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Andrew Cuomo’s Covid-19 nursing home fiasco shows the ethical perils of pandemic policymaking

26.02.2021

WASHINGTON — The humbling of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on pandemic policy has been spectacular and swift. Within a matter of days, one of America’s most trusted voices in …

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Coronavirus

Listen: Covid vaccines for teens, Novavax’s remarkable rise, and the future of HHS

26.02.2021

Why can’t kids get Covid-19 vaccines? Is there hope for biotech penny stocks? And when are feces medicine? We discuss all that and more this week on “The Readout LOUD,” …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Discarded drugs: a wasteful and costly problem that requires whole-of-government approaches

25.02.2021

Controlling the rising costs of pharmaceuticals, particularly those administered by physicians, has been a top health care priority for policymakers, with recent actions in both Congress and the executive branch. …

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Coronavirus / First Opinion / Health

Opinion: CDC estimated a one-year decline in life expectancy in 2020. Not so — try five days

25.02.2021

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made headlines last week when it announced that Covid-19 had reduced the average life expectancy of Americans in 2020 by a full year. …

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Coronavirus / First Opinion / Health

Opinion: New CDC school opening guidelines fail to ‘follow the science’

20.02.2021

President Biden vowed to “follow the science” in an effort to get kids back to school. But that’s not what the latest school opening guidelines from the Centers for Disease …

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First Opinion

Opinion: The NIH needs to ensure that women are equally represented in grant funding decisions

15.02.2021

For U.S. researchers, the room where it happens — “it” being decisions about funding — is National Institutes of Health study sections. These are the committees charged with reviewing applications …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Dear NHS: You need a control arm for Grail’s cancer test

12.02.2021

Editor’s note: On January 28, after this article had been submitted to STAT, the president of Grail Europe published a letter to the BMJ that responded to an editorial on …

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The Biden administration is making nursing schools pay for a government mistake amid Covid-19

10.02.2021

WASHINGTON — The federal government miscalculated funding for hospital-based nursing schools for nearly two decades, and now the Biden administration is forcing them to pay up during the worst health …

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First Opinion / Pharma

Opinion: Collaboration between the FDA and industry is essential to foster innovation in Alzheimer’s treatments

08.02.2021

As the Food and Drug Administration moves closer to a decision about whether to approve a promising new Alzheimer’s treatment, the collaboration between scientists, regulators, and business leaders that produced …

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