STAT

JANUARY 19, 2024

Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, one of the nation’s leading cancer research and treatment centers, are “moving to” retract one paper and correct others amid an expanding investigation of data manipulation, officials told STAT.

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Drug Topics

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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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has announced funding awards of $80.5 million to support four new studies focused on disparities in maternal health. | The studies will compare a range of practice-level and community- and home-based interventions to address common challenges in maternal health.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

There was a time when an allegation of data mishandling, scientific misconduct, or just a technical error felt like a crisis to Barrett Rollins, an oncologist and research integrity officer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Now, it’s a Tuesday. And it’s hardly alone.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

LONDON — Two research centers that have been at the forefront of following the evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus — one in the U.K. and one in South Africa — have teamed up on a partnership that they say will expand their efforts to track emerging disease threats around the world. The collaboration between the U.K.’s

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MAY 7, 2024

At a panel at the Milken Institute 2024 Global Conference Monday, Bastani and other health care leaders addressed the rapidly growing applications of AI in science and health care. ” said MD Anderson Cancer Center Chief Data Officer Caroline Chung. ” to “What can I do with AI?”

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Pharmacy Times

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Larger institutions have continued to treat patients who needed carboplatin or cisplatin; however, the survey results don’t include smaller cancer centers that may face access challenges.

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Chemotherapy 101

Pharmacy Times

JANUARY 19, 2023

This week's episode features Amina Abubakar, PharmD, AAHIVP, CEO of Avant Pharmacy & Wellness Center and president of Avant Institute, who discusses her experience in the pharmacy industry and the communities she serves.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 6, 2023

Stanford Medicine and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) unveiled plans Friday to collaborate on a project that will bring a new National Cancer Institute-designated joint cancer care and rese | Stanford Medicine and the VA unveiled plans on Friday to collaborate on a project that will bring a new National Cancer Institute-designated joint cancer (..)

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Pharmacy Times

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS) has been granted a three-year accreditation from the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC).

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MARCH 1, 2024

in 2020, many institutions confronted their own histories of racism, lack of diversity, and failures to consider the impact of structural inequities on public health. In the aftermath of the police murder of George Floyd and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests across the U.S.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 16, 2023

This week, Stanford Medicine and Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) launched Responsible AI for Safe and Equitable Health (RAISE-Health) with the goal of addressing critical ethical and safety issues regarding the technology.

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

which transformed itself from a stodgy underperformer into one of the world’s hottest pharmaceutical companies, said this week that the genetic medicine research center it plans to open in Boston in August will eventually employ twice as many workers as originally estimated. Eli Lilly and Co.,

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STAT

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The university  announced  Tuesday the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded it $17.5 million over the next five years to develop a center focused on detecting and preparing for the next outbreak of infectious disease, especially in rural areas. ” Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

In a new test of xenotransplantation , a medical team at the University of Maryland Medical Center announced Friday that, for only the second time in history, it had transplanted a heart from a genetically engineered pig into a human. The surgeons performed the eight-hour procedure Wednesday without complications. Read the rest…

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STAT

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Patriarchy isn’t a word that Ophira Ginsburg expected to be at the center of her work as a cancer researcher but, like an infection, it was invading her everyday work as a medical oncologist. There were times when she saw people treat women’s lives and health with cruel indifference.

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MAY 6, 2024

In the spring of 2020, as Covid-19 took hold around the world, Centers of Disease Control and Prevention director Mandy Cohen was the head of North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services. Among the challenges she and her team had to face was the antiquated state of data pervasive in public health and medicine. “Yup.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Three years ago, Jamie Lin, an early-career nephrologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center, made findings that could potentially help both save the kidneys of cancer patients and propel her career as a physician-scientist hoping to one day run her own lab.

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Outsourcing Pharma

MAY 20, 2022

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the US National Institutes of Health, has awarded a total of $577m to establish nine Antiviral Drug Discovery (AViDD) Centers for Pathogens of Pandemic Concern.

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Pharmacy Times

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Ramirez, DrPH, MPH, director of the Institute for Health Promotion Research at UT Health Science Center San Antonio, discussed the need for standardized questionnaires for clinicians to discuss social determinants of health with their oncology patients.

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JANUARY 27, 2024

PONTYPRIDD, Wales — The blog post that has shaken the leadership of Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, one of the world’s preeminent cancer research centers, was written some 3,000 miles away, in a bare-walled, sparsely decorated flat, save for a stack of statistics books and a collection of Rubik’s Cubes.

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STAT

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A new anti-burnout campaign from the Centers for Disease Control and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health avoids this typical — and often frustrating — tactic, instead imploring leaders to better support health care workers.

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PQA

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

PQA and the Patient Advocate Foundation convened a diverse group of patients and pharmacy stakeholders in 2022 to identify and prioritize patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) topics and evidence needed to improve social determinants of health (SDOH) screening and interventions in the pharmacy setting.

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STAT

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In recent weeks, the National Institutes of Health has begun emailing academic institutions that failed to submit results of clinical trials to a government database, a move that comes shortly after a federal watchdog harshly criticized the agency for lax oversight. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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OctariusRx

MARCH 11, 2024

At the end of the day, licensing and accrediting agencies such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) , Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) , Quad A and The Joint Commission (TJC) , exist for the sake of patient safety. Good medication management also makes regulatory compliance easier.

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Outsourcing Pharma

JANUARY 24, 2022

The CRO's work with La Jolla Institute for Immunology, centered on a unique mouse model, is intended to increase understanding of how the COVID-19 virus operates.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In legal filings submitted to the Harris County District Court, Sharma said that she made substantial contributions to an immunotherapy project that were ignored, and that a third-party assessment commissioned by MD Anderson Cancer Center concluded Sharma should be given credit for her role.

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STAT

JULY 18, 2023

The Peterson Center on Healthcare, a nonprofit supporting programs that raise care quality and drive down costs, announced the new Peterson Health Technology Institute Tuesday.

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STAT

JULY 5, 2023

National Institutes of Health late last month halted further funding for a pair of malaria research facilities in Colombia after authorities filed charges against the operators for lacking permits to experiment on monkeys and causing “harm to wildlife.”

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STAT

MARCH 9, 2023

In its budget request to Congress on Thursday, the White House asked for $20 billion over five years to support pandemic preparedness efforts at the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, and the Food and Drug Administration.

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MARCH 9, 2023

On the third and final day of the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing, the leading world experts in germline editing — that is, the practice of altering the DNA of sperm, eggs, and embryos — took center stage at the Francis Crick Institute in London to share their latest work.

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MARCH 3, 2023

Previously, she worked at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where she was director of the Center for Cancer Therapeutic Innovation. And here is our regular feature in which we highlight a different person each week. This time around, we note that NextPoint Therapeutics hired Leena Gandhi as chief medical officer.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

“I can’t speak to any specifics, but just to say that our door is really open,” Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said Thursday at the Milken Institute Future of Health Summit when asked about how the agency will approach lecanemab.

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MARCH 3, 2023

According to a White House physician’s memo on Friday, doctors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center removed a lesion off his chest on Feb. “It’s probably the most common human cancer,” said Ann Silk, a medical oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute who treats skin cancers.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

There’s also some institutional confusion: the American Academy of Pediatrics  and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention  have urged families to get their children vaccinated, but some doctors now say the boosters may not be necessary.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

JULY 17, 2023

A new three-year research programme led by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) is aiming to design the world’s first fully integrated, continuous mRNA manufacturing platform. The $82 million project is funded by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.

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Blog: Ask a Student Pharmacist

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Swetha Pradeep, PharmD eomizowh Wed, 10/18/2023 - 13:07 Expand all + Biography Bio Dr. Swetha Pradeep is a Clinical Pharmacist Supervisor with the Federally Qualified Health Center Urban Health Network (FUHN) and practices comprehensive medication management at 2 Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) in Minneapolis, MN.

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