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Mashup Score: 0Amgen Plows Ahead With Costly, Highly Toxic Cancer Dosing Despite FDA Challenge - KFF Health News - 8 hour(s) ago
The FDA told Amgen to test whether a quarter-dose of its lung cancer drug worked as well as the amount recommended on the product label. It did and with fewer side effects. But Amgen is sticking to the higher dose — which earns it an additional $180,000 a year per patient.
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Mashup Score: 0They Were Shot at the Super Bowl Parade — And Might Have Bullets in Their Bodies Forever - KFF Health News - 10 hour(s) ago
Despite the rise of gun violence in America, few medical guidelines exist on removing bullets from survivors’ bodies. In the second installment of our series “The Injured,” we meet three people shot at the Kansas City Super Bowl parade who are dealing with the bullets inside them in different ways.
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A decade after Congress told the FDA to expedite the approval of more effective sunscreens, the federal government still has not approved sunscreen ingredients that are safely being used around the world. Meanwhile, skin cancer is the nation’s most common cancer.
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The Biden administration’s plan to set minimum staffing levels for nursing homes prompted comments from more than 46,500 people and organizations — including residents of homes and nurses with harrowing stories about conditions inside. Hundreds of comments like these cemented the resolve of officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services last month to […]
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Mashup Score: 8Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - KFF Health News - 13 hour(s) ago
Super Bowl parade victims, a new covid variant, abortion, gender care, cancer deaths among Black women, cyberattacks, and more.
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Mashup Score: 0Forget Ringing the Button for the Nurse. Patients Now Stay Connected by Wearing One. - KFF Health News - 14 hour(s) ago
Dozens of hospitals have deployed a device that uses artificial intelligence to monitor patients remotely. One hospital says it reduces nurses’ workloads — but some nurses fear the technology could replace them.
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Mashup Score: 3They Were Shot at the Super Bowl Parade — And Might Have Bullets in Their Bodies Forever - KFF Health News - 15 hour(s) ago
Despite the rise of gun violence in America, few medical guidelines exist on removing bullets from survivors’ bodies. In the second installment of our series “The Injured,” we meet three people shot at the Kansas City Super Bowl parade who are dealing with the bullets inside them in different ways.
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Mashup Score: 0Forget Ringing the Button for the Nurse. Patients Now Stay Connected by Wearing One. - KFF Health News - 17 hour(s) ago
Dozens of hospitals have deployed a device that uses artificial intelligence to monitor patients remotely. One hospital says it reduces nurses’ workloads — but some nurses fear the technology could replace them.
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“Health Minute” brings original health care and health policy reporting from the KFF Health News newsroom to the airwaves each week.
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In his 2015 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama announced a precision medicine initiative that would later be known as the All of Us program. The research, now well underway at the National Institutes of Health, aims to analyze the DNA of at least 1 million people across the United States to build a diverse health database. The key word there is “diverse.” So […]
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NEW: At a smaller dose, Amgen’s cancer pill may work just as well — and without as many nasty side effects. But that would cut the company’s revenue by millions. @ArthurAllen202 reports. ⤵️ https://t.co/SUV1xJx4cx