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Top news of the week: 18.07.2022.

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@adamfeuerstein shared
On Jul 18, 2022
In a companion story, @bobjherman compares median salaries at biotech companies to those at other healthcare firms. Maybe not surprising with all those MD/PhDs, but pay is a lot higher in biotech, while pay for workers at providers is low. https://t.co/sNbgokTY6Y
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Biotech employees cash in health care’s largest salaries, while people working at providers sit near the bottom

Biotech employees cash in health care’s largest salaries, while people working at providers sit near the bottom

It pays to be in the lab. It pays way less to be at the patient’s bedside, according to a STAT analysis of the median pay for employees at more than 200 publicly traded health care ...

@adamfeuerstein shared
On Jul 18, 2022
New data might have led to a different result for Amarin $AMRN fish oil drug, FDA panelists say https://t.co/vLU4PqlCxi via @matthewherper
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New data might have led to a different result for Amarin fish oil drug, FDA panelists say

New data might have led to a different result for Amarin fish oil drug, FDA panelists say

Two members of an expert panel that recommended the FDA approve a fish-oil-based heart drug, Vascepa, said recently released data would have led them to reconsider their votes.

@adamfeuerstein shared
On Jul 18, 2022
In STAT today, a special report on the total pay of 300 healthcare CEOs. Collectively, they made $4.5 billion in 2021, according to our analysis of SEC filings. $REGN CEO Leonard Schleifer pulled in an astounding $453 million. https://t.co/vTqZG81woh
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Health care’s high rollers: As the pandemic raged, CEOs’ earnings surged

Health care’s high rollers: As the pandemic raged, CEOs’ earnings surged

Special Report: Health care’s top executives are cushioned more than ever by the rising fortunes of their stock ownership.

@WSJhealth shared
On Jul 17, 2022
RT @stefaniei: Scientists and entrepreneurs are trying to recreate the sense of smell in compact devices that can detect and analyze odors similar to the way cameras now recognize our faces and microphones our words. The Future of Everything. ⁦@WSJ⁩ https://t.co/QmyxAINdeQ
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High-Tech Smell Sensors Aim to Sniff Out Disease, Explosives—and Even Moods

High-Tech Smell Sensors Aim to Sniff Out Disease, Explosives—and Even Moods

Advances in artificial intelligence, bioengineering and synthetic biology are powering a new breed of odor sensors, some using living cells.

@matthewherper shared
On Jul 13, 2022
RT @HelenBranswell: .@US_FDA issues an emergency use authorization for Novavax's Covid-19 vaccine. @matthewherper reports. https://t.co/L8JhlySIZI
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FDA authorizes Novavax Covid vaccine, in hopes the traditional shot will convince holdouts

FDA authorizes Novavax Covid vaccine, in hopes the traditional shot will convince holdouts

The agency hopes the availability of a more traditional vaccine might help convince those skeptical of the Covid shots using new mRNA technology to get inoculated.

@SWLifeSciences shared
On Jul 13, 2022
@awakn_ls "has successfully completed the world’s first phase 2a trial with #MDMA for #AUD,” Analyst Partheniou wrote. Analyst Sees 'Attractive Long-Term Economics' for Healthcare Co.: https://t.co/9EDD2KCZOx $AWKNF $AWKNF #AUD #alcoholism #addictiontherapy #biotech #stocks https://t.co/7siruO1W0m
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Analyst Sees 'Attractive Long-Term Economics' for Healthcare Co. Research Report

Analyst Sees 'Attractive Long-Term Economics' for Healthcare Co. Research Report

One healthcare company with upcoming catalysts wants to take a share of the CA$6-billion alcoholism treatment market with its proprietary psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy treatments.

@JaredSHopkins shared
On Jul 13, 2022
Investors See Far Out Profits in Psychedelic Medicine https://t.co/nOJhsKSMPM via @WSJ
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Investors See Far Out Profits in Psychedelic Medicine

Investors See Far Out Profits in Psychedelic Medicine

A former hedge-fund portfolio manager raises millions from scientists, financiers and crypto bros eager to buy into treatments that aren’t even legal yet.