FDA approves Lilly diabetes drug that analysts expect to be a big seller
The Food and Drug Administration said Friday it had approved Mounjaro, a new injection for…
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STAT+: Senate FDA legislation will include dietary supplement, cosmetic reforms
WASHINGTON – Senate lawmakers are set to unveil draft legislation as soon as Monday that…
Opinion: The case of RaDonda Vaught highlights a double standard for nurses and physicians
RaDonda Vaught, a former nurse in Tennessee, was sentenced on Friday to three years of…
Opinion: Turn off the spigot for hospitals’ Covid-19 relief funding
Hospitals are calling on Congress for more Covid-19 relief even though they had higher profit…
STAT+: Real estate firms own nearly 1 in 10 health care properties
Not all hospitals and nursing homes own the property they sit on, and new research…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: Aspen may close South Africa Covid vaccine plant due to lack of orders; Roche insists it can overcome latest setback
And so, another working week will soon draw to a close. Not a moment too…
Opinion: A consultant wrote the playbook on drug pricing — then distanced himself from it
When Biogen announced the price for Aduhelm, its controversial Alzheimer’s drug, the explanation the company…
STAT+: 3 burning questions about the future of prescribing drugs online
Online companies prescribing and dispensing medications like Adderall are garnering increasing scrutiny from clinicians and…
Listen: A CEO’s arrest, Pfizer’s big deal, & Covid on the rise
Is the next Covid surge upon us? How do you make $350,000 a day in…
Can Google’s Google Pixel Watch compete with Apple on health?
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Publication of the ‘Google Maps’ of human cells is a milestone. A pioneer of the project explains why
Just under your skin lie whole aqueous worlds, where trillions of cells spark and beat…
STAT+: National Institutes of Health licenses nearly a dozen Covid-19 technologies to a WHO program
In a notable bid to widen global access to Covid-19 medical products, the National Institutes…
What the current spike in Covid-19 cases could say about the coronavirus’s future
As the Omicron wave subsided in the United States earlier this year, many experts anticipated…
STAT+: Arkansas becomes the latest state to sue drugmakers and PBMs over insulin pricing
The Arkansas attorney general has filed a lawsuit accusing several drugmakers and pharmacy benefit managers…
STAT+: A Caribou CAR-T treatment, backed by Nobel-winning science, shows blood-cancer remissions in first data reveal
Caribou Biosciences said Thursday that its CRISPR-edited T-cell therapy induced complete remissions in four of…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: Seagen chief executive is arrested for domestic assault; abortion pill producer has ample supplies
Top of the morning to you. Gray skies are hovering over the Pharmalot campus right…
Opinion: Covid-19 deaths in the United States: Reinforcing the notion of ‘two Americas’
The notion of Covid-19 causing two Americas was on many minds in the summer of…
STAT+: The FDA eased rules for mental health apps during the pandemic. Now companies are bracing for it to tighten the reins
In April 2020, as the horrors of the pandemic were beginning to unspool, the Food…
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Dr. Oz peddles medical misinformation — but his political rise could still have a silver lining for sound science
WASHINGTON — In his run for the U.S. Senate, Dr. Oz repeatedly reminds audiences that,…
Seven health insurance CEOs raked in a record $283 million last year
The CEOs of America’s seven largest publicly traded health insurance and services companies cumulatively earned…
STAT+: Advocate Aurora-Atrium’s mammoth merger: experts split on whether federal regulators will challenge the deal
The merger of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health, announced Wednesday, would create one of the…
STAT+: Lawmakers wade into a contentious and long-running battle over orphan drug monopolies
Sparked by an unusual, decade-long fight over a rare disease drug, two U.S. lawmakers have…
STAT+: Police reports detailing Seagen CEO’s arrest raise questions about biotech’s response
Seagen CEO Clay Siegall was arrested and charged with domestic assault after a drunken night…
In radical claim, study suggests inflammation wards off chronic pain instead of causing it
For two decades, Luda Diatchenko investigated the underlying biology of pain like a detective chasing…
Transfusion of brain fluid from young mice is a memory-elevating elixir for old animals
For a human, one of the first signs someone is getting old is the inability…
U.S. overdose deaths hit record 107,000 in 2021, CDC says
NEW YORK — More than 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year, setting another…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: Moderna’s new CFO leaves due to probe by former employer; Roche suffers another setback with a cancer drug
Top of the morning to you. The middle of the week is upon us and,…
STAT+: Roche anti-TIGIT cancer immunotherapy fails second clinical trial
Roche said Wednesday that its experimental cancer immunotherapy directed against a target called TIGIT suffered…
Opinion: The danger of letting primary care be a rescue path for burned-out specialists
One of the best-known effects of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the stress and sense…
Opinion: Listen: Get sick, go to the doctor, incur debt, repeat
Sickness can beget debt, which can then turn around and beget more sickness. That’s the…
STAT+: A new biotech investment firm, headed by a pair of noteworthy VCs, seeks to ‘free the founders’
The way biotech veteran Alexis Borisy and entrepreneur Zach Weinberg see it, the venture capital…
STAT+: Researchers look to deliver ‘unbiased judgment of AI bias’ in medicine
After an explosion of excitement in the potential for machine learning in medicine, cracks in…
STAT+: Why a controversial patent rights waiver could be a ‘missed opportunity’ to tackle the next pandemic
After 18 months, the fate of a contentious proposal before the World Trade Organization to…
STAT+: It took years, but the failure of Northwest Bio’s brain cancer vaccine is now in the open
After years of delays and excuses, Northwest Biotherapeutics finally disclosed on Tuesday the final results…
Firearm deaths and disparities both grew in pandemic’s first year
Guns were the weapons wielded in more than three-quarters of homicides in the U.S. during…
A machine learning company pitches its plan to get ahead of the next pandemic
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Pharma showers John Thune with campaign cash
You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s weekly newsletter about the politics and…
Virtual Event: 2022 STATUS List Spotlight Series – Oni and Uché Blackstock
Editor’s note: A livestream of the conversation will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET….
STAT+: Pharmalittle: Pfizer to pay $11.6 billion for Biohaven; pharmacy chains face a novel trial to determine opioid liability
Good morning, everyone, and how are you today? We are doing just fine, thank you,…
STAT+: Pfizer to buy BioHaven for $11.6 billion, raising hopes for the broader biotech market
Pfizer said Tuesday that it will purchase BioHaven, a maker for migraine drugs, for $11.6…
STAT+: Flagship Pioneering hires lobbyists, a first among biotech venture firms
WASHINGTON — Flagship Pioneering, the venture capital firm behind Moderna, is getting into the Washington…
Telehealth aims to crack open Paxlovid’s prescription bottleneck
After months of shortages, pharmacies across the United States are being stocked with drugs to…
Opinion: The faces of Covid
Across the United States, more than 1 million of our family members, friends, neighbors, co-workers,…
Watch: A STAT reporter’s race to keep up with Covid-19
The ticker tape of the infectious disease world, ProMED, posts a steady stream of reports…
The ‘five pandemics’ driving 1 million U.S. Covid deaths
Officially, the U.S. will almost certainly reach an awful milestone in the next two weeks:…
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Black, Hispanic, and Asian Americans should be screened at lower BMI for diabetes, study says
Widely used physician guidelines that ignore patients’ race and ethnicity could be doing more harm…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: Seagen CEO under investigation after alleged domestic violence; Bausch & Lomb settles for a lesser IPO
Good morning, one and all. Damian Garde here, filling in for Ed Silverman on another…
Opinion: Strengthening Gavi is a way forward for global vaccine equity
The Biden administration’s upcoming Covid-19 summit will shine a spotlight on the global failure to…
STAT+: The panel was supposed to improve efficiency at the NIH. It hasn’t even met for 7 years
WASHINGTON — An oversight board tasked with making the National Institutes of Health more efficient…
STAT+: From burst bubble to medical marvel: How lipid nanoparticles became the future of gene therapy
Paddy Doherty leaned back in the narrow hospital bed and watched a bag of clear…