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'A very worrying scenario': Internal documents on India Covid-19 vaccine raise troubling questions about approval process

By Ed Silverman

Mahesh Kumar A./AP

A STAT review of documents on Bharat Biotech's Covid-19 vaccine found that regulators endorsed the vaccine despite discrepancies.

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White House's Jha isn't predicting a holiday Covid surge this year

By Nicholas Florko

Drew Angerer/Getty Images

"We are in a very different place and we will remain in a different place. ... A large chunk of Americans have gotten infected."

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'I pushed back': Fauci on how his response to Trump on Covid turned him into 'public enemy No. 1'

By Andrew Joseph

STAT

At the STAT Summit, Fauci says he welcomes oversight of the government's response to the Covid pandemic and reflects on his long career.

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STAT+: 5 looming questions about the exodus of young life scientists from academia

By Jonathan Wosen

Adobe

We take a close look at what has (and hasn’t) happened so far in academic science to understand what might happen next.

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The FDA has banned certain vapes and medicines. We still bought these 13 products in its backyard

By Nicholas Florko

Alex Hogan/STAT

The FDA is supposed to police the food and drug supply. But it's easy to find illegal products — including in the FDA's own backyard.

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STAT+: Amazon jumps into direct-to-consumer telehealth, launching a rival to Ro and Hims

By Katie Palmer

Alex Hogan/STAT

Amazon is launching Amazon Clinic, giving consumers the ability to message teleproviders and obtain prescriptions for 20 conditions.

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STAT+: Walmart agrees to pay $3.1 billion in latest settlement stemming from the opioid crisis

By Ed Silverman

NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images

The prospective deal follows a deal announced earlier this month in which CVS Health and Walgreens agreed to pay about $5 billion each.

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Opinion: Replace the failure of Medicare Advantage with 'Medicare Part F'

By Steve Cohen

Adobe

Medicare Advantage began life as a brilliant idea, but has gone off the rails. A new approach, "Part F," could revitalize the program.

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White House science adviser Alondra Nelson on the midterms, the cancer moonshot, and a book in the works

By Sarah Owermohle

STAT

"Science and technology policy is one of the few places where one can get any kind of bipartisan cooperation."

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Perfection is too high a bar for CRISPR treatments, says STAT Biomedical Innovation Award winner David Liu

By Megan Molteni

STAT

"It's important to realize that there will probably never be a perfectly specific gene-editing agent," Liu said at the 2022 STAT Summit.

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Tuesday, November 15, 2022

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