Q&A: Siddhartha Mukherjee on the rapid pace of cancer research and ‘luminous’ life of cells
The first cells Siddhartha Mukherjee ever saw were T cells, pulled from a mouse spleen…
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Experimental flu vaccine, developed using mRNA, seen as potential game changer
An experimental influenza vaccine developed using messenger RNA technology appears capable of inducing what should…
STAT+: UPMC, Advocate Aurora, Duke fighting lawsuits over use of Meta’s tracking tool
Five months after a media investigation revealed that hospitals were feeding Meta sensitive patient information…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: FDA approves first gene therapy for hemophilia B; pharma’s reputation slips in U.S.
Happy Thanksgiving Eve from STAT reporter Andrew Joseph, filling in for the day. A note…
A jury finds NCAA is not to blame in lawsuit over football player’s death after repeated head trauma
LOS ANGELES — In a verdict that could affect countless claims by athletes who sue…
Opinion: Deans: Dump that USNWR ‘best medical school’ survey
Yale and Harvard Law Schools recently announced they would no longer participate in U.S. News…
‘Mass incarceration is one of the greatest health challenges of our time’: MacArthur ‘genius’ Emily Wang on building solutions
The U.S. has two separate health care systems: one for people who aren’t incarcerated, and…
Opinion: The real experts: people living with mental illness
When Ken Duckworth was a child, his family didn’t talk about mental health, especially not…
STAT+: Google Cloud pitches ease and speed to lure health systems wary of tech changes
LAS VEGAS — Google has honed its message for hospital systems wary of moving their…
STAT+: FDA approves a gene therapy for the inherited bleeding disorder hemophilia B
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved the first gene therapy to treat people…
Telehealth for climate change, the latest on IBM Watson, & hospital billing transparency
You’re reading the web edition of STAT Health Tech, our guide to how tech is…
Real-world data show updated Covid-19 boosters increase protection against infection
The updated Covid-19 boosters increase people’s protection against symptomatic infection from the coronavirus, according to…
One-third of U.S. labs have stopped using race-based equations to diagnose kidney disease
Even as a child, La’Tonzia Adams was interested in diagnosing disease. One day, when she…
U.K. analysis shows one dose of monkeypox vaccine yields strong protection
An analysis released Tuesday by U.K. health officials indicates that even one dose of the…
STAT+: GSK to withdraw blood cancer drug from U.S. market following confirmatory study setback
British pharma giant GSK said Tuesday that it will withdraw its blood cancer drug Blenrep…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: GSK pulls a key blood-cancer drug off the market; Teva picks a new CEO
Good morning, everyone. Damian Garde here filling in for Ed Silverman in the waning days…
Opinion: A tripledemic hurricane is making landfall. We need masks, not just tent hospitals
A viral hurricane is making landfall on health care systems battered by three pandemic years….
A simple screening question could help millions of women prevent cardiovascular disease. Why aren’t we using it?
Early one afternoon in 2000, Monique Shields, just a few weeks shy of her 30th…
Why doesn’t the U.S. have at-home flu tests?
Flu season is underway. RSV is putting record numbers of children in hospitals. And health…
STAT+: ‘Digital health is late to the party’: Can telehealth help hospitals mitigate their carbon footprints?
As the world stares down the barrel of climate change, the health care system —…
The case for universal oral health coverage, according to a new WHO report
On Friday, oral health advocates across the globe got an early holiday gift from their…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: Type 1 diabetes drug is priced at $194,000; abortion opponents sue FDA over abortion pill approval
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite was…
STAT+: Northwest Bio study of cancer vaccine still falls short
Northwest Biotherapeutics tried again, but its experimental treatment for brain cancer still falls short. Last…
STAT+: Merck to acquire Imago, bolstering pipeline for drugs targeting bone marrow diseases
Merck said Monday that it is acquiring Imago BioSciences for $1.35 billion, adding experimental drugs…
STAT+: Patient groups push federal government to enforce health care price estimates
People don’t receive bills after going to a grocery store or a mechanic’s shop. They…
mRNA revolutionized the race for a Covid-19 vaccine. Could cancer be next?
This story has been adapted from the STAT Report “The future of messenger RNA: Covid-19…
Opinion: Congress: Confront the superbug crisis and pass PASTEUR
By 2050, drug-resistant infections caused by “superbugs” could kill 10 million people each year around…
Watch: This small-town pharmacy may be a model for more affordable drugs
STAUNTON, Va. — Honest Rx operates like any other pharmacy in the United States —…
Sporting night vision goggles, a scientist probes the internal clocks that help parasites infect people
In the 1700s, French astronomer Jean-Jacques d’Ortous de Mairan noticed that the leaves of the…
STAT+: A CEO’s plan to monetize health data rescued from IBM Watson’s wreckage
A company being built from the ashes of IBM’s Watson Health division is launching new…
How infectious disease experts are responding to Covid nearly three years in
The world is fast approaching the third anniversary of those days when we got our…
Holmes gets more than 11 years in prison for Theranos scam
A federal judge on Friday sentenced disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes to more than 11…
STAT+: Biosplice, once the most valuable biotech startup, sees a pair of osteoarthritis trials fail
Biosplice’s bid to transform the treatment of everything from arthritis to cancer ran into a…
Pfizer CEO says Covid vaccine will remain ‘free for all Americans,’ overlooking indirect costs
BOSTON — As Pfizer prepares to hike the price of its Covid-19 vaccines, the company’s…
STAT+: Sales of antibiotics for food-producing animals dropped by nearly half in Europe over the past decade
Amid ongoing concerns over the use of medically important antibiotics given to food-producing livestock and…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: WHO pandemic accord may force pharma to disclose prices; FDA OKs first therapy to delay type 1 diabetes
And so, another working week will soon draw to a close. Not a moment too…
mRNA drugs with a built-in ‘copy machine’ could lead to safer, more effective therapies
This story has been adapted from the STAT Report “The future of messenger RNA: Covid-19…
Opinion: STAT+: Removing barriers to biosimilar adoption in the United States
Biosimilars, a much-lauded approach to reducing drug costs in the United States, are still underused…
STAT+: Nectar bats are ‘wonderful, majestic’ and sugar-obsessed. This researcher wants to know how they stay healthy
Nectar bats may have nature’s biggest sweet tooth. Each night, the creatures scour the jungle…
Listen: Roche’s failure, Eisai’s success, and a live AMA
How do Alzheimer’s drugs even work? Can biotech people bake? And do we even like…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: Big PBM keeps AbbVie’s Humira on formulary; Lilly CEO says fake tweet means there’s more to do on insulin costs
Good morning, everyone, and how are you today? We are doing just fine, thank you,…
STAT+: Editas, facing another setback, halts development on first clinical CRISPR program
Editas Medicine, one of the small handful of original CRISPR companies, announced Thursday it is…
Opinion: We know what it’s like to live in fear of polio. We also know how to stop it
Polio, a dangerous and even deadly infectious disease, is a distant memory for many global…
In armadillos, leprosy expands healthy liver tissue. Could that tell us something about regenerating our own?
The mystery started with some skin samples. Anura Rambukkana was a Ph.D. student in Amsterdam,…
To gin up opposition to the proposed menthol ban, tobacco companies are turning to gas station ads
GETTYSBURG, Pa. — At the Gateway mini mart here, you can buy menthol-flavored hemp cigarettes,…
STAT+: Vertex revolutionized cystic fibrosis treatment. Its executives say that’s just the start
BOSTON — Vertex Pharmaceuticals reshaped the way doctors treat cystic fibrosis, turning what was once…
STAT+: ‘We were right all along:’ For Japanese drugmaker Eisai, success against Alzheimer’s has been a long time coming
NUTLEY, N.J. — A once-in-a-generation medicine was built on more than two decades of regret….
In country after country, primary care doctors report high burnout and degraded patient care
The increased stress doctors have faced throughout the Covid-19 pandemic is making some feel like…
In a Republican-led House, anti-science probes top the agenda
WASHINGTON — The Covid-19 investigations are coming. When Republicans take control of the House of Representatives…
Top U.S. addiction researcher calls for broad deregulation of methadone
BOSTON — The U.S. government’s top addiction researcher is calling for broad deregulation of methadone,…