Lattes and gummies: Food science inspires a new approach to treating gut and liver injury
Inspired by how coffee shops foam milk, as well as gummy candy and sizzling Pop…
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Opinion: FDA: Don’t rush a move to change the Covid-19 vaccine composition
On Tuesday, the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) voted 19-2 to…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: FDA panel urges revamped Covid boosters; White House to widen access to monkeypox vaccine
Good morning. Elizabeth Cooney here, sitting in for Ed Silverman as he takes a day…
Virtual Event: How Tech Can — and Can’t — Eliminate Barriers to Good Health Care
Editor’s note: A livestream of the event will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET….
STAT+: ARCH Venture Partners raises $3 billion fund to invest in biotech startups despite brutal stock downturn
The market for biotechnology stocks is ghastly, but ARCH Venture Partners, one of the largest…
Opinion: Wheelchair users live outside the home, not just inside. Medicare policies need to acknowledge that
My daughter, Katherine, is 21 years old. She has cerebral palsy and has relied on…
In a doctor’s suspicion after a miscarriage, a glimpse of expanding medical mistrust
The idea that she might be pregnant hadn’t crossed Janneke Parrish’s mind. She used contraceptives…
Biden administration to widen access to monkeypox vaccine
The Biden Administration announced Tuesday that it will broaden availability of monkeypox vaccine as it…
STAT+: 100 lawmakers ask HHS to use controversial federal laws to combat high drug prices
A group of 100 federal lawmakers is urging the Biden administration to use controversial provisions…
Cue Health layoffs, HIPAA post-Roe, and AI’s race problem
You’re reading the web edition of STAT Health Tech, our guide to how tech is…
Placebo response reveals unconscious bias among white patients toward female, Black physicians
The doctor-patient relationship is an important part of helping and healing. But it can be…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: Retailers ration contraceptive pills as demand spikes; Supreme Court rules doctors must knowingly misprescribe opioids to be convicted
Top of the morning to you, and a fine one it is. Clear blue skies…
Tracking an FDA advisory panel meeting on updating Covid vaccines
Meetings of the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccines advisory committee are never dull affairs. Drenched…
In Boston homes, potentially harmful compounds are leaking from stovetops
Natural gas — just by nature of being the most common residential energy source in…
Opinion: The next epidemic may be here. The U.S. isn’t ready for it
As if dealing with continued waves of Covid-19 isn’t enough, the U.S. is facing a…
‘It’s not going to work’: Keeping race out of machine learning isn’t enough to avoid bias
As more machine learning tools reach patients, developers are starting to get smart about the…
CRISPR debuted 10 years ago, in a paper hardly anyone noticed. Jennifer Doudna reflects on the DNA scissor’s first decade
On June 28, 2012, a joint press release went out from the U.S. Department of…
STAT+: What we know — and what we may never know — about why the FDA banned Juul
WASHINGTON – Even some of the nation’s top tobacco experts were surprised by the Food…
STAT+: Cognito Therapeutics raises $50 million for Alzheimer’s treatment tech
Cognito Therapeutics has raised $50 million in funding as it seeks to advance treatments for…
STAT+: Pharma largely failed to follow human rights principles with its Covid-19 vaccines and drugs
More than two years after the Covid-19 pandemic emerged, a new scorecard finds that 19…
Supreme Court rules that doctors need to knowingly misprescribe opioids for it to be a crime
The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously ruled that prosecutors need to prove that doctors knowingly…
FDA panel to advise on whether — and how — Covid vaccines should be updated
The Food and Drug Administration faces an important decision in coming days — whether to…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: Abortion pills will be at center of legal battles; Gilead reaches $33 million settlement over patient assistance programs
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite was…
STAT+: A ‘colossal financial fraud’: Gilead to get $33 million from a clinic for exploiting its HIV patient assistance program
After nearly two years of courtroom squabbling, Gilead Sciences reached a $33 million settlement with…
Opinion: Now is not the time for Congress to further cut hospitals’ Medicare payments
As the U.S. slowly emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, hospitals hope get back to some…
Opinion: Looking for ‘black swan’ outbreaks can prepare for future pandemics
In December 2021, one year into the Covid-19 pandemic, my colleague Alina Deshpande had the…
Vertus Hardiman and the medical tragedies that must not be forgetten
Vertus Hardiman wore a wig for more than 70 years. His hair piece concealed a…
STAT+: Cue Health rode Covid-19 to an NBA deal and a $3 billion valuation. Now it faces layoffs and a rocky future
It didn’t have the brand recognition of Abbott, or the billions of the medical technology…
Opinion: A major problem for minors: post-Roe access to abortion
Now that the Supreme Court has overturned constitutional protection to abortion access, more than two…
Opinion: Arthur Ashe and AIDS: Did the public have the right to know his diagnosis?
Do prominent public figures who are ill have some type of responsibility to reveal their…
WHO: Monkeypox outbreak not yet a global public health emergency
The World Health Organization on Saturday declined to declare the unprecedented monkeypox outbreak that has…
Pfizer says its Omicron-containing boosters outperform current vaccine
Pfizer said Saturday that using new versions of its Covid-19 vaccine as boosters led to…
HIPAA won’t protect you, if prosecutors want your reproductive health records
With Roe v. Wade now overturned, patients are wondering whether federal laws will shield their…
Court rules Juul can temporarily keep selling e-cigarettes while it prepares challenge to FDA ban
WASHINGTON – Juul’s e-cigarettes won’t be pulled off the shelves just yet. A federal court…
The Biden administration wants to get tough on states’ abortion pill restrictions. It won’t be easy
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick Garland is hinting he’s ready to get tough on states…
Supreme Court decision suggests the legal right to contraception is also under threat
Over the past half century, Roe v. Wade has been a bedrock of constitutional rights…
Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: Sarepta halts a Duchenne clinical trial over safety; Why the CVS Health whistleblower lawsuit comes at a pivotal moment
And so, another working week will soon draw to a close. Not a moment too…
Opinion: Digital back doors can lead down the path to health inequity
For years, racism mandated that Black people and other people of color in the United…
Covid-19 vaccines prevented nearly 20 million deaths in a year, study estimates
Covid-19 vaccines cut the potential global death toll by more than half in the first…
STAT+: FDA halts study of Sarepta treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy due to safety concern
Sarepta Therapeutics said Thursday that it has temporarily stopped a clinical trial of its second-generation…
STAT+: A CVS whistleblower lawsuit comes at a pivotal moment for the FTC’s probe of pharma and PBMs
Three years ago, a former CVS Health executive told a U.S. Senate committee hearing that…
Listen: Juul’s doomsday, Merck’s buyout plans, & the next Theranos verdict
Just how powerful is the FDA? Is Merck about to spend $40 billion? And what’s…
STAT+: A cautionary tale: How one biotech stock trader lost a small fortune, but emerged wiser
Too many of my Twitter interactions with biotech-loving retail investors are unpleasant. If I write…
How pregnancy could prove the potential of smartwatches
You’re reading the web edition of STAT Health Tech, our guide to how tech is…
FDA orders Juul e-cigarettes off the market in the U.S.
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration has ordered all vaping products made by the…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: Senate bill would allow insulin makers to lock in profits; GSK, Novartis pledge funds for diseases that mostly affect the poor
Rise and shine, everyone, another busy day is on the way. We can tell because…
STAT+: Uniqure’s Huntington’s gene therapy lowers key protein in small trial
A gene therapy for Huntington’s disease made by the Dutch biotech firm Uniqure showed early…
STAT+: Despite fanfare, the FDA’s step toward lowering nicotine levels in cigarettes is a very early one
WASHINGTON — When the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it would eventually lower the…
STAT+: With cryptocurrency and NFTs, ‘decentralized science’ seeks to upend drug industry financing
When Alok Tayi’s daughter was born last year, he found himself in a place no…