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A STAT Investigation: Embedded Bias This is a new series revealing how race-based clinical algorithms pervade medicine and why it's so difficult to change them. Part 1: 👇🧵
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BREAKING: Biden's top health advisers say he’s already preparing an unprecedented, mid-pandemic transition of power that aims to reboot the federal government’s Covid-19 response.
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SCOOP: The Trump administration quietly spent $10 billion from a fund Congress created to help health care providers with Covid-19 costs, and used it on Operation Warp Speed contracts instead.
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New research finds that crows can ponder the content of their own minds, a manifestation of higher intelligence long believed the sole province of humans and a few other higher mammals.
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EXCLUSIVE: @DrPhil presents himself as a crusader for recovery who rescues people from their addictions. But his show has put at risk the health of some of those guests it purports to help, a STAT @BostonGlobe investigation has found
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“He will reach out to Tony Fauci. He will declare his intent to be an active participant in the WHO and in the world. And I believe that in very short order, he’ll be in touch with governors and mayors around the country."
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BREAKING: The first known U.S. case of the highly transmissible variant of Covid-19 discovered in the U.K. has been reported in Colorado. Story to come.
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Johnson & Johnson expanded global access to tuberculosis drug this week amid novelist and YouTube star John Green joining an advocacy campaign.
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BREAKING: Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech is strongly effective, early data from large trial indicate
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It felt like an interrogation, as if she were being accused of doing something wrong, of causing the loss of a pregnancy she hadn’t even known about when she arrived at urgent care. She wished she hadn’t come to see the doctor at all.
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The state agreed to set aside vaccines for local distribution, but the events were planned on short notice, with few resources to help spread the word, and no way to reserve appointments for people in the community.
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Opinion: If medical professionals don't gather safely at meetings and annual conferences, how can other professionals, not to mention the general public, be expected to do that?
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BREAKING: Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech shows positive results
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For many young people, colon cancer was never on their radar. But since the 1990s, even as colorectal cancer rates have declined for people 50 and older, they have more than doubled among American adults under 50.
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BREAKING: President-elect Joe Biden has turned to two prominent physicians to lead his coronavirus task force who have signaled that they will approach the pandemic far differently than the Trump administration.
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Federal prosecutors indicted Teva Pharmaceuticals of conspiring with other manufacturers of fixing prices for generic drugs, the seventh drug maker to be accused as part of a long-running government probe.
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BREAKING: Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine study paused due to unexplained illness in participant
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BREAKING: There is no evidence to support Trump’s accusation, and top biotechnology executives were fast to praise the speed at which the FDA has moved.
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Female doctors in the US earn significantly less than male doctors, despite their specialty
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. @SenSanders urges FDA to approve generic Crestor to lower costs for cholesterol patients.
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. @SenSanders asks Ariad for data to explain price hikes in cancer drug
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BREAKING: President Trump’s medical said Sunday the president is on dexamethasone, a steroid normally used for severe Covid-19 — increasing speculation about the severity of the president’s illness.
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A doctor’s humbling journey treating long Covid: ‘The second we think we know what we are doing, we fall flat on our face’
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People who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 appear to have a much lower likelihood of developing long Covid than unvaccinated people even when they contract the coronavirus, according to a new study.
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A study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that closing all of a state’s schools was associated with a drastic decrease in both Covid-19 cases and deaths.
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Aaron Hernandez's brain could be used for CTE research. But what exactly is CTE?
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Bernie Sanders: 21st Century Cures Act is a "bad bill"
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BREAKING: FDA grants full approval to Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer, BioNTech
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A JAMA podcast — whose host, a white editor and physician, questioned whether racism even exists in medicine — is surfacing complaints that JAMA and other elite medical journals have routinely excluded, minimized, and mishandled issues of race.
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#News : As Covid-19 cases begin again to spike throughout the United States, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said she has begun experiencing a “recurring” feeling of “impending doom.”
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Several experts noticed Trump’s speeches this year have included more short sentences, confused word order, repetition, and extended digressions compared to those he made in 2017.
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Opinion: How do I explain the terrible irony to my Covid-19 patients that we allow the president to put on gatherings of thousands of people in our communities yet they must die alone without the comfort of their own families?
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#BREAKING : The first lawsuit aiming to hold pharmacies responsible for opioid crisis is filed by the Cherokee Nation
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The prospect of contending with a prolonged outbreak phase — and adjusting again to a constantly evolving roster of restrictions — has brought back another feature of pandemic living: anger.
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BREAKING: @NIH to get $2 billion funding increase this fiscal year as Congress rebuffs Trump's calls for steep cuts.
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With long Covid continuing to be a leading cause of disability, physicians, researchers, and policymakers should follow the science — and the science does not point to functional neurological disorder…
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Vaccine experts are concerned the U.S. may be sleepwalking into a policy of recommending annual Covid-19 vaccine boosters — without having generated the evidence to show they are actually needed.
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Exclusive: The Biden administration is preparing a sweeping initiative to develop a next generation of #Covid -19 immunizations that would thwart future coronavirus variants and dramatically reduce rates of coronavirus infection or transmission.
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A member of President-elect Joe Biden’s Covid-19 task force is advocating for federal scientists — rather than high-ranking political appointees — to take on the daily work of informing the public about the pandemic beginning in January.
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Opinion: Children are more likely to suffer from pandemic-associated symptoms than from infection-associated symptoms. School policies should reflect this reality.
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Children taken to the emergency room for mental health concerns are more likely to be stuck there for extended stays than they were a decade ago.
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A handful of freshman Democrats, including Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, and Katie Porter, put drug industry CEOs on the defensive Wednesday like they’ve never been before.
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Two new reports, the result of an 18-month congressional investigation, detail the internal strategies Celgene and Teva used to repeatedly hike the price of two blockbuster drugs.
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Opinion: As decision-makers at organizations decide on their Covid-19 vaccination policy, they should be careful to not let this passion lead the organization to run afoul of the law.
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Opinion: Despite all of the sacrifices children made to protect adults last year, many adults have not stepped up for children in return by taking the simple steps needed to keep kids safe.
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Opinion: U.S. government scientists helped invent remdesivir, and HHS has a legal and moral duty to ensure access to it in the U.S. and around the world. It has the policy tool it needs to do that.
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#News : New York State reported Thursday that it has detected a case of vaccine-derived #polio in a person in Rockland County, north of New York City, the first such recorded case in the United States since 2013.
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Trump has said he doesn’t wear a mask because “everyone gets tested before they see me.” His positive Covid-19 test reveals the limits of Covid-19 strategies that depend on testing but eschew more basic measures like masks and social distancing. #COVID19
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BREAKING: Merck CEO quits Trump panel in ‘stand against violence and extremism.’
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. @SenSanders outraged over Sanofi Zika vaccine pricing agreement rejection
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STAT spoke with Andrew Kaczynski at length about his family’s devastating journey — and what he believes must be done to help others dealing with pediatric cancer.
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From the glory days of print magazines to 2020’s Twitter-crazed news cycles, Sharon Begley won more awards and accolades than could fit in an obituary. The accomplishments she was prouder of were making complex ideas accessible to anyone — and beautiful.
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. @mcuban has something to say about prescription drug prices
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BREAKING: Trump announces that U.S. is terminating its relationship with the World Health Organization. Story to come.
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen called Novartis's CEO promising access to the president and members of his inner circle. Then-CEO Joe Jimenez instructed his team to reach a deal with Cohen.
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New York State health authorities revealed they had detected additional polioviruses in wastewater sampled in two counties north of New York City, findings that signal continued spread of the viruses in the region.
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SCOOP: @potus , breaking with precedent, will not meet with American Nobel recipients
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The measure of what makes a good medical student and future physician should not be how many publications they have, but how well they understand and care for their patients.
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Two new studies from Germany paint a sobering picture of the toll that Covid-19 takes on the heart, raising the specter of long-term damage after people recover, even if their illness was not severe enough to require hospitalization.
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"At the beginning of the pandemic, the CDC said that a close contact was somebody that you're indoors with unmasked for 15 minutes or more. The equivalent of that with the Delta variant is not 15 minutes, it's one second."
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“This is a very important birth for the whole uterus transplant community.”
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BREAKING: FDA authorizes Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose Covid-19 vaccine
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Marijuana is now more popular among teens than tobacco or e-cigarettes
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If you're one of the 156 million who relies on insurance plans sponsored by their employers, pay attention. #AHCA
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A small study found that exercising in cold weather burns more calories than exercising in warmer temps. But does that mean you'll lose weight with more vigorous winter workouts?
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