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Bloomberg Philanthropies' donation to make medical school tuition free for many at Johns Hopkins adds to other recent similar moves. Experts says the broader impact may be muted.
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The U.S. passed on an opportunity to strengthen regulations that dictate how hospitals publish their prices, ignoring pleas from patient advocates. www.statnews.com/2024/07/10/b...
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In a wide-ranging interview, Fauci talks with STAT about how he had to keep a secret while having dinner with Bono and when he knew that Covid-19 was a real threat.
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In a long-awaited study, patients in Australia will soon receive an IV infusion designed to transform their own immune cells into swarms of cancer-fighting drones.
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Former President Trump says he “will not cut one penny” from Medicare and Social Security and steps back from calls for broad national abortion restrictions.
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With their own brands tarnished by legal problems, Acadia and UHS are piggybacking off nonprofit hospitals’ strong local reputations.
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As the H5N1 bird flu outbreak in dairy cows enters its fourth month, the CDC is taking steps to ramp up the nation’s capacity to test for the virus in people.
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#Breaking: FDA approves Eli Lilly’s early Alzheimer’s treatment
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Moderna has been awarded $176 million by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority to accelerate development of messenger RNA-based pandemic influenza vaccines.
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AIDS Healthcare Foundation is rolling out an AI chatbot with a drag queen persona to make testing and treatment less scary.
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A new surgical technique could dramatically improve walking for people with below-the-knee amputations and help them better control their prosthetics.
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“My overall concern about this outbreak is that it’s being treated too much as an economic problem and too little as a public health and an animal health problem."
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Makers of RSV vaccines for older adults saw their plans to try to expand usage hit a significant hurdle this week. www.statnews.com/2024/06/26/c...
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The U.S. response to the Covid-19 pandemic got politically messy. A Friday Supreme Court ruling could frustrate government responses to public health emergencies even further.
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The Supreme Court rejected a controversial bankruptcy deal in which the owners of Purdue Pharma.
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#Breaking - The Supreme Court appears set to reject Idaho’s near-total abortion ban
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According to experts, the country is failing to take the necessary steps to get in front of the virus and possibly contain its spread among cows.
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Do standalone organ donor centers work better than hospitals?
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The global health toll of alcohol remains “unacceptably high” across the globe.
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Surgeon General Vivek Murthy wants to take firearm deaths "out of the realm of politics and put it into the realm of public health...where it belongs."
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Since Texas’ ban on abortion went into effect, infant deaths in the state increased by nearly 13%.
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“The more we learn about H5N1, the more we understand that good biosecurity is a critically important path to containing the virus."
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Got to talk to @hankgreen.bsky.social about
• ...his balls?
• coming to terms with being a public person w cancer
• the ulcerative colitis medicine that may have given him lymphoma
• & the jokes that got cut from his Dropout comedy special
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“The U.S. is leading the world in technology development, innovation, new gadgets of all kinds, new drugs, you name it. These advantages unfortunately are not resulting in superior health and outcomes for the U.S., population, or for most individuals in the U.S.”
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For a third time, Sarepta Therapeutics has convinced a top Food and Drug Administration official to overrule the prevailing view of their staff and approve a drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
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Opinion: Richard Lynn's work, especially his "national IQ" data, has been condemned as seriously flawed. It's time to retract these racist studies.
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“Many people do not realize how deadly extreme heat can be."
There’s a heat wave coming. Here’s what you need to know
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A national advisory organization has come down on the side of behavioral interventions, not obesity medications, to help children 6 and older with high BMI improve their health.
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Opinion: Long Covid feels like a gun to my head
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9 health and science takeaways from the memoir of America’s most famous doctor
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Tony Fauci was shaken by the politicization he saw in the Congressional response to the #Zika crisis. It was foreshadowing of things to come. @statnews.bsky.social's Jason Mast reports on some of the takeaways of Fauci's book, out Tuesday. www.statnews.com/2024/06/16/a...
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The federal government is rescoring the quality ratings of this year’s Medicare Advantage plans, which could lead to an additional $1 billion of taxpayer money flowing into the coffers of health insurance companies.
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Opinion: Public health agencies, health care systems, and advocacy organizations must work together on rebuilding public understanding of how vaccines improve the human immune system.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture released two reports that lay out what has been learned about how H5N1 bird flu is moving among dairy cow herds in the U.S.
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Global health leader critiques ‘ineptitude’ of U.S. response to bird flu outbreak among cows
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Both President Biden and former President Trump love to claim credit for getting more Americans $35 insulin.
But the credit should actually go to a giant pharmaceutical company.
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The judges unanimously rejected a challenge to an FDA decision to expand access to abortion pills by mail.
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Earlier this week, Microsoft and Google announced, along with the White House, that the companies would be providing resources for rural hospital cybersecurity.
But will that fix healthcare's #cybersecurity problem?
Um...no, experts told @statnews.bsky.social:
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The FDA and the Department of Justice claim they’re getting serious about clearing store shelves of illegal vapes.
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9/11 first responders continue to face steep health consequences for their exposure to particulate matter in the aftermath of the World Trade Center’s collapse.
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Not just another #AI in #pathology 'doohickey':
Pathologists are excited about a #ChatGPT -like AI that can take in conversations and case context as well as cell images.
It outperforms other AIs in describing slides, suggesting diagnoses, and writing path reports
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Michigan draws praise for its transparency and testing for H5N1 bird flu; pandemic preparedness experts hope other states will learn from it.
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Opinion: For people reporting adverse effects from vaccines, scientists and others can do better at being compassionate, starting with: We hear you.
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“I see all of these posts on social media like ‘driving while black,’ ‘walking while black,’ but I never imagined I would become a victim of ‘being sick while Black."
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An elaborate lab experiment showed exactly how heat waves can stress the heart and set the stage for a heart attack.
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The FDA expanded the approval for GSK’s vaccine to protect against RSV authorizing its use for at-risk adults as young as 50.
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New estimates show that a revised risk calculator for cardiovascular disease places far fewer Americans — as many as 40% less — as candidates for cholesterol-lowering drugs.
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Moderna announced that, in a Phase 3 clinical trial, its combination Covid-19 and influenza vaccine generated stronger immune responses in older adults than individual vaccines that target those viruses.
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Federal officials, medical organizations, and reproductive health advocacy groups have expressed outrage in response to STAT’s recent investigation revealing that women with sickle cell disease have felt pressured into sterilizations.
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One in six patients who stop taking antidepressants experience withdrawal symptoms
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