Opinion: If it comes to rationing, I shouldn’t have to be the one deciding who should live and who should die
Medical school didn’t teach me how to decide which of my patients should live and…
Category: Biotech
STAT Plus: Two companies bet on ‘chemogenetics’ to sidestep challenges with neurological drug development
For years, pharmaceutical companies have cut back on drug development that targeted neurological conditions. After…
A system to allocate scarce ventilators and ICU beds gains traction for not counting any group out
Bracing for a surge of Covid-19 patients and facing shortages of the resources necessary to…
Covid-19 spreads too fast for traditional contact tracing. New digital tools could help
Every strategy for releasing Covid-19’s vise-grip on daily life starts with identifying cases and tracing…
STAT Plus: CDC credits a sharp decline in C. diff infections to checklists and better antibiotic stewardship
The rate of Americans contracting potentially fatal Clostridium difficile bacterial infections in hospitals fell between…
STAT Plus: The FDA warns Pfizer over yet another former Hospira manufacturing plant
Amid ongoing concerns over the pharmaceutical supply chain, the Food and Drug Administration has issued…
Tech companies are stepping up in the coronavirus pandemic response. Here’s how they’re dedicating resources
Tech giants are stepping up to the plate to play a part in the coronavirus…
STAT Plus: FDA asks manufacturers to recall heartburn drugs over traces of a possible carcinogen
After months of deliberation, the Food and Drug Administration has asked all manufacturers of a…
Opinion: Navigating the Covid-19 pandemic: We’re just clambering into a life raft. Dry land is far away
Imagine you are in a small boat far, far from shore. A surprise storm capsizes…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: U.S. asks India to list restrictions on pharma ingredients; Giuliani wants FDA to fast-track a drug for Covid-19
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the middle of the week. Given that so many…
STAT Plus: The biotech scorecard for the second quarter: 18 stock-moving events to watch
Here is STAT’s Biotech Scorecard, our regular ledger of stock-moving biotech events, for the second…
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Live chat today at 11 a.m ET: The coronavirus pandemic
With each passing day, we’re learning more about the coronavirus and the disease it causes,…
Amid coronavirus, private equity-backed company slashes benefits for emergency room doctors
WASHINGTON — A private equity-backed health care company is slashing its doctors’ benefits in response…
Opinion: Biosimilars could disappear if the Supreme Court overturns the ACA
With the sense of urgency rightly focused on slowing or stopping the spread of Covid-19,…
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New effort aims to provide Covid-19 resources to non-English speakers in U.S.
Covid-19 is impacting lives across the U.S., and health officials are racing to provide communities…
‘Human experts will make the call’: Stanford launches an accelerated test of AI to help care for Covid-19 patients
In the heart of Silicon Valley, Stanford clinicians and researchers are exploring whether artificial intelligence…
Opinion: Lessons from a different war for preventing moral injury among clinicians treating Covid-19
One week after President George W. Bush declared war in Iraq in 2003, I was…
The coronavirus is washing over the U.S. These factors will determine how bad it gets in each community
On March 15, the governor of Washington called the Seattle area the “hotbed of this…
Rudy Giuliani wants FDA to fast-track a stem cell therapy for Covid-19; critics see political meddling
Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s personal attorney, is urging the Food and Drug Administration to fast-track…
A new Covid-19 problem: Shortages of medicines needed for placing patients on ventilators
On top of the overwhelming shortages of medical equipment required to combat Covid-19, there are…
Opinion: Create a cadre of community health workers to fight Covid-19 in the U.S.
Five years ago, I was working in Kono, a district in Sierra Leone, on projects…
Opinion: A radical approach to preventing Covid-19 infection in the homeless
There is only a small window of time in which we can prevent widespread transmission…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: A TB vaccine is tested against the coronavirus; FDA doesn’t punish Novartis over data integrity scandal
Hello, everyone, and how are you coping this morning? We are doing just fine, thank…
STAT Plus: FDA closes review of Novartis data integrity scandal without punishing the drug maker
An embarrassing scandal that Novartis (NVS) endured over data integrity has quietly come to a…
We shouldn’t rush to use an unproven drug to treat the coronavirus
As the pandemic deepens, physicians face an agonizing decision — to medicate or not to…
Opinion: Covid-19 testing: overcoming challenges in the next phase of the epidemic
Which is a better proxy for estimating the Covid-19 infection rate in the United States:…
As coronavirus impact grows, volunteer network tries to help health care workers who have ‘helped us’
It started with a need: With the closure of schools and a shortage of household…
STAT’s guide to how hospitals are using AI to fight Covid-19
The coronavirus outbreak has rapidly accelerated the nation’s slow-moving effort to incorporate artificial intelligence into…
STAT Plus: ‘It’s the disparity in who gets affected’: A sickle cell doctor tracks dollars and drug development
Sickle cell disease and cystic fibrosis are both rare, genetic diseases. While there are three…
As coronavirus spreads, doctors in the ER warn ‘the worst of it has not hit us yet’
Streets in cities and towns across the country are eerily quiet. Car traffic has dropped…
Test makers are moving fast, but the coronavirus may be moving faster
In Lake Success, a village on the border of suburban Long Island and the New…
What explains Covid-19’s lethality for the elderly? Scientists look to ‘twilight’ of the immune system
Researchers on Monday announced the most comprehensive estimates to date of elderly people’s elevated risk…
Amarin loses legal fight over heart drug patent; shares sink
Amarin shares fell sharply Monday evening after a federal judge ruled that key patents covering…
Opinion: It’s past time to fully deploy the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps to fight Covid-19
Controlling a pandemic like Covid-19 requires both the intervention of government agencies and changes in…
Biotech VC Bob Nelsen called it right on the coronavirus. Now he has thoughts on therapeutics — and masks
Bob Nelsen was right. The co-founder and managing partner of Arch Venture Partners is one…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Drug pricing legislation is on the back burner; FDA issues emergency use for old malaria drugs
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week, although it may not quite seem…
CRISPR pioneer Doudna opens lab to run Covid-19 tests
A team of academic and industry researchers led by Jennifer Doudna, the researcher best known…
STAT Plus: AC Immune bets that its Alzheimer’s trial design could provide a cleaner test of the amyloid hypothesis
The fate of aducanumab, a potential Alzheimer’s treatment from Biogen, is widely seen as the…
STAT Plus: Lawmakers’ coronavirus response means delays for drug pricing legislation
WASHINGTON — Before the coronavirus pandemic became Congress’ sole focus, late May was widely viewed…
Watch: Ventilators are in high demand for Covid-19 patients. How do they work?
Ventilators are one of the most important tools hospitals have for keeping Covid-19 patients in…
Debate flares over using AI to detect Covid-19 in lung scans
A series of studies, starting as a steady drip and quickening to a deluge, has…
Two new road maps lay out possible paths to end coronavirus lockdowns
With Covid-19 racing through the country, the United States is virtually locked down. At the…
Two new roadmaps lay out possible paths to end coronavirus lockdowns
With Covid-19 racing through the country, the United States is virtually locked down. At the…
Opinion: Hospitalized adults need their caregivers — they aren’t visitors
Social distancing, self-isolation, quarantine: These are among the essential public health interventions for the Covid-19…
STAT Plus: New drug from Merck, Bayer reduces hospitalizations for heart failure patients
An experimental drug from Merck and Bayer cut hospitalizations for heart failure by 10% in…
Opinion: Community health workers will be the main defense in rural Uganda against coronavirus
It is a cool, still morning in Seeta Nazigo Village, Central Uganda. The heavy seasonal…
In a time of distancing due to coronavirus, the health threat of loneliness looms
Dan Blazer and his wife were sheltering at home in North Carolina when their neighbors,…
Roche backpedals and agrees to provide a solution for Covid-19 tests in the Netherlands
In a startling about-face, Roche (RHHBY) has agreed to release the recipe for a liquid…
Opinion: Our best defense against Covid-19? Science
The United States gained a grim distinction in the world this week when it officially…
Pressure mounts to widen access to medical products that may combat Covid-19
As more companies gear up to fight the spread of the novel coronavirus, a growing…