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Flashback: 2005 Tennessee Medicaid disenrollment led to increased crime, study finds

Fierce Healthcare

A new study, that draws parallels to current day redeterminations, delves into the relationship between mass Medicaid disenrollment in 2005 and how it may have led to violent crime.

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Q&A: Lessons from the HHS secretary who ran Bush’s bird flu response

STAT

When he first heard about the avian flu outbreak in 2005, he had been secretary of health and human services in George W. WASHINGTON — Mike Leavitt is in the small club of government officials who’ve led an avian flu response. The experience is still fresh in his mind nearly two decades later. Read the rest…

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Phreesia on the power of personalization and a privacy-first model

Fierce Pharma

Founded in 2005, Phreesia provides cutting-edge technology that helps healthcare organizations engage patients more effe | Founded in 2005, Phreesia provides cutting-edge technology that helps healthcare organizations engage patients more effectively, empowering them to take an active role in their care.

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Zydus Pharmaceuticals (USA) Inc. Profile

Pharmacy Times

Zydus Pharmaceuticals (USA) Inc, has come a long way since its first commercial launch in August 2005.

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STAT+: GLP-1s lower risk of 10 obesity-associated cancers, study shows

STAT

million patients with type 2 diabetes from 2005 to 2018 who were prescribed GLP-1s, insulin, or metformin. New research finds that the GLP-1 class of drugs — glucagon-like peptide receptor agonists — is more effective in mitigating the risk of 10 obesity-associated cancers than its type 2 diabetes drug alternatives.

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COVID-19 Reversed Progress Made In Narrowing Racial Mortality Gap

Drug Topics

Following some improvement, excess death rate returned to 1999 levels for Black men and 2005 levels for Black women.

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Opinion: DNA data security requires robust protections, not rhetoric

STAT

But the legislation’s misguided approach would single out a small number of companies, including the California-based company I founded in 2005, Complete Genomics , despite the fact that we have no access to such data. That is a noble goal.

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