Congress called for an ALS moonshot. The plan for it doesn't leave Earth ( www.statnews.com )
Walgreens executive says it is 'doubling down' on recruiting customers into clinical trials ( www.statnews.com )
Updated Covid vaccine has 54% effectiveness, new data suggest ( www.statnews.com )
FDA approves Moderna’s RSV vaccine, its second licensed product ( www.statnews.com )
After private equity firms gobbled up wheelchair makers, users pay the price in long repair times ( www.statnews.com )
Troubled for-profit chains are stealthily operating dozens of psychiatric hospitals under nonprofits’ names ( www.statnews.com )
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Melinda French Gates, going solo, aims to influence reproductive rights in the U.S. ( www.statnews.com )
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Troubled for-profit chains are stealthily operating dozens of psychiatric hospitals under nonprofits’ names ( www.statnews.com )
Large nonprofit health systems like Geisinger, Ascension, and Henry Ford are forming joint ventures with investor-owned psychiatric hospital operators such as Acadia and Universal Health Services. While these hospitals often carry the names of the nonprofits, for-profit companies with questionable track records manage...
Psychiatrists aren't fulfilling the social contract that subsidized their training ( www.statnews.com )
Smoke exposure from California's wildfires linked to 52,000 early deaths, study says ( www.statnews.com )
High blood pressure in kids doubles their risk of cardiovascular disease, study finds, bringing a call for routine screening ( www.statnews.com )
Children and adolescents diagnosed with high blood pressure have double the risk of major cardiovascular problems as adults, a new study that followed them into their 20s and 30s reports. ...
After private equity firms gobbled up wheelchair makers, users pay the price in long repair times ( www.statnews.com )
Early tests of H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest U.S. bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread ( www.statnews.com )
H5N1 bird flu virus particles found in pasteurized milk but FDA says commercial milk supply appears safe ( www.statnews.com )
“The agency said it has been trying to see if it could grow virus from milk found to contain evidence of H5N1, which is the gold standard test to see if there is viable virus in a product. The lengthy statement the agency released does not explicitly say FDA laboratories were unable to find live virus in the milk samples, but...
Genetic analysis reveals H5N1 flu virus outbreak in cows likely started earlier than thought ( www.statnews.com )
The genetic data point to a single spillover event that probably occurred in late 2023, Michael Worobey, an evolutionary virologist at the University of Arizona, told STAT on Tuesday.
About half of cancer drugs given accelerated approval don't show improved survival or quality of life ( www.statnews.com )
For decades, the Food and Drug Administration’s accelerated approval pathway has helped companies get drugs for serious unmet medical needs to patients — and the market — sooner. But about half of cancer drugs approved via this route fail to improve patient survival or quality of life in subsequent clinical trials after...
FDA urged to move faster to fix pulse oximeters for darker-skinned patients ( www.statnews.com )
The Food and Drug Administration should move more quickly to ensure pulse oximeters — the ubiquitous devices used to measure blood oxygen — work well in all patients, should better inform clinicians about the devices’ shortcomings in patients with darker skin, and should recall versions that are particularly problematic,...
Merck CEO refused to testify in Senate because he’s not an expert in drug pricing, Bernie Sanders says ( www.statnews.com )
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday jabbed the CEO of Merck for telling congressional staff that he didn’t have the expertise to testify at a Senate hearing on prescription drug prices because he’s a tax attorney....
Springworks wins FDA approval for drug to treat desmoid tumors ( www.statnews.com )
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved the first treatment for people with desmoid tumors, a localized cancer that invades soft tissue and muscle.
Medicaid is paying millions for salty, fat-laden ‘medically tailored’ cheeseburgers and sandwiches ( www.statnews.com )
They’re marketed as healthy, “dietitian-approved” meals and delivered directly to the homes of people seriously ill from cancer, diabetes, or heart disease: a Jimmy Dean frozen sausage breakfast sandwich, biscuits and gravy, a cheeseburger....
Palliative care for cancer patients is found to be as effective given virtually as in person ( www.statnews.com )
Comfort can be delivered to patients with advanced cancer virtually just as well as in person, according to a new study presented on Sunday at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting in Chicago....
Many docs who tweeted product endorsements also took money from manufacturers, analysis shows ( www.statnews.com )
Heat waves associated with increased risk of preterm birth in the U.S. ( www.statnews.com )
Heat waves are becoming more frequent and more intense, posing more of a health risk around the world. High temperatures can be deadly, and are especially dangerous for those with cardiovascular and chronic disease — but they begin affecting human lives even before birth....
How doctors are pressuring sickle cell patients into unwanted sterilizations ( www.statnews.com )
