
Sharon Begley, path-breaking science journalist who spun words into gold, dies at 64
Trying to write a lede about the loss of Sharon Begley feels a little like…
Trying to write a lede about the loss of Sharon Begley feels a little like…
STAT reporter Sharon Begley died Jan. 16. Here, colleagues share remembrances of their time working…
Days before leaving office, President Trump’s top health official is proposing to permanently exempt from…
In response to the rising cost of medicines, the Maryland state Senate overrode a veto…
WASHINGTON — President-elect Biden’s newly released vaccine distribution plan promises to dramatically increase the number…
WASHINGTON — President-elect Biden on Thursday nominated Broad Institute president Eric Lander to serve as…
A new, more transmissible variant of the virus that causes Covid-19 could sweep the United…
And so, another working week will soon come to a close. Not a moment too…
WASHINGTON — President-elect Biden has tapped David Kessler, a former Food and Drug Administration chief…
Google’s newly-finalized purchase of Fitbit is poised to provide the tech giant with a potentially…
Last month as my colleagues and I took care of Mrs. Smith (not her real…
Next week, the Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve a new medicine from…
LOS ANGELES — The situation here is dire. Every minute, 10 people test positive for…
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced a major shift in addiction medicine policy Thursday, giving…
WASHINGTON — President-elect Biden will call on Congress to approve $415 billion in emergency spending…
Is Alzheimer’s research stuck in a rut? Can genome editing live up to the hype?…
Medicare Part D spent more than twice as much on hundreds of prescription drugs than…
In a clutch of lawsuits, three drug makers argue the federal government is wrong to…
Top of the morning to you, and a fine one it is. Despite the perennial…
A former Merck (MRK) cancer researcher was arrested and charged with stealing a raft of…
The crashes of online vaccine scheduling systems have become a sad symbol of how technology…
Buoyed by the pandemic, 2020 was undoubtedly the year that telehealth turned the corner to…
As a scientist leading a company focused on RNA, I have cheered Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna,…
Just after New Year’s Day, regulators in India granted authorization for restricted use to Bharat…
For all the focus on digital health at the Consumer Electronics Show for the past…
Like all viruses, SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, is mutating all the time. Recently…
WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden is promising to administer 100 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine…
As horrific as the U.S. Covid-19 outbreak looks right now, it is almost certainly about…
As rates of methamphetamine overdose soar in the United States, one of the biggest challenges…
Johnson & Johnson published updated early data on its Covid-19 vaccine Wednesday, showing that it…
Mark Cuban turns down new business opportunities on Shark Tank by declaring “I’m out!” But…
As health systems deploy new tools that predict patients’ risk of serious medical outcomes, many…
WASHINGTON — President-elect Biden will address growing concerns about new, more transmissible coronavirus variants as…
For the first time in its 54-year history, CES (formerly known as the Consumer Electronics…
Editor’s note: A livestream of the event will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET….
After years of rumors, Sana Biotechnology is positioning itself to file for an initial public…
In a sign of the red-hot market for telemental health care, Talkspace announced Wednesday it…
Rise and shine, everyone, the middle of the week is already here, which means we…
The most powerful cholesterol drugs ever invented have become a pharmaceutical cautionary tale, failing to…
Given the mounting frustration over the slow pace of vaccinations, yesterday’s HHS announcement broadening the…
As health authorities across the country struggle to get Covid-19 vaccination programs up and running,…
It was a slight departure from the usual Consumer Electronics Show panel: Rather than touting…
After months of public health and political debates on vaccine prioritization for incarcerated populations, Covid-19…
Amid ongoing concerns over the cost of insulin, a leading physicians group is calling for…
Intarcia Therapeutics, a one-time biotech unicorn that has been unable to secure approval for a…
Editor’s note: A livestream of the conversation will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET. …
WASHINGTON — The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, which represents drug middlemen in Washington, filed a…
Scott Atlas, the radiologist who served for much of 2020 as President Trump’s most controversial…
Hello, everyone, and how are you today? We are doing just fine, thank you, now…
Verve Therapeutics said Tuesday its one-time treatment that uses the “base editing” form of CRISPR…