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FDA puts breakthrough tag on Roche, Lilly Alzheimer’s test

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Roche and Eli Lilly have been granted breakthrough status by the FDA for their pTau217 blood test for Alzheimer's disease.

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What you need to know about treating skin tags

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Skin tags are one of those things you probably don’t think about until you spot one. At first glance, you may fear it’s a symptom of psoriasis , eczema , HPV warts, or skin cancer —but skin tags are common, noncancerous, and essentially harmless. Read on to see what experts say about the following 13 home remedies for skin tags.

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Novelist John Green launches attack on Cepheid over the price of its TB test

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The diagnostics company Cepheid and the price of its tuberculosis test, GeneXpert. Cepheid sells individual test cartridges for $9.98 Citing an analysis from Doctors without Borders, he noted the tests cost around $4.64 His latest target? Tuberculosis kills 1.5

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Skin tag on eyelid: Causes and treatment

The Checkup by Singlecare

Skin tags , also called acrochordons, are harmless growths that can occur anywhere on your body but tend to develop in more friction-heavy areas like the armpit, the neck along the seat belt line where clothes and jewelry touch, under the breasts, in the groin, or on the face—specifically, the eyelid. What causes skin tags on eyelids?

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STAT+: Colorado lawmakers revise effort to exempt rare disease drugs from state cost caps

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Often, these treatments — which target small patient populations of 200,000 or less people — carry high price tags, which the pharmaceutical industry argues simply reflects large investments for testing and development. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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To Avoid Skin Tags, Cut Back on Sweets

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People often want to know how to make skin tags go away. Here is one person’s story on how to avoid skin tags. Lowering Blood Sugar Helped Reader Avoid Skin Tags: Q. I had a number of skin tags on my neck. I did an in-home A1c test and found I was mildly insulin resistant (5.9-6.0).

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STAT+: FDA cites Dr. Reddy’s for quality control problems at a biologics plant

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Food and Drug Administration for a host of manufacturing violations at one of its plants in India, the latest instance in which the company was tagged by the regulator for quality-control problems. Reddy’s Laboratories, one of the world’s largest generic drugmakers, was cited by the U.S.

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