Biotech employees cash in health care’s largest salaries, while people working at providers sit near the bottom
It pays to be in the lab. It pays way less to be at the…
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Health care’s high rollers: As the pandemic raged, CEOs’ earnings surged
Health care’s top executives sat comfortably atop their perch during the second year of the…
Opinion: Free the pill — and make it free
This month, HRA Pharma announced it had submitted the first-ever application to the Food and…
NYC will use a one-dose monkeypox vaccine strategy to stretch supplies, despite FDA, CDC warnings against the move
New York City’s Health Department announced Friday it will speed up the delivery of first…
Biden tells Dems to quickly pass pared-down economic package
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden seemed to bow Friday to Sen. Joe Manchin’s demand…
STAT+: UnitedHealthcare to offer $0 insulin, Epi-Pens, but only for some members
Next year, UnitedHealthcare will offer employer health plans that have no copays or out-of-pocket costs…
Major abortion pill maker GenBioPro hires its first lobbyists in Washington
WASHINGTON – GenBioPro, which sells the generic version of the abortion pill mifepristone, hired its…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: Will the Supreme Court review controversial patent rulings? GSK prepares for its consumer health spinoff
And so, another working week will soon draw to a close. Not a moment too…
Opinion: Congress: Don’t let hospital care at home shrivel when the public health emergency ends
During surges of Covid-19, providing hospital-level care in the home was a good alternative to…
Opinion: Monkeypox patients should not be left to suffer when an FDA-approved drug could help
Andy couldn’t sleep more than a couple fitful hours a night because it felt like…
Insurers, courts grapple with how and when to pay for wilderness therapy — a polarizing industry with a sordid past
The problems started early on. The young girl from a Denver suburb — identified in…
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STAT+: A Supreme Court review of a contentious patent issue would change the way pharma claims discoveries
In the coming weeks, the Supreme Court is expected to decide whether to review a…
Listen: CRISPR for the heart, biotech’s recovery, & what it means to be a ‘hot girl’
Can CRISPR edit out a heart attack? What happens on #GutTok? And is health care…
Opinion: New competencies on diversity, equity, and inclusion for medical education across the continuum
Turning students into competent physicians in just four years is a tall order. They have…
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Google’s latest cloud deal, the FTC’s privacy fight, and the future of brain-computer interfaces
You’re reading the web edition of STAT Health Tech, our guide to how tech is…
STAT+: George Church startup Manifold Bio raises $40M for ‘protein barcoding’ technology to improve drug testing
Manifold Bio, a new startup founded by one of Boston’s most prolific biotech entrepreneurs, has…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: Teva asks U.S. Supreme Court to review skinny labeling; European Commission rebuked for Pfizer texts
Top of the morning to you. And a steamy one, it is. In fact, there…
Opinion: Empower primary care with adequate payments and technology
Nina, the mother of an autistic teenager, had never experienced a panic attack until Covid-19…
Opinion: STAT+: Value-based drug pricing: When does it work best?
Value-based drug pricing offers an important way to bring down the high cost of drugs…
STAT+: One health system’s six-year odyssey to meet its patients’ needs outside the clinic
Manisha Parulekar knew her aging patients needed extra support outside the walls of her clinic….
A treatment for a deadly condition in newborns fails to improve outcomes, study finds
What do you do when a child is born with poor consciousness, not crying, not…
FDA authorizes Novavax Covid vaccine, in hopes the traditional shot will convince holdouts
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday authorized the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Novavax, a…
Relaxed methadone rules appear safe, researchers find
As the coronavirus pandemic shut down the nation in March of 2020, the U.S. government…
Durbin, Collins blast FDA for failure to ban certain synthetic e-cigarettes
WASHINGTON — Two key senators say the FDA “appears to be on the brink of…
STAT+: Nursing shortage at Mass. hospitals leads to multimillion-dollar costs
A widespread shortage of nurses at Massachusetts hospitals is only getting more extreme, with an…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: Covid worsened antibiotic resistance; Teva and AbbVie unit settle opioid suit with San Francisco
Hello, everyone, and how are you this fine, sunny morning? The middle of the week…
Opinion: Opioid-pushing executives should get jail time, not fines
The first time I heard the word “Oxy” was President’s Day, 2001, as my 18-year-old…
They blazed a trail with ‘brain-computer interfaces.’ Now they want to help shape the field’s future
Three years after he was paralyzed from the chest down, Ian Burkhart faced a dilemma….
STAT+: Agios Pharma CEO Jackie Fouse to step down, as a former Alexion executive takes over
Jackie Fouse is stepping down as CEO of Agios Pharmaceuticals, replaced by Brian Goff, a…
Apgar scores are less predictive of infant mortality for Black babies than white ones, study finds
A standard screening test given to newborns minutes after birth is a less accurate predictor…
STAT+: ‘Eye-opening’: The pandemic accelerated antimicrobial resistance across the U.S.
Resistance to medicines for combating superbugs has considerably worsened during the pandemic, with deaths and…
Citing risk from Omicron variant BA.5, White House urges Americans to get Covid-19 boosters
The Biden administration on Tuesday urged the public to strengthen their protections against Covid-19, noting…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: N.Y. AG claims Teva lied about its role in the opioid crisis; doctors question compounded versions of Novo weight loss drug
Top of the morning to you, and a fine one it is. Clear blue skies…
STAT+: Verve Therapeutics begins human tests of first ‘base editor,’ aiming at heart disease
Somewhere in New Zealand, the first patient ever has been dosed with a kind of…
Opinion: FDA rule would facilitate prescription-to-OTC switches but nix a third class of drugs
After a decade-long wait, the Food and Drug Administration finally issued a proposed rule in…
In the label ‘adult failure to thrive,’ medicine reveals its own failures
The death certificate made everything worse. Seth Fischer was already angry: a physical feeling, an…
Inaccurate pulse oximeter readings tied to less supplemental oxygen for darker-skinned ICU patients
Patients with darker skin who received less accurate readings of their oxygen levels using pulse…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: Perrigo seeks FDA approval to sell birth control over the counter; 1.1 billion Covid vaccines have been wasted
Good morning, everyone, and nice to see you again after we disappeared for a needed…
Drugmaker seeks FDA approval of over-the-counter birth control pill
WASHINGTON — For the first time, a pharmaceutical company has asked for permission to sell…
Opinion: Secrecy: A demon of gene therapy’s past bedevils its future
Twenty-three years ago, the field of gene therapy was bursting with the promise of breakthrough…
Abortion providers embrace virtual assistants and automation to prepare for new flood of patients
As abortion clinics shutter across the country, providers in states where abortion is still legal…
STAT+: Health tech funding is down. Here’s what investors make of the market
In 2021, funding for health technology companies went on a tear and by July, a…
Opinion: Dobbs decision will rob many medical students of essential abortion training
As medical students — the next generation of physicians — we believe that the Supreme…
FDA appears to hold off on crackdown on synthetic nicotine products, despite calls from Congress
WASHINGTON — Congress gave the Food and Drug Administration a clear directive to crack down…
Biden signs order on abortion access after Supreme Court ruling
WASHINGTON — President Biden signed an executive order Friday to protect access to abortion as…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: California to make its own low-cost insulin; Theranos jury finds Balwani guilty on all counts
Good morning, one and all. Damian Garde here, filling in for Ed Silverman once again…
Opinion: Real-world evidence must not become evidence for abortion-related prosecution
The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn federal protection for abortion changed in an instant how…
Opinion: STAT+: How pharma and biotech can keep innovating in a bear market
Over the last decade, the biotech sector experienced the largest boom it has ever seen….
Scientists design a cheap device that can detect ear problems with the help of a smartphone
On a chilly October evening a decade ago, physician Michael Cohen arrived at Boston’s Logan…
STAT+: Drug companies will have to start refunding Medicare for certain drugs that get thrown out
Starting next year, pharmaceutical companies will have to repay Medicare for any unused amount of drugs…