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Health systems are using machine learning to predict high-cost care. Will it help patients?

By Mohana Ravindranath

Adobe

Health systems are using machine learning to predict which patients will have the highest health care costs. Can it help patients?

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STAT+: Justice Department probes Bausch Health over marketing for dermatology drugs

By Ed Silverman

Andrew Harnik/AP

The Justice Department is seeking information about activities in which Bausch Health medicines may have been promoted for unapproved uses.

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STAT+: A $2.1 million price tag for Bluebird Bio's gene therapy is cost-effective, analysis finds

By Ed Silverman

Ruby Wallau for STAT

The existing cost of care is “expensive enough that there are big offsets to having a one-time therapy," said David Rind of ICER.

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STAT+: Trying not one, but a three-drug combination to help engineered T cells fight cancer

By Angus Chen

Courtesy Kristin Anderson

The work, while very early, pushes at the boundary of what might be possible – and practical – to do in immunotherapy.

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Opinion: Listen: Mental health needs are soaring. Where are all the psychiatrists?

By Patrick Skerrett

This week's "First Opinion Podcast" covers the collision between the pandemic-related mental health crisis and the shortage of psychiatrists.

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STAT+: Good fortunes continue for Sierra Oncology with $1.9 billion acquisition by U.K. pharma giant Glaxo

By Adam Feuerstein

Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

The deal was struck three months after Sierra’s lead drug, a treatment for the blood cancer myelofibrosis, succeeded in a late-stage trial.

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The pediatrician as advocate: Rhea Boyd on making clinical work about community needs

By Theresa Gaffney

Alex Hogan/STAT

STAT spoke with Rhea Boyd, a pediatrician and health equity advocate, about her work in the clinic and in the community.

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STAT+: Halozyme to acquire Antares for nearly $1B in bid to dominate drug delivery market

By Jonathan Wosen

Adobe

Halozyme is pursuing a strategy that’s proven profitable — developing quick, convenient ways to deliver drugs to patients.

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Wednesday, April 13, 2022

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