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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

STAT

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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PTC inks Royalty deal worth up to $1.5B on Genentech-partnered SMA drug Evrydsi

Fierce Pharma

The company licensed the med to Genentech in 2011. Amid a cost-cutting drive and a looming commercial threat in Europe, PTC Ther | PTC will hold on to 19% of its royalty interest in the Genentech drug with the option to sell the rest down the line.

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Why AstraZeneca’s CEO is accusing British tabloids of ‘fake news’

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Damian here with news of a 2021-sized biotech round that has echoes of 2011, plus an ESMO recap and a curious stock move. Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today?    Sign up  to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Good morning, everyone. Read the rest…

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Opinion: It’s time to rethink the Medicare annual wellness visit

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In 2011, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services created the annual wellness visit (AWV), a new visit type with no cost to Medicare patients, better reimbursement to primary care practices, and higher assigned credit for clinicians’ work.

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Opinion: Why haven’t health care cost increases exceeded inflation? There’s a very good reason

STAT

between 1999 and 2011. These overall numbers have been reinforced by reports that Medicare’s spending per person has been flat for more than a decade, and recent data showing that premiums for private employer-sponsored insurance have been increasing at 3.7% in the past decade, which is much slower than the 8.4% Read the rest…

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FTC withdraws 'outdated' healthcare antitrust policy statements, following DOJ's lead

Fierce Healthcare

Friday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its withdrawal of two policy statements outlining its former position on antitrust enforcement in healthcare markets, echoing a similar decision | The two policy statements, issued in 1996 and 2011, "no longer reflect market realities in this important sector of the economy," the regulator (..)

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