Can You Still Get The Vaccine After Testing Positive For COVID-19?
The CDC has updated its guidelines for people who have been exposed to the virus…
Category: Medicine
Jury finds Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes guilty of fraud
Elizabeth Holmes, the former Theranos CEO who promised to revolutionize medicine but whose company collapsed…
STAT+: Drug makers ring in the new year with 5% price hikes on hundreds of medicines
As 2022 gets under way, pharmaceutical companies have so far raised wholesale prices by a…
STAT+: HHS appeals rulings over drug discount program just as AbbVie is latest to cut discounts
A heated clash over a U.S. government drug discount program has intensified after a federal…
FDA authorizes first Covid-19 booster shot for teens aged 12 to 15
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday extended the emergency use authorization for the Pfizer…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: New Covid-19 vaccine developers expect nothing in return; COVAX distribution falls short of goals
Good morning, everyone, and nice to see you again after a long break. For those…
Opinion: Will the Biden administration use ‘march-in’ to protect prostate cancer patients from excessive drug prices?
Astellas Pharma, a drug company headquartered in Japan, is charging U.S. patients $156,000 a year…
What racism in medicine takes from us
During my freshman year of college, Cornel West, the renowned philosopher, had been invited to…
STAT+: The biotech scorecard for the first quarter: 19 stock-moving events to watch
Happy New Year! Here is STAT’s biotech scorecard, our regular ledger of stock-moving biotech events,…
A WHO official weighs in on Covid, vaccines, and mistakes that were made
The Covid-19 pandemic has entered its third year, with no end in sight, and the…
COVID-19 Omicron Variant Causes Less Lung Damage, Study Suggests
The new variant impacts the upper and lower respiratory tracts differently than the earlier strains….
Opinion: The No Surprises Act: Beyond the emergency department, a silver lining of patient engagement
When I was pregnant with my first child, I needed a prenatal test that could…
Opinion: My son will be fine, she told the doctors, because he is the Lord God Jesus Christ
Editor’s note: This essay, initially published a year before the emergence of the global coronavirus…
COVID-19 Omicron Symptoms Based On Vaccine, Vaccination Status
A New York City doctor broke down how the new variant affects the boosted, vaccinated…
New York jury holds Teva Pharmaceuticals liable in opioid crisis
A jury held Teva Pharmaceuticals responsible Thursday for contributing to the opioid crisis, delivering a…
Beyond case counts: What Omicron is teaching us
The Omicron wave in the United States is upon us. If you were fortunate enough…
Opinion: STAT+: Building a better on-ramp for health innovation
The pandemic crisis has illuminated a stark reality that innovators, particularly those in biotech, have…
We wish we’d written that: STAT staffers share their favorite stories of 2021
All through 2021, journalists around the globe have captivated and inspired our staff at STAT….
Opinion: Deaths of despair: the unrecognized tragedy of working class immiseration
Given the socioeconomic effects of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, it should have come as no…
STAT+: Three missing pieces the digital therapeutics sector needs to succeed in 2022
Smartphone apps aren’t a default way of managing diabetes — not yet, anyway. Though telehealth…
3 big questions about the Biden administration’s Covid response in 2022
2021 was supposed to be the year the pandemic ended. At least in the United…
STAT+: 3 biotech trends to watch in 2022
It’s been a weird year for biotech stocks. One major index peaked in February, but…
STAT/Harris Poll: Vaccinated Americans far more likely to take Pfizer Covid-19 pill than unvaccinated people
Just before regulators authorized use of a widely publicized Covid-19 pill from Pfizer, only half…
Opinion: Managing mental health tech’s blitzscaling blind spots
Pro basketball player Giannis Antetokounmpo told GQ magazine last month that he and most of…
STAT+: 3 challenges for hospitals in 2022
WASHINGTON — Hospitals didn’t get the relief the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines seemed to promise at…
STAT’s most memorable photos of 2021
In 2021, STAT’s contributing photographers found themselves on the frontlines on the pandemic once again….
10 lessons I’ve learned from the Covid–19 pandemic
On the afternoon of New Year’s Eve, just hours from when 2019 was going to…
Why The CDC Shortened The Recommended COVID-19 Isolation, Quarantine Periods
The agency made some changes to its recommendations in response to the latest data on…
Here’s How Tea Can Help You Lose Weight & Aid Digestion, Bloating, Diarrhea
Tummy issues during the holidays? Here’s how tea can help soothe your stomach, plus some…
STAT+: In a ‘baffling’ disappointment, BridgeBio’s heart drug misses primary goal in pivotal study
A treatment developed by BridgeBio for an increasingly common heart disease missed its primary endpoint…
Opinion: Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s foot-dragging on patient irradiation suggests regulatory capture
Government agencies responsible for protecting the public from negligence and harm must act with independence…
STAT+: 3 pharma trends to watch in 2022
As 2021 winds down, the proverbial rearview mirror displays a mix of spectacular success, vexing…
Forecasting the Omicron winter: Experts envision various scenarios, from bad to worse
Since the Omicron variant was discovered four weeks ago, epidemiologists have been crunching data as…
During A COVID-19 Surge, ‘Crisis Standards Of Care’ Involve Excruciating Choices And Impossible Ethical Decisions For Hospital Staff
Amid the latest surge of COVID-19 cases, health care workers yet again are having to…
STAT+: How Brigham Health helped create a Chinese hospital for elites — and almost nobody came
It was worlds away from the Boston medical hub: There were no traffic-clogged intersections, no…
Opinion: 5 most widely read First Opinion essays of 2021
In the second turbulent year defined by a global pandemic, 2021 provided an abundance of…
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Omicron Symptoms Overlap With Common Cold, Flu Virus: Expert
With the omicron variant, it’s hard to tell if one has COVID-19, the common cold,…
FDA authorizes Merck’s Covid-19 pill, but stresses its use should be limited
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday granted emergency authorization to Merck’s molnupiravir, an antiviral…
To lawyers, conviction of Harvard chemist with China ties shouldn’t chill science. Researchers aren’t so sure
The trial was supposed to be a bellwether — an indicator of whether federal investigators…
Opinion: Gain-of-function research advances knowledge and saves lives
Congress is considering a massive overhaul of the nation’s scientific enterprise, much of it in…
Opinion: I work in a locked psychiatric ward. These days, you do too
At parties, I used to explain to people who wanted to know what I do…
Opinion: At a time when the U.S. needed Covid-19 dialogue between scientists, Francis Collins moved to shut it down
This week, emails released through a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the American…
STAT+: 3 contentious decisions the FDA will make in 2022
WASHINGTON — It’s going to be a bumpy 2022 for the Food and Drug Administration….
STAT+: 7 challenges that could make or break Biogen’s 2022
Can Biogen pull itself back from the brink? The company is ending 2021 with dismal…
Top regulator says need for Omicron vaccine depends on staying power of variant
WASHINGTON — Whether Americans will need additional vaccines specifically tailored to the rapidly spreading Omicron…
Opinion: An Omicron oddity: The number of cases doesn’t predict the number of deaths
Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the case fatality rate was frightening. This metric represents the…
FDA authorizes Pfizer pill to treat Covid-19 in patients as young as 12
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday authorized Paxlovid, a pill developed and made by…
A computational biologist weighs in on Omicron, the future of vaccines, and the CDC’s variant forecast
What do the data so far tell us about Omicron and whether it causes milder…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: Japan panel nixes Biogen Alzheimer’s drug; Oxfam urges SEC to probe Moderna over patent dispute remarks
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the middle of the week. Congratulations on making it…
Opinion: Listen: Looking back on the first year of ‘First Opinion Podcast’
We started the “First Opinion Podcast” in February 2021 because we knew there was rich,…