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The Biden administration used billions in hospital Covid-19 funds to pay drugmakers

By Rachel Cohrs

Alex Wong/Getty Images

The administration took nearly $7 billion from a fund meant to help hospitals and clinics and used it to buy Covid vaccines and therapeutics.

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Hospitals are denying transplants for patients who aren't vaccinated against Covid, with backing from ethicists

By Andrew Joseph

Eraldo Peres/AP

Hospitals are denying transplants for patients who aren't vaccinated against Covid, with backing from ethicists.

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STAT+: Akili, maker of prescription video game to treat ADHD, to go public via SPAC

By Mario Aguilar

Akili

Akili, which makes a video game that to treat ADHD in adolescents, announced plans Wednesday to go public in a SPAC merger.

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Why Hong Kong may become a living laboratory in search for Covid-19 answers

By Helen Branswell

There are still questions about Omicron as well as a new subvariant, known as BA.2. Hong Kong may help answer them.

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STAT+: Future of Gilead blood cancer drug is clouded after studies are stopped due to safety issue

By Adam Feuerstein

Yichuan Cao/Sipa USA

With the future of magrolimab now in doubt, pressure builds on Gilead to maximize the potential of its other cancer-focused acquisitions.

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Early research suggests cancer drug could help flush HIV from its hiding spots

By Angus Chen

NIAID/NIH

New, early-stage research suggests the cancer drug Keytruda could also help flush latent HIV from the hidden reservoirs where it lurks.

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Opinion: Listen: Burnout at the bedside is causing a crisis in nursing

By Patrick Skerrett

Nurse-researcher Jane Muir explores some of the reasons nurses are giving up staff jobs and offers ways to retain these essential workers.

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Opinion: How Black hair racism affects mental health care

By Amanda Joy Calhoun

Adobe

Electroconvulsive therapy technology was not designed with Black hair in mind. Why should Black people have to adapt?

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STAT+: A former FDA official on making the jump to health tech startups

By Mario Aguilar

FDA

Anand Shah, a former FDA official, is joining the board of Big Health, a leading player in the burgeoning digital therapeutics sector.

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Wednesday, January 26, 2022

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