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(MedPage Today) -- During the acute phase of the COVID pandemic, Nextstrain became known as a key platform for tracking the evolution of SARS-CoV-2. It took viral genome sequences uploaded to global repositories like GISAID and GenBank and turned...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Charlotte Touzalin was still a young teenager when she began struggling with weight gain, abnormal periods, and unwanted facial hair -- the same puzzling symptoms that plagued her mom for decades and that no doctor could piece...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Extending the shelf life of platelets with refrigeration didn't hurt their hemostatic function for people undergoing complex cardiac surgery, the landmark CHIPS trial found. Platelets stored at 1-6°C (33.8-42.8°F...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Pitcher Tommy John, who won 288 games during his 26-year MLB career and became the first pitcher to successfully return following groundbreaking elbow surgery that...
Read full article →Chris Neczypor, the finance chief at Lincoln Financial, will succeed Drew Asher on Jan. 1. Asher plans to retire at the end of 2027.
Read full article →UnitedHealth misled investors, shuttered an internal Medicare billing audit and ignored cybersecurity lapses that led to the historic Change Healthcare cyberattack, according to a lawsuit filed by two shareholder groups.
Read full article →The country's largest nonprofit health system outlined a 10.9% year-over-year increase in operating revenues for the quarter ended June 30.
Read full article →The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has opened an antitrust investigation into Epic and is looking into its data-sharing practices, Reuters reported on Friday.
Read full article →Female-specific oncology is expected to grow from about $65 billion to $75 billion today to reach $100 billion to $110 billion in 2030. This growth will be derived from areas such as therapeutics, devices and diagnostics and care delivery.
Read full article →President Trump's executive order recommending that the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine be split up across three appointments is drawing poor reception from the pharmaceutical industry as drugmakers and trade groups say there's no scientific reasoning to follow the…
Read full article →Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said Saturday she has no regrets about publicizing her decision to freeze her eggs. “One question that I received earlier is: Do I regret coming out publicly about this due to all of the political negativity…
Read full article →Nearly 14,000 cases of cyclospora have been confirmed in the U.S., according to the CDC. Last year, the U.S. saw fewer than 2,000.
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