By Robert King
A record-breaking 100,306 people died from a drug overdose from April 2020 through April 2021 due in part to the COVID-19 pandemic as the federal government offers new strategies to curb the rising number of deaths, new CDC data shows.
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By Andrea Park
In a first for the FDA, the agency approved a virtual reality device to treat lower back pain, offering up an opioid-free alternative to many current pain management regimens.
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By Fraiser Kansteiner
Frank D’Amelio, Pfizer’s current chief financial officer and executive vice president of global supply, is retiring, the company said Wednesday. The company has started the search for a replacement and named Mike McDermott its new chief of global supply.
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By Rebecca Torrence
A new report by Quest Diagnostics shows providers worry that virtual visits allow signs of drug abuse to slip by unnoticed. The majority surveyed said they fear they missed signs of drug abuse in their patients while using telehealth last year.
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By Angus Liu
European regulators don’t plan to go down the same controversial path as their U.S. counterparts did in approving Biogen’s Eisai-partnered Alzheimer’s disease therapy, Aduhelm. And for Biogen, as one analyst sees it, 40% of potential revenue on the drug is going down the drain.
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By Nick Paul Taylor
The long wait for phase 2 data on Eloxx Pharmaceuticals’ cystic fibrosis prospect is over—and yet the picture remains unclear. Eloxx brushed over the failure to improve lung function in the small, short clinical trial, choosing instead to focus on a narrow win against a biomarker endpoint.
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By Robert King
Unions believe Kaiser Permanente's decision to back off a two-tier wage system in a tentative deal that averted a major strike could have a ripple effect across the hospital industry.
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By Conor Hale
After showing its wrist-worn bioelectronic device could help people reduce hand tremors, Cala Health has raised $77 million to help expand its technology to new uses in Parkinson’s disease and other conditions.
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By Robert King
New legislation would make permanent key telehealth flexibilities and let Medicare cover newly approved medical devices faster.
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By Angus Liu
Mount Sinai scientists analyzed biological datasets from multiple myeloma patients and generated a computational model that allowed them to identify new subtypes of the disease. Armed with the results, they identified potential targeted treatments for patients who fall into those subtypes.
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By Natalie Missakian
Actor and rapper Common is teaming up with Bristol Myers Squibb and Stand Up to Cancer to give people the facts about the disproportionate rates of lung cancer in the Black community. In a new PSA, he calls on viewers to help change those statistics by learning more about screening and clinical trials.
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By Andrea Park
The tacked-on funds from Koch Disruptive Technologies bring Sense Biodetection’s series B haul to $65 million.
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By Kyle LaHucik
Decentralized clinical trials picked up steam during the COVID-19 pandemic, and they might end up outpacing the growth of traditional site-based studies within the next 12 months. That's the result of a survey from virtual trials provider Science 37, which asked 127 senior clinical research executives about the hybrid studies landscape.
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