In late October, an FDA advisory committee voted forcefully against continuing FDA approval of 17α-hydroxyprogesterone caproate (17-OHPC; Makena), a drug indicated to reduce the risk of preterm labor in pregnant women. In documents prepared by FDA scientists ahead of the committee hearing, the conclusion was that the drug “should be taken off the market.” Similarly, …
I was not content to retire at 65 like many of my contemporaries, some who left medicine even earlier. Still, I couldn’t resist the buyout package my employer offered me when I reached my golden age. The problem I encountered was not that I was suddenly retired; it was rather that I had not retreated …
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Across the sector of for-profit companies that manufacture gene therapy drugs, a sobering process is taking place. Even when they create a treatment that works, companies price it exorbitantly (about $2-3 million per patient), arguing that a one-time treatment saves the healthcare system years of supportive care. expensive. For diseases with less than 100 patients, …
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Comment this story Comment Alessandro Hammond is a student at Harvard University and a researcher in oncology and hematology at Boston Children’s Hospital. Cameron Sabet is a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania studying religious studies and medical ethics. The American Bar Association recently announced that, to remove entry barriers for disadvantaged students, it …
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The strength of our armed forces depends on the different levels of training, skill and experience of the ranks. There are good reasons why an ordnance mechanic has a different skill set than a cyber operations officer or why a fighter pilot has a unique background from a counterintelligence officer. Our healthcare system is no …
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A ban on affirmative action will have devastating effects on patient care. Diversity isn’t just a “nice” thing to have. In just 20 years, the combined minority population is expected to become the majority in the United States. Yet today, black, Hispanic, and Native American groups remain vastly underrepresented in medicine relative to their proportions …
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Only 8.3% of Americans were uninsured in 2021, down more than 37% from 2013 (13.4%) – the year before the market began and the Medicaid expansion created by the Affordable Care Act. So why are nearly half of working-age adults (46%) still skipping treatment or medication? Being uninsured is no longer our biggest problem, to …
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Amid the chaos and devastation caused by the U.S. Supreme Court’s gutting of the constitutional right to abortion, the Biden administration has stepped up efforts to protect access to abortion for young immigrant women. pregnant unaccompanied. On November 10, 2022, the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) announced new guidelines to ensure that unaccompanied immigrant minors …
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, new owner of Twitter and self-proclaimed free-speech absolutist, would rush the internet and his Slack channels to fire and silence workers who disagree with him. Americans often celebrate business leaders and entrepreneurs as icons of freedom and the expansive national spirit of free enterprise. The hypocrisy should not be surprising. …
Last month, the Undergraduate Senate unanimously passed a resolution to address sexual violence. This resolution contained a number of sensible and achievable changes that will make our campus safer. I wholeheartedly congratulate the sponsors, authors and supporters of the resolution for continuing this fight. But this issue goes beyond undergraduate education to graduate schools, including …
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