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NSF testing new Ph.D. model giving trainees academic and industry experience

Students working in fields eligible for NSF funding will be able to participate, including chemistry, engineering, and basic ...
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Pharmalittle: We’re reading about an FDA panel nixing a Duchenne drug, FTC suing Hims & Hers, and more

An FDA advisory panel concluded clinical data for a Capricor treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy did not provide ...
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Chronically ill people face confusion over new Medicaid work rules and ‘medically frail’ exemption

Patients, advocates, and experts fear the difficulty in documenting a frailty exemption to Medicaid work requirements will ...
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Judge denies states’ motion to postpone Medicaid work requirement

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. BOSTON — In an order issued Thursday, a federal judge denied 26 ...
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End of Medicare drug subsidy gives Democrats new attack line on rising out-of-pocket costs

The White House decision to end a Medicare drug subsidy plays into Democratic arguments ahead of the midterms.
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Hims misled consumers and violated their privacy, FTC alleges in a lawsuit

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission sued telehealth company Hims & Hers alleging business practices that agency says misled ...
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Latigo reports mid-stage success for would-be rival to Vertex’s pain drug Journavx

Latigo Biotherapeutics published positive data for an acute-pain drug meant to rival a Vertex medicine already on the market ...
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A neglected issue in pedestrian, biker deaths

While politicians call for Fauci to be jailed, STAT’s Adam Feuerstein has an extensive follow-up story on biotech’s ...
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Why benchmarking clinical LLMs from OpenEvidence, Doximity is complicated

You might recall that in mid-June, there was a Nature Medicine study that pitted clinical AI systems OpenEvidence and ...
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Tracking the FDA expert review of Replimune’s melanoma treatment

Elaine’s stories explore the boom in new obesity treatments, new drug payment models, the ways companies are affected by FDA changes, and the emerging psychedelics drug sector. She co-writes The ...
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U.S. dependence on China is a national security risk

The authors were among the writers of a recent Council on Foreign Relations report on U.S. biopharma dependence on China. First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and ...
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Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment in declining to answer questions before Senate panel

At a highly anticipated Senate hearing, Anthony Fauci evoked his Fifth Amendment right to refuse to answer questions about ...