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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, tens of thousands of HPV-related cancer diagnoses were given per year from 2015 to 2019.

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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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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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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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PharmaVoice

JULY 19, 2024

Merdad Parsey joined Gilead as its chief medical officer in 2019 and has helped lead the company’s expansion into oncology, with mixed success.

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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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IDStewardship

MARCH 7, 2025

References & Resources CDC: Main Measles page CDC: Measles clinical diagnosis and facts sheet CDC: Measles cases and outbreaks CDC: Measles resources CDC: Expanding Measles Outbreak in the United States and Guidance for the Upcoming Travel Season. 7 March 2025. MMR Vaccine VIS WHO: Main Measles page Whats going on with measles? Epidemiology.

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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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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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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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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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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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PharmaVoice

AUGUST 2, 2023

The biotech’s 2019 trial halt was a major disappointment in NASH, but a turnaround has shown late-stage potential in another liver disease with unmet needs.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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AUGUST 16, 2024

The report analyzed healthcare sector Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings from 2019 through mid-2024. Healthcare bankruptcy filings have slowed over the past three quarters, according to a new analysis by healthcare restructuring advisory firm Gibbins Advisors. |

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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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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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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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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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JANUARY 10, 2025

In a lawsuit filed in state court in February, Coleman had alleged that Kroger’s more than 100 Kentucky pharmacies had been responsible for over 11% of all opioid pills dispensed in the state from 2006 to 2019, or about 444 million opioid doses.

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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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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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European Pharmaceutical Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has sent a warning letter to KVK-Techs drug manufacturing facility following an inspection in April 2019. The document identified significant violations of current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) regulations for finished pharmaceuticals.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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