STAT Plus: In unusual arrangement, deputy HHS secretary’s wife has been lobbying the agency on behalf of health care companies
WASHINGTON — Emily Hargan, who is married to Department of Health and Human Services Deputy…
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STAT Plus: As new users flock to health apps, experts raise questions about public understanding of data privacy
As digital health tools proliferate, health data experts are raising a new round of alarms…
Pharma promises lawmakers, again and again, industry won’t cut corners with Covid-19 vaccines
The pharmaceutical industry does not want you to worry about the safety or efficacy of…
Public health group calls for standardized data collection to more clearly track Covid-19
In a new review of the Covid-19 response across the country, a group of public…
Actual Covid-19 case count could be 6 to 24 times higher than official estimates, CDC study shows
The true number of coronavirus cases in the U.S. could be anywhere from six to…
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STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Covid-19 vaccines may need two doses; lawmakers grilling pharma execs own their stocks
Good morning. Elizabeth Cooney here again, subbing for the vacationing Ed Silverman as the week…
STAT Plus: CytoDyn’s Covid-19 drug troubles escalate: Efficacy data are missing from study
CytoDyn released safety data on its experimental drug for Covid-19 on Tuesday, but efficacy data…
STAT Plus: Cancer startup aims precision medicine at rare genetic driver
A company focused on developing precision medicines to treat patients whose cancers are driven by…
Opinion: Lower the cost of producing doctors, not just the price of going to medical school
Medicine has become a profession accessible mainly to the rich. Just look at the price…
Opinion: Chronic fatigue syndrome may hold keys to understanding post-Covid syndrome
Some survivors of acute bouts of Covid-19 experience a range of persistent medical issues —…
Dermatology faces a reckoning: Lack of darker skin in textbooks and journals harms care for patients of color
When dermatologist Jenna Lester learned that rashes on skin and toes were a symptom of…
STAT Plus: Many drug companies working on Covid-19 vaccines and treatments are lobbying harder than usual
WASHINGTON — Pharmaceutical companies racing to develop coronavirus treatments and vaccines have upped their lobbying…
Acadia fails in attempt to expand use of antipsychotic to treat patients with depression
Acadia Pharmaceuticals reported negative results Monday from a pair of late-stage clinical trials seeking to…
STAT Plus: FDA extends deadline for stem cell clinics to comply with drug development rules
The Food and Drug Administration has pushed back by six months the deadline by which…
Study provides first glimpse of efficacy of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine
A Covid-19 vaccine being developed by Oxford University and the drug giant AstraZeneca generated an…
STAT Plus: Three lawmakers own large sums of stock in vaccine makers set to testify before their committee
Three of the lawmakers tasked with grilling pharmaceutical executives on the development of Covid-19 vaccines…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: U.K. inks coronavirus vaccine deal; Synairgen says its drug lowers Covid-19 risk
Good morning. Elizabeth Cooney here in Boston, sitting in for Ed Silverman, who’s on holiday…
Opinion: To begin addressing racial bias in medicine, start with the skin
“Until the color of a man’s skin is of no more significance than the color…
What will it cost? And 5 other questions Congress could push Covid-19 vaccine makers to answer
Some drug companies say we’ll have a coronavirus vaccine by the winter. Others say that’s…
Trump said more Covid-19 testing ‘creates more cases.’ We did the math
The counter-narrative began almost instantly. After the U.S. count of Covid-19 cases began an inexorable…
Black children are more likely to die after surgery than white counterparts, new study finds
Even among apparently healthy children, Black patients are almost three and a half times more…
Civil War vaccination kits, discovered in a drawer, yield genetic clues to how smallpox was defeated
As the world anxiously pins its hopes on vaccines to halt the coronavirus pandemic, scientists…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Hydroxychloroquine fails once more; Russian hackers target coronavirus vaccine data
Good morning, one and all. Damian Garde here, filling in for Ed Silverman in the…
Opinion: Med students, physicians need social mission education now more than ever
A longstanding failure of the U.S. health care system is that minority and vulnerable populations…
Opinion: Rising to the challenge of screening for intimate partner violence during Covid-19
Health care providers play an essential role in halting the cycle of intimate partner violence…
‘We have to do a better job’: How structural racism in medicine harms both doctors and patients
Early in her medical career, physician Rachel Issaka encountered a liver transplant patient who was…
STAT Plus: Corbus Pharma is nearing the readout of a pivotal drug study. Here’s what you need to know
Four years ago, Corbus Pharmaceuticals claimed success in a mid-stage clinical trial of its lead…
A silver lining to the pandemic response? Doctors hope to see fewer cases of a polio-like condition that affects children
If the pattern from recent history holds, starting next month, doctors in the U.S. will…
STAT Plus: Startup Spotlight: Glympse Bio hopes its test will show whether drugs are actually working
Cambridge, Mass.-based startup Glympse Bio has raised more than $45 million for its nanoparticle-based biosensors,…
A yearslong push to remove racist bias from kidney testing gains new ground
For years, physicians and medical students, many of them Black, have warned that the most…
STAT Plus: Operation Warp Speed doesn’t have the transparency it needs
So much for transparency. In what can only be called a disappointing decision, the Trump…
NIH Director Francis Collins defends Fauci amid White House criticism
WASHINGTON — Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, defended the beleaguered…
Listen: Coronavirus vaccine data, saving the U.S.’s pandemic response, and systemic racism in medicine
What do we want from a coronavirus vaccine? Can the U.S.’s Covid-19 response be saved?…
New Covid-19 study, despite flaws, adds to case against hydroxychloroquine
Hydroxychloroquine did not lead to faster symptom improvement among patients who had Covid-19 symptoms and…
STAT Plus: As Amazon builds new health ventures, Haven struggles to gain ground
Amazon’s sprawling, sometimes stilted approach to employee health care is growing more complicated — and…
How HHS’s new hospital data reporting system will actually affect the U.S. Covid-19 response
WASHINGTON — It’s a fight over something as seemingly mundane as government data collection. But…
STAT Plus: Novartis to provide drugs for Covid-19 patients at no cost, but fails to disclose pricing
As companies face pressure to ensure access to medicines during the pandemic, Novartis (NVS) plans…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Warp Speed chief can avoid ethics disclosures; China OKs a BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine trial
Good morning, everyone, and how are you today? We are doing just fine, thank you,…
STAT Plus: The founder of Adimab believes he can combat Covid-19 — and whatever pandemic comes next
One of biotech’s most respected entrepreneurs is betting the novel coronavirus won’t be the last…
Opinion: The pandemic has exposed our broken pharma supply chain. Synthetic biology and brewer’s yeast could fix it
Covid-19 has depleted stockpiles of essential medicines in the U.S., straining our supply chains and…
Opinion: Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children related to Covid-19 isn’t the mystery it’s made out to be
As a physician taking care of hospitalized Covid-19 patients, I had very nearly become immune…
Opioid overdoses have skyrocketed amid the coronavirus, but states are nevertheless slashing addiction treatment program budgets
WASHINGTON — Drug overdoses have skyrocketed and demand for addiction treatment medicine has soared as…
Once a relic of medical history, radiation emerges as an intriguing — and divisive — treatment for Covid-19
Back in 2013, toxicologist Edward Calabrese and a colleague at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst,…
U.S. must spend $75 billion to fix flawed Covid-19 testing, report says
The U.S. should invest $75 billion in order to fix its badly flawed system of…
STAT Plus: House Democrats are using the budget process to slam the Trump administration’s Covid-19 response
A version of this story first appeared in D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s weekly newsletter about the…
STAT Plus: Moderna’s skyrocketing market value is an indictment of the U.S. Covid-19 response
Buoyed by newly published, early data on its experimental Covid-19 vaccine, Moderna on Wednesday cracked…
Scientists create a speedy finger-prick test to scan for radiation exposure in mice
Researchers have developed a simple finger-prick test that scans a single drop of blood to…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Moderna vaccine is a ‘good beginning’; hospitals stock up on drugs for Covid-19
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the middle of the week. Congratulations on making it…
Opinion: A national mandatory order to wear a mask would keep people from becoming ‘walking weapons’
Although lawmakers are engaged with many long-delayed, vital components of a comprehensive federal response to…