination campaigns, it’s going to be a complicated fall. The U.S. plan to roll out updated Covid-19...
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Pregnancy tests are routine before many surgical procedures. But Dobbs has raised the stakes of a positive result
Monica da Silva, a critical care and cardiac anesthesiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, was counseling a patient who had been in...
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STAT+: Sales from controversial drug discount program rose to $44 billion last year
Prescription medicines purchased in the U.S. under a controversial government discount program amounted to $44 billion in 2021, a nearly 16%...
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STAT+: Bright Health Group heads toward insolvency as it rushes to raise more cash
A little more than a year after going public, Bright Health Group is in danger of going under. Bright, a health insurance company that also owns...
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‘What aren’t we facing?’: Immunization leader lays bare challenges to the monkeypox response
In the United States, the circumstances around monkeypox vaccine are a good news, bad news kind of story. The good news is that there is a...
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STAT+: Pharmalittle: U.S. House passes drug-pricing legislation; U.K. is first country to approve a bivalent Covid shot
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite was relaxing and invigorating, because that oh-so...
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Private equity’s latest fixation & the ACA subsidy spigot
You’re reading the web edition of Health Care Inc., STAT’s weekly newsletter following the flow of money through the health care...
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STAT+: Brainstorm to seek FDA approval for ALS stem-cell treatment, despite agency objections
Last year, the Food and Drug Administration issued a rare public statement to inform the ALS community that a negative clinical trial involving...
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Opinion: Report: More people should be tested for potential exposure to ‘forever chemicals’
Nearly every American has been exposed at some point to a class of compounds known as perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS for...
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STAT+: A treatment for monkeypox was approved under the FDA’s ‘Animal Rule.’ Here’s what that means
Take a look at the list of conditions that have treatments available thanks to what’s known as the “Animal Rule” and...
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STAT+: The private equity firms, like Blackstone and KKR, behind 8 of the biggest names in autism therapy
Private equity investors are backing all of the major chains offering the country’s most popular form of autism therapy, known as applied...
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Opinion: ‘Is an abortion medically necessary?’ is not a question for ethicists to answer
Abortion raises many ethical questions. Determining whether an abortion is needed to save a pregnant person’s life or health is not among...
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CDC reports first human H5 bird flu infection in U.S.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced late Thursday that a person in Colorado has tested positive for an H5 bird flu virus...
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STAT+: Medicare’s Brooks-LaSure expects restrictions on accelerated approval drugs, like those for Aduhelm, to be ‘very rare’
AUSTIN, Texas – Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, the head of Medicare, said on Thursday that the agency expects to keep covering drugs the Food and...
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STAT+: The revolving door swings again as Lupin hires an FDA official who oversaw problems at a key plant
The revolving door between the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the pharmaceutical industry turned again this week when Lupin, one of...
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STAT+: California fines an OptumRx pharmacy for jeopardizing patient health. Is that enough?
The California Board of Pharmacy fined OptumRx, one of the largest pharmacy benefit managers in the U.S., $100,000 for a series of prescribing...
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Listen: How cancer-killing cell therapies work, biotech’s endless downturn, & an FDA conundrum
Can rewired cells cure some patients’ cancer? Do biotech stocks ever go up? And why’s it taking so long to get kids vaccinated for...
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Incoming JAMA editor says the journal’s issues handling race are ‘not unique to JAMA’
In her most pointed public comments since her selection as JAMA editor-in-chief, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo acknowledged she had a visceral...
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Teladoc takes a hit with $6.6 billion impairment charge on Livongo
You’re reading the web edition of STAT Health Tech, our guide to how tech is transforming the life sciences. Sign up to get this...
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Moderna seeks to be first with Covid shots for children younger than 6
Moderna on Thursday asked U.S. regulators to authorize low doses of its Covid-19 vaccine for children younger than 6, a long-awaited move toward...