How the drug industry keeps winning in Washington
D.C. Diagnosis is STAT’s weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine….
D.C. Diagnosis is STAT’s weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine….
The safety of the supply chain for pharmaceuticals in the United States must be built…
Hello, everyone, and how are you today? We are doing just fine, thank you, courtesy…
WASHINGTON — Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) on Tuesday became the second leading Democratic primary candidate…
When GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) purchased Tesaro for $5 billion last December, one of the company’s big…
We are awash in articles reporting new study results. Whether it’s a potential cure for…
As the Food and Drug Administration grapples with rising pressure to approve new medicines more…
LOS ANGELES — Scientists are closing in on a long-sought goal — a blood test…
Laurent Audoly, CEO and president of Kymera Therapeutics, left the Cambridge, Mass., biotech late last…
WASHINGTON — Joe Biden on Monday unveiled a sweeping health policy platform that includes some…
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite was…
The Biden Cancer Initiative, the nonprofit former Vice President Joe Biden started two years ago…
The largest study to date of a “cancer vaccine” plus one of the immunotherapy drugs…
Daniel O’Day was made CEO of Gilead Sciences four-and-a-half months ago, charged with reigniting investor…
LOS ANGELES — A healthy lifestyle can cut your risk of developing Alzheimer’s or other…
More than 100 Democratic members of Congress urged the Trump administration to remove pending language…
If you look closely at Thursday’s bad news from Illumina (ILMN), the multibillion-dollar standard-bearer of…
Massachusetts’ booming biotech industry has long enjoyed a tight — some would say coddling —…
Top of the morning, to you, and a fine one it is. A delicious breeze…
Reckitt Benckiser agreed to pay up to $1.4 billion to resolve long-running investigations by the…
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Wednesday abandoned one of its signature drug-pricing efforts: a…
Physician training has long been notorious for marathon shifts, sleepless nights on call, and holidays…
Three states — Vermont, Florida, and Colorado — recently passed laws that legalize the importation…
We have been primary care physicians for a combined total of 98 years. Every day…
Amid ongoing concerns that clinical trial data is too often kept under wraps, an analysis…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the government to revamp the…
Rise and shine, everyone, the middle of the week is already here. But time waits…
WASHINGTON — A trio of key White House advisers on Tuesday hinted for the first…
I have had babies, delivered other women’s babies, and worked in a bustling, diverse maternity…
It isn’t lost on the public that the pharmaceutical industry is putting profits over people….
Voice assistant technologies like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant are increasingly popular — today, nearly…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday appealed to doctors to rapidly report…
Amid ongoing concern that painkillers other than opioids are being misused, a new analysis suggests…
D.C. Diagnosis is STAT’s weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine….
Hello, everyone, and how are you today? We are doing just fine, thank you, since…
Celsius Therapeutics, a startup built around sequencing genetic material in thousands of an individual’s cells,…
Americans collectively spend more on pregnancy and childbirth than any other nation yet have the…
LOS ANGELES — Internet billionaire Sean Parker has spent hundreds of millions of dollars of…
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite —…
Six months ago, Tokyo-based Takeda Pharmaceutical closed a blockbuster $62 billion deal to buy Shire,…
Although Americans love anniversaries, we have overlooked the political importance of July 10, 1969. Speaking…
Two separate research teams have found a “pause button” for CAR-T cell therapy, which may…
In the universe of scary drug-resistant pathogens that can kill, Candida auris is having a…
To her family, Tatiana Legkiy looked completely healthy when she was born. But a pediatrician…
A one-time hemophilia A treatment from Pfizer (PFE) and Sangamo Therapeutics (SGMO) showed promising results…
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday said his administration would soon issue an executive order…
In a bid to gain access to a costly AIDS drug sold by ViiV Healthcare,…
If nutritious meals can provide the same kind of benefit as medication, then why don’t…
Cancer is estimated to have caused more than 600,000 deaths in 2015, inflicting a toll…
Barely a month after Novartis (NVS) won U.S. regulatory approval for its gene therapy —…