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Measuring the long-term cost of restricting abortion access

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When Diana Greene Foster and her team at the University of California, San Francisco, started their study on the lives of women who were denied abortions in 2008, they sought to investigate a rather commonly held view: That having an abortion hurt women’s mental and physical health, including by leading to PTSD and drug and alcohol use disorder. (..)

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Nurses and health care support workers at higher risk of suicide, study finds

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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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Roche, PathAI team up on AI companion diagnostics

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The alliance is with Roche Tissue Diagnostics (RTD), a unit of the Swiss pharma group that is concerned with the development of tissue-based tools to improve the diagnosis of cancer and grew out of Roche’s acquisition of Venta Medical Systems in 2008.

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STAT+: ‘Learning each other’s language’: FDA, patent office seek to work together to lower drug prices

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Patent & Trademark Office granted two more patents, but did not do so until 2008. The move meant that the company, which is now part of Bristol Myers Squibb, won several more years of valuable patent protection than it would have received had it applied for the extra patents when submitting its data to the FDA.

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Cross-border ‘twinning programs’ may reduce survival disparities for childhood leukemia

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In 2008, researchers and clinicians at Rady Children’s Hospital, the University of California, San Diego, and Hospital General-Tijuana created one of these twinning programs, where two “sister hospitals” share training, expertise, research, and other resources for the mutual benefit of patients in both countries.

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Post-mastectomy Breast Implants Not Found to Increase Risk for Rare Lymphoma

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Study finds textured breast implants do not increase the risk of anaplastic large-cell lymphoma, which has grown in incidence since 2008.

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Mistakes happen in research papers. But corrections often don’t

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Five studies co-authored by Tessier-Lavigne are now under the microscope for containing alleged altered images: a 1999 Cell study , a 2008 paper in the EMBO Journal, a 2003 Nature study, and two studies published in 2001 in Science.

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