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If you're looking to sell or buy a waterfront home in Fairfield County Connecticut

For residential waterfront real estate in Stamford, Greenwich, Bridgeport, Branford, Milford, Darien, Westport, Norwalk, Fairfield, and New Haven Connecticut, click here to speak to a Fairfield County Realtor

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FDA advisory committee issues back to back negative votes on two cancer drugs

Spectrum Pharmaceuticals and Oncopeptides each received separate negative advisory committee votes for their respective cancer drugs. In other recent regulatory news, clinical trial holds were placed and lifted and the FDA is seeking public comment on its draft guidance for including children in clinical trials. ...

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Racial disparities in maternal health complications grew amid Covid-19, BCBS report finds

Pregnancy-related complications increased 9% between 2018 and 2020 among all women, but the rate of change is even more significant among women of color. The disparities exist regardless of having commercial insurance or Medicaid. ...

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Aledade claims its VBC network has saved $1.2B over 8 years

Aledade said that its value-based care network has helped save the U.S. healthcare system save more than $1.2 billion over the past eight years. A primary care physician at an accountable care organization that works with Aledade testified that being a part of the network has yielded significant shared savings that have led to better care outcomes, such as lower re-hospitalization rates. ...

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Witnesses recount dire conditions' in nursing homes during Covid-19 in congressional hearing

A professor of healthcare policy at Harvard Medical School shared research with the committee concluding that COVID-19 outbreaks in nursing homes were largely a function of where in the country a nursing home was located versus other specifics about the facility. ...

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Frontier Direct Care taps Flume Health to launch new health plan

Through this health plan -- expected to become available October 1 -- members will have access to Frontiers primary care services, as well as hospital visits, prescription drugs and other needs. Flume will handle the administrative hassles of designing the plan. ...

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Lyfegen raises $8M for its value-based drug contracting platform

Lyfegen, a startup that provides software for value-based drug contracting, recently raised $8 million in an oversubscribed Series A financing round. With the new funds, the company -- which is based in Switzerland and New York -- plans to expand its presence in the U.S., where drug costs are the highest in the world. ...

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AstraZeneca drops Ionis-partnered heart drug after Phase 2 success isn't good enough

An Ionis Pharmaceuticals heart disease drug beat a placebo in a mid-stage clinical trial, but partner AstraZeneca has decided it wont advance the genetic medicine to a larger Phase 3 test. The results were apparently not enough to set the Ionis therapy apart from commercialized cholesterol-lowering drugs that address the same protein target. ...

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