Huge congratulations to Casey Ross Bob Herman for winning the coveted 2024 NIHCM Award for Investigative and General Reporting for their eye-opening series, 'Denied by AI: Consequences for Sick and Vulnerable Americans.''

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A Sammy Sussman must-read:

Job update: Starting next week, I’ll be moving onto the biotech team at STAT. As a national biotech reporter, I’ll still be covering obesity, diabetes and heart drugs, but also many other drugs and the biopharma industry as a whole.

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Philips, maker of millions of defective sleep apnea machines, ordered to overhaul manufacturing
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For #LivingWith , I spoke to Tiffany ⁷ about the years before she got a lupus diagnosis, and how she’s been able to build an international online patient community since: statnews.com/2024/04/09/lup…

An independent trial researchers thought might disprove a cardiac device made by Shockwave Medical, the company that J&J is buying for $13 billion, ended up providing some support for the device’s utility in reducing chest pain. W/ Matthew Herper:

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NEW: A controversial heart pump from Abiomed reduced the number of deaths in severe heart attack patients, according to a highly anticipated randomized trial presented at #ACC2024 conference and published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Sunday.

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Teladoc CEO Jason Gorevic to leave the company. End of an era... statnews.com/2024/04/05/tel…

Johnson & Johnson to buy Shockwave Medical for $13.1 billion: statnews.com/2024/04/05/joh…

Why very few people who are eligible for a cochlear implant actually get one, Timmy Broderick reports. Access to the technology — the go-to treatment for children born congenitally deaf — is particularly worse for Black and Asian people.
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Critics asked the FDA today to revoke its approval of a controversial test that helps predict opioid addiction. A must read from Megan Molteni, who unpacks the criticism and the data behind the test: statnews.com/2024/04/04/fda…

The FDA approved Abbott's heart device for tricuspid valve disease yesterday, setting the stage for a market battle with Edwards - whose tricuspid valve replacement device was approved in February:
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!!! Yes !!! During my term as EIC of The Michigan Daily, I worked 60+ hour weeks for essentially pennies. I would not have been able to take the job if I had to support myself financially through college. PAY COLLEGE JOURNALISTS!

In very different AI medical device news, the FDA just cleared a Mayo Clinic AI algorithm embedded in a digital stethoscope from Eko Health to detect heart failure. The goal is to help primary care doctors more easily identify the often-hidden condition.
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NEW: Would you send a dick pic to a random AI that says it can scan for STIs? A company called HeHealth is betting on it. The company falls into an FDA digital health gray area, giving it cover to unleash this unproven tech on the market:
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