STAT+: $100 billion estimate for Ozempic-style weight loss drugs gets wary eye from analysts
NEW YORK — Will the world actually soon spend $100 billion a year on the…
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STAT+: RNA startup ReNAgade cuts staff seven months after raising $300 million
Biotech startup ReNAgade Therapeutics is cutting staff just seven months after raising the largest Series…
ChatGPT doesn’t know much about drugs, Hims & Hers enters weight-loss market
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Carmot’s chance of beating the odds in the biotech market just ended
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STAT+: BIO selects rare disease advocate, biotech executive John Crowley as new CEO
WASHINGTON — The Biotechnology Innovation Organization has chosen longtime biotech executive and rare disease advocate John…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: CVS to overhaul how it’s paid for drugs; Biden drug-shortage plan won’t expand chemo supplies
Hello, everyone, and how are you today? We are doing just fine, thank you, as…
STAT+: J&J to emphasize cancer drugs and stop much of its vaccine research
Eight months into his tenure, Johnson & Johnson’s R&D chief is putting a big emphasis…
STAT+: New CAR-T company, Brainchild Bio, will focus first on brain tumors in children
About a decade ago, Mike Jensen, a pediatric oncologist at Seattle Children’s hospital, licensed to…
Is the flu shot market a slam dunk for mRNA vaccines? Experts aren’t so sure
Here are two things that are true. The world needs more effective flu vaccines. And…
Opinion: New abortion restrictions pose a serious threat to fetal surgery
The concept of fetal surgery captures the imagination when, from time to time, it makes…
STAT+: Cancer drug shortages won’t get better under Biden’s latest plan
WASHINGTON — President Biden’s new plan to curb drug shortages by boosting domestic drug production…
One Life Radio Seeking Partners to Fight Censorship – Yahoo Finance
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ChatGPT May Be Useful, Reliable Tool for Healthcare Professionals … – MD Magazine
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Pain Management Remains Challenging for Patients with … – MD Magazine
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STAT+: Official: FDA needs staff influx to meet gene therapy needs
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration needs dozens more reviewers if it wants its…
STAT+: FDA efforts to oversee foreign drug manufacturing remain inadequate to ensure safety, analysis finds
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Food and Drug Administration inspected far fewer…
Sweeping bill to fight opioid addiction will be considered by Senate health committee
The Senate health care committee will consider a sweeping bill next week meant to combat…
Take our quiz: Can you out-science an 8th grader?
What’s a cell? An organelle? A ganglion? An acromion? Eighth grade biology is parts gross anatomy…
Supreme Court wrestles with OxyContin maker’s bankruptcy deal
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday wrestled with a nationwide settlement with OxyContin maker…
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Novartis is building a new radioligand plant in China
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STAT+: Pharmalittle: Roche to buy obesity-drug developer for $2.7 billion; Novo Nordisk paid U.S. doctors $26 million over a decade
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite was…
Opinion: A well-meaning FDA policy is a threat to pediatric cancer treatment
The medical community today faces a deceptively simple question: How quickly should we act when…
Opinion: Big Weed today is a whole lot like Big Tobacco in the 1950s
OK, marijuana is now legal. So where’s the public health approach? Strictly speaking, marijuana use…
STAT+: How sickle cell became the first disease treated by CRISPR
Nearly a decade ago, consultants delivered to Rodger Novak a kind of Sears catalog of…
STAT+: Roche to acquire obesity-focused Carmot Therapeutics for $2.7 billion
LONDON — The booming obesity market is attracting another player, as pharma giant Roche said…
After years on alternative cancer therapy, yogi accepts chemo, radiotherapy – South China Morning Post
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Palm Oil: Comparing the Positives and Negatives – Verywell Health
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New California mental health court receives over 100 petitions in … – Santa Monica Daily Press
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Opinion: STAT readers on burnt-out infectious disease doctors, 12-month prescriptions, and counting disabled Americans
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EEOC Sues Alternate Solutions Health Network for Disability … – EEOC
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New California mental health court sees more than 100 petitions in first two months – ABC News
New California mental health court sees more than 100 petitions in first two months ABC News…
Affordable alternatives to gym memberships – Parkview Health
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COVID Vaccines Likely Reversed Premature Birth Trend – Medscape
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Johnson & Johnson bets heavy on AI-driven drug discovery
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STAT Virtual Event – Decoding Clinical Trials: Venture Capitalists Talk Early Biotech R&D
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STAT+: Pharmalittle: Pfizer halts development of twice-daily obesity pill; Supreme Court to review Purdue bankruptcy deal
And so, another working week will soon draw to a close. Not a moment too…
Life-extending epilepsy surgery performed less often in Black children, study finds
Children with drug-resistant epilepsy who are Black or insured through Medicaid may be less likely…
STAT+: Pfizer to halt development of its twice-daily oral obesity drug, following disappointing trial
Pfizer on Friday said it was stopping development of a twice-daily oral obesity medication after…
STAT+: Senate Republicans throw cold water on so-called site-neutral hospital pay cuts
WASHINGTON — On its face, a minor policy to make sure Medicare pays hospitals the…
Opinion: PEPFAR has been a lifeline in Ukraine. Now it’s under threat
In Ukraine, a little bit of good news can go a long way, and the…
STAT+: U.S. Supreme Court to review controversial Purdue Pharma bankruptcy settlement
After weeks of anticipation, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday will hear arguments to decide…
STAT+: Patients wants test results now, and radiologists need time to explain. Can they meet in the middle?
One of the hardest parts about getting an X-ray or a CT scan is the…
People with congenital heart disease are living longer — but facing new threat of heart failure
When Jennifer Case was living in Los Angeles in her early 30s, she was hospitalized…
Alternative healer faces manslaughter charge over woman’s death at a UK slapping therapy workshop – ABC News
Alternative healer faces manslaughter charge over woman’s death at a UK slapping therapy workshop ABC News…
Waupun picked as one of the best cities in Wisconsin to retire in – Kfiz
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DNC releases new ad in Michigan, other battleground states … – Heartland Signal
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Alea and IMI Announce Partnership to Empower Consumers with … – PR Newswire
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The role of marketing in disrupted health care markets: It’s time to … – EurekAlert
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