Opinion: Pain doesn’t stigmatize people. We do that to each other
In 2000, a truck rear-ended my friend Andrea’s car as she stopped at a crosswalk…
Category: Biotech
Watch: Why do some viruses spread more widely than others?
As public health officials try to gauge the threat posed by a new virus that…
A fitting memorial: Superbug treatment named for the patient who inspired its discovery
Even for the most elite of bacteria-killers, these superbugs were a challenge. They’d delayed Mallory…
It’s been sequenced. It’s spread across borders. Now the new pneumonia-causing virus needs a name
Ebola, SARS, swine flu, MERS. With the reality that a previously unknown animal virus has…
STAT Plus: Civica Rx teams with Blue Cross Blue Shield to widen its alternative market for generics
In its latest bid to rework the marketplace for generic drugs, the Civica Rx nonprofit…
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Congress calls JUUL, four other vape companies to testify about youth vaping
WASHINGTON — Five leading e-cigarette companies will be dragged before Congress early next month, according…
WHO postpones decision on whether to declare China outbreak a global public health emergency
The World Health Organization on Wednesday delayed a decision on whether to declare the ongoing…
STAT Plus: Former Insys executive sentenced to a year and a day for her role in opioid bribery scheme
A former pharmaceutical executive and one-time stripper was sentenced to a year and a day…
STAT Plus: The FDA continues to struggle with the implications of approving Sarepta’s drugs
New documents released Wednesday lay bare the stark divide within the Food and Drug Administration…
STAT Plus: European Court adviser deals Glaxo a setback in ‘pay-to-delay’ case
In a setback to GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), a legal adviser to the European Court of Justice…
Trump: Despite U.S. case, China virus is ‘under control’
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Wednesday downplayed concerns surrounding an infectious disease outbreak in China…
A ‘landmark’ achievement: Scientists trace full wiring diagram of the fly brain’s core
Particle physicists are used to popping champagne corks when they make discoveries at lilliputian scales,…
STAT Plus: European court upholds controversial EMA transparency rules for clinical trial data
After months of anticipation, the European Court of Justice has sided with the European Medicines…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Connecticut lawmakers look to cap insulin prices; Glaxo halts Excedrin production
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the middle of the week. Congratulations on making it…
STAT Plus: Amid a competitor’s struggles, a startup with a fraction of its funding takes on ‘digital pills’
A version of this story appeared in STAT’s Health Tech newsletter. Click here to subscribe….
Opinion: Science education needs a reboot. LabXchange can help
What does it take to bring science alive from the pages of a book? A…
Opinion: Former CDC director Tom Frieden on 3 key questions about the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China
There may or may not always be something new out of Africa, as the saying…
Opinion: A former CDC director on 3 key questions about the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China
There may or may not always be something new out of Africa, as the saying…
Opinion: Health care needs AI. It also needs the human touch
As friends who work as pediatricians, we’ve had several conversations recently about artificial intelligence and…
STAT Plus: Verily’s top health leaders: We’re ‘trying to solve problems that many of us have lived’
SAN FRANCISCO — Andy Conrad, the CEO of Verily, the life sciences unit of search…
The basics: What we know — and don’t know — about the virus spreading in China and beyond
It’s been only three weeks since Chinese authorities alerted the World Health Organization that it…
STAT Plus: As prescribing for ADHD stimulants rose, so did industry payments to doctors
At the same time that more doctors were prescribing stimulants, a new analysis finds that…
CDC expected to detail first U.S. case of novel virus spreading in China
A person in Washington state has been diagnosed with a novel infection racing through China,…
STAT Plus: Pharma is making some effort to fight superbugs, but progress is ‘patchy’
Amid rising concern over a lack of antibiotics, a new analysis finds most drug makers…
STAT Plus: Could a drug for arthritis in dogs also fight cancer in people?
Drugs for diabetes, inflammation, alcoholism — and even for treating arthritis in dogs — can…
WHO raises possibility of ‘sustained’ human-to-human transmission of new virus in China
The World Health Organization on Tuesday raised the possibility that the new virus spreading in…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Indian drug makers receive most FDA warning letters; most clinical trial results go unreported
Hello, everyone, and nice to see you again. We have finally returned from an extended…
Opinion: States need to wake up to public health risks from cannabis
Cannabis is on the march. Thirty-three states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical…
Will the FDA give the go-ahead to a prescription video game? The wait goes on, as new data come in
SAN FRANCISCO — In mid-2018, the startup Akili Interactive Labs asked the Food and Drug…
STAT Plus: Pfizer’s big data exec on pharma’s ‘arms race’ to partner with companies like Fitbit, 23AndMe, and others
Pharmaceutical giants are hunting for ways to tap into the data from your smart watch,…
STAT Plus: A Q&A with Gates Foundation CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann
Sue Desmond-Hellmann has some experience when it comes to health care. She began her career…
WHO calls for emergency meeting on new virus in China, as cases spread to health care workers
The World Health Organization announced Monday that it would convene an expert panel to determine…
Opinion: Does ‘no more copays, no more deductibles’ really represent radical health care reform?
Lost in the shuffle of competing plans for saving health care is the radical call…
Opinion: We don’t need to ban vaping. We need to build better vaping devices
What’s the health care system to do when thousands of individuals, many of them between…
STAT Plus: This CEO wants to make telehealth more than ‘an exercise in convenience’
SAN FRANCISCO — The year was 2007. To raucous applause, Apple CEO Steve Jobs proudly…
China reports sharp rise in case of novel virus amid growing concerns of person-to-person transmission
The number of cases of a novel virus in China has escalated sharply, with authorities…
Former Rep. Chris Collins sentenced to 26 months in prison in biotech insider trading scheme
Chris Collins, a former Republican lawmaker and longtime ally of President Trump, was sentenced Friday…
Tweaking how CAR-T therapy kills tumors could stop a dangerous side effect, study finds
As every trauma surgeon knows, there are messy bullet wounds and there are neat ones,…
U.S. to begin health screenings at three airports for cases of novel Chinese virus
U.S. authorities on Friday are set to begin screening travelers arriving in the country from…
STAT Plus: How swallowing a star might keep you from missing a dose of medicine
SAN FRANCISCO — Plenty of drug industry executives who take over this city for a…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: FTC member favors Medicare negotiation on drug prices; BioMarin weighs pricing world’s most expensive drug
Good morning. Elizabeth Cooney here again, channeling Ed Silverman as another week draws to a…
The truth about JPM: Less is more
SAN FRANCISCO — Yet another J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference is done. Was it worth it?…
STAT Plus: ‘We have a tragedy of the commons’: How a VC thinks his new company can lower drug prices
A venture capitalist made some waves early in the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference when he…
Opinion: Microglia: a new target in the brain for depression, Alzheimer’s, and more?
More than a decade ago, I was diagnosed with a string of autoimmune diseases, one…
Opinion: Goop’s pseudoscience ministry comes to Netflix
Gwyneth Paltrow’s reaction to the description of the vulva in episode three of her new…
Listen: A J.P. Morgan recap, a plan to bust pharma monopolies, and a website for cancer patients
Why weren’t there any big deals announced this week? What does the word “equivalar” mean?…
STAT Plus: Airing frustrations with pharma, a Republican FTC commissioner just endorsed Medicare negotiation
WASHINGTON — A Republican member of the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday expressed support for…
STAT Plus: Lilly exec says ‘there are no villains’ in the high-priced insulin market
Several months ago, Eli Lilly (LLY) launched LisPro, an authorized generic version of its Humalog…
STAT Plus: A venture firm warms to funding neuroscience
Longtime venture capital star Beth Seidenberg and former Amgen R&D chief Sean Harper say they…
15% of U.S. adults are physically inactive, new CDC data show
More than 1 in 7 adults across all U.S. states and territories are physically inactive,…