Opinion: The new law that could stealthily transform biomedical innovation
Buried deep within the Inflation Reduction Act’s drug-price negotiation provisions is language that could open…
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From BQ.1.1 to XBB and beyond: How the splintering of Omicron variants could shape Covid’s next phase
The United States is in a (relative) Covid-19 lull, with cases and hospitalizations falling as…
STAT+: Medicare tasks a senior adviser with staffing its new drug pricing division
WASHINGTON — Medicare has tasked a senior adviser at the agency with assembling a small…
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Call it data liberation day: Patients can now access all their health records digitally
The American Revolution had July 4. The allies had D-Day. And now U.S. patients, held…
STAT+: Alzheimer’s clinical trials have a recruitment problem. Telehealth platform Ro thinks it can help
Telehealth company Ro has reached an agreement with the National Institute on Aging to create…
The U.S. is terrible at keeping businesses from worsening public health, experts say
WASHINGTON – Here in the U.S., it’s “in” to study the social determinants of health….
STAT+: Errors have plagued insurance directories of doctors. The government wants to clean them up with its own
The federal government wants to create a national directory that houses accurate, up-to-date information for…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: Nobel awarded for novel chemistry used in drug development; Biden will nominate surgeon general for WHO post
Good morning, Pharmalitte students. I’m Allison DeAngelis, substituting for Ed today. It’s a rainy day…
Opinion: Interoperability can’t wait: Don’t delay information blocking rules
Interoperability is a word you seldom hear uttered outside the health care sector (though there…
Three scientists win chemistry Nobel Prize for developing ‘click’ and ‘bioorthogonal’ chemistry
Carolyn Bertozzi of Stanford University, Morten Meldal of the University of Copenhagen, and K. Barry…
Opinion: Needed: stricter screening of gene synthesis orders, customers
Scientists rely on gene synthesis technologies as a research tool for everything from basic research…
Opinion: Listen: Wheelchair users and Medicare disagree on what’s ‘primarily medical in nature’
Modern wheelchairs have amazing capabilities. At the push of a button, they can position a…
‘What a gift to give’: For a woman struggling with infertility, a sister’s unexpected offer of surrogacy brings new hope
Lydia Gatton’s first in vitro fertilization appointment was just a week away when the fifth-grade…
Watch: Why aren’t ectopic pregnancies viable?
Following the fall of Roe v. Wade, many clinicians have become fearful and uncertain about…
STAT+: The Q4 health tech tracker: 17 key industry events and milestones to watch
Health tech companies and their backers are increasingly cautious as they brace for uncertain market…
Epic’s overhauled sepsis model, Verily’s close FDA ties, & AI for biopsies
You’re reading the web edition of STAT Health Tech, our guide to how tech is…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: U.S. Supreme Court asks solicitor general for views on ‘skinny label’ case; Express Scripts and Kroger are mired in dispute
Good morning, everyone, and how are you today? We are doing just fine, thank you,…
Opinion: Messaging — the unrecognized coefficient in pandemic control — matters
A little over a century ago, scientists working in laboratories discovered that microbes were the…
STAT+: CAR-T therapy doesn’t work in all cancer cases. Scientists are starting to figure out why
When CAR-T therapy works against blood cancer, it can work spectacularly, but cancer still returns…
STAT+: At Verily, a growing line of business builds on a revolving door to the FDA
After years spent building a seemingly slapdash set of medical initiatives, Verily seems to have…
‘History is repeating itself’: The story of the nation’s first clinic for gender-affirming surgery
Nearly 60 years ago, Johns Hopkins Hospital opened a first-of-its-kind clinic to provide gender-affirming surgery….
Get a Ph.D. in health policy — from a single Powerpoint slide
Looking for an actually concise explanation of a half-century’s worth of research and arguments about…
Opinion: How can the latest Alzheimer’s therapy reach patients? Follow this trustworthy process
The press release issued by pharmaceutical companies Eisai and Biogen on Sept. 27 might someday…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: Price of new ALS drug prompts criticism; many drug price hikes exceeded U.S. inflation rate
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite was…
STAT+: Many trials to confirm benefits of drugs granted accelerated approvals are running late
Amid heightened debate over a regulatory program for speeding the approval of some medicines, a…
Nobel Prize in medicine awarded for research into the evolutionary history of humankind
A Swedish scientist won the 2022 Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology on Monday for…
Opinion: Better use of health savings accounts: lessons from Singapore
Today, 9 in 10 Americans have health insurance, more than ever before, yet health care…
To prevent unnecessary biopsies, scientists train an AI model to predict breast cancer risk from MRI scans
A biopsy that turns out to have benign results can be a relief. But in…
Opinion: Will there be a Supreme assault on public health?
In just seven days last June, the U.S. Supreme Court set back public health by…
White House’s open-access research directive scrambles long-entrenched models, raising key questions
In August, the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy released a memo directing…
STAT+: Epic overhauls popular sepsis algorithm criticized for faulty alarms
Epic Systems has revamped its widely criticized sepsis prediction model in a bid to improve…
Harassment prompts children’s hospitals to strip websites, threatening access to gender-affirming care
Children’s hospitals that have been targeted on social media for providing gender-affirming care — and…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: FDA approves a medicine to combat ALS; Medicare drug-price talks are poised to become a legal battle
And so, another working week will soon draw to a close. Not a moment too…
Opinion: How the Inflation Reduction Act can help decarbonize the health care industry
The climate crisis — the greatest threat to human health in history — is often…
Fungi find their way into cancer tumors, but what they’re doing there is a mystery
For a while, scientists thought the trillions of microbes on our bodies lived in landscapes…
Opinion: Maternal-fetal surgery is not an alternative to abortion care
Every day, pregnant people across the United States get the news that the futures they…
Who will get the call from Stockholm? It’s time for STAT’s 2022 Nobel Prize predictions
We live in a time where the rate of medical and superlative scientific advances is…
STAT+: The biotech scorecard for the fourth quarter: 13 stock-moving events to watch
Here is STAT’s biotech scorecard, our regular ledger of stock-moving biotech events, for the fourth…
FDA approves ALS drug from Amylyx, giving patients a much-needed treatment option
The Food and Drug Administration approved a new medicine for ALS from Amylyx Pharmaceuticals on…
FDA moves on AI tools, bionic pancreas research, & equity in digital therapeutics
You’re reading the web edition of STAT Health Tech, our guide to how tech is…
Juul exec slams FDA over its approach to regulating vaping
WASHINGTON — A Juul executive fiercely criticized the Food and Drug Administration’s approach toward regulating…
Listen: A surprise success in Alzheimer’s and how FDA history seeded modern controversy
Does the latest Alzheimer’s disease drug actually work? When does the FDA call in security?…
STAT+: Health app companies wrestle with how to design studies to prove treatments work
For companies that have spent years developing interactive technologies to help treat disease, the tricky…
STAT+: With rivals on its heels, Illumina launches a new line of high-end DNA sequencers
SAN DIEGO — After a steep drop in its stock price and with mounting competition…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: Medicare plans sizable infrastructure for negotiating drug prices; Alzheimer’s data also boost Roche and Lilly
Rise and shine, everyone, another busy day is on the way. We can tell by…
STAT+: Medicare lays out the bureaucracy it will need to negotiate drug prices
WASHINGTON — New documents obtained by STAT outline how Medicare is planning to build out…
Opinion: Rabies will continue to take lives without stronger human-animal health policies
The Covid-19 pandemic set back many of the global health goals for 2030. One of…
Ebola experimental vaccine trial may begin soon in Uganda
A clinical trial of one or perhaps two experimental vaccines designed to protect against the Ebola…
Opinion: How health systems can truly value Black lives: help close the racial wealth gap
Institutional declarations of support for Black lives were ubiquitous in the aftermath of the murder…
Her mother’s abortion was required under China’s one-child policy. Her own would be illegal under Tennessee’s post-Roe ban
This is part of a series of snapshots from post-Roe America. It started as a…