Opinion: It’s time to make ClinicalTrials.gov a better tool for patients. Here’s how
Millions of people visit ClinicalTrials.gov each year to find a trial that they or a…
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STAT Plus: China has near-total control of the world’s antibiotic supply. Is America at risk as a result?
WASHINGTON — The baby had so many pustules ravaging his face he could barely open…
Nursing ranks are filled with Filipino Americans. The pandemic is taking an outsized toll on them
Debbie Accad, 72, a clinical nursing coordinator for the Detroit VA Medical Center, died from…
STAT Plus: Most Americans believe Trump has failed to make progress lowering drug prices
More than one-third of U.S. adults believe that prescription drug prices have increased a lot…
Trump hopes for 2 million tests per week by end of May — the low end of experts’ estimates of what’s needed to reopen
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Monday unveiled a “blueprint” to increase capacity for coronavirus…
Opinion: Scientists who express different views on Covid-19 should be heard, not demonized
When major decisions must be made amid high scientific uncertainty, as is the case with…
STAT Plus: Vertex’s new cystic fibrosis drug needs to be far cheaper to be cost-effective, analysis finds
A newly approved treatment from Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX) that targets roughly 90% of all cystic…
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The world wants answers on Gilead’s Covid-19 drug. Experts worry next studies may increase uncertainty
For weeks, the world has been eagerly awaiting clinical trial results for one experimental drug,…
STAT Plus: ‘GI tract outside the body’ tests how well oral drugs are absorbed
When people swallow a pill, they expect the medicine to quickly reach the source of…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Arthritis drug disappoints as a Covid-19 treatment; Pepcid is being tested to fight the coronavirus
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite —…
Video Chat: A conversation on the coronavirus with Rich Besser
Editor’s note: The video recording will be embedded below at 11 a.m. ET. Rich Besser…
STAT Plus: Immunotherapy from Regeneron and Sanofi extends survival in non-small cell lung cancer
An immunotherapy from the drug firms Regeneron and Sanofi extended survival in previously untreated patients…
Closely watched arthritis drug disappoints as a Covid-19 treatment, studies show
An arthritis drug that was seen as a promising treatment for some Covid-19 patients delivered…
STAT Plus: New type of checkpoint inhibitor offers early promise against tumors, but will it last?
A new type of checkpoint inhibitor from an Israeli biotech company called Compugen is showing…
Opinion: Adolescents and young adults are paying a high price for Covid-19 prevention
“How can he be so stupid?” a dad asked me in a telehealth visit. His…
Opinion: The Covid-19 pandemic could mark the beginning of the ‘biotech century’
If you had infinite foresight and knew a pathogen like Covid-19 was coming, what would…
Covid-19 Drugs and Vaccines Tracker
In the months since the novel coronavirus rose from a regional crisis to a global…
Many states are far short of Covid-19 testing levels needed for safe reopening, new analysis shows
More than half of U.S. states will have to significantly step up their Covid-19 testing…
STAT Plus: Custom cell therapy shrinks lung tumors, seeding hope for a new cancer treatment
Tumors shrank in one quarter of patients with advanced lung cancer who received a bespoke…
STAT Plus: Gilead sues U.S., claiming it ‘secretly’ obtained patents on HIV research that led to Truvada
Gilead Sciences (GILD) has accused the U.S. government of breaching several contracts and “secretly” obtaining…
Opinion: Remembering UpToDate creator Burton (Bud) Rose, the ‘Steve Jobs of medicine’
Ask any doctor, nurse, or other clinician about UpToDate and you’ll get some version of…
Opinion: The success of a Covid-19 vaccine will hinge on its delivery
The lesson learned from a long history of using vaccines to fight massively disruptive diseases…
WHO launches ambitious global project to develop Covid-19 medical products
Led by the World Health Organization, a long list of countries, industry groups, and nongovernmental…
FDA’s Woodcock on authorizing emergency use for hydroxychloroquine: ‘We did the best we could’
Over the past few weeks, the Food and Drug Administration has been criticized for some…
Opinion: Public-private partnerships for contact tracing can help stop Covid-19
As the biomedical community works to develop treatments and vaccines for Covid-19, a national strategy…
FDA warns against widespread use of hydroxychloroquine, drug touted by Trump
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday cautioned against the use of hydroxychloroquine, a malaria…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Thousands sign up for trials studying hydroxycholoroquine; Gilead drug fails to help Covid-19 patients
And so, another working week will soon draw to a close. This may be hard…
Why was an unknown federal bureaucrat involved in Trump’s emergency hydroxychloroquine authorization?
WASHINGTON — Rick Bright, an otherwise unknown federal bureaucrat, burst onto the political stage this…
Opinion: A ‘Swiss cheese’ approach can give us a second chance to contain Covid-19
Fifteen years ago, in response to the threat of H5N1 avian influenza, my team at…
Opinion: It was my job to call people whose Covid-19 tests were positive. That taught me a lot about medicine, the law, and society
As part of my work as an emergency medicine resident, I began a rotation in…
The results of coronavirus ‘serosurveys’ are starting to be released. Here’s how to kick their tires
Results from the first studies designed to determine how widely the coronavirus has spread in…
STAT Plus: A gulf emerges in health tech: While some companies surge, others lay off their workers
You might expect them to be pandemic-proof: They’re the companies offering glimpses of the future…
Hospitals are using AI to predict the decline of Covid-19 patients — before knowing it works
Dozens of hospitals across the country are using an artificial intelligence system created by Epic,…
Listen: The ousting of a vaccine official, how to use ventilators, & the fate of the JP Morgan conference
Why was the infectious disease community in denial about the unfolding pandemic? When can we…
Data on Gilead’s remdesivir, released by accident, show no benefit for coronavirus patients
The antiviral medicine remdesivir from Gilead Sciences failed to speed the improvement of patients with…
Opinion: Trump’s cuts to WHO funding: irresponsible, irrational, and simply wrong
The Covid-19 pandemic has shown us that an infectious disease outbreak in one corner of…
STAT Plus: Major health-record company drops opposition to federal data-sharing rule
After months of fierce opposition, the electronic health record company Epic said Thursday it is…
Opinion: Covid-19 will pass. Will we be able to say the same about the racism it has illuminated?
The Covid-19 pandemic is teaching me that the world can change almost overnight when it…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Former BARDA chief charges Trump politicizes science; India may suspend TB drug exports
Hello, everyone, and how are you today? We are doing reasonably well so far, thank…
In long essay, Bill Gates says time and innovation needed before coronavirus lockdowns end
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates on Thursday warned that the world’s emergence from coronavirus lockdowns will…
Opinion: When the Covid-19 pandemic is over, health care must not return to business as usual
I’m a doctor who treats patients with Covid-19 in the emergency department and the intensive…
Opinion: Our hospital’s community management strategy for Covid-19 works. Yours can, too
The Covid-19 pandemic is overwhelming hospital and emergency response systems in the U.S., much as…
‘It’s noisy’: Competing Covid-19 efforts could hamper progress, experts warn
As many of the most forward-thinking tech and biopharma behemoths — from Apple and Google…
For respiratory therapists on Covid-19 wards, a catheter shortage increases work — and risk
This is one in a series of reports from hospitals responding to the Covid-19 pandemic….
‘Where are all our patients?’: Covid phobia is keeping people with serious heart symptoms away from ERs
Stayc Simpson’s blood pressure readings are all over the place. Her heart rate is fluctuating…
STAT Plus: The coronavirus pandemic could shrink some biotech startup valuations
Determining a private company’s value means estimating how and when it might be able to…
STAT Plus: Sanofi MS drug reduced brain lesions in preliminary study
An experimental multiple sclerosis pill the drug giant Sanofi has touted as one of its…
An ousted vaccine agency director offers an explosive, direct allegation: Trump is politicizing science
WASHINGTON — Rick Bright, the U.S. official who was ousted this week from a post…
STAT Plus: It started with a rumor. Now data show a drug is effective against graft-versus-host disease
Cancer patients inherit brand-new immune systems after undergoing bone marrow transplants. Though this intensive therapy…
Opinion: Home testing for Covid-19 will provide the combination to unlock the U.S.
As the government struggles to help Americans move from lockdowns and shelter-in-place orders to a…