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Ivermectin, the anti-parasitic medication most commonly used as a dewormer in animals, is back in the limelight. This time it has nothing to do with COVID-19.
Read full article →Senate Democrats are launching an investigation into Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s changes to vaccine policy, including the remaking of a federal vaccine advisory panel. In a letter to Kennedy, Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) demanded that he produce communications and other records to show who in the Trump administration determined the legal and public health consequences of the actions related to revamping the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices...
Read full article →These structures, if not set up and managed correctly from day one, can create significant accounting, tax and compliance headaches down the road. The post What Life Sciences Companies Get Wrong When Building Cross-Border R&D Structures appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →The future of healthcare depends on enterprises moving decisively beyond the pilot trap by treating enterprise AI as a platform capable of sustaining hundreds of dynamic models. The post Beyond the Pilot Trap: How Healthcare Can Scale AI Without Losing Trust appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →AI documentation tools are genuinely useful. But they are treating a symptom, not the disease. The disease is that physicians have lost control over how they work. The post AI Won’t Fix Physician Burnout — Giving Them More Autonomy Will appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →What Soon-Shiong has delivered, Encanta's RSV antiviral, and other biotech news from The Readout
Read full article →Nursing home residents who received at least one dose of shingles vaccine were 24 percent less likely to develop dementia, a new study found.
Read full article →Johnson & Johnson has no plans to enter the booming obesity market, opting instead to focus on diseases such as cancer
Read full article →A new poll shows only about half of U.S. adults could afford their health care and had access to quality care last year.
Read full article →High-end infant formula scrutiny, the spread of synthetic opioids, and more health news from Morning Rounds
Read full article →A wide gap exists between what Patrick Soon-Shiong says his cancer drugs can achieve and what they actually do, STAT's Adam Feuerstein writes.
Read full article →Three brothers say their mother and father died after losing access to their HIV medications. Now the boys are figuring out how to navigate life.
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