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STAT+: Humana used algorithm in ‘fraudulent scheme’ to deny care to Medicare Advantage patients, lawsuit alleges
Medicare Advantage beneficiaries on Tuesday filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that the health insurance giant…
Category: Life Sciences
Believers in conspiracy theories are more prone to taking alternative medicines – PsyPost
Believers in conspiracy theories are more prone to taking alternative medicines PsyPost Read Original Article: Believers…
Study finds tree nuts as snack alternative boost metabolic health in young adults – News-Medical.Net
Study finds tree nuts as snack alternative boost metabolic health in young adults News-Medical.Net Read Original…
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STAT+: Maze CEO ‘personally disappointed’ in Sanofi decision to terminate partnership
When Sanofi terminated its partnership with Maze Therapeutics this week to develop an experimental drug…
STAT+: A targeted therapy shows it can offer a ‘last, great chance’ for some acute leukemia patients
SAN DIEGO — One of the toughest subtypes of acute leukemia involves a genetic alteration…
STAT+: Bone marrow transplant advance could widen use of this less buzzy cure for sickle cell disease
SAN DIEGO — The sickle cell community has for the past few days been buzzing…
STAT+: Late-stage trial supports broader use of Darzalex, blockbuster J&J multiple myeloma drug
SAN DIEGO — Johnson & Johnson’s multiple myeloma therapy, Darzalex, is already a blockbuster. Now…
Morning Rounds: Can you take GLP-1 drugs during pregnancy?
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STAT+: Pharmalittle: Sanofi scraps rare-disease drug deal under FTC pressure; patients regain weight after stopping Lilly’s Zepbound
Top of the morning to you. And a fine one it is. Lots of sunshine…
Tome Biosciences goes public today in another biotech megaround
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Methadone clinics spar with addiction doctors on bill that would widen access
Lawmakers on Tuesday will debate an addiction medicine proposal that would have been considered unthinkable…
Boston’s mobile clinics offer model of health care that meets patients where they are
BOSTON — Chongcan Zhu, an 83-year-old longtime resident of Boston, lives alone — but she…
STAT+: With big ambition — and a family name to match — Reed Jobs charts his own course in biotech
In the months after his father died of complications from pancreatic cancer, Reed Jobs found…
Opinion: New sickle cell disease CRISPR treatments can’t make up for the shortage of adult hematologists
After decades of limited progress in the treatment of sickle cell disease (SCD), both patients…
Opinion: It’s time to rethink the Medicare annual wellness visit
In 2011, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services created the annual wellness visit (AWV),…
House passes site-neutral policy, transparency, PBM reform package
WASHINGTON — The House passed a relatively major health care package late Monday, an end-of-year…
Contigo Wellness’s Diana Anzaldúa Unleashes Insight on Holistic Health’s U.S. Surge – USA TODAY
Contigo Wellness’s Diana Anzaldúa Unleashes Insight on Holistic Health’s U.S. Surge USA TODAY Read Original Article:…
Understanding the Value-Based Reimbursement Model Landscape – RevCycleIntelligence.com
Understanding the Value-Based Reimbursement Model Landscape RevCycleIntelligence.com Read Original Article: Understanding the Value-Based Reimbursement Model Landscape…
8 Potential Health Benefits of Aloe Vera – Everyday Health
8 Potential Health Benefits of Aloe Vera Everyday Health Read Original Article: 8 Potential Health Benefits…
Promising Role of CRISPR-Cas Engineered Probiotics in Treating Health Conditions – Medriva
Promising Role of CRISPR-Cas Engineered Probiotics in Treating Health Conditions Medriva Read Original Article: Promising Role…
STAT+: UnitedHealth executive to head health insurance group AHIP
WASHINGTON — An executive at insurance giant UnitedHealth Group is slated to be the next…
STAT+: Sanofi ends deal for a rare disease drug after FTC voices monopoly concerns
In its latest bid to police the pharmaceutical industry, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission sought…
STAT+: Hot antitrust environment hangs over called-off merger between Cigna and Humana
Less than two weeks after reports surfaced saying Cigna and Humana were considering combining into…
Opinion: STAT+: Dana-Farber CEO Laurie Glimcher has always been a trailblazer and a risk taker
Dr. Laurie Glimcher learned early on from her father, a prominent physician-researcher, that success in…
STAT+: GE HealthCare CEO named chair of medical device lobby AdvaMed’s new imaging division
AdvaMed named Peter Arduini, CEO of GE HealthCare, chair of its board of directors on…
STAT+: NEJM aims to hold AI to account with new publication
One of the most prestigious names in medical publishing is going all in on artificial…
Morning Rounds: Preterm birth rates vary across the U.S., with the highest in the Southeast
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The biotech news you missed from the weekend
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STAT+: Pharmalittle: Bluebird’s sickle-cell screwups may prompt a sale; drugmakers raised prices on widely used meds without new clinical evidence
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite was…
STAT+: The prices of 8 drugs were hiked without proof of new benefits, costing the U.S. $1.2 billion in 2022, report finds
During 2022, drugmakers substantially raised prices on eight widely used medicines without any new clinical…
STAT+: Amid fears of superbugs, sales of antibiotics used in food-producing livestock rose last year
Amid fears of superbugs, the sale of medically important antibiotics given to food-producing livestock rose…
STAT+: After sickle-cell screwups, Bluebird Bio’s only option might be a company sale
The approval Friday of Bluebird Bio’s gene therapy for sickle cell disease should have been…
STAT+: Inside Vertex’s decades-long quest to develop a new class of non-opioid painkillers
SAN DIEGO — For decades, the biotech industry has tried — and repeatedly failed —…
Opinion: U.S. medical schools aren’t teaching future doctors about 7.4 million of their patients
Oliver McGowan was 18 years old when he was hospitalized in England with recurrent seizures…
STAT+: A Q&A with Vertex founder Joshua Boger on Casgevy, the biotech industry, and Elon Musk
Vertex Pharmaceuticals made history Friday when it received regulatory approval for a medicine that could…
King Charles criticised for appointing pro-homeopathy doctor – The Guardian
King Charles criticised for appointing pro-homeopathy doctor The Guardian Read Original Article: King Charles criticised for…
Homeopath takes charge of King Charles’ health – The Telegraph
Homeopath takes charge of King Charles’ health The Telegraph Read Original Article: Homeopath takes charge of…
Serving Veterans: Alternative Therapies, Mental Health & Disability | Completing the Mission: Serving Veterans … – The Hill
Serving Veterans: Alternative Therapies, Mental Health & Disability | Completing the Mission: Serving Veterans … The…
Dear Healer Acupuncture Clinic Celebrates One Year of Holistic Wellness – thesuntimesnews.com
Dear Healer Acupuncture Clinic Celebrates One Year of Holistic Wellness thesuntimesnews.com Read Original Article: Dear Healer…
Herbal Hope: Traditional Chinese Medicine Shows Success in Treating Heart Failure in Clinical Trial – SciTechDaily
Herbal Hope: Traditional Chinese Medicine Shows Success in Treating Heart Failure in Clinical Trial SciTechDaily Read…
STAT+: Historic approval of sickle cell gene therapies met with cautious optimism by experts at ASH
SAN DIEGO — News of the Food and Drug Administration’s historic approval of the first…
STAT+: CAR-T, recently used in a lupus patient, helps other autoimmune patients, too, in small study
SAN DIEGO — When the first lupus patient received CAR-T therapy, researchers watched in amazement as…
STAT+: Was CAR-T therapy a bystander or driver of lymphoma? Researchers examine first published case
SAN DIEGO — Researchers on Saturday presented an unusual case of a T cell lymphoma…
Opinion: STAT readers on diagnostic tests, marijuana regulation, and pediatric oncology
STAT now publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to First Opinion essays…
Fayetteville Navy veteran, VA talk about alternative medical treatments – KFSM 5Newsonline
Fayetteville Navy veteran, VA talk about alternative medical treatments KFSM 5Newsonline Read Original Article: Fayetteville Navy…
STAT+: Vertex gets a win as Colorado board leaves cystic fibrosis drug off a list of unaffordable medicines
In a win for Vertex Pharmaceuticals, a Colorado state board voted not to place the…
STAT+: Tough road ahead for Bluebird Bio despite FDA approval for sickle cell therapy
The Food and Drug Administration’s approval on Friday of two gene therapies for sickle cell…
STAT+: Medicare’s advisory committee isn’t sold on big pay raises for doctors
On Thursday, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission reviewed Medicare performance data and concluded that despite…
Chronic fatigue syndrome estimated to affect 3.3 million in U.S., more than previously thought: CDC
Health officials on Friday released the first nationally representative estimate of how many U.S. adults…
STAT+: A Q&A with the CEO of CRISPR Therapeutics on a historic approval and the road ahead
Editas Medicine, CRISPR Therapeutics, and Intellia Therapeutics were all started in the 2013-2014 time frame…