Help wanted: Health agencies will need an army of coronavirus trackers
K.J. Seung is surprised to be hiring and training new workers in Boston. His public…
Category: Biotech
Opinion: I’m studying in the U.S., my family is in Italy. Every day is filled with mutual, gut-wrenching worry
WASHINGTON — I was supposed to be home in Italy for my spring break. Instead, as…
As Covid-19 surges among San Francisco’s homeless, doctors face difficult choices
SAN FRANCISCO — As a doctor at San Francisco’s safety net hospital, Katie Brooks takes…
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Opinion: With only ‘shaky data’ to go on, it’s tough to practice evidence-based medicine during the Covid-19 pandemic
Part of my job as an obstetrician is to keep up with the latest evidence…
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Startups spar with FDA over what constitutes a home coronavirus test
Federal regulators and health tech startups are increasingly at odds over the permissibility of at-home…
STAT Plus: Study of AstraZeneca’s top-selling cancer drug stopped early for ‘overwhelming’ benefit
AstraZeneca halted a study of its lung cancer treatment Tagrisso after observing what the company…
Some drugs being tested as Covid-19 treatments could be very cheap to make
Some existing medicines that may be repurposed to fight Covid-19 could also be manufactured profitably…
New Ebola case dashes hopes that the 2-year-old DRC outbreak was over
The long-running Ebola outbreak in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has encountered another setback,…
STAT Plus: Insurers, drug makers, and patient advocates blast two Trump proposals to drive down drug prices
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has proposed modest steps this year to promote biosimilar and…
Opinion: Covid-19 ‘immunity certificates’: practical and ethical conundrums
The media’s understandable focus is now on the number of people hospitalized with and dying…
A key ingredient that compound pharmacies need for hydroxychloroquine skyrockets in price
As global demand intensifies for an old malaria drug that some believe can combat Covid-19,…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Poison control sees more cases after Trump touts malaria drug; Indian companies to double hydroxychloroquine output
And so, another working week will soon come to a close. Not a moment too…
STAT Plus: How will the pandemic shape biotech in the months ahead? An industry analyst weighs in
The biopharma industry is racing to respond to the novel coronavirus pandemic. But the industry…
Opinion: Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, it is time for biomedical research investments to pay off
The Covid-19 pandemic is the monumental public health challenge the medical community has been fearing…
Opinion: Searching for an effective Covid-19 treatment: promise and peril
In response to the most serious global health threat in a century, the world’s biomedical…
The coronavirus sneaks into cells through a key receptor. Could targeting it lead to a treatment?
Nearly 20 years ago, when a different coronavirus struck, Michael Farzan and his team figured…
Opinion: The challenges of giving birth in the time of Covid-19
There are about 300,000 births every month in the United States. That won’t change as…
Doctors ‘keep an open mind’ about unproven coronavirus drug, but worry it could do more harm than good
SAN FRANCISCO — For President Trump, whether Covid-19 patients should take a once-obscure malaria drug…
Democrats scramble to turn the 2020 election into a referendum on Trump’s coronavirus response
WASHINGTON — Democratic groups are scrambling to recalibrate the party’s health care messaging for the…
Listen: Privacy in a pandemic, biopharma’s big opportunity, and Shkreli’s plea for a break
Can the drug industry win over Americans? Will the pandemic put an end to privacy?…
Data for Regeneron arthritis drug in coronavirus could come in weeks
Regeneron could release data within weeks about how well its arthritis drug Kevzara is battling…
Social distancing is controlling Covid-19; now scientists need to figure out which measures are most effective
Banning gatherings, having people stay at home, closing schools, and other measures to reduce the…
Methadone clinic lines and packed waiting rooms leave clients vulnerable to the coronavirus
One photo shows a long line of people standing close together while waiting for methadone…
It’s difficult to grasp the projected deaths from Covid-19. Here’s how they compare to other causes of death
The numbers seem catastrophic, overwhelming, beyond a magnitude that the human mind or heart can…
Who gets hospitalized for Covid-19? Report shows differences by race and sex
The first federal report on who requires hospital care for Covid-19 in the U.S. has…
International trial uses AI to rapidly identify optimal Covid-19 treatments
Treating patients with the never-before-seen Covid-19 is forcing doctors to choose between two equally unpalatable…
STAT Plus: Video Chat: How the coronavirus pandemic is testing health tech
Editor’s note: The live stream will be embedded below at 1 p.m EST. The health…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: More clinical trials derailed by Covid-19; Pfizer jumpstarts tests on a drug to fight the pandemic
Rise and shine, everyone, another challenging day is on the way. And while it will…
Pfizer says coronavirus drug could enter testing by fall
Pfizer said Thursday it now intends to start human tests on a potential drug to…
STAT Plus: Biotech venture capital had a record-breaking quarter, but isn’t out of the woods yet
A version of this story also appeared in STAT’s daily biotech newsletter, The Readout. Subscribe…
Opinion: Learning about epidemic response from sub-Saharan African countries
In 2014, as one of us (A.T.D.) lay dying in an Ebola treatment center in…
Opinion: A proper tribute to health care workers on the Covid-19 front lines: forgive their student loan debt
Covid-19 has been likened to a stealth enemy attacking the fabric and well-being of our…
You need a special lab to study the coronavirus. Here’s what it takes to get one up and running
Before the pandemic, there was only a small group of researchers dedicated to studying coronaviruses….
Opinion: I am far more than ‘just a nurse’
I inspect my patient from head to toe and then left to right across her…
With diving gear and plumbing supplies, California labs fashion Covid-19 masks and ventilators
LOS ANGELES — In early March, Stanford bioengineer Manu Prakash was attending a conference in…
‘We’re being put at risk unnecessarily’: Doctors fume at government response to coronavirus pandemic
LOS ANGELES — Even before the pandemic, burnout, anxiety, and disillusionment were already endemic in…
Trump faulted the WHO’s coronavirus response. But it’s guided by rules the U.S. helped write
Once again, the World Health Organization finds itself in the crosshairs — the target of…
STAT Plus: Opioid-overdose prescriptions may go unfilled due to the cost
Although naloxone is widely regarded as an effective antidote for reversing opioid overdoses, a new…
With the pandemic sidelining routine care, a trade group urges the government to pay for digital therapeutics
A prominent trade group is calling on the federal government to cover digital health tools…
‘Smart toilet’ could monitor for signs of illness in urine and stool, study finds
Analyzing urine and stool to get a picture of health has traditionally been the work…
Opinion: CDC: remember who you are
Public health wins are quiet — the child born healthy, the loved one still safe,…
Video Chat: Combating Covid-19
The pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus has shut down countries around the world. One…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: WIPO holds talks to widen access to Covid-19 medical products; DEA moves to ease Covid-19 drug shortages
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the middle of the week. Although, it might not…
STAT Plus: Roche partners with Arrakis Therapeutics to develop drugs that target RNA
Last year, Arrakis Therapeutics announced early but important progress toward a drug-development goal long thought…
Opinion: A doctor and a deli manager: on the front lines of the Covid-19 fight
In the morning, my fiance and I wake up, get dressed for work, blow each…
Opinion: Excluding med students and letting trainees opt out of Covid-19 care is bad for medicine
The devastating coronavirus pandemic is highlighting the dedication and courage of health care communities in…
STAT Plus: A rare investment mechanism is helping to fund some health tech companies’ coronavirus projects
Extraordinary times call for extraordinary financing instruments, according to one California venture capital firm. A…
After 9/11, we gave up privacy for security. Will we make the same trade-off after Covid-19?
In a span of weeks, the novel coronavirus has turned the nation’s roiling health privacy…
With ventilators running out, doctors say the machines are overused for Covid-19
Even as hospitals and governors raise the alarm about a shortage of ventilators, some critical…
Trump pledges to put a hold on U.S. funding for the World Health Organization
WASHINGTON — President Trump said Tuesday that the United States would halt funding to the…