STAT Plus: Court invalidates Biogen’s patent on blockbuster multiple sclerosis drug
Shares of Biogen fell Thursday after a federal court judge ruled in favor of generic…
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STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Trump pushes for Covid-19 vaccine by year’s end; Americans fear pharma will keep raising drug prices
Hello, everyone, and how are you today? We are doing just fine, thank you, despite…
Opinion: Scientists as heroes: Let’s keep that image in the public eye
“You truly have emerged as a personal hero for me,” Julia Roberts tells Dr. Anthony…
How likely are kids to get Covid-19? Scientists see a ‘huge puzzle’ without easy answers
In January, when it became clear that a new coronavirus was transmitting with ease among…
STAT Plus: A majority of Americans fear pharma will use Covid-19 as an excuse to raise prices
Amid a race to find therapies and vaccines to combat Covid-19, a new poll finds…
Some Covid-19 trial sponsors never posted other study results in an EU database. Will they hide data again?
Amid a wave of research into potential Covid-19 therapies, a new analysis warns that some…
STAT Plus: Trump administration seeks to encourage ‘value-based’ drug pricing deals with new proposal
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration wants to revamp certain Medicaid rules about drug prices in…
Racial bias skews algorithms widely used to guide care from heart surgery to birth, study finds
Decision aids that U.S. physicians use to guide patient care on everything from who receives…
STAT Plus: California attorney general says FTC failed to follow ‘best practices’ in approving AbbVie-Allergan deal
Arguing that the Federal Trade Commission did not follow “best practices” in approving AbbVie’s recent…
WHO drops hydroxychloroquine from Covid-19 clinical trial
The World Health Organization on Wednesday said it was dropping the malaria medicine hydroxychloroquine from…
STAT Plus: CAR-T cells, better known as cancer drugs, show promise against aging in lab mice
Scientists are still trying to get CAR-T cells to work as well in solid tumors…
STAT Plus: BioMarin’s hemophilia gene therapy continues to prevent bleeding at four years
BioMarin’s experimental hemophilia gene therapy, which is expected to be approved by U.S. regulators in…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: White House says Covid-19 vaccine will be free to the ‘vulnerable’; vaccine makers hunt for glass vials
Good morning, everyone, and how are you today? We are doing just fine, thank you,…
Opinion: An ‘America first’ pharma supply chain sounds good. But it won’t work
With a stroke of the president’s Executive Order pen, the Trump administration awarded a $354…
Opinion: Cough and pneumonia in the time of coronavirus
Standing in line outside a grocery store in Seattle, almost at the front, the requisite…
Rising Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations underscore the long road ahead
The U.S. is now confronting what public health experts have been warning about but many…
Facing a broken mental health system, many U.S. teens fall off a dangerous ‘cliff’ in their care
An 18th birthday can mean many things. It’s a formal step into adulthood. It’s the…
STAT Plus: As quality concerns rise, FDA report shows Indian drug plants inspected more often — and had more problems
As concerns mount over the quality of the pharmaceutical supply chain, the Food and Drug…
STAT Plus: Eli Lilly gets an edge against Pfizer in adjuvant breast cancer
Eli Lilly announced Tuesday that adding its drug Verzeneio to hormone blockers decreased the risk…
STAT Plus: Royalty Pharma, a drug company that doesn’t develop drugs, shatters IPO record
Royalty Pharma, a business built on investing in other people’s medicines, raised $2.2 billion in…
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Trump administration pledges future Covid-19 vaccines will be free for ‘vulnerable’ Americans
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Tuesday pledged to provide a future Covid-19 vaccine for…
Opinion: To fight Covid-19, open access to scientific publishing
To tackle the ongoing catastrophe of the Covid-19 pandemic, the biomedical research community must deploy…
STAT Plus: Ramping up pressure on Elsevier, University of California strikes landmark research access deal with publisher of Nature journals
The University of California has reached a landmark deal with the world’s second largest academic…
STAT Plus: Smart pill maker Proteus files for bankruptcy, reveals it has held acquisition talks with Otsuka
Smart pill maker Proteus Digital Health on Monday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the latest…
STAT Plus: Supreme Court deals a series of blows to generic drug companies
It’s a bad run for generic drug companies at the Supreme Court. The court on…
Major study finds common steroid reduces deaths among patients with severe Covid-19
A cheap, readily available steroid drug reduced deaths by a third in patients hospitalized with…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Cheap steroid reduced deaths in severe Covid-19 patients; what the FDA decision on hydroxychloroquine means
Rise and shine, everyone, another very busy day awaits. Even so, there is nothing like…
A tech investor’s rude awakening on clinical trials sparks an effort to make them faster for Covid-19
When Sam Altman, the CEO of artificial intelligence firm OpenAI and a well-known tech investor,…
What does the FDA’s hydroxychloroquine decision mean for Covid-19 patients or politicians? And 4 other burning questions
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Monday revoked its already controversial emergency use…
Opinion: By phone, cancer patients reveal their Covid-19 angst — and seek help
Clinical trials have always represented hope for people with cancer. Whether someone is newly diagnosed…
‘We have a job to do’: Cancer patients and their doctors carry on with clinical trials during Covid-19
Cancer isn’t waiting for Covid-19 to go away. Neither is Karen Howley. Diagnosed two years…
‘An obligation’: Doctors and other health workers increasingly see protesting racial injustice as part of the job
Amid the dual crises of a global pandemic and a reckoning with systemic racial injustice,…
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In a landmark decision, FDA greenlights a video game for kids with ADHD
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday for the first time gave a green light…
STAT Plus: A YouTube ‘hit job’ about a Catalyst Pharma rival is posted amid its battle with the FDA
In a move that resembles a scare tactic, a newly posted YouTube video shows a…
FDA revokes emergency use ruling for hydroxychloroquine, the drug touted by Trump as a Covid-19 therapy
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Monday said it had withdrawn an emergency…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Lilly begins studying RA drug for Covid-19; AstraZeneca to provide Europe 400 million vaccine doses
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite was…
STAT Plus: Momenta Pharma drug improves symptoms in patients with myasthenia gravis
Momenta Pharmaceuticals reported Monday that in a mid-stage clinical trial, an experimental medicine significantly improved…
STAT Plus: A would-be chain of cancer centers wants to treat patients with Right to Try drugs, raising ethical questions
In an unusual move, a private equity firm is soliciting investors to help create a…
Opinion: Covid-19 and remdesivir: rethinking how we measure a drug’s ‘value’
As pharmaceutical and biotech companies scramble to identify treatments for Covid-19, a new disease that…
Postcard from the edge: A rural getaway, protected from Covid-19, fears it may be swallowed into the pandemic
BENZONIA, Mich. — Tucked away on the northern shore of Lake Michigan, the residents of…
STAT Plus: What’s at stake for industry in the pharmaceutical Space Race for a Covid-19 vaccine
The Trump administration’s move to pick five companies as finalists in the quest to develop…
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To understand who’s dying of Covid-19, look to social factors like race more than preexisting diseases
While early studies of who was dying of Covid-19 identified risks such as obesity and…
Sinovac says early data show its Covid-19 vaccine generated immune responses
Sinovac Biotech announced preliminary study results on Saturday showing its experimental Covid-19 vaccine generated immune…
FDA approves Gardasil 9, the HPV vaccine, to prevent head-and-neck cancer
For the past decade, evidence has suggested that Gardasil, the HPV vaccine, could stem an…
STAT Plus: As efficacy of Constellation’s blood cancer drug wanes, the debate over its future ratchets higher
The response rate to an experimental myelofibrosis drug is falling, Constellation Pharmaceuticals, the drug’s maker,…
STAT Plus: Antimicrobials benefited from expedited FDA programs more than other drugs
Amid concerns over the need for more antimicrobials, a new analysis finds these medicines benefited…
STAT Plus: PhRMA’s top communicator, a fierce defender of the industry, leaves for ExxonMobil
The top spokesperson for the drug industry’s main lobbying group in Washington is taking a…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: U.S. Chamber wants transparency around Covid-19 vaccines; EU to pump billions into vaccine deals
And so, another working week will soon draw to a close. If you are surprised…
Opinion: Fee for service is a terrible way to pay for health care. Try a subscription model instead
Amid the nightly roar of applause for health care workers courageously caring for Covid-19 patients,…