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An ICU staple has exponentially spiked in price. Can compounding solve that problem? Now the courts will decide

By Nicholas Florko

Alex Hogan/STAT

The ICU staple has recently spiked in price. There's a cheaper, compounded alternative — but its at the center of a thicket of lawsuits and regulations.

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Opinion: Beware the hype over the Apple Watch heart app. The device could do more harm than good

By Larry Husten

Adobe

The Apple Watch can detect atrial fibrillation. But it's even more likely to raise false alarms, which can have harmful consequences.

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CDC’s Redfield: It could take another year to control Ebola in DRC

By Helen Branswell

JOHN WESSELS/AFP/Getty Images

CDC Director Robert Redfield offered a bleaker projection than one issued earlier by the director-general of the World Health Organization.

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STAT Plus: Cowen polled investors and doctors on the outlook for new biotech drugs. Here’s what they said

By Adam Feuerstein

At the conference, investors and doctor-specialists critiqued both approved and experimental drugs across nearly two dozen disease areas.

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Listen: How startups stop, the new FDA boss, and Theranos on the big screen

By Damian Garde and Rebecca Robbins and Adam Feuerstein

In this episode, Academy Award-winning documentarian Alex Gibney joins to talk about his latest work: a Theranos documentary.

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Are eggs good or bad for you? New research rekindles the debate

By Associated Press

Chaloner Woods/Getty Images)

A new study showed that adults who ate about 1½ eggs a day had a slightly higher risk of heart disease than those who didn't eat eggs.

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Friday, March 15, 2019

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