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STAT+: Cue Health rode Covid-19 to an NBA deal and a $3 billion valuation. Now it faces layoffs and a rocky future

By Katie Palmer

Molly Ferguson for STAT

Cue Health rode Covid-19 to an NBA deal and a $3 billion valuation. Now it faces layoffs and a rocky financial future.

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FDA panel to advise on whether — and how — Covid vaccines should be updated

By Helen Branswell

Anupam Nath/AP

The agency is seeking the advice of its panel of vaccine experts, the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee.

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Supreme Court rules that doctors need to knowingly misprescribe opioids for it to be a crime

By Andrew Joseph

Alex Hogan/STAT

At issue was what threshold doctors had to cross for their prescribing patterns to go beyond treatment into what is effectively drug dealing.  

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STAT+: A 'colossal financial fraud': Gilead to get $33 million from a clinic for exploiting its HIV patient assistance program

By Ed Silverman

Rich Pedroncell/AP

Health care clinics, pharmacies, and lab testing facilities illegally obtained and resold thousands of bottles of two HIV prevention pills.

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Listen: Vertus Hardiman and the medical tragedies that must not be forgotten

By Nicholas St. Fleur

Keisha Okafor for STAT

This episode of the "Color Code" podcast explores the story of Vertus Hardiman, who was permanently damaged by medical racism.

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Opinion: Looking for 'black swan' outbreaks can prepare for future pandemics

By Nileena Velappan

Adobe

Identifying common features among black swan outbreaks can serve as warning signs of future pandemics or unusually devastating outbreaks.

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Opinion: Now is not the time for Congress to further cut hospitals' Medicare payments

By Cliff A. Megerian and Peter Pronovost

Adobe

Hospitals will have trouble getting back to some semblance of normal with the 1% cut in Medicare payments slated to go into effect July 1.

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Monday, June 27, 2022

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