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Eli Lilly tightens access to diabetes drug, frustrating some people with obesity

By Elaine Chen

Patrick Sison/AP

The weight-loss effects of a new type of diabetes drug is causing rippling shortages, along with debate over who deserves access.

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STAT+: Could Vertex's cystic fibrosis medicines hold a clue to treating deadly pneumonia?

By Jason Mast

Courtesy Charité

A line of drugs that has transformed one deadly rare disease could moonlight as a treatment for a far more common one, pneumonia.

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Limits of 'Fauci effect': infectious disease applicants plummet, and hospitals are scrambling

By Andrew Joseph

Eric Gay/AP

Infectious disease fellowship programs are scrambling after 44% didn't fill their slots during the annual "match." Is the pandemic to blame?

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STAT+: FDA scolds company that raised red flags over impurities in many widely used medicines

By Ed Silverman

The FDA inspected Valisure facilities after a stretch in which the company openly pushed the agency to do more to test drugs for impurities.

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Opinion: Deferral of primary care signals a troubled future for Americans' health

By Sanjula Jain

Adobe

Primary care visits are down 10.3% across U.S. cities relative to pre-pandemic levels. That means a health crisis is in the offing.

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STAT+: FDA chief calls agency's food program 'under-supported, under-resourced'

By John Wilkerson

Milken Institute

FDA Commissioner Robert Califf said the food side of the agency needs more attention Wednesday at a Milken Institute conference.

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'I question what I know': Top cancer specialist Otis Brawley on valuing orthodoxy in medicine

By Jayne Williamson-Lee

STAT

Advances in cancer treatments and screenings are outpacing the medical community's ability to assess them, says oncologist Otis Brawley.

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STAT+: Prometheus' inflammatory bowel drug succeeds in two mid-stage trials

By Damian Garde

Adobe

An investigative medicine from Prometheus Biosciences met its goals in a pair of Phase 2 studies for patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

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