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The Deadliest Drug: STAT's new multipart series on the United States’ drinking problem, and a nation in denial.
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BREAKING: Biden's top health advisers say he’s already preparing an unprecedented, mid-pandemic transition of power that aims to reboot the federal government’s Covid-19 response. buff.ly/38ndSiS
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How @DGlaucomflecken, the alter ego of ophthalmologist Will Flanary, became an internet sensation. buff.ly/3JIRBeU
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EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration invited the leading Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers to a celebratory “Vaccine Summit” on Tuesday. Neither plans to attend. buff.ly/2JAxbLC
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SCOOP: The Trump administration quietly spent $10 billion from a fund Congress created to help health care providers with Covid-19 costs, and used it on Operation Warp Speed contracts instead. buff.ly/2NVzZ87
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New research finds that crows can ponder the content of their own minds, a manifestation of higher intelligence long believed the sole province of humans and a few other higher mammals. buff.ly/300Jshh
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EXCLUSIVE: @DrPhil presents himself as a crusader for recovery who rescues people from their addictions. But his show has put at risk the health of some of those guests it purports to help, a STAT @BostonGlobe investigation has found statnews.com/2017/12/28/dr-p…
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BREAKING: The first known U.S. case of the highly transmissible variant of Covid-19 discovered in the U.K. has been reported in Colorado. Story to come.
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“He will reach out to Tony Fauci. He will declare his intent to be an active participant in the WHO and in the world. And I believe that in very short order, he’ll be in touch with governors and mayors around the country." buff.ly/35aA7GJ
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Johnson & Johnson expanded global access to tuberculosis drug this week amid novelist and YouTube star John Green joining an advocacy campaign. trib.al/5UjqVbN
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BREAKING: ‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli released from prison buff.ly/3yOVH2y
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BREAKING: Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech is strongly effective, early data from large trial indicate buff.ly/38tuC7U
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BREAKING: 'A blizzard of prescriptions': Documents reveal new details about Purdue's marketing of OxyContin buff.ly/2VNUiDs
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BREAKING: FDA grants historic approval to Alzheimer’s drug designed to slow cognitive decline buff.ly/3w0LpZ3
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It felt like an interrogation, as if she were being accused of doing something wrong, of causing the loss of a pregnancy she hadn’t even known about when she arrived at urgent care. She wished she hadn’t come to see the doctor at all. buff.ly/3bARLc2
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A STAT investigation found that Black residents leave or are terminated from training programs at far higher rates than white residents. buff.ly/3zO6pH7
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The state agreed to set aside vaccines for local distribution, but the events were planned on short notice, with few resources to help spread the word, and no way to reserve appointments for people in the community. buff.ly/308bkj4
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#Breaking: Vinay Prasad is returning to the Food and Drug Administration to resume his role overseeing vaccine, gene therapy, and blood product regulation. trib.al/wcFLRDr
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BREAKING: ‘Real world’ study by CDC shows Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were 90% effective. bit.ly/3u3IDAW
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Opinion: If medical professionals don't gather safely at meetings and annual conferences, how can other professionals, not to mention the general public, be expected to do that? buff.ly/3xs5Obh
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BREAKING: Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech shows positive results buff.ly/2AjgYWg
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For many young people, colon cancer was never on their radar. But since the 1990s, even as colorectal cancer rates have declined for people 50 and older, they have more than doubled among American adults under 50. buff.ly/2UrDbv9
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BREAKING: AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine study put on hold due to suspected adverse reaction in participant in the U.K. buff.ly/35ikjSI
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#Breaking: Vinay Prasad will be the next director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, after Peter Marks was forced out. trib.al/fVbnX9G
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BREAKING: President-elect Joe Biden has turned to two prominent physicians to lead his coronavirus task force who have signaled that they will approach the pandemic far differently than the Trump administration. buff.ly/3pbrWSs
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2️⃣ Stark contrast on immigrants: Trump bans, Clinton celebrates
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Federal prosecutors indicted Teva Pharmaceuticals of conspiring with other manufacturers of fixing prices for generic drugs, the seventh drug maker to be accused as part of a long-running government probe. buff.ly/2YLiYQg
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CDC researchers are suggesting the cumulative time a person spent around others with Covid-19, instead of just the consecutive time spent around an infected person, could also be a factor in transmission. buff.ly/2FROBBs #COVID19 #CDC
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BREAKING: Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine study paused due to unexplained illness in participant buff.ly/3jOjVQd
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BREAKING: CDC says fully vaccinated Americans can spend time together indoors and unmasked buff.ly/3c9iHws
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BREAKING: There is no evidence to support Trump’s accusation, and top biotechnology executives were fast to praise the speed at which the FDA has moved. buff.ly/31kNQZn
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He died by suicide. In an unusual step, his wife sued his pain doctors — a rare legal challenge to physicians over their decisions to reduce patients’ opioid doses. buff.ly/3CK02SR
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Female doctors in the US earn significantly less than male doctors, despite their specialty bit.ly/2tc91cB
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.@SenSanders urges FDA to approve generic Crestor to lower costs for cholesterol patients. bit.ly/29qV1Ez
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.@SenSanders asks Ariad for data to explain price hikes in cancer drug bit.ly/2e4MUPr
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BREAKING: First data for Moderna Covid-19 vaccine show it spurs an immune response buff.ly/32jz06f
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BREAKING: President Trump’s medical said Sunday the president is on dexamethasone, a steroid normally used for severe Covid-19 — increasing speculation about the severity of the president’s illness. buff.ly/36x3ZOk
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A doctor’s humbling journey treating long Covid: ‘The second we think we know what we are doing, we fall flat on our face’ trib.al/iN7NQ7z
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UPDATED: With Murthy, Nunez-Smith, and Kessler, Biden leans on experience to steer Covid-19 task force statnews.com/2020/11/08/with…
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Reopening some states is "like having a peeing section in the swimming pool," as one public health official put it. The coronavirus "doesn’t stay where you started.” buff.ly/3bOmMEU
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BREAKING: Novavax says its Covid-19 vaccine is 90% effective, but far less so against one variant buff.ly/3iVJfnK
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People who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 appear to have a much lower likelihood of developing long Covid than unvaccinated people even when they contract the coronavirus, according to a new study. buff.ly/3kONl2a
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A study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that closing all of a state’s schools was associated with a drastic decrease in both Covid-19 cases and deaths. buff.ly/3hM4VRq
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BREAKING: Johnson & Johnson submits application for Covid-19 vaccine to FDA buff.ly/3az2dge
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BREAKING: FDA grants full approval to Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer, BioNTech buff.ly/2W9Qv8N
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A JAMA podcast — whose host, a white editor and physician, questioned whether racism even exists in medicine — is surfacing complaints that JAMA and other elite medical journals have routinely excluded, minimized, and mishandled issues of race. buff.ly/2PCv9NS
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An Arizona ER doctor has emerged as a vocal leader speaking out on behalf of health care workers and against politicians who aren’t working harder to contain Covid-19. buff.ly/3nHZK8w
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#News: As Covid-19 cases begin again to spike throughout the United States, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said she has begun experiencing a “recurring” feeling of “impending doom.” buff.ly/3w7x0e3
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"Black women deserve to be heard — and treated with dignity and respect — throughout pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period," said Vice President Kamala Harris. @VP buff.ly/2QBG9eu
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Several experts noticed Trump’s speeches this year have included more short sentences, confused word order, repetition, and extended digressions compared to those he made in 2017. trib.al/vSqfkdH
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While U.S. medical schools have talked for years about their efforts to enroll more students of color, the new data underscore how little progress has been made. buff.ly/3gH2IJQ
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Opinion: How do I explain the terrible irony to my Covid-19 patients that we allow the president to put on gatherings of thousands of people in our communities yet they must die alone without the comfort of their own families? buff.ly/3k4P9ml
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Based on the newly published data, the WHO issued new treatment guidelines calling for steroids to become the standard of care for patients hospitalized with Covid-19. buff.ly/3lL29i3
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#BREAKING: The first lawsuit aiming to hold pharmacies responsible for opioid crisis is filed by the Cherokee Nation bit.ly/2pHpCXn
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BREAKING: Data on Gilead’s remdesivir, released by accident, show no benefit for coronavirus patients buff.ly/3cI7fGM
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The prospect of contending with a prolonged outbreak phase — and adjusting again to a constantly evolving roster of restrictions — has brought back another feature of pandemic living: anger. buff.ly/2WFo16p
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BREAKING: @NIH to get $2 billion funding increase this fiscal year as Congress rebuffs Trump's calls for steep cuts. statnews.com/2017/05/01/nih-…
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With long Covid continuing to be a leading cause of disability, physicians, researchers, and policymakers should follow the science — and the science does not point to functional neurological disorder… trib.al/w5QYjIl
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Vaccine experts are concerned the U.S. may be sleepwalking into a policy of recommending annual Covid-19 vaccine boosters — without having generated the evidence to show they are actually needed. buff.ly/3Kfpcg1
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We're honored that @statnews, @HelenBranswell, @DrewQJoseph, and @sxbegle have been named @PulitzerPrizes finalists in breaking news reporting for their Covid-19 coverage.
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Exclusive: The Biden administration is preparing a sweeping initiative to develop a next generation of #Covid-19 immunizations that would thwart future coronavirus variants and dramatically reduce rates of coronavirus infection or transmission. buff.ly/3zxFPBI
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A member of President-elect Joe Biden’s Covid-19 task force is advocating for federal scientists — rather than high-ranking political appointees — to take on the daily work of informing the public about the pandemic beginning in January. buff.ly/3nIQ3Gu
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Opinion: Children are more likely to suffer from pandemic-associated symptoms than from infection-associated symptoms. School policies should reflect this reality. buff.ly/34BxHU6
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BREAKING: Merck’s antiviral pill reduces hospitalization of Covid patients, a possible game-changer for treatment buff.ly/2WuK00l
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Children taken to the emergency room for mental health concerns are more likely to be stuck there for extended stays than they were a decade ago. buff.ly/3dB3Viy
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A handful of freshman Democrats, including Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, and Katie Porter, put drug industry CEOs on the defensive Wednesday like they’ve never been before. buff.ly/33hBGSk
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Two new reports, the result of an 18-month congressional investigation, detail the internal strategies Celgene and Teva used to repeatedly hike the price of two blockbuster drugs. buff.ly/2SbRPCj
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BREAKING: Potential DNA damage from CRISPR has been 'seriously underestimated,' study finds buff.ly/2NSIThL
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Opinion: Despite all of the sacrifices children made to protect adults last year, many adults have not stepped up for children in return by taking the simple steps needed to keep kids safe. buff.ly/2XM71fj
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Opinion: As decision-makers at organizations decide on their Covid-19 vaccination policy, they should be careful to not let this passion lead the organization to run afoul of the law. buff.ly/3pM1E8v
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BREAKING: White House expected to recommend all Americans wear cloth masks to prevent coronavirus spread buff.ly/3dP45Cl
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#Breaking: Vinay Prasad, a top official at the Food and Drug Administration, has suddenly departed after a series of controversial decisions about a treatment for boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. trib.al/vfYBVjn
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BREAKING: In major decision, WHO recommends broad rollout of world’s first malaria vaccine buff.ly/3BwoDLv
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#News: New York State reported Thursday that it has detected a case of vaccine-derived #polio in a person in Rockland County, north of New York City, the first such recorded case in the United States since 2013. buff.ly/3yY5zFJ
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Opinion: U.S. government scientists helped invent remdesivir, and HHS has a legal and moral duty to ensure access to it in the U.S. and around the world. It has the policy tool it needs to do that. buff.ly/2VFDnVd
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BREAKING: Merck CEO quits Trump panel in ‘stand against violence and extremism.’ bit.ly/2wIluqB
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Trump has said he doesn’t wear a mask because “everyone gets tested before they see me.” His positive Covid-19 test reveals the limits of Covid-19 strategies that depend on testing but eschew more basic measures like masks and social distancing. buff.ly/34gNeEB #COVID19
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.@SenSanders outraged over Sanofi Zika vaccine pricing agreement rejection bit.ly/2qwymO5
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STAT spoke with Andrew Kaczynski at length about his family’s devastating journey — and what he believes must be done to help others dealing with pediatric cancer. buff.ly/3rdw6J4
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John Green, a novelist and popular YouTuber, is once again leveraging his star power in the global fight to end tuberculosis. trib.al/hOMw1tc
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From the glory days of print magazines to 2020’s Twitter-crazed news cycles, Sharon Begley won more awards and accolades than could fit in an obituary. The accomplishments she was prouder of were making complex ideas accessible to anyone — and beautiful. buff.ly/3sCdAvV
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BREAKING: Two CRISPR scientists win Nobel Prize in chemistry buff.ly/34vmgZP
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BREAKING: Trump announces that U.S. is terminating its relationship with the World Health Organization. Story to come.
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The measure of what makes a good medical student and future physician should not be how many publications they have, but how well they understand and care for their patients. trib.al/r3ip6BB
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen called Novartis's CEO promising access to the president and members of his inner circle. Then-CEO Joe Jimenez instructed his team to reach a deal with Cohen. buff.ly/2wmF13Q
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New York State health authorities revealed they had detected additional polioviruses in wastewater sampled in two counties north of New York City, findings that signal continued spread of the viruses in the region. buff.ly/3zW3o7o
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SCOOP: @potus, breaking with precedent, will not meet with American Nobel recipients buff.ly/2AFx9Zn
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"At the beginning of the pandemic, the CDC said that a close contact was somebody that you're indoors with unmasked for 15 minutes or more. The equivalent of that with the Delta variant is not 15 minutes, it's one second." buff.ly/3ydHGbq
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Two new studies from Germany paint a sobering picture of the toll that Covid-19 takes on the heart, raising the specter of long-term damage after people recover, even if their illness was not severe enough to require hospitalization. buff.ly/3g7HWQi
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“This is a very important birth for the whole uterus transplant community.” buff.ly/2Uf7O2j
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BREAKING: FDA authorizes Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose Covid-19 vaccine buff.ly/3uDe2v4
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is launching a fresh round of questioning on states’ limits to abortion rights. trib.al/EUbybOw
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A mutation found in fast-spreading coronavirus variants does not negate the Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech, a new study indicates. buff.ly/3no62sV
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Because of a family history of colorectal cancer, STAT's @SciFleur had his first colonoscopy just days before turning 30 — and documented every step. Watch his story: buff.ly/3gUTW9s
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Here's a rundown of the members of President-elect Biden's Covid-19 task force. buff.ly/2ImrzDZ
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BREAKING: Genome-sequencing pioneer Eric Lander to lead science policy for Biden buff.ly/3oOD1s0
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If you're one of the 156 million who relies on insurance plans sponsored by their employers, pay attention. bit.ly/2qCV9HN #AHCA
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