Poor countries must not be forgotten in the Covid-19 battle, Unitaid director warns
Founded more than a dozen years ago, Unitaid has received more than $3 billion in…
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Poor countries must not be forgotten in the Covid-19 battle, Unitaid director warns
Founded more than a dozen years ago, Unitaid has received more than $3 billion in…
Immunomedics wins FDA approval for new drug to treat aggressive form of breast cancer
Immunomedics secured U.S. approval on Wednesday for a new drug to treat women with a…
STAT Plus: Biogen delays Alzheimer’s drug filing to FDA, citing Covid-19, complexity of data analysis
Biogen said Wednesday that the submission of a U.S. marketing application for its Alzheimer’s drug…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Biogen delays Alzheimer’s drug filing; BARDA head leaves amid shakeup
Rise and shine, everyone, another busy and challenging day is on the way. And though…
Awaiting an FDA decision, Akili rolls out its video game for kids with ADHD under relaxed rules
A long-awaited video game meant to be prescribed to kids with ADHD is finally being…
Opinion: Covid-19 and suicide: an uncertain connection
I live and work in Colorado, a beautiful state that can look to an outsider…
Opinion: The view from two residents inside an ICU’s pandemic crew: Covid brain, relentless sorrow, and kindness in calamity
“Welcome to the Covid crew,” read the email we received in mid-March. With that quick…
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Transplants plummet as overwhelmed hospitals focus on the coronavirus
Fred Banks apologizes for pausing mid-sentence to catch his breath. “I’m on oxygen 24/7,” explains…
People are dying from coronavirus because we’re not fast enough at clinical research
When medical historians look back at the Covid-19 pandemic, they will reckon with how the…
STAT Plus: On a 180-person video chat, biotech executives share the best ways do business amid the coronavirus
Given the hour — 4:30 a.m. in California, 7:30 a.m. in Boston — no one…
Director of U.S. agency key to helming vaccine development leaves role suddenly amid coronavirus pandemic
WASHINGTON — Rick Bright, one of the nation’s leading vaccine development experts and the director…
New analysis recommends less reliance on ventilators to treat coronavirus patients
By using ventilators more sparingly on Covid-19 patients, physicians could reduce the more-than-50% death rate…
STAT Plus: FDA warns a company selling an insemination kit with parts only intended for use in animals
Trying to get pregnant can be challenging enough for anxious couples, but imagine being sold…
FDA clears first Covid-19 test with at-home sample collection
Regulators at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday authorized the first coronavirus test…
Opinion: Mobile integrated health programs with paramedics should be on the front line of the Covid-19 fight
Long before the first case of a mystery respiratory disease was identified in China and…
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STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Trump tones down hydroxycholoroquine hype; U.N. resolution calls for access to Covid-19 products
Good morning, everyone, and how are you today? We are doing okay, thank you, given…
Opinion: If pharma helps quench the Covid-19 pandemic, what will it want in return?
Make no mistake: The only long-term solution to the Covid-19 pandemic is a safe and…
STAT Plus: Biogen execs have been quiet since Covid-19 spread through the biotech. The silence ends Wednesday
Do they go with a Covid-19 question? Or one about aducanumab? Maybe a combination of…
Opinion: You are waiting for the surge
The death toll from the march of Covid-19 through New York City soars past 10,000….
How a coronavirus symptom checker came to steer patients to care from Texas to Estonia
When Covid-19 began spreading in the United States, Emory Healthcare was prepared in one way…
NIH Director Francis Collins on Tony Fauci, the WHO, and running a $39 billion research agency from home
WASHINGTON — Francis Collins hasn’t set foot on the National Institutes of Health’s campus in…
He ran marathons and was fit. So why did Covid-19 almost kill him?
A week after testing positive for Covid-19, Joshua Fiske drove himself to a New Jersey…
STAT Plus: Despite pricing controversies, pharma’s reputation is improving among patient groups
Even before the pandemic struck and drug makers were seen as potential saviors, the pharmaceutical…
FDA takes another step to ease shortages of drugs for Covid-19 patients on ventilators
The Food and Drug Administration has taken yet another step in a bid to reduce…
STAT Plus: Despite evidence, many primary care doctors don’t want to prescribe medications for addiction
There are widely recommended medicines for treating opioid addiction, but one-third of primary care physicians…
General Motors, 3M, and pharma companies beef up lobbying firepower amid coronavirus pandemic
WASHINGTON — General Motors and 3M, two major corporations that have feuded publicly with President…
STAT Plus: Aytu Bioscience capitalizes on coronavirus antibody test demand, but the good times won’t last
A pivot towards reselling Chinese-made coronavirus antibody tests in the U.S. has transformed tiny Aytu…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Novartis to test hydroxycholoroquine in Covid-19; malaria drug failed to protect lupus patients from coronavirus
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend offered something…
STAT Plus: Drug combination from Exelixis and Bristol-Myers Squibb extends survival in kidney cancer
A two-drug combination of Cabometyx, a once-daily pill, and Opdivo, an anti-cancer immunotherapy, improved the…
Opinion: Managing a pharma company during three crises: lessons learned for Covid-19
When I started working in the biopharma industry 20 or so years ago, I didn’t…
Everything we know about coronavirus immunity and antibodies — and plenty we still don’t
People who think they’ve been exposed to the novel coronavirus are clamoring for antibody tests…
The months of magical thinking: As the coronavirus swept over China, some experts were in denial
The response to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States and other countries has been…
STAT Plus: After a hard-won political fight, this state expanded access to insulin. Can others follow its lead?
On Tuesday, April 14th, Nicole Smith-Holt watched from the top balcony of the Minnesota state…
Novartis steps up to study of hydroxychloroquine in Covid-19
The drug giant Novartis said Monday it would conduct a 450-person study to determine if…
New study highlights importance of family history-based screening for colorectal cancer
Colorectal cancer, which develops in the large intestine, begins with small, noncancerous clump of cells,…
Opinion: Doctors discover telehealth’s silver lining in the Covid-19 crisis
Before the Covid-19 crisis, I — like most physicians — thought that in person, face-to-face…
Opinion: Farmers markets provide healthy food and support local economies. Keep them open during Covid-19 lockdowns
The Farmers Market in Berkeley, California, where I’ve shopped for the last 20 years, recently…
STAT Plus: After declining for years, anxiety and insomnia prescriptions start to climb
While prescriptions for antidepressants have climbed in the U.S. in recent years, those for anxiety…
FDA approves pill for aggressive breast cancer that’s spread in the body
U.S. regulators on Friday approved a new drug for an aggressive type of breast cancer…
STAT Plus: An FDA tool for hastening approvals is not very useful for breast cancer drugs
Nearly two years ago, the Food and Drug Administration published a table of surrogate endpoints…
STAT Plus: Dozens of financial firms want pharma to place Covid-19 patients over profits
More than three dozen asset managers, pension funds, and insurers are urging the pharmaceutical industry…
NIH partners with 16 drug companies in hopes of accelerating Covid-19 treatments and vaccines
WASHINGTON — The National Institutes of Health on Friday announced it would launch a sweeping…
STAT Plus video chat: What we know about Gilead’s remdesivir data
STAT reported Thursday that a Chicago hospital treating severe Covid-19 patients with Gilead Sciences’ antiviral…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Early data suggests Gilead Covid-19 drug works; did FDA drop standards too far in hunt for chloroquine?
And so, another working week will soon draw to a close. Not a moment too…
New study seeks to surface data to produce a stronger measles vaccine
As a viral infection that starts in the respiratory system, measles, like the virus that…
California resists push to lift limits on nurse practitioners during Covid-19 pandemic
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As the demand for health care workers surges with the coronavirus case…
Opinion: Medical students called to the Covid-19 fight need support, protection
As the escalating Covid-19 pandemic puts increasing pressure on health systems, a shortage of medical…
Opinion: I was a ‘perfect setup’ to be fooled by Covid-19
“Hi, this is Pooja,” I answered my phone promptly. I had been waiting all day…
Influential Covid-19 model uses flawed methods and shouldn’t guide U.S. policies, critics say
A widely followed model for projecting Covid-19 deaths in the U.S. is producing results that…