Opinion: STAT+: How machine learning and automation can solve biomanufacturing scale-up challenges
Biomanufacturing has produced important materials, ingredients, therapeutics, and more for decades, yet it is still…
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STAT+: OrbiMed tumbles from the top of STAT’s biotech venture capital performance ranking
Noted biotech investment firm OrbiMed slid from first place to 14th in STAT’s latest annual…
‘A golden age’: Long neglected in medicine, rare kidney diseases see a surge in research
As much as she tried, Judy Akin couldn’t shed the baby weight. So she’d spend…
In early research, an AI model detects signs of Parkinson’s using breathing patterns
James Parkinson first flagged a link between changes in breathing patterns and the debilitating disease…
Pfizer seeks authorization for updated Covid vaccine, without fresh clinical trial data
Pfizer and BioNTech said Monday that they have asked the Food and Drug Administration to…
STAT+: Major Indian generic drugmaker closes a U.S. facility after years of manufacturing problems
After a decade of manufacturing problems, a U.S. federal court ordered a unit of Wockhardt,…
Anthony Fauci to step down as nation’s top infectious disease official
Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious diseases official for decades and a leading researcher on…
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Zapping the brain with electricity shown to boost older people’s short- and long-term memory
Sending weak electrical current into the brain for 20 minutes a day for four days…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: Murky online market for abortion pills is thriving; more ‘cash pay’ pharmacies decline insurance in the U.S.
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite was…
When spinal fluid from ALS patients was put into mice, the mice got weak. An unlikely protein could be the culprit
It was a shot in the dark — or at best, a dimly lit room:…
Opinion: The Biden-Harris administration needs to end fake abortion clinics
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, President Biden…
‘People count on it’: In Boston, a mobile clinic meets health needs in the neighborhood
BOSTON — By 9 a.m. on a recent Friday morning, the bright blue, colorfully branded…
STAT+: How North Carolina hospitals justify thwarting Medicaid expansion
North Carolina hospitals just helped kill a major expansion of the state’s Medicaid program. Both…
STAT+: Hospitals wrangle billions in FEMA funding to offset Covid costs
More hospitals are tapping into billions of dollars from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to…
STAT+: Biden administration largely stands firm on its method for resolving surprise billing disputes
The Biden administration largely stood firm on its plan for resolving disputes over surprise medical…
STAT+: FDA scolds Sun Pharma for allegedly backdating documents and fudging records for collecting drug samples
Sun Pharmaceutical, which is one of the largest purveyors of generic drugs, allegedly falsified various…
Opinion: The Inflation Reduction Act: One step closer to pharmacoequity?
President Biden’s signing of the Inflation Reduction Act on Tuesday marked a health care law…
STAT+: FDA approves Axsome’s fast-acting treatment for major depression
After a lengthy review, the Food and Drug Administration approved a fast-acting depression treatment from…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: Biden plan to shift cost of Covid-19 products to consumers; U.S. company to help with monkeypox shot production
And so, another working week will soon draw to a close. Not a moment too…
Opinion: Investing in health workers can help close the vaccination gap — and improve global health
The sharp decline in routine childhood immunization rates the World Health Organization recently reported is…
Opinion: Biden’s long Covid plan is a good start. But it needs to go further
Two-and-a-half years into the Covid-19 pandemic, the Biden administration released its national action plan to…
‘A poster child’ for diversity in science: Black engineers work to fix long-ignored bias in oxygen readings
Like many people who are Black, Kimani Toussaint was concerned when he learned that the…
STAT+: Despite overall decline, late-stage cervical cancer cases are rising
Cervical cancer is one of the most preventable malignancies. The introduction of HPV tests and…
STAT+: Medicare may eventually negotiate some drug prices, but Colorado still wants to import medicines from Canada
The Biden administration may have signed a law designed to lower prescription drug prices, but…
Listen: Private equity in autism care, a watershed FDA approval, and the future of ALS treatment
How did autism care become a big business? Can gene therapy be profitable? And whatever…
White House, facing pressure from activists, to accelerate rollout of monkeypox treatments and vaccines
Biden Administration health officials said Wednesday they would accelerate access to vaccines and treatments for…
Akili’s deal to go public via SPAC could close soon
You’re reading the web edition of STAT Health Tech, our guide to how tech is…
Opinion: Genetic research provides new clarity about the “whys” of autism
It was an appropriately hazy afternoon on the day my son Dylan, age two years,…
STAT+: ‘We’re finally here’: Harvard graduate spearheads custom gene therapy for younger brother
Richard Horgan has waited for this moment for more than three years. Last month, the…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: FDA approves a gene therapy for a rare blood disorder; pharmacy chains ordered to pay $650 million over opioid crisis
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Opinion: Organ transplantation is at a crossroads. Major reform is needed
In early August, the Senate Finance Committee held a bipartisan hearing co-chaired by Senators Ron…
STAT+: Pharma’s likely to sue over Medicare negotiation. Here are the arguments they might use
WASHINGTON — Democrats finally achieved a win over the pharmaceutical industry this month when they…
Opinion: History doesn’t have to repeat itself with stigma and monkeypox
Ricky (not his real name), is a patient of mine: a young, gay man with…
Biden administration has simple way to cut overdose deaths, experts say: expand methadone access
WASHINGTON — When it comes to fighting opioid addiction, there’s no tool more effective than…
Risk of ‘brain fog’ and other conditions persists up to two years after Covid infection
Among the many worrying consequences of Covid-19, neuropsychiatric conditions rank high. A year ago researchers…
Judge rules CVS, Walgreens, and Walmart owe $650M in opioids suit
CLEVELAND — A federal judge in Cleveland awarded $650 million in damages Wednesday to two…
STAT+: Bluebird wins U.S. approval for a gene therapy to treat patients with a rare blood disorder
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved a new treatment that delivers a potentially…
In an effort to address its missteps during Covid, CDC plans an ‘ambitious’ agency overhaul
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an agency that has had its reputation battered…
STAT+: ‘A blind eye’: NIH fails to ensure clinical trial results are reported and funds researchers who don’t file results
The U.S. National Institutes of Health failed to ensure that results of roughly half of…
Virtual Event: Biomarkers: The Foundation of Personalized Oncology
Cancer biomarkers can help predict whether therapies will work in certain individuals. In this virtual…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: Endo files for bankruptcy protection due to opioid suits; first Zantac lawsuit dropped, giving GSK a boost
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the middle of the week. Congratulations on making it…
STAT+: Blueprint Medicines drug reduces mastocytosis symptoms in a new study, meeting investor expectations
A drug made by Blueprint Medicines markedly improved symptoms of a rare immune system disorder…
STAT+: Ex-Google CEO’s VC firm brings in hype-busting researcher to expand its biotech investments
Innovation Endeavors, the venture capital firm co-founded by former Google chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt,…
STAT+: Hospital mergers that dodge antitrust scrutiny lead to dramatically higher prices, study finds
Hospitals that merge under state regulations that shield them from federal scrutiny tend to eventually…
Opinion: Medical error: An epidemic compounded by a culture of silence
Covid-19 turned hospitals into battlefields. Wards burst at the seams, caregivers died in the thousands,…
STAT+: Frustrated with nature’s biomarkers for cancer, biologists try making their own
On Target is a recurring feature from STAT that dives deep into the most promising…
As the Smithsonian wraps a landmark genome exhibit, leaders in the field reflect on what’s changed
When the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History opened its genomics exhibit in 2013, the…
STAT+: Cepheid faces fresh criticism over the pricing of its TB diagnostics
A controversy has broken out over a diagnostic for tuberculosis that, until recently, had been…
Brewing data battles, One Medical’s dueling offers, and monkeypox bottleneck
You’re reading the web edition of STAT Health Tech, our guide to how tech is…
Over-the-counter hearing aids expected this fall in U.S.
Millions of Americans will be able to buy hearing aids without a prescription later this…