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Opinion: The FDA’s risky action on compounding weight loss drugs

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When Makena, a drug designed to prevent preterm births, hit the market in 2011 at $1,500 per dose, it drew rife backlash. The drug was based on an active ingredient that had been available for many years at a much lower cost.

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STAT+: New details on a risky medical device show need for more FDA transparency, researchers say

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Tonya Brand was horrified to find a piece of metal poking out of her inner thigh while relaxing at her house in Georgia in 2011. She had no idea what it could be. 

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Opinion: Why cancer advocates like me are leaving X

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Since 2011, the year I was diagnosed, I’ve been active in one or more online lung cancer patient groups. A version of this essay first appeared on Janet Freeman-Daily’s blog, Gray Connections. I’ve been living with and communicating about lung cancer for over 13 years.

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US Congress passes bill to end Parkinson’s disease

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The US Congress has passed the first-ever federal bill dedicated to ending Parkinson’s disease, modelled on similar legislation for Alzheimer’s enacted in 2011

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California Wildfires in the 2010s Exacerbated Psychotropic Medication Prescriptions

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Researchers studied the effect of wildfires on mental health in California from 2011 to 2018.

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STAT+: With big ambition — and a family name to match — Reed Jobs charts his own course in biotech

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He was a sophomore studying biology at Stanford University and, up until October 2011, had always planned to pursue a career in cancer research. In the months after his father died of complications from pancreatic cancer, Reed Jobs found it difficult to go back to life as it was before.

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More than 70 babies have been born from uterus transplants: ‘It’s a complete new world’

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The first successful transplant was performed in 2011 — but even then, the recipient wasn’t immediately able to get pregnant and deliver a baby. The first modern attempt at transferring a uterus from one human to another occurred at the turn of the millennium.

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