Opinion: Don’t use ‘deaths of despair’ as rationale for reopening the country too soon
Following congressional testimony last week about frontline workers’ experiences during the Covid-19 epidemic, members of…
Category: Biotech
Experts warn of dire global health consequences if U.S. withdraws from the World Health Organization
An American withdrawal from the World Health Organization could wreak profound damage on the global…
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Opinion: Early diagnosis, not cancer drug breakthroughs, is the best way to fix the global scourge of breast cancer
Covid-19 news could be nudged out of the spotlight this weekend as the American Society…
The WHO launched a voluntary Covid-19 product pool. What happens next?
After weeks of planning, the World Health Organization formally launched a voluntary pool to collect…
Trump: U.S. will terminate relationship with the World Health Organization in wake of Covid-19 pandemic
President Trump said Friday the U.S. would halt its funding of the World Health Organization…
When did the coronavirus start spreading in the U.S.? Likely in January, CDC analysis suggests
How early did local transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus begin in the United States? For…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Administration mishandled initial remdesivir distribution; AstraZeneca lung cancer drug shows big benefit
And so, another working week will soon draw to a close. Not a moment, too…
STAT Plus: Additional blood cancer responses seen with Allogene’s off-the-shelf CAR-T cells, updated study shows
Allogene on Friday released updated results from the first study of its off-the-shelf CAR-T cell…
Opinion: In the face of Covid-19, the U.S. needs to change how it deals with mental illness
Before Covid-19 arrived in the U.S., the country was in the midst of a mental…
STAT Plus: Despite economic downturn, big names in health tech are drawing in significant funding
It was expected to be a last-minute salvo: As much of the world braced for…
Contact tracing could help avoid another lockdown. Can it work in the U.S.?
To contain the spread of Covid-19, Alaska is planning to triple its number of contact…
STAT Plus: AstraZeneca study results could change treatment for certain early-stage lung cancer patients
In April, AstraZeneca halted a clinical trial of its genetically targeted lung cancer drug Tagrisso…
Listen: Life after a coronavirus vaccine, virtual ASCO, and remembering Larry Kramer
What happens after we get a coronavirus vaccine? Can virtual medical meetings replace the real…
Pharma leaders shoot down WHO voluntary pool for patent rights on Covid-19 products
The heads of some of the world’s largest drug makers expressed a mix of confusion…
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STAT Plus: Bacteria are widespread in tumors, forming distinct populations depending on the cancer type
In what outside experts called the most rigorous and comprehensive survey of bacteria in human…
Opinion: He was a ‘force of nature’: Anthony Fauci, Tom Frieden, and others remember Larry Kramer
“AIDS changed everything,” Larry Kramer once said. So he made it his life’s work to…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Glaxo aims for 1 billion doses of a Covid-19 vaccine booster; Pence aide holds lots of pharma stocks
Rise and shine, everyone, another busy day is on the way. We can tell because…
Digital event: Confronting a Pandemic — Part 4
Editor’s note: The livestream will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET. The need to…
Big gene therapy names line up behind experimental Covid-19 vaccine
An early stage vaccine against Covid-19 based on the same basic technology used in gene…
The global pandemic through the eyes of the world’s children
CHICAGO — These are children of the global pandemic. In the far-north Canadian town of…
Opinion: Challenge trials can speed development of a Covid-19 vaccine. Planning for them needs to start now
Human challenge trials, also known as controlled human infection models, are an essential tool for…
Opinion: Covid-19 is battering independent physician practices. They need help now
Autumn Road Family Practice is a small, six-doctor primary care practice that’s been caring for…
Wastewater testing gains support as an early warning system for Covid-19 cases
What only a month ago had been merely an intriguing laboratory finding about analyzing wastewater…
When hard data are ‘heartbreaking’: Testing blitz in San Francisco shows Covid-19 struck mostly low-wage workers
Early in the coronavirus outbreak, as the first infected patients trickled into Zuckerberg San Francisco…
A biotech company tries to retrofit a lung drug to prevent Covid-19’s after effects
As the world scrambles to find antiviral treatments and vaccines for the novel coronavirus, some…
STAT Plus: FDA finds ‘unacceptable’ levels of a possible carcinogen in a widely used diabetes pill
After months of testing, the Food and Drug Administration reported finding unacceptable levels of a…
STAT Plus: Medical societies have ‘extensive’ financial ties with drug and device makers
Many leaders of influential medical societies have extensive financial relationships with drug and device makers,…
STAT Plus: Vertex angers U.K. cystic fibrosis patients with a delay in submitting data for its newest therapy
Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX) has sparked a new round of anger among cystic fibrosis patients in…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Moderna executives cashed out big time; should we have ‘quality scores’ for manufacturing drugs?
Hello, everyone, and how are you today? We are coping so far, thank you. Despite…
Experts decry FDA’s halting of a high-profile Covid-19 study over approvals
Regulators at the Food and Drug Administration told STAT the agency’s decision last week to…
STAT Plus: Startup Spotlight: Going after immune regulators when they cause disease instead of prevent it
Q32 Bio has two targets in its sights: the two arms of the immune system….
Opinion: Beating Covid-19 will change how new therapies are developed
The global Covid-19 pandemic has left families and communities around the globe grieving for lost…
Opinion: The data-free zone of Covid-19 complicates medical, family decision-making
“What would you do, doc?” It’s a question I get all the time as a…
STAT Plus: Scientists 3D-map the ‘little brain of the (rat) heart’
Even cardiologists might not know — or pay attention to — the intracardiac nervous system….
Watch: How researchers will study Covid-19 vaccines
The SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes Covid-19, has sickened millions of people around the world and…
Hospital records hold valuable Covid-19 data. Making it usable is time-consuming work
As tens of thousands of people worldwide test positive for Covid-19 every day, researchers are…
Moderna executives have cashed out $89M in shares this year, as stock price has soared on vaccine hopes
The top five executives at the biotech company Moderna have sold more than $89 million…
‘Forced to retract completely into ourselves,’ a mother and son confront cancer in the age of Covid-19
Amy Sapien had prepared for her April 13 surgery as best she could. She dyed…
Trump tries to convince voters he’s lowered drug prices, based only on a modest tweak to Medicare
WASHINGTON — President Trump used a glitzy Rose Garden address, flanked by pharmaceutical company CEOs…
New research rewrites history of when Covid-19 arrived in U.S. — and points to missed chances to stop it
New research has poured cold water on the theory that the Covid-19 outbreak in Washington…
STAT Plus: Experts push for a ‘seal of approval’ to improve the quality of medicines
Should there be a Good Housekeeping ‘seal of approval’ for prescription medicines? In a new…
STAT Plus: A pharma effort to work with European officials to develop new drugs is a “failure”
In a scathing report, a pair of non-governmental organizations accused the European pharmaceutical industry of…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Merck enters Covid-19 vaccine race; pharma alarmed by push for U.S.-only supply chain
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite was…
Opinion: Biopharma companies are spreading misinformation — and taking advantage of it
As Covid-19 upends the world, people are putting their faith in the biopharma industry to…
Merck leaps into Covid-19 vaccine race, aiming to test two different candidates this year
Merck, one of the largest vaccine makers in the world, is entering the Covid-19 arena…
Opinion: Hospitals are busier than ever — and going out of business
At various points over the last few weeks, news reports have told stories of booming…
STAT Plus: ‘One thing cancer patients don’t generally have is time’: New cancer research leader brings urgency to Sanofi
Peter Adamson joined Sanofi in late March, as the coronavirus pandemic surged around the world…
As Covid-19 tears through Navajo Nation, young people step up to protect their elders
Michelle Tom stared into the screen. The Navajo doctor had just finished a grueling shift…
STAT Plus: Pharma panics as Washington pushes to bring drug manufacturing back to the U.S.
WASHINGTON — As the coronavirus pandemic disrupts global supply chains, lawmakers are increasingly calling on…
He experienced a severe reaction to Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate. He’s still a believer
Patients in clinical trials are usually faceless. But as the experimental Covid-19 vaccine being developed…