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Yusra is a reporter at Morning Consult covering health care.
By Yusra Murad Top Stories A federal judge in Oregon overseeing a pair of lawsuits brought against the Trump administration’s effort to withhold Title X funding from family planning organizations offering abortion services — one filed by a coalition of more than 20 states and another by Planned Parenthood and the American Medical Association — sided […]
By Yusra Murad Top Stories Centene Corp. posted revenue of $18.4 billion in the first quarter of 2019, up 40 percent from the same quarter last year, crediting the growth to the insurer’s acquisition of Fidelis Care and expansion in states such as Florida and Illinois. Net earnings rose from $340 million to $522 million year-over-year […]
By Yusra Murad Top Stories MD Anderson Cancer Center of Houston has moved to fire three scientists in connection with a federal investigation into China’s attempts to steal American research. After the National Institutes of Health, working in collaboration with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, informed the center that five faculty members have conflicts of interest […]
By Yusra Murad Week in Review Opioid epidemic The federal government, led by the National Institutes of Health and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, will award $350 million in grants over three years to research sites in Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York and Ohio focused on reducing opioid overdose deaths by as much […]
By Yusra Murad Top Stories The federal government, led by the National Institutes of Health and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, will award $350 million in grants over three years to research sites in Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York and Ohio focused on reducing opioid overdose deaths by as much as 40 percent. The […]
By Yusra Murad Top Stories Gene therapy cured 10 newborn babies afflicted with severe combined immunodeficiency disease, or “bubble boy disease,” a rare genetic disorder in which infants’ immune systems are dysfunctional, according to a report published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The treatment, developed by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and UCSF Benioff […]
By Yusra Murad Top Stories The number of hospital mergers and acquisitions in the first quarter of 2019 was the lowest in any quarter in close to a decade, according to a new report from Ponder & Co., with 14 deals announced. It was the fourth quarter in a row with the rate of transactions lower […]
By Yusra Murad Top Stories Johnson & Johnson reported net income of $3.75 billion in its first-quarter earnings report, down 14 percent year-over-year, with sales rising from $20.01 billion to $20.02 billion. Although thousands of lawsuits alleging the company’s talc-based products caused consumers’ cancer have led to significant legal expenses, prescription drug sales have bolstered earnings, […]
By Yusra Murad Top Stories Catalent Inc. will purchase drugmaker Paragon Bioservices Inc. in a $1.2 billion all-cash deal in an effort to build its gene-therapy manufacturing capabilities, according to people familiar with the deal, which is set to be announced this morning. The sources said Paragon, which provides supplies for pharmaceutical companies in the promising […]
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