John Lauerman
@LauermanJohn
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Bloomberg News senior editor for health, science, medicine, hospitals etc. I have opinions, but RTs don't indicate them.
Joined May 2014
Congratulations to Hanna Lauerman and everyone at Haley.henry for their nomination for a nationwide James Beard award in the Outstanding Wine program category. Judi and I love your servers, chefs, owner and especially the manager!
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Verve Therapeutics gains after FDA lifts hold on its gene-editing therapy trial @gerryfsmith
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Verve Therapeutics Inc. said US drug regulators lifted their hold on the company’s application to start human testing of a gene-editing treatment for people with high cholesterol.
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Here’s well put together/informative article by @jwgale about my #glioblastoma journey & novel treatment strategy formulated by friend/colleague @ProfGLongMIA & research generated by our @MelanomaAus team. Opinion leaders in field Roger Stupp, @Htwabi_MD & @mkhasraw even quoted!
This doctor was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. Now he's helping to transform the treatment model
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Covid isn't the only virus that's long https://t.co/IjuR6fWSeL
@jwgale
bloomberg.com
Common cold symptoms can drag, leaving sufferers with a lingering cough, stomach pain, and diarrhea for weeks, scientists found.
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Biden responds to arguments against stricter SCOTUS ethics rules: “The idea that the Constitution would in any way prohibit or not encourage the court to have basic rules of ethics that are just on their face reasonable ... It’s just not the case.” https://t.co/TPxW09PnEI
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Companies that continue to market decongestants discredited by research are deceiving Americans, according Senator Marco Rubio. https://t.co/f1gjwqoRif
@cailleylapara
bloomberg.com
US Senator Marco Rubio slammed companies that continue to sell cold and flu drugs even after decades of research showing that their main decongestant ingredient isn’t effective.
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Step 1a is to make employees realize this.
The first step is to make CEOs realize the rebates they are getting, are paid for by their employees. It’s as if they think it’s free money. It’s not. If you are the CEO of a company that is getting rebates from your PBM, you have to understand that your employees are
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NEW: A key female chemist has been edged out of the Ozempic origin story. Svetlana Mojsov's experiences expose a disciplinary bias against chemists in favor of MDs and show how narratives of scientific discovery get passed down. From me and @MeganMolteni
https://t.co/PPLVVRJnJl
statnews.com
Svetlana Mojsov, on the discovery of GLP-1: “This is not about me getting prizes. It’s about me actually not being erased from the scientific literature.”
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CVS pharmacists in Kansas City locations are preparing to resume walkouts, saying the company reneged on a promise to make a public apology to workers and consumers for lack of service. https://t.co/VytrrEwvLo
@Fi_Rutherford @ikeswetlitz
bloomberg.com
CVS Health Corp. is facing a resumption of walkouts this week by pharmacists in Kansas City, Missouri, who are protesting working conditions in its drugstores and other locations.
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On Plum Island, off the tip of Long Island’s North Fork, scientists study some of the most infectious pathogens known to man. But the center will soon be decommissioned and replaced by a new, billion-dollar facility in the middle of the country https://t.co/uC9hlA5ovD
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For the past 70 years, the Plum Island Animal Disease Center has been at the forefront of protecting the US livestock industry, and the population at-large. But now it's shutting down, to be replaced by a billion-dollar lab in the middle of Kansas. (2/4) https://t.co/fNlKNI8JlM
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The ‘Area 51 of the East Coast’ will be replaced by a new lab in America’s heartland.
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Excessive hot weather is putting mothers at risk of severe pregnancy complications https://t.co/WIkuDdzfm4
@cailliflower
bloomberg.com
Exposure to extremely hot weather raises pregnant women’s risk of severe health complications, researchers said in a study coming at the tail end of the warmest summer on record.
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Stanford's outgoing president starts correcting the research record https://t.co/OXmwWjF3FF
@RobertLangreth
bloomberg.com
Outgoing Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne retracted two papers from the journal Science Thursday, just as the former high-flying neuroscientist steps down from his post after...
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Health officials expected Covid to be seasonal, like flu. The virus didn't get the memo. https://t.co/iRPnZGIKkC
@cailliflower
bloomberg.com
Evidence is mounting that once again the virus has surprised us.
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Feel bad for any dog -- or any animal -- that gets rabies https://t.co/MGaz0ok3SJ
@kristenvbrown
bloomberg.com
More than half of US dog owners expressed concern about pet vaccines, including against rabies, according to a new study
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Excellent reporting from @jtozz on how PBM drug rebate contortions distort and inflate costs. “Documents and industry insiders suggest that PBMs’ pledges to pass the rebates they get from drugmakers back to their clients are a sleight of hand.”
bloomberg.com
Pharmacy benefit managers negotiate cheaper prices for employers and health plans. They also pocket drugmakers’ cash.
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"The median FTSE 100 CEO is now paid 118 times the median UK full-time worker" Oof. Not sure in what world this is healthy, or sustainable. At @kscopehealth we cap our top salary to 4x our lowest. Not without its issues, but zero plans to change it. https://t.co/EO7Y3PSv2I
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With no treatments and little understanding of how it occurs, we'll be living with long Covid for a long time. https://t.co/SiXKcIzSiX
@jwgale
bloomberg.com
The risk of new disease, disability and death remains elevated in some patients as long as two years after catching Covid-19, according to a large study showing the infection’s prolonged heath impact.
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