Opinion: What nurses really want: sufficient staffing for patient care
Pizza. Coloring books. Goody bags. They could be activities at a 5-year-old’s birthday party. But…
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Opinion: When heat threatens, use the wet bulb globe temperature to keep workers safe
A 30-year-old farm worker in North Carolina died last September on a day that was…
Listen: Everything you need to know about H5N1 bird flu
What happens when a common virus jumps from birds to cows? And should we be…
Exact Sciences’ stock tumbles amid worries cancer detection firm’s growth may slow
Exact Sciences reported first-quarter revenues this week that beat market expectations, and the cancer detection…
Q&A with Jennifer Adair, researcher on a mission to increase global access to gene therapies
BALTIMORE — Gene and cell therapies have transformed a handful of devastating disorders in the…
STAT+: CDC goes hard on military pets
You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and…
STAT+: Health care leaders plot how to expand diversity in clinical trials
Even with the recent awareness that clinical trials often lack the diversity that would make…
STAT+: Cytokinetics set to pitch its heart drug to physicians — and Big Pharma suitors
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Yet another big financing round in immunology
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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about Takeda restructuring, Pfizer settling Zantac suits, and more
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STAT+: Drug supplies for millions would be jeopardized by U.S. crackdown on China biopharma industry, trade group says
U.S. legislation that would sever ties with Chinese drugmakers would jeopardize the drug supply for…
STAT+: Getting Alzheimer’s treatment to those who need it poses particular challenges
A host of hurdles are slowing the adoption of the new Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi, experts…
Bird flu keeps rewriting the textbooks. It’s why scientists are unsettled by the U.S. dairy cattle outbreak
Twenty-seven years ago today, a 3-year-old boy in Hong Kong developed a sore throat, spiked…
A new cholera vaccine will increase supply, but will it be enough to manage global outbreaks?
Weeks after the global public health community sounded the alarm on the shortage of cholera…
Opinion: Caring for young caregivers, a hidden population
The intersection of the mental health crisis among young Americans and the growing burden of…
Opinion: H5N1 communication has been strictly for the birds. Didn’t the federal government learn anything from Covid?
When it comes to federal agencies communicating to the public about H5N1 bird flu, it…
Large amount of bird flu virus in milk suggests asymptomatic cows are infected with H5N1
Since March, when the first reported cases of H5N1 bird flu began showing up in…
STAT+: A nonprofit does deals in Brazil and India to make low-cost CAR-T cell therapies widely available
In the latest bid to widen access to medicines, a nonprofit is sending technology and…
Brain worms are more common than you think. Here’s what doctors who’ve treated them say.
Yes, it’s possible to have a worm living in your brain — in fact, it’s…
Cell therapy fails to slow early type 1 diabetes, but safety is established
Tolerance is the holy grail in calming autoimmune disease, a truce in the immune system’s…
STAT+: Software glitch caused Tandem insulin pumps to prematurely shut down, FDA warns
At least 224 diabetes patients have been harmed by a software error causing their insulin…
STAT+: In fundamental advance, Google says AlphaFold 3 can map a vast universe of biomolecules
Google on Wednesday unveiled an artificial intelligence tool capable of predicting the structure and interaction…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a boy dying in Pfizer trial; AstraZeneca yanking Covid shot, and more
Hello, everyone, and welcome to the middle of the week. Congratulations on making it this…
Pharma has over $500B in capital for deals
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Opinion: Making the promise of monoclonal antibody therapies available to all
As the U.S. grapples with the lasting effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, it is important…
STAT+: Gene therapy trial targeting rare form of deafness shows ‘jaw-droppingly good’ results
Two congenitally deaf children can hear for the first time after being treated with gene…
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…
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…
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
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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…
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…
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…