STAT+: During the pandemic, were great vaccines bad business? A company-by-company review
It’s been four years since Covid-19 emerged, igniting a pandemic that killed millions of people…
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STAT+: Drug development was once a marathon. New tools and timelines are turning it into a sprint
Drug development is more of a sprint than a marathon these days, thanks to more…
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STAT+: J&J sues former employee for allegedly taking thousands of documents to a new job at Pfizer
Johnson & Johnson has accused a long-standing employee of taking thousands of confidential files about…
Is CAR-T safe for early-stage patients?
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Covid inquiry: What we have learnt about Wales’s response?
Covid was not initially a top priorityBefore 20 March 2020 there had been an assumption…
Opinion: STAT readers on new CDC Covid guidelines, weight loss drugs and mental health, and new psychiatric meds
STAT now publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to First Opinion essays…
STAT+: In surprise move, FDA calls for advisory committee on Lilly’s Alzheimer’s drug
In a surprise move, the Food and Drug Administration has called for a meeting of…
Opinion: The CDC’s new, relaxed Covid isolation guidance makes perfect sense
What makes for good public health guidance? That’s the conversation I was having with a…
FDA advisory panel recommends a streamlined flu vaccine for next fall
When Americans line up for flu vaccines next fall, they will almost certainly be getting…
STAT+: WTO proposal for Covid diagnostics and therapeutics waiver is abandoned
After 18 months of debate, the World Trade Organization failed to adopt a controversial proposal…
Covid-19 increases risk of developing autoimmune disease, but vaccination helps, large study shows
Having Covid-19 increases a person’s risk of developing an autoimmune disease in the year after…
CDC eases isolation guidance for Covid and other respiratory illnesses
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is “sunsetting” its advice that people sick with…
UK workers during the pandemic: inadequate protection and, consequently, increased risk
There are striking similarities, as well as differences, between the shortcomings in protection and consequent…
STAT+: Here are the cancer drugs Pfizer thinks could reignite investors’ interest
Pfizer spent more than four hours Thursday laying out its oncology program to investors. But…
Covid-19 taskforce called for a new national vaccine agency to prepare for future pandemics
The UK needs a permanent ecosystem for rapidly developing, manufacturing, and supplying vaccines for future…
Covid-19 taskforce called for a new national vaccine agency to prepare for future pandemics
The UK needs a permanent ecosystem for rapidly developing, manufacturing, and supplying vaccines for future…
STAT+: Pfizer is about to make a big push in cancer. Will investors listen?
Pfizer has a big problem. The drug giant hopes that new drugs to treat cancer…
‘Brain fog’ is one of Covid-19’s most daunting symptoms. A new study measures its impact
Of all the lingering symptoms of long Covid, difficulty focusing and thinking, known as brain…
CDC advisory panel says people 65 and older should get a Covid spring booster shot
An expert panel advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccines on Wednesday…
Covid-19: Two rare vaccine side effects detected in large global study
The largest vaccine safety study to date has identified two new, but very rare, side…
STAT+: Novavax and Gavi end a bitter dispute over Covid-19 vaccines with a refund up to $400 million
After a contentious dispute, Novavax has agreed to refund up to $400 million to the…
STAT+: Startup BioAge raises $170 million Series D for Zepbound combination therapy
A California biotech developing a combination therapy with the obesity drug Zepbound has raised a…
Was Pfizer’s “Here’s to Science” commercial during the Super Bowl a winning play or a fumble?
Super Bowl ads are a show within the show, an opportunity for brands and advertising…
Long covid: Online rehabilitation can improve quality of life, study reports
A group online rehabilitation programme including gentle exercise and mental health support can improve quality…
Can exercise help treat long Covid? New study finds patients improve with self-paced approach
Fatigue leads the list of persistent problems experienced by people with long Covid — which…
STAT+: Why Eli Lilly’s earnings didn’t quite live up to the hype
Eventually, the luckiest companies get to deal with a very particular problem: what to do…
STAT+: Eli Lilly reports tirzepatide MASH success during Q4 earnings
The blockbuster weight loss and diabetes drug sold by Eli Lilly also appears to improve…
FDA urged to move faster to fix pulse oximeters for darker-skinned patients
The Food and Drug Administration should move more quickly to ensure pulse oximeters — the…
NHS rolls out national gene testing to spot cancer risk in Jewish community
Jewish people in England are being invited to take part in a national gene testing…
Updated Covid vaccine has 54% effectiveness, new data suggest
New data released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest that the…
STAT+: WTO appears close to rejecting a proposed waiver on patents for Covid diagnostics and therapies
After more than a year of deliberation, the World Trade Organization appears close to rejecting…
Opinion: The Biden administration should not support a WTO petition to strip IP protections from Covid-19 treatments
The Biden administration may soon double down on one of its gravest mistakes. In 2022,…
Life expectancy fell during pandemic across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland
Life expectancy fell during 2020 to 2022 across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, largely because…
Two genomics powerhouses team up to expand infectious disease surveillance
LONDON — Two research centers that have been at the forefront of following the evolution…
STAT+: A PBM in Africa flips the industry’s script in a bid to make people healthier
WASHINGTON — For an app that helps pharmacies in Africa manage their medicines, the term…
New chronic Covid study offers insight into which immunocompromised patients are most at risk
You’ve heard of long Covid, a condition in which the acute infection subsides but troubling…
Why many more people are lining up for a flu shot than a Covid vaccine
America is over the Covid vaccine. Frantic lineups for scarce doses when Covid vaccines first…
STAT+: The FDA’s diagnostics chief, who led through Covid, has retired
Timothy Stenzel, the federal regulator who led the Food and Drug Administration’s diagnostics division during…
Could long Covid’s signs of immune dysregulation in the blood lead to a diagnostic test?
Long Covid has long eluded scientists looking for its cause. Not knowing what triggers its…
STAT+: More patients are getting their meds online. Big Pharma wants in on the action
Since the pandemic, patients have become increasingly comfortable with getting their medications online. Direct-to-consumer telehealth…
SARS-CoV-2 positivity in offspring and timing of mother-to-child transmission: living systematic review and meta-analysis
AbstractObjectivesTo assess the rates of SARS-CoV-2 positivity in babies born to mothers with SARS-CoV-2 infection,…
STAT+: Insitro, biotech AI’s quiet unicorn, unveils efforts in ALS, liver disease, and cancer at JPM
New artificial intelligence technologies made headlines last year for their ability to do everything from…
Covid-19: Some US states and hospitals recommend masks again
US hospitals and medical centres in some US states have reintroduced requirements to wear facemasks…
STAT+: Another major pharma company departs BIO
WASHINGTON — UCB left BIO at the end of 2023, the second major member company to…
NHS England’s “celebratory” cancer check announcement does not reflect reality, charities say
NHS England’s announcement highlighting record numbers of cancer checks does not reflect the “brutal” reality…
Opinion: Buprenorphine, autism diagnoses, and long Covid: the most-read First Opinion essays of 2023
In a year of abortion restrictions, biotech industry upheaval, and revolutionary drug approvals, First Opinion…
We wish we’d written that: STAT staffers share their favorite stories of 2023
It’s time to take stock of the year that was in health and science: the…
STAT stories you might have missed in 2023
There’s an old story in journalism, and it goes like this: A reporter is asked,…
STAT+: Bristol Myers will pay $4.1 billion for cancer startup RayzeBio
Bristol Myers Squibb will pay $4.1 billion for RayzeBio, the companies said Tuesday, buying into…
3 issues to watch in global health in 2024
As we enter the fifth year of this challenging decade, life finally appears to be…