STAT+: Apple pushes into clinical trials with new FDA nod for Apple Watch
The Apple Watch has secured a new qualification from the Food and Drug Administration that…
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Opinion: It shouldn’t be easy to buy synthetic DNA fragments to recreate the 1918 flu virus
It should be hard — exceedingly hard — to obtain the synthetic DNA needed to…
Opinion: Listen: Why rehabilitation engineers need to listen to patients and their families
In 2020, James Sulzer’s personal and professional lives suddenly intersected after his then 4-year-old daughter…
State health department finds alternative medicine provider falsified vaccine records – Crain’s New York Business
State health department finds alternative medicine provider falsified vaccine records Crain’s New York Business Read Original…
STAT’s Casey Ross and Bob Herman named 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalists
Dear Readers, We are enormously proud that STAT reporters Casey Ross and Bob Herman have…
STAT+: Endo Health ordered to pay more than $1.5 billion in opioid criminal case
In the second-largest fine ever levied on a pharmaceutical company, Endo Health Solutions was ordered…
STAT+: Life science leaders on how to make drug development less expensive, slow, and risky
Drug development is essentially a long, expensive bet: Ninety percent of drugs fail during clinical…
STAT+: Young boy dies in trial for Pfizer Duchenne gene therapy
A young boy died in a trial for Pfizer’s experimental gene therapy for Duchenne muscular…
STAT+: House panel eyes PBM reform to pay for telehealth extensions
A new bill set to be considered on Wednesday by the House Ways & Means…
STAT+: Assistants, not replacements: How AI can accelerate research and health care
When patients are dealing with a sexually transmitted infection, they don’t always get advice on…
STAT Virtual Event | Navigating a New Era in Alzheimer’s Treatment
Editor’s note: A livestream of the event will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET….
STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about MDMA for PTSD, a CRISPR treatment for blindness, and more
Top of the morning to you, and a fine one it is. There is nothing…
Vertex starts gene therapy Casgevy in five patients
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Opinion: Treating chronic pain requires much more than medications
There’s a lot of buzz surrounding the new non-addictive pain pill that is up for…
WHO’s top scientist learned a hard lesson about H5N1 two decades ago: Stopping it takes more than biology
Jeremy Farrar, now the World Health Organization’s chief scientist, was working in Vietnam 20 years…
Opinion: As livestock move around the country, so does H5N1. The U.S. needs real-time tracking of livestock movements
The presence of H5N1 avian influenza virus, better known as bird flu, among dairy cows…
Opinion: Measles is coming back. My sister Marcie isn’t
At the end of February 1960, my healthy, precocious sister Marcie was halfway through the…
The Promise of Health Chatbots Has Already Failed – Mother Jones – Mother Jones
The Promise of Health Chatbots Has Already Failed – Mother Jones Mother Jones Read Original Article:…
At Milken Institute conference, CDC director Mandy Cohen talks public health preparedness
In the spring of 2020, as Covid-19 took hold around the world, Centers of Disease…
Study of cow tissues provides clues for unusual pattern of bird flu infections in dairy cattle
A new study looking at the distribution of receptors that flu viruses can attach to…
Opinion: The world is relying on the United States to get value-based drug pricing right
The changing landscape of drug pricing policy in the U.S. has implications for the global…
STAT+: Alzheimer’s risk gene APOE4 may cause a distinct form of the disease, study suggests
For more than 30 years, Alzheimer’s researchers have thought of APOE4 as a major genetic…
STAT+: UnitedHealth CEO downplays his company’s control over physicians
You’re reading the web version of Health Care Inc., STAT’s weekly newsletter following the flow…
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STAT+: Steward files for bankruptcy, leaving its eight Massachusetts hospitals in limbo
Steward Health Care, which once trumpeted its community hospital system as a low-cost alternative to…
Merck may have a competition for ever-scarce BCG
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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about FTC reviewing Novo-Catalent deal, Amneal opioid settlement, and more
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite was…
High blood pressure in kids doubles their risk of cardiovascular disease, study finds, bringing a call for routine screening
Children and adolescents diagnosed with high blood pressure have double the risk of major cardiovascular…
Meet the scientist sending tumors into space
What happens when you catapult cancer into space? Or shoot stem cells toward the stars?…
Opinion: Digital devices can help clinicians prescribe physical activity
Physical inactivity is the fourth leading risk factor for death. With most adolescents and one-quarter…
STAT+: NYU professors who defended vaping didn’t disclose ties to Juul, documents show
WASHINGTON – Two New York University professors collaborated directly with executives of the vaping company…
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Doxazosin Shows Potential as Alternative PTSD-Related Nightmare Treatment – MD Magazine
Doxazosin Shows Potential as Alternative PTSD-Related Nightmare Treatment MD Magazine Read Original Article: Doxazosin Shows Potential…
Opinion: Readers respond to funding academic medical centers, the ‘residency research arms race,’ and more
STAT now publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to First Opinion essays…
An Orangutan Healed Himself With Medicinal Plant – HealthDay
An Orangutan Healed Himself With Medicinal Plant HealthDay Read Original Article: An Orangutan Healed Himself With…
STAT+: 4 burning questions about Amgen’s obesity drug, a potential Wegovy and Zepbound competitor
Amgen’s comments Thursday that it’s “very encouraged” by interim Phase 2 data for its obesity…
Opinion: Virtual first is flaming out. A virtual-second model can refresh telehealth
Telehealth needs a major refresh. Just this week, retail juggernaut Walmart announced it is shuttering…
Texas dairy farm worker’s case may be first where bird flu virus spread from mammal to human, scientists say
A new report on the first human bird flu case tied to the outbreak in…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about an Amgen obesity drug, a Senate bill on shortages and more
And so, another working week will soon draw to a close. Not a moment too…
ICER casts doubt on Sarepta’s DMD gene therapy
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STAT+: Senate drug shortage bill would pay hospitals bonuses for good contracting practices
WASHINGTON — The Senate Finance Committee has drafted a bipartisan bill to mitigate drug shortages…
Statehouses are a hotbed of tobacco lobbying and legislation
WASHINGTON — Around the country, statehouses from Harrisburg, Penn. to Tallahassee, Fla., are being flooded…
New Medicaid rule expected to lower wait times for home-based care, raise caregiver wages
Caregivers for older adults and people with disabilities could see a bump in their wages…
Opinion: An AI-based second opinion service could improve clinical decision-making today
Millions of Americans rely on the internet to answer questions about their own health. The…
Opinion: People like me with bipolar disorder must help shape research and clinical care
Doctors have observed and treated bipolar disorder for thousands of years. Known throughout history by…
CDC’s top flu scientist says the risk to the public from H5N1 is low, but she isn’t sleeping well. Here’s why
Vivien Dugan isn’t getting much sleep these days. The director of the influenza division at…
STAT+: Amgen goes all in on injectable obesity drug as it scraps early-stage pill
Amgen said Thursday that it will no longer develop an early-stage obesity pill, and will…
STAT+: Lawmakers unlikely to permanently extend telehealth flexibilities this year
WASHINGTON — Members of Congress appear poised to advance another short-term extension of pandemic-era telehealth…
Bird flu virus circulated in cows for four months before outbreak confirmed by USDA, analysis shows
As agricultural authorities and epidemiologists try to get their arms around the scope of the…
STAT+: Gilead gets a boost from California court in a case over slow-walking an HIV drug
In a boost for Gilead Sciences, the California Supreme Court agreed to review a contentious…
STAT+: Health economist marks up UnitedHealth CEO’s Senate hearing on the Change Healthcare cyberattack
For lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, Wednesday’s congressional hearings about the Change Healthcare…
Opinion: Why isn’t there agreement on when women need to start getting mammograms?
If, after reading the latest recommendation on breast cancer screening by the United States Preventive…