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STAT Biotech: Market-moving coverage of new drug development
WEBBiotech news roundup: Inside the discoveries, personalities, and deals driving drug development in general and biomedical engineering in particular. You’ll find coverage of biotech companies ...
Health websites are notoriously misleading. So we rated their
WEBJul 26, 2019 · Of all the sites with red ratings, 37% publish false or unfounded health claims. These sites accounted for more than 49 million engagements (shares, likes, comments, etc.) on social media in the ...
Experts: Trump speech patterns hint of potential cognitive decline
WEBAug 7, 2024 · Trump keeps losing his train of thought. Cognitive experts have theories about why. I n a speech earlier this year, former President Trump was mocking President Biden’s ability to walk through ...
Medical errors and accidents: an ongoing threat to health| STAT
WEBAug 4, 2021 · A meta-analysis of such studies concluded that the average annual death rate from such errors in the first decade of the 2000s was in the neighborhood of 250,000. That’s more than enough to make ...
STAT Addiction News: Drug Abuse, Treatment, Research and More
WEBFrom drug addiction to drugs for addiction, STAT covers all aspects of substance abuse and treatment issues. From the beginning of the opioid crisis, including Oxycontin, the Sackler family and ...
Two-thirds of Congress cashed a pharma campaign check in 2020
WEBJun 9, 2021 · More than two-thirds of Congress cashed a pharma campaign check in 2020, new STAT analysis shows. STAT’s tool allows users to visualize individual drug companies’ corporate PAC spending ...
There's no autism epidemic. It's an autism diagnosis epidemic - STAT
WEBFeb 10, 2022 · No. The increase in the autism rate recently reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention represent an autism diagnosis epidemic. Writing in the weekly journal MMWR, CDC researchers ...
Transplant system scrambled amid Covid to keep donations …
WEBJul 7, 2021 · Organ donations held almost steady during the pandemic, as the U.S. transplant system scrambled to keep going. T his is not a pandemic “silver lining” story. This is a could-have-been-far ...
STAT Telehealth - Issues, Trends in Remote Medicine
WEBSTAT coverage of telehealth, a rapidly growing form of health care delivery that allows patients to see doctors remotely using phone or video conferencing. Read about the benefits of virtual ...