Vaccine Hesitancy Trends from 2019 to 2022 Evaluated
Drug Topics
OCTOBER 21, 2022
As vaccine hesitancy grows, fewer children are receiving routine childhood vaccines.
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Measles Cases in the US Increased Significantly in 2024
Drug Topics
APRIL 12, 2024
Since a 2019 measles outbreak, the CDC has seen an increasing number of cases in the US.
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Evaluating Changes in Systemic Anticancer Therapy Use Between 2015 and 2019
Drug Topics
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
While the use of chemotherapy at end of life is decreasing, the use of immunotherapy is increasing.
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Cultural, Health System Barriers Impact HPV Vaccination Rates
Drug Topics
JANUARY 3, 2025
Researchers aimed to identify the barriers impeding HPV vaccine uptake since 2019 among US mid-adults aged 27 to 45.
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Veterans Mental Health Care Improvement Act of 2019 Expands Access
Pharmacy Times
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Four years after congress passed it, the Hannon Act is helping veterans get better care
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Gender-affirming surgeries tripled in the U.S. between 2016-2019, study finds
STAT
AUGUST 23, 2023
nearly tripled between 2016 and 2019, according to new national estimates from a cohort study in JAMA Network Open. The number of gender-affirming surgeries taking place in the U.S.
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GARDASIL 9 Shows Positive Results in Phase 3 Study Against HPV-Related Cancers
Drug Topics
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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STAT+: Wyden claims Pfizer used a ‘colossal’ scheme to avoid paying billions in U.S. taxes
STAT
MARCH 27, 2025
customers six years ago, but did not report any profits from those sales on its 2019 tax returns because all of the income was supposedly earned offshore, according to an investigation by the Democratic staff of the Senate Finance Committee. In what one U.S. for 2018 and 2020.
CDC: Uninsured rate fell by 26% between 2019 and 2023
Fierce Healthcare
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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Digital health funding hit $5.7B through June, on track to surpass 2019 and 2023, Rock Health reports
Fierce Healthcare
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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Google’s Dr. Karen says farewell
STAT
MAY 6, 2025
DeSalvo, who likes to introduce herself as Dr. Karen, joined Google in 2019 and became the face of the company’s health efforts in 2021 when VP of health David Feinberg left to join EHR company Cerner (Now part of Oracle Health). Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday.
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Gilead’s CMO to depart next year
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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Lawmakers mull lifting ban on physician-owned hospitals as doc lobbying groups claim major cost savings
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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STAT+: Immunovant replaces CEO, makes other changes as Roivant tightens control
STAT
APRIL 21, 2025
Immunovant was spun out of Roivant in 2019 to develop a pipeline of drugs to treat autoimmune disorders. Immunovant CFO Renee Barnett is also leaving, to be replaced by Tiago Girao, currently the CFO of Televant, another Roivant affiliate company. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…
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STAT+: AI versus AI: The emerging arms race over health insurance denials
STAT
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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STAT+: As Medicare spending on remote patient monitoring jumps, HHS watchdog warns of fraud, misuse
STAT
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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Study Finds Significant Drop in Vaccine Confidence During COVID-19 Pandemic
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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Digital health investments shift to disease treatment, workflow solutions and VBC in Q3: Rock Health
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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How CymaBay overcame a NASH failure for another shot at liver disease success
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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STAT+: Generic drugmakers win a long-running battle with California over a law to ban pay-to-delay deals
STAT
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
District Court Judge Troy Nunley determined that the state law, which was enacted in 2019, violated the Dormant Commerce Clause of the U.S. In his ruling , U.S. Constitution because it would extend to pay-to-delay agreements that happened outside of California and, therefore, attempted to regulate interstate commerce.
Youth vaping continues its tumble from a Juul-fueled high
STAT
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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Done deal: Pfizer completes $43B acquisition of Seagen, doubling its oncology pipeline
Fierce Pharma
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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Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 2, 2025
A new analysis of 70 hospitals nurse staffing from 2019 to 2022 found an uptick in pressure ulcers tied to heightened levels of agency and overtime labor.
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FDA Approves IVIG for Pediatric Patients Aged 2 and Older With Primary Humoral Immunodeficiency
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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STAT+: SEC charges former CEO of pain relief device company with $41 million fraud
STAT
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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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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STAT+: A rare disease program, portrayed as both lifeline and pharma handout, is set to expire
STAT
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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Healthcare bankruptcy filings slow in 2024, largely driven by middle-market companies, analysis finds
Fierce Healthcare
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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Pandemic policies have fewer adults skipping medical care due to cost
Fierce Healthcare
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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Opinion: Independent doctors like me are becoming an endangered species
STAT
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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STAT+: Former medical device CEO who sold dummy, plastic parts convicted of fraud
STAT
MARCH 7, 2024
Laura Perryman led Stimwave, which sold nerve stimulation devices to combat pain, from 2010 to 2019. STAT published new details about the Stimwave story in May, after former employees described how Perryman broke into Stimwave’s Florida headquarters to steal back devices after her termination in 2019.
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The Great RIF(T): One FDA Division’s Destruction and What it Could Mean for Generic Drugs
The FDA Law Blog
APRIL 8, 2025
Since 2019, when DPD took over this process, the Division has published more than 600 ANDA withdrawals at the request of generic drug manufacturers. Processing voluntary ANDA withdrawals under 21 C.F.R. 314.150(c). Managing the process of issuing Covered Product Authorizations (CPAs) under the CREATES Act.
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Walgreens releases 2023-2024 flu index
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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There’s a knowledge gap about miscarriages in the U.S., and researchers hope to close it
STAT
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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FDA sends warning letter to KVK-Tech manufacturing facility
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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Is the future of AI in health care just a lot of hype?
STAT
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Narayan, a professor of computer science at Princeton University, went viral in 2019 for a talk he gave at MIT on how to recognize overblown declarations about AI’s capabilities. Now he’s teamed up with his Ph.D. student Kapoor to publish the book “ AI Snake Oil ,” which came out Sep.
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Denied by AI: How Medicare Advantage plans use algorithms to cut off care for seniors in need
STAT
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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Routine vaccinations drop among U.S. kindergartners for the third year in a row
STAT
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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Nurses and health care support workers at higher risk of suicide, study finds
STAT
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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STAT+: Gilead’s chief medical officer to leave as R&D efforts stall
STAT
JULY 17, 2024
Merdad Parsey, who joined Gilead in 2019, will stay in his post until the first quarter of next year as the company looks for a successor, Gilead said in a press release Wednesday. Gilead has faced multiple setbacks in its attempt to move away from its stronghold in virology and into other areas like cancer.
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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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North Carolina towns, counties' antitrust lawsuit against HCA's Mission Health may continue, federal judge rules
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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A STAT Investigation: Embedded Bias
STAT
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
You know that part of “Little Women” (2019) when Jo says “I can’t believe that childhood is over,” while collapsed on the ground at her sister’s feet? Want to stay on top of health news? Sign up to get our Morning Rounds newsletter in your inbox. Good morning!
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STAT+: U.S. drug shortages have reached a decade high and are lasting longer, too
STAT
JUNE 4, 2024
This was also the highest rate of product discontinuations since 2019. These low prices also translated into more product discontinuations, which rose by 40% from 2022 to 2023, and from 100 drugs to 140 during that time. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…
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