As All of Us moves to diversify medicine, its tech partners push to democratize research
Everyone working from home this year has figured out their own ways to stay focused….
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Ridgefield man brings alternative medicine to Main Street – Danbury News Times
Ridgefield man brings alternative medicine to Main Street Danbury News Times Read Original Article: Ridgefield man…
Why fusion of modern, alternative medicine is unfeasible – Hindustan Times
Why fusion of modern, alternative medicine is unfeasible Hindustan Times Read Original Article: Why fusion of…
Opinion: New CDC school opening guidelines fail to ‘follow the science’
President Biden vowed to “follow the science” in an effort to get kids back to…
LAPD’s new Alternative Dispatch program calls on mental health professionals to handle nonviolent calls – KABC-TV
LAPD’s new Alternative Dispatch program calls on mental health professionals to handle nonviolent calls KABC-TV Read…
Chronic Kidney Disease Solution Reviews (Blue Heron Health News) – The Daily World
Chronic Kidney Disease Solution Reviews (Blue Heron Health News) The Daily World Read Original Article: Chronic…
Smell something funny? Warnings and recalls for fish, cheese, medicine
It’s time for a Food and Drug Administration recall update, a chance to check your…
Family Caregivers, Routinely Left Off Vaccine Lists, Worry What Would Happen ‘If I Get Sick’
“If I get sick, what would happen to him?” Read Original Article: Family Caregivers, Routinely…
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FDA issues alert on ‘limitations’ of pulse oximeters, without explicit mention of racial bias
Two months after Democratic lawmakers expressed concern about potential racial disparities in pulse oximeter readings…
Can Pfizer and Moderna End the Pandemic by Sharing Their Vaccine Designs? It’s Not that Simple
Vaccine makers Pfizer and Moderna earned praise for creating highly effective covid-19 vaccines in record…
‘A massive gap in information’: Most vaccine clinical trials fail to report data on participants’ ethnicity or race
An analysis of the demographics of a decade’s worth of vaccine clinical trials has found…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: Single Pfizer shot is 85% effective in preventing symptomatic Covid-19; Biden to commit $4 billion to COVAX
And so, another working week will soon draw to a close. Not a moment too…
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Opinion: Eliminating buprenorphine training for doctors won’t solve the overdose epidemic
Before the Covid-19 pandemic struck, the U.S. was making some headway in fighting the drug…
Opinion: The effect of Covid-19 vaccines will — finally — be tested in pregnant people like me
The arrival of Covid-19 vaccines at the hospital where I work felt like a glimmer…
To get ahead of variants, Covid-19 drug makers use evolutionary biology as a guide
Before becoming a Covid-19 drug, each candidate was just a tiny fragment of someone’s immune…
Doctors, researchers push academia’s ivory tower to start rewarding diversity work in promotion decisions
Universities and academic hospitals have vowed to diversify their ranks after a year of reckoning…
A new danger from your iPhone?
The iPhone 12’s MagSafe feature may be not-so-safe if you have a pacemaker. Read Original…
Is soda bad for you? Effects on the body and alternatives – Medical News Today
Is soda bad for you? Effects on the body and alternatives Medical News Today Read Original…
Listen: Gene therapy’s safety scare, biotech’s brashest VCs, & the FDA’s uncertain future
How safe is gene therapy? Is there anything “unique” about venture capital? And who’s going…
STAT+: Federal judge nixes hospitals’ attempt to force HHS 340B crackdown
WASHINGTON — A federal judge ruled Thursday that it’s too early for hospitals to challenge…
The ACA Marketplace Is Open Again for Insurance Sign-Ups. Here’s What You Need to Know.
For people who’ve been without health insurance during the pandemic, relief is in sight. Read…
Pharmalittle: Pfizer vaccine seems less potent against Covid-19 variant in lab test; WTO urges end to vaccine export restrictions
Hello, everyone, and how are you today? We are doing just dandy, despite another blanket…
Virtual Event: Facing the crisis of drug-resistant germs
Editor’s note: A livestream of this event will be posted below at 1 p.m. ET. …
Pharma’s ambitious new antibiotic venture hires a CEO to fix a ‘broken’ pipeline
Several months after a splashy announcement, an ambitious pharmaceutical industry venture to tackle antibiotic resistance…
Opinion: Caregivers are missing from the long Covid conversation
Media reports describe the inarguable, if inconvenient, circumstances that follow us into the second year…
Opinion: Dental therapists: a solution for better access to dental care
Difficulty getting dental care is the norm in much of the United States, especially in…
STAT+: Covid crushed in-person pharma sales. Tech is pitching itself as a solution
The pandemic grounded tens of thousands of pharmaceutical reps who usually roam the country urging…
STAT+: States still can’t import drugs from Canada. Now, many are seeking to import Canadian prices
WASHINGTON — For years, former President Trump threatened to use foreign prices as a cap…
How the NFL and CDC teamed up to fight Covid-19
The score isn’t final yet, but so far in the contest between COVID-19 and professional…
U.S. life expectancy fell by a year in the first half of 2020, CDC report finds
As the Covid-19 pandemic took hold, life expectancy in the United States dropped one full…
Complementary And Alternative Medicine Market Size Worth $404.66 Billion By 2028: Grand View Research, Inc. – PRNewswire
Complementary And Alternative Medicine Market Size Worth $404.66 Billion By 2028: Grand View Research, Inc. PRNewswire…
In lab experiment, Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine less potent against coronavirus variant
The Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine loses some potency against the coronavirus variant that first appeared in…
Biden to nominate Brooks-LaSure to oversee CMS
WASHINGTON — President Biden plans to nominate Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, a health policy consultant and veteran…
Why herd immunity may be impossible without vaccinating children against COVID-19
It may be summer before children under 16 can be vaccinated against COVID-19 in the…
Opinion: Listen: The inaugural First Opinion Podcast: Jay Baruch on writing about medicine
It’s now official. We’ve launched “The First Opinion Podcast.” In the inaugural episode, I talk…
Opinion: Listen: Lauren Powell on the intersection of Covid-19 and racism
In the second episode of STAT’s “First Opinion Podcast,” I spoke with Lauren Powell, the…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: First Covid-19 human challenge study to begin; vaccine firm executives profit from insider stock sales
Top of the morning to you. Another busy day is unfolding here on the Pharmalot…
STAT+: Cancer cases place Bluebird Bio’s gene therapy business at a crossroads, and might drag the entire field along
Bluebird Bio’s disclosure Tuesday that two additional patients being treated with its gene therapy for…
Opinion: Ultra-rare but not forgotten: New drug development paradigms to treat the rarest of diseases
In addition to the most visible effects of Covid-19 — tragic deaths, lingering illness, economic…
Opinion: What cancer survivorship can teach us about Covid-19
Take it from this cancer survivor: We need to start focusing on Covid-19 survivorship now….
The new leader of 500 Women Scientists on finding community and supporting women of color in STEMM
In the spring of 2019, Lauren Edwards was a graduate student studying neuroscience at Emory…
STAT+: Backed by big hospitals, a former Microsoft executive wades into the messy business of selling patient data
He was once dubbed “the most important man at Microsoft,” a prodigiously talented software engineer…
The myth of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Covid vaccines: Why false perceptions overlook facts, and could breed resentment
Mike Ryan, the World Health Organization’s health emergencies director, had a conversation recently with his…
Novartis and the Gates Foundation aim to create a more practical gene therapy for sickle cell patients around the world
Novartis and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are joining forces to discover and develop…
Taking Xeljanz? A new safety warning
Newly released safety trial results have revealed heart and cancer risks associated with Xeljanz. Read…
7 Ways to Reduce Reluctance to Take COVID Vaccines – Scientific American
7 Ways to Reduce Reluctance to Take COVID Vaccines Scientific American Read Original Article: 7 Ways…
STAT+: FDA warns AcelRx of misleading ads for its pain drug Dsuvia
The manufacturer of Dsuvia, a pain drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration amid…
STAT+: After a controversial Alzheimer’s drug review, FDA’s Woodcock rejects proposal to ‘firewall’ agency and drug companies
In response to criticism, a top Food and Drug Administration official maintained that creating a…
STAT+: STAT+ Conversations: A conversation on race, science, and advocacy with Black in Neuro founder Angeline Dukes
Editor’s Note: A livestream of the conversation will be embedded below at 12 p.m. ET….
STAT+: Pharmalittle: WHO approves AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine; North Korean hackers target Pfizer vaccine data
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite was…