Advance and future care planning
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STAT+: Longer treatment gave better liver outcomes for MASH patients, Akero drug study shows
Akero Therapeutics said Monday that extending treatment with its experimental drug for the liver disease…
Opinion: Missing data is making it difficult for the pharmaceutical industry to help LGBTQ+ people
Lack of health data on LGBTQ+ people has real-world consequences. A participant in a 2020…
STAT+: Federal regulators, scrambling to keep up with AI in health care, team up with industry to set standards
At first glance, the Coalition for Health AI looks like any technology lobbying group. Its…
STAT+: Explaining Change Healthcare and the gravity of its cyberattack
The cyberattack on Change Healthcare has fractured the country’s health care payment infrastructure. But it…
STAT+: Medicare is a tricky market for telehealth companies. Why is Talkspace betting on it?
Over the last few years, virtual mental health company Talkspace has been on a relentless…
Q&A: Stem cell biologist predicts human embryo models could pave the way to organ transplants
A lot happens in the first month of human embryo development as a single cell…
STAT+: Congress gives doctors Medicare pay bump, sets up December fight in new funding package
WASHINGTON — Doctors will get a 1.68% pay hike in Medicare starting March 9 under…
Orcas demonstrating they no longer need to hunt in packs to take down the great white shark
An orca (killer whale) has been observed, for the first-ever time, individually consuming a great…
Roughly 9,000 women killed so far in Gaza war: UN Women
The Gaza conflict “is also a war on women”, who continue to suffer its devastating…
WHO: Investments and myth-busting to improve hearing
Over 400 million people globally need hearing aids, a study by the World Health Organization…
Opinion: Too many donor organs go to waste. Here’s how to get them into the patients who need them
As I was getting ready to perform a kidney transplant from a deceased donor on…
Student gastronomes plan recipe for Madagascar’s future
As the world celebrates the Africa Day of School Feeding, school children in southern Madagascar…
Researchers create coating solution for safer food storage
Galvanized steel containers and surfaces are used for harvested produce because of their durability, strength…
A mental process that leads to putting off an unpleasant task
Putting off a burdensome task may seem like a universal trait, but new research suggests…
Facilitating Healing – Cityview – Knoxville City View
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STAT+: RaDonda Vaught, nurse that accidentally killed patient, to speak at CommonSpirit event on patient safety
CommonSpirit Health is hosting an educational event this month featuring RaDonda Vaught, the Tennessee nurse…
New insights on how galaxies are formed
Astronomers can use supercomputers to simulate the formation of galaxies from the Big Bang 13.8…
CVS and Walgreens plan to start dispensing abortion pill mifepristone soon
The drugstore chains CVS Health and Walgreens plan to start dispensing an abortion pill in a few…
STAT+: Many costly generic drugs are unavailable at Amazon, Cuban, and other alternative pharmacies
A growing number of alternative pharmacies — such as those run by Costco, Amazon, and…
STAT+: Federal judge rules against AstraZeneca in lawsuit challenging Medicare drug price negotiation
WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Delaware on Friday ruled against AstraZeneca in a case…
Why do some women experience UTI pain with no clear infection? A mouse study offers clues
Each year, more than 400 million urinary tract infections occur in people around the globe….
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World News in Brief: Another month of extreme heat, Sudan exodus continues into Chad, Zero Discrimination Day
February saw more extreme heat and unusually high temperatures in both hemispheres, the UN weather agency…
Myanmar: Unbearable levels of suffering and cruelty
The crisis in Myanmar is a “never-ending nightmare” for the country’s people happening far away…
CDC eases isolation guidance for Covid and other respiratory illnesses
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is “sunsetting” its advice that people sick with…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about RSV vax link to GSB, a Pfizer donation, and more
And so, another working week will soon draw to a close. Not a moment too…
Despite good data, Ironwood’s shares plummet
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Antibiotic costs rise 1100% as big pharma exits Nigeria
In Nigeria, the rapidly escalating drug prices are indicative of a deeper issue: fundamentally, it’s…
Illness trajectories in the age of big data
For decades, healthcare providers have understood that patients follow typical trajectories of health decline as…
Using illness trajectories to inform person centred, advance care planning
What you need to knowMost patients with progressive illness follow characteristic trajectories of decline, previously…
Illness trajectories of incurable solid cancers
What you need to knowNew systemic anticancer treatments, such as targeted therapy and immunotherapy, have…
UK workers during the pandemic: inadequate protection and, consequently, increased risk
There are striking similarities, as well as differences, between the shortcomings in protection and consequent…
STAT+: Biotech FogPharma raises $145 million in anticipation of more clinical trials, pharma partnerships
Oncology startup FogPharma just closed a $145 million Series E round, the company confirmed, reaching…
Doctors report big rise in patients with illness because of socioeconomic factors
Over half (55%) of consultants surveyed say that they have seen a rise in the…
Teledentistry may help in detecting oral cancers in current GP and dentist shortages
Referrals to head and neck surgeons for suspected oral cancer are generally higher from areas…
Doctors should not declare anyone fit to be held in immigration detention centres
On 4 February 2024, a 22 year old Guinean man died by suicide in Ponte…
Opinion: New federal guidance is hurting cancer patients, especially those in rural areas
I recently started a patient with metastatic triple-positive breast cancer patient on a targeted therapy…
Q&A: AMA’s chief health equity officer on ridding medicine of racial essentialism
In the aftermath of the police murder of George Floyd and subsequent Black Lives Matter…
STAT+: Medical device lobby says it’s tired of waiting on Medicare to cover breakthrough devices
Medical technology lobby AdvaMed is fed up with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services….
One in eight people globally are obese, with rates in children increasing fourfold in three decades
More than a billion people are affected by obesity, which is now the most common…
Ice shell thickness reveals water temperature on ocean worlds
Astrobiologists have devised a novel way to determine ocean temperatures of distant worlds based on…
Building bionic jellyfish for ocean exploration
Researchers show how biohybrid robots based on jellyfish could be used to gather climate science…
Could fiber optic cable help scientists probe the deep layers of the moon?
An increasing number of seismologists are using fiber optic cables to detect seismic waves on…
Astronomers reveal a new link between water and planet formation
Researchers have found water vapor in the disc around a young star exactly where planets…
UN issues global alert over teacher shortage
The world urgently needs 44 million teachers by 2030 in order to make the Sustainable…
At least one in eight people now obese, warns WHO
At least one in eight people on Earth are living with obesity, the World Health…
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STAT+: Here are the cancer drugs Pfizer thinks could reignite investors’ interest
Pfizer spent more than four hours Thursday laying out its oncology program to investors. But…
Best Ozempic Alternatives in 2024 – Healthline
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More than 1 billion people have obesity, including 159 million young people, study estimates
More than 1 billion people — or one in eight people worldwide — are now…
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Welcome to STAT Madness, a bracket-style contest to find the best innovation in science and…