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Under new rules, methadone clinics can offer more take-home doses. Will they?

By Andrew Joseph

Caitlin O'Hara for STAT

Under new rules, clinics giving methadone for opioid addiction don't have to require daily visits. But some resist the flexibility.

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Eisai and Biogen's latest Alzheimer's drug needs to be cheaper than the last one, analysts say

By Damian Garde

Adobe

The latest Alzheimer's disease treatment from Eisai and Biogen needs to be cheaper than $20,000 a year to be cost-effective, ICER says.

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U.S. life expectancy falls for second straight year as drug overdose and Covid deaths take toll

By Ambar Castillo

Jae C. Hong/AP

Deaths from Covid-19 and drug overdoses drove U.S. life expectancy to fall to 76.4 years in 2021, the lowest level since 1996.

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STAT+: Backed by a longtime mental health leader, a new startup aims to build support for serious mental illness

By Theresa Gaffney

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Vanna Health, co-founded by Thomas Insel, has quietly raised $29 million to support patients with serious mental illness.

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Pandemic response gets a permanent new home at the White House

By Rachel Cohrs

BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images

Congress wants to give pandemic response a permanent White House home, rather than the cast of rotating "czars."

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Opinion: Lessons learned from the deadly combination of sepsis and Covid-19

By Richard Marfuggi and Aparna Ahuja and Rick A. Bright

David Goulding/Wellcome

Sepsis kills millions of people a year. Its combination with Covid-19 reinforced the need for faster diagnostics and better therapies.

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2022 in review, CEO indictments, & the year ahead

By Damian Garde and Adam Feuerstein

We look back on the biggest biotech stories of the past year and how the industry seems stuck in a sentiment rut.

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