Rite Aid Addresses Cyberattack: 2.2 Million Customers’ Data Breached
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JULY 17, 2024
The retail pharmacy chain issued an alert to its customers that purchasing data from 2017 to 2018 may have been breached by a third party.
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Type 2 Diabetes in Young Patients Spiked in Year 1 of COVID-19 Pandemic
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AUGUST 29, 2022
Using electronic medical record data from 2018-2020 obtained from 24 medical centers across the US, including Johns Hopkins, University of Colorado, and Mayo Clinic institutions, a new study suggests rates of youth onset type 2 diabetes increased 77% during the first year of the pandemic.
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Emergency Visits in Canada Tripled After Legalization of Edible Cannabis
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Emergency department visits tripled by December 2022 compared with the pre-legalization period from January 2015 to September 2018.
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California Wildfires in the 2010s Exacerbated Psychotropic Medication Prescriptions
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MARCH 13, 2024
Researchers studied the effect of wildfires on mental health in California from 2011 to 2018.
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Hospital, health system boards saw low turnover, slow diversity gains from 2018-2022, AHA finds
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340B program reaches $100 billion in sales, while patients are left behind
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JUNE 14, 2023
year-over-year in 2022, continuing a trend in which 340B sales have almost doubled since 2018, outpacing growth of the total U.S. The 340B Drug Pricing Program has grown yet again , exceeding $100 billion in sales in 2022 when 340B-priced medicines are measured at wholesale acquisition cost. Recent data from IQVIA shows 340B grew 12.2%
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Adherence to Prevention Recommendations Associated With Reduced Risk For All Cancers
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NOVEMBER 28, 2023
The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) and American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) Cancer Prevention Recommendations were updated in 2018 and encourage adopting healthy lifestyle habits.
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Digital Health Interventions Could Help Improve Efficacy, Efficiency in Dermatology Care
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AUGUST 9, 2023
DHIs, first classified by the World Health Organization in 2018, include telemedicine, mobile health, wearable technologies, and artificial intelligence algorithms.
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Medicare Part D Spending Reaches $48 Billion on Top 10 Drugs
Drug Topics
JULY 14, 2023
A Kaiser Family Foundation analysis found the 10 drugs accounted for more than half of the increase in gross Part D spending from 2018 to 2021.
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STAT+: Wyden claims Pfizer used a ‘colossal’ scheme to avoid paying billions in U.S. taxes
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MARCH 27, 2025
for 2018 and 2020. In what one U.S. lawmaker described as possibly the “largest tax-dodging scheme” by a pharmaceutical company in history, Pfizer sold $20 billion in medicines to U.S. customers, but treating the profits as foreign income for tax purposes.
Over twice as many healthcare workers report harassment in 2022 than 2018, CDC finds
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 25, 2023
New survey data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is reinforcing doctors’ warnings that the medical field is crumbling under a largely unaddressed mental health crisis and a | Survey data outlining healthcare workers' worsening mental health and workplace difficulties comes alongside new calls for action from the CDC and (..)
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STAT+: Pharma’s reputation with patient groups dips again, mostly due to pricing issues
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APRIL 28, 2025
In 2021, for instance, 59% of companies scored highly, compared with 41% in 2018. The back-to-back declines come after 60% of patient groups believed the industry fared well thanks to the initial response of many companies to quickly develop salves for the Covid-19 pandemic. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…
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Study: The Pandemic Disrupted Children’s Readiness for Kindergarten
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FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Between 2018 and 2021, kindergarten-readiness dropped by 10%.
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What will it take to end health care worker burnout?
STAT
OCTOBER 26, 2023
Researchers compared survey data from 2018 and 2022, finding that health workers experienced poorer mental health outcomes post-pandemic. Of those surveyed, 46% of health workers reported feeling burnout often or very often in 2022, compared to 32% in 2018. Read the rest…
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STAT+: The U.S. has relied on cheap, effective generic drugs for 40 years. Now that promise is under threat
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SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Then, in 2018, she finally found a drug that kept her ADHD in check. STAT is co-publishing this article by Tradeoffs. Lisa Ann Trainor struggled to stay on top of schoolwork, hold a job or even perform basic tasks like laundry for six exhausting years. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…
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FDA approves drugs from Vertex, Novo, Bristol Myers to wrap 2024
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JANUARY 3, 2025
The agency’s main drug review office cleared 50 novel medicines last year, short of 2018’s record total but on the higher end of recent annual tallies.
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Apiary invests in life sciences SEO pioneer PIO to support global expansion
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MAY 9, 2025
Founded in London in 2018, PIO was the first SEO agency to serve highly regulated pharma and biotech markets. Private equity firm Apiary Capital has invested in performance-io (PIO), a specialist life sciences performance marketing and SEO agency, to accelerate its international growth and service expansion.
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Eli Lilly agrees to provide free and lower-priced insulin in Minnesota to resolve 2018 lawsuit
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FEBRUARY 8, 2024
After reaching a settlement with Minnesota’s attorney general, Eli Lilly can close the book on a yearslong lawsuit in the state. | The company will provide its insulin products at $35 per month and donate free insulin at 15 clinics over the next five years. Meanwhile, Minnesota's claims against Novo Nordisk and Sanofi remain ongoing.
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Merck Ebola vaccine Ervebo shown to offer substantial protection
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AUGUST 21, 2024
Merck’s Ebola vaccine offered substantial protection to people vaccinated during the 2018-2020 outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with an effectiveness of 84% in those who had been vaccinated at least 10 days before being exposed to the virus, a new study reports.
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FEBRUARY 4, 2025
A federal appeals court axed a $650 million judgment and corresponding injunction against CVS Pharmacy, Walgreens Boots Alliance and Walmart stemming from a lawsuit filed by two Ohio counties in 2018.
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Opinion: Private equity: health care’s vampire
STAT
AUGUST 19, 2024
These firms — which pool funds from wealthy investors and are exempt from many of the regulations and disclosure requirements that apply to other types of investments — have spent a half-trillion dollars since 2018 buying up medical resources.
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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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2022 ACC Consensus on Role of Nonstatin Therapies for LDL-Cholesterol Lowering
Pharmacy Times
MAY 16, 2023
Since the 2018 guideline’s publication, additional non-statin therapies such as bempedoic acid, evinacumab, and inclisiran, have been approved by the FDA for the management of hypercholesterolemia.
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Opinion: What happened to obesity after Chile slew Tony the Tiger?
STAT
JUNE 13, 2024
” So read the headline of a front-page story in The New York Times in 2018 on a dramatic step Chile was taking to fight obesity. “In Sweeping War on Obesity, Chile slays Tony the Tiger.”
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STAT+: GLP-1s lower risk of 10 obesity-associated cancers, study shows
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JULY 5, 2024
million patients with type 2 diabetes from 2005 to 2018 who were prescribed GLP-1s, insulin, or metformin. New research finds that the GLP-1 class of drugs — glucagon-like peptide receptor agonists — is more effective in mitigating the risk of 10 obesity-associated cancers than its type 2 diabetes drug alternatives.
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Walgreens releases 2023-2024 flu index
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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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USDA, FDA turf battles hamper responses to outbreaks like H5N1 bird flu
STAT
MAY 14, 2024
WASHINGTON — On a bright June day in 2018, one of the nation’s top regulators waved groceries in the air, quizzing the secretary of agriculture on which agency is charged with monitoring different types of food.
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Sweeping bill to fight opioid addiction will be considered by Senate health committee
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DECEMBER 4, 2023
The proposal would reauthorize a number of programs first created by the SUPPORT Act, an addiction-focused bill that Congress first passed in 2018.
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STAT+: Why FDA product recalls have spiked in recent years
STAT
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Whichever the case, product recalls by the Food and Drug Administration and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) more than doubled between 2018 and 2022, according to new research published on Wednesday by life sciences software company MasterControl. In 2018, the agency only recalled 22 products. In 2022, it recalled 310.
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No longer brushed off: A Minnesota clinic tries to rewrite medicine’s approach to miscarriage
STAT
AUGUST 31, 2023
The first miscarriage happened in June 2018, almost as soon as she found out she was pregnant. — By the time Taylor Teske came to be sitting on an exam table in an obstetrician’s office in Minnesota, her medical records marked a devastating journey: nine pregnancies, one baby, eight miscarriages.
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STAT+: Juul spent big to court Black leaders to promote its e-cigarettes, new documents show
STAT
FEBRUARY 3, 2024
Documents released this week shed new light on an aggressive strategy from vape maker Juul to court Black leaders, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, to publicly support its e-cigarettes.
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AbbVie swoops on Pfizer spin-out Cerevel with $8.7bn offer
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DECEMBER 7, 2023
billion to buy central nervous system drug specialist Cerevel Therapeutics which spun out of Pfizer in 2018. AbbVie has announced its second major takeover deal in the space of a few days, offering $8.7
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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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Gilead adds investigational HIV vaccine to its portfolio from Spanish biotech
Pharmaceutical Technology
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
Gilead and Aelix first teamed up in 2018 for a clinical research collaboration agreement to investigate the vaccine.
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STAT+: $400 million for an obesity drug startup? A new venture is a sign of the times
STAT
OCTOBER 1, 2024
billion acquisition of Cerevel Therapeutics , a spinout of Pfizer assets that Bain helped finance back in 2018. The investors have also brought in a familiar face: Ron Renaud, who recently oversaw the $8.7
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CMS has finalized its remedy for 340B payments, and hospitals are not happy
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has dropped the final rule to remedy the invalidated 340B-acquired drug payment policy for calendar years 2018 to 2022. |
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STAT+: Insitro, biotech AI’s quiet unicorn, unveils efforts in ALS, liver disease, and cancer at JPM
STAT
JANUARY 7, 2024
Insitro, a South San Francisco firm, was founded in 2018 by Daphne Koller, who had previously been a Stanford professor, a 2004 MacArthur “genius” grant recipient, and the co-founder and co-CEO of the online course company Coursera. But in biotech, one of the most well-funded AI players has been quiet.
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Prior Authorizations Pose Barrier to Access for HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis
Pharmacy Times
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
The study authors reported that plans in the South had the highest rates of exclusive PAs for either emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate or emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide even if the plan covered both, from 2018 to 2020.
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STAT+: Machine learning biotech raises $273 million in rare successful late-stage round
STAT
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Generate was founded in 2018 by venture-creation firm Flagship Pioneering to use machine learning algorithms to identify antibodies, peptides, cell therapies, and other medicines. It launched its first clinical trial in July for a Covid monoclonal antibody, and is working on starting another clinical trial for an asthma treatment.
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STAT+: Risky bet by Biogen and UCB on systemic lupus drug appears to pay off, data show
STAT
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
A Phase 2 study of “dapi” in systemic lupus, conducted in 2018, was negative, although Biogen and UCB saw enough evidence of a treatment effect to keep investing in the drug. Still, the positive outcome is likely to be viewed favorably by investors given the drug’s mixed history.
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STAT+: Biotech veteran John Maraganore raises $135 million for his ‘next-generation RNAi’ startup
STAT
OCTOBER 8, 2024
That’s a familiar enough story in biotech: Alnylam won regulatory approval of the first RNAi treatment in 2018, and several other such therapies have followed. City Therapeutics, based in Cambridge, Mass.,
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Why doesn’t the U.S. have more Black midwives?
STAT
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Universities have also expanded their course offerings, with the number of new students enrolled in accredited midwifery programs growing from 1,006 students in 2014 to 1,214 in 2018 , according to the latest data available. Read the rest…
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STAT+: AI can speed up drug discovery but don’t expect it to cure cancer, yet
STAT
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
At Amgen, where he’s led drug research and development since 2018, Reese said this moment has finally arrived. David Reese calls it a “hinge moment” — the turning point when biotech and big tech merge to attack human disease with artificial intelligence.
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STAT+: A pariah in science, the ‘CRISPR babies’ researcher gains support from a U.S. cryptocurrency entrepreneur
STAT
OCTOBER 8, 2024
He rose to international infamy in 2018, when it came to light that he had performed a series of secretive, ethically fraught , scientifically sloppy genetic experiments that resulted in the birth of three CRISPR’d children.
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