Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires, Exits and Layoffs

January has seen a slew of executive hires, promotions and layoffs across the healthcare industry. For example, health tech companies like Medtronic and athenahealth hired new C-suite leaders, and providers like Cleveland Clinic and Jefferson Health announced rounds of job cuts. The post Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires, Exits and Layoffs appeared first…

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Liver Failure-Associated Death Reported in Patient Treated With Sarepta Gene Therapy Elevidys

Sarepta Therapeutics said the Duchenne muscular dystrophy patient recently had a cytomegalovirus infection, which can damage the liver and may have contributed to the fatality. It’s the first patient death out of more than 800 patients treated with Elevidys, a gene therapy for the rare muscle-wasting disease. The post Liver Failure-Associated Death Reported in Patient…

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Few Trust Most Health Content on Social Media, Autism Claims Follow Thimerosal Policy Shift, and Misleading Narratives About SSRIs in Pregnancy — The Monitor

This volume analyzes findings from the latest KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust, which show that just over half of adults say they use social media to find health information and advice, but less than half trust the health content they see across an array of social media sites and apps. It also…

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Silence in Sikeston: Trauma Lives in the Body

SIKESTON, Mo. — At age 79, Nannetta Forrest, whose father, Cleo Wright, was lynched in Sikeston, Missouri, before she was born, wonders how the decades-long silence that surrounded his death in 1942 influenced her life. In 2020, Sikeston police killed another young Black man, 23-year-old Denzel Taylor. Taylor’s shooting death immediately made local headlines, but…

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