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DOJ will take health care self-disclosures through one office, its health care fraud section, Jacob Foster said Thursday. Companies that report potential criminal misconduct can draw benefits from both DOJ and HHS together, STAT reported.
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Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) plans a bill modelled on Australia's faster early-phase clinical trial regime, he said at the STAT Summit. He wants the US to answer China's biotech rise by speeding domestic research.
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Kenya's Ministry of Health reports a second Ebola case, a 39-year-old relative of the first patient who was already in quarantine when symptoms appeared. Because he was a known contact, the count says little yet about community spread.
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One reporter who registered at 25 clinics and hospitals in seven states says an Ohio hospital will not follow its own policy on recordings. The essay says patients who refuse broad consent can be turned away, and later opt-out routes can be too confusing to use.
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Compass Pathways expects to complete its rolling FDA submission for COMP360 this quarter and launch early next year, CEO Kabir Nath said. He wants a slow, provider-trained rollout under an expected REMS, because early bad experiences could damage the broader sector.
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Three former FDA chiefs said DOGE's 3,500 job cuts and a larger exodus under Marty Makary cost the agency institutional knowledge. Ned Sharpless said companies he works with now meet more junior reviewers.
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MIT enrolled nearly 500 fewer graduate students this fall, down 20% from 2024, after federal research awards fell $100 million, its president said. Sally Kornbluth said the school admits cautiously so no Ph.D. student runs out of funding midway.
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States could build their own vaccine factories if federal changes undercut the 40-year-old injury compensation program, an op-ed in STAT argues. The changes are described only as under consideration, so the plan is a contingency.
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STAT reporter Helen Branswell, who covered influenza, polio, Ebola and Covid-19, died Tuesday at 69. The tributes in STAT's own obituary, from the WHO director-general among others, describe a reporter experts and officials trusted through Covid.
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DHS proposed a $70,000 fee on a student work-authorization program a day before Labor said it is investigating nine universities over postdoc visas. STAT reports that none of the changes has taken effect. The survey behind a 21% drop in international Ph.D. applications cannot attribute it to any one action.
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The Death Penalty Information Center says Christa Pike's failed execution has no precedent since 1976, according to a STAT opinion piece. Its author argues it could end lethal injection, a method that depends on IV skill that medical associations tell clinicians not to supply.
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STAT's analysis of Wellcome Global Monitor data finds a 24-point religious gap in how Americans rate science's benefits, against 5 points across peer nations. The gap is widening because secular and college-educated Americans have warmed to science fastest.
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Proposed rules in a Sept. 10 Federal Register notice would limit the 2030 census count to citizens and lawful permanent residents. Writing in STAT, an opinion author argues the smaller count would push U.S. mortality and morbidity rates up in 2030 with no change in anyone's health.
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FDA's court-ordered filing schedules a mifepristone safety report for no later than March 2027, ahead of any decision on new restrictions. Abortion opponents hoping to curtail the pill's use quickly condemned a timeline that keeps the review running into 2027.
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CMS has proposed narrowing Medicare's markup on 340B-discounted drugs, whose payments rose $3.6 billion after the Supreme Court ended a lower rate in 2022. An author at HHS argues in STAT that the markup grows with each drug's price and can leave a patient's coinsurance above what the hospital paid.
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STAT finds employer premiums track the price of care more than its use, with hospitals and drug makers billing over twice Medicare's rates. Johns Hopkins economist Gerard Anderson says employers and states are now open to government intervention on costs.
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Stem cell entrepreneur Chuck Meeker predicts a series of FDA roundtables on his industry's therapies before the end of the year. The agency declined to say whether any are planned, so for now the forecast tells us more about what the industry hopes than about what the FDA intends.
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NIH launches a redesigned website on Monday that sorts its information into eight topic hubs, grants among them, instead of by its 27 institutes. Old sites stay up until redirects are in place, so grant seekers will meet the harder test later, as those sites close.
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Scott Hadland's Medicaid study of nearly 230,000 youth with opioid use disorder found medication starts edged up while six-month retention may have fallen. Most patients are lost before that point, since five in six young people engaged in care receive no medication at all.
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CDC's National Center for Health Statistics proposes shrinking its health interview survey from 482 questions to 150, dropping cognition and mobility items. Advocates say the shorter form would deepen an undercount of Americans with intellectual and developmental disabilities in a survey run since 1957.
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