Vaccine Hesitancy Trends from 2019 to 2022 Evaluated
Drug Topics
OCTOBER 21, 2022
As vaccine hesitancy grows, fewer children are receiving routine childhood vaccines.
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Veterans Mental Health Care Improvement Act of 2019 Expands Access
Pharmacy Times
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Four years after congress passed it, the Hannon Act is helping veterans get better care
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CDC: Uninsured rate fell by 26% between 2019 and 2023
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 18, 2024
The uninsured rate in the U.S. has declined by 26% over the past several years, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. | The uninsured rate in the U.S. has declined by 26% over the past several years, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Digital health funding hit $5.7B through June, on track to surpass 2019 and 2023, Rock Health reports
Fierce Healthcare
JULY 8, 2024
digital health startups pulled in $5.7 billion across 266 deals in the first six months of 2024, marking continued momentum in the sector after a rocky few quarters last year. | digital health startups pulled in $5.7
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Measles Cases in the US Increased Significantly in 2024
Drug Topics
APRIL 12, 2024
Since a 2019 measles outbreak, the CDC has seen an increasing number of cases in the US.
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Teen Drug Overdose Deaths on the Rise
Drug Topics
JANUARY 3, 2023
The CDC has reported an increase in drug overdose deaths from 2019 to 2022 in adolescents aged 10 to 19 years.
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Interventions Tailored to Race, Gender Could Help Decrease Drug Overdose Deaths
Drug Topics
JULY 17, 2023
Methamphetamine deaths among American Indian and Native Alaskan men and women significantly increased between 1992 and 2019.
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ICYMI: Cancer death rate continues to decline due to treatment advances
PhRMA
JANUARY 25, 2023
decrease between 2019 and 2020 alone, increasingly reflects advances in prevention and treatment—including new medicines which have improved survival across a range of cancers. million averted cancer deaths over this period. The report notes the continued decline in death rates since 1991, including a 1.5%
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Lawmakers mull lifting ban on physician-owned hospitals as doc lobbying groups claim major cost savings
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 19, 2023
billion in savings across 20 of Medicare’s most expensive conditions in 2019— tho | Lobbying groups in favor of overturning the ban on new physician-owned hospitals outlined broad cost savings if 2019's Medicare patients were treated at such facilities instead of a traditional hospital.
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STAT+: AI versus AI: The emerging arms race over health insurance denials
STAT
DECEMBER 12, 2024
The software engineer’s disillusionment began in 2019, when her insurer, UnitedHealthcare, balked at covering physical therapy after she was hit by a car and could not walk. Like many Americans, Holden Karau said she was fed up with health insurance.
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Vanda's jet-lag approval hopes for Hetlioz quashed with FDA hearing rejection
Fierce Pharma
MARCH 5, 2024
Vanda has been waiting years for an FDA hearing to contest the agency’s 2019 rejection of its sleep drug Hetlioz in jet lag disorder. Vanda has been waiting years for an FDA hearing to contest the agency’s 2019 rejection of its sleep drug Hetlioz in jet lag disorder. regulator, the FDA has crushed Vanda’s bid.
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Ambitious federal study failed to curb opioid deaths, NIH announces
STAT
JUNE 16, 2024
In 2019, amid an ever-worsening drug crisis, the federal government launched a research study with an ambitious goal: to lower opioid overdoses in participating communities by 40% using evidence-based interventions like distributing naloxone and providing access to addiction medications.
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Another delay for Abeona's topical gene therapy pz-cel as FDA sends out a rejection
Fierce Pharma
APRIL 23, 2024
Dating to a 2019 clinical hold of a phase 3 trial, getting its gene therapy ra | Dating to a 2019 clinical hold, getting its gene therapy pz-cel across the FDA finish line has been a challenge for troubled Abeona Therapeutics. Now the wait continues as the FDA has rejected the treatment due to CMC issues.
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Study Finds Significant Drop in Vaccine Confidence During COVID-19 Pandemic
Pharmacy Times
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
In a 2019 survey, middle-aged participants were considerably more apprehensive about getting vaccinated than younger groups, which was not the case in the 2022 survey.
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Nationwide hospital mortality risk fell as acuity, volumes rose, report finds
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Hospital patients’ risk of death has fallen substantially since the COVID-19 pandemic and the months preceding it, even as hospitals are treating more and sicker patients, according to a new report | An analysis of 715 hospitals' patient safety metrics showed that patients hospitalized in Q1 2024 were about 22% more likely to survive as compared (..)
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Opinion: Independent doctors like me are becoming an endangered species
STAT
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
More than 100,000 doctors have left private practice and become employees of hospitals and other corporate entities since 2019. Today, nearly three in four physicians are employees of larger health care entities or other corporations — a record high.
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Digital health investments shift to disease treatment, workflow solutions and VBC in Q3: Rock Health
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 2, 2023
billion across 119 deals, the second-lowest quarter by funding total since the fourth quarter of 2019, Rock Health reports. Digital health founders and investors continue to face a tighter funding cycle with fewer deals and lower check sizes. | In Q3 2023, U.S. digital health startups raised $2.5
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Done deal: Pfizer completes $43B acquisition of Seagen, doubling its oncology pipeline
Fierce Pharma
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Pfizer’s $43 billion acquisition of Seagen is in the books, as it becomes the largest M&A transaction in the biopharma industry since AbbVie snatched up Allergan for $63 billion in 2019. The buyout of the antibody-drug conjugate specialist has doubled Pfizer’s pipeline to 60 programs.
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STAT+: Former medical device CEO who sold dummy, plastic parts convicted of fraud
STAT
MARCH 7, 2024
Laura Perryman led Stimwave, which sold nerve stimulation devices to combat pain, from 2010 to 2019. STAT published new details about the Stimwave story in May, after former employees described how Perryman broke into Stimwave’s Florida headquarters to steal back devices after her termination in 2019.
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STAT+: As Medicare spending on remote patient monitoring jumps, HHS watchdog warns of fraud, misuse
STAT
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
In just four years from the beginning of 2019 through 2022, according to the report, the number of Medicare patients receiving RPM increased tenfold, from 55,000 to 570,000. Remote patient monitoring has exploded since the pandemic. Medicare Advantage use increased 14 times over. Medicare Advantage use increased 14 times over.
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Youth vaping continues its tumble from a Juul-fueled high
STAT
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Around 6% of middle and high school students used vapes in 2024, down from 8% last year, and a record high of 20% in 2019, according to a survey released Thursday by the FDA and the CDC. The number of U.S. The vape brand Juul fueled this surge, but has since receded in popularity after FDA actions and legal challenges.
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FDA Approves IVIG for Pediatric Patients Aged 2 and Older With Primary Humoral Immunodeficiency
Pharmacy Times
DECEMBER 13, 2023
Bivigam was initially approved by the FDA in May 2019 for the treatment of primary humoral immunodeficiency, including a group of genetic disorders.
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Juul’s internal playbook opens a rare window into influence in Washington
STAT
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
WASHINGTON — A new trove of internal emails and other documents from the e-cigarette maker Juul reveals the company’s extensive behind-the-scenes efforts to promote its interests in Washington — a rare insight into the otherwise opaque methods corporations use to influence the government.
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Direct-acting Antivirals for Hepatitis C Infection Are Underused in the US, Study Finds
Pharmacy Times
DECEMBER 15, 2022
While the use of direct-acting antiviral treatment for hepatitis C virus increased from 2014 to 2018, treatment rates have declined since 2019 and remain suboptimal.
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North Carolina towns, counties' antitrust lawsuit against HCA's Mission Health may continue, federal judge rules
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
A federal judge has denied HCA Healthcare’s motion to dismiss antitrust litigation brought by North Carolina cities and counties related to the for-profit’s 2019 acquisition of Mission Health.
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STAT+: SEC charges former CEO of pain relief device company with $41 million fraud
STAT
DECEMBER 20, 2023
Laura Perryman led Stimwave, which sold nerve stimulation devices to combat pain, from 2010 to 2019, when the fraud came to light. The Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday charged the former CEO of Stimwave, a company that sold devices containing dummy pieces of plastic, with defrauding investors out of $41 million.
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STAT+: A rare disease program, portrayed as both lifeline and pharma handout, is set to expire
STAT
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
After his son Michael was diagnosed with a devastating, ultra-rare disease in 2019, Terry Pirovolakis dedicated himself to eradicating it. Pirovolakis, a Canadian IT director, recruited academics and raised $3 million to design a gene therapy.
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Opinion: The coronavirus lab leak hypothesis is damaging science
STAT
AUGUST 2, 2024
Where and when the Covid-19 pandemic began — in Wuhan, China in late 2019 — is well known. How it began is a matter of heated controversy. There are two competing hypotheses, one of which is hindering the process of scientific discovery and could hold back the development of vaccines and other antiviral agents in the U.S.
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Alcohol is driving a half-dozen types of cancer in the U.S., study finds
STAT
JULY 11, 2024
Data was from 2019 in order to avoid the influence of the pandemic, when cancer diagnoses declined because of delayed care. The results were published in the American Cancer Society’s journal, CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.
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Pandemic policies have fewer adults skipping medical care due to cost
Fierce Healthcare
JULY 8, 2024
Nearly 5 million fewer people delayed care from 2019 to 2022, a study from the Urban Institute with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation revealed. Pandemic-era policies appear to have helped almost 5 million people access necessary medical care that they otherwise may not have been able to, a recent report shows.
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STAT+: Pfizer pulls sickle cell treatment Oxbryta off global markets
STAT
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
The decision is a stunning blow for a drug that was approved in 2019 , heralded as a new way to treat the inherited blood disorder. Pfizer said Wednesday that it was removing Oxbryta, a pill for the treatment of sickle cell disease, from all markets globally due to high risks of severe safety events, including deaths.
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Gilead CEO Daniel O'Day collects 5% pay raise to $22.6M, his largest compensation package in years
Fierce Pharma
MARCH 19, 2024
After a year marked by Gilead's oncology push and an ongoing focus on CAR-T therapies, CEO Daniel O’Day collected his largest total compensation package since the year he arrived at the Califo | The CEO collected his highest total compensation package since his first year in the role in 2019.
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There’s a knowledge gap about miscarriages in the U.S., and researchers hope to close it
STAT
AUGUST 21, 2024
Megan Hanson was eight weeks pregnant in 2019 when she experienced a miscarriage — her sixth consecutive loss in as many years. It felt particularly cruel after a second IVF transfer.
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Walgreens releases 2023-2024 flu index
Drug Store News
OCTOBER 20, 2023
Flu activity is 66% lower than this time last year, but it is 34% higher when looking at pre-pandemic seasons, such as 2018-2019.
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Air quality improvements belie rising racial and ethnic disparities in pollutant-related deaths, study finds
STAT
MARCH 5, 2024
Researchers found an overall drop from 2010 and 2019 in death and disease linked to nitrogen dioxide (NO2), an air pollutant produced from fossil fuel burning, and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) Deaths attributable to PM2.5
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Second-generation mosquito nets prevented 13 million malaria cases in large pilot programs
STAT
APRIL 17, 2024
Results shared this week by the New Nets Project, an initiative funded by Unitaid and the Global Fund, highlighted a pair of second-generation bed nets tested in endemic areas between 2019 and 2022.
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Denied by AI: How Medicare Advantage plans use algorithms to cut off care for seniors in need
STAT
MARCH 13, 2023
Meanwhile, medical notes in June 2019 showed Walter’s pain was maxing out the scales and that she could not dress herself, go to the bathroom, or even push a walker without help. Read the rest…
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Routine vaccinations drop among U.S. kindergartners for the third year in a row
STAT
JANUARY 12, 2023
Vaccinations among children remain high, but the trend — with coverage dropping from about 95% in the 2019-2020 school year to 94% in 2020-2021 to 93% in 2021-2022, according to the data released Thursday — has health officials concerned. The percentage of U.S.
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Is the future of AI in health care just a lot of hype?
STAT
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Narayan, a professor of computer science at Princeton University, went viral in 2019 for a talk he gave at MIT on how to recognize overblown declarations about AI’s capabilities. Now he’s teamed up with his Ph.D. student Kapoor to publish the book “ AI Snake Oil ,” which came out Sep.
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Nurses and health care support workers at higher risk of suicide, study finds
STAT
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
million employed people (both within the health care field and outside) observed from 2008 to 2019. While other research has examined the incidence of mental health issues and suicide risk among physicians, the same isn’t necessarily true of other health care professions.
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STAT+: Gilead’s chief medical officer to leave as R&D efforts stall
STAT
JULY 17, 2024
Merdad Parsey, who joined Gilead in 2019, will stay in his post until the first quarter of next year as the company looks for a successor, Gilead said in a press release Wednesday. Gilead has faced multiple setbacks in its attempt to move away from its stronghold in virology and into other areas like cancer.
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Wages haven’t kept pace with premium hikes: study
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 16, 2024
Wages have not been able to offset the rising costs of premiums for workers with employer-sponsored coverage over the last three decades, with Black and Hispanic employers hit particularly hard by | The mean cumulative lost earnings from 1988 to 2019 due to increased premiums in employer-sponsored health plans come to $125,340 per family, according (..)
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Life expectancy for men in U.S. falls to 73 years — six years less than for women, per study
STAT
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
years in 2019 to 77 in 2020 and 76.1 At least partially as a consequence of over 1 million Covid-19 deaths, life expectancy in the U.S. has declined significantly over the past few years, falling from 78.8 in 2022 — undoing over two decades of progress. and Italy all enjoy a life expectancy of 80 years or more.
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STAT+: U.S. drug shortages have reached a decade high and are lasting longer, too
STAT
JUNE 4, 2024
This was also the highest rate of product discontinuations since 2019. These low prices also translated into more product discontinuations, which rose by 40% from 2022 to 2023, and from 100 drugs to 140 during that time. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…
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