STAT+: Cue Health rode Covid-19 to an NBA deal and a $3 billion valuation. Now it faces layoffs and a rocky future
It didn’t have the brand recognition of Abbott, or the billions of the medical technology…
Category: A STAT Investigation
What will it take to level the playing field for Black residents?
This is part two of a STAT investigation on the dismissal of Black doctors from…
‘It was stolen from me’: Black doctors are forced out of training programs at far higher rates than white residents
Rosandra Daywalker had always excelled. The daughter of Haitian and Jamaican parents in Miami —…
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STAT+: How a complex web of businesses turned private health records from GE into a lucrative portrait of patients
It was supposed to be a routine client meeting. Instead, one of GE Healthcare’s largest…
A psychedelic therapist allegedly took millions from a Holocaust survivor, highlighting worries about elders taking hallucinogens
He made a new life for himself in California. After surviving the Holocaust and growing…
STAT+: FDA’s breakthrough device program, meant to benefit patients, is delivering the biggest gains for companies
Five years ago, the Food and Drug Administration launched a new program with the best…
STAT+: AI gone astray: How subtle shifts in patient data send popular algorithms reeling, undermining patient safety
A novel investigation by STAT and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that subtle shifts…
Watch: A rebel with a cause: As a mentor and a leader, this Black orthopedic surgeon fights to diversify his field
A rare Black orthopedic surgeon in an overwhelmingly white specialty, Eric Carson has spent decades…
Orthopedic surgeons pride themselves on fixing things. Can they fix their own field’s lack of diversity?
This is part two of a STAT investigation on the lack of diversity in orthopedic…
The whitest specialty: As medicine strives to close its diversity gaps, one field remains a stubborn outlier
Erica Taylor has a pedigree seemingly built for orthopedic surgery. She comes from National Football…
STAT+: How America’s largest Catholic hospital system is moonlighting as a private equity firm
The nation’s largest Catholic hospital system, a sprawling behemoth of more than 140 hospitals called…
STAT+: In a sea of skeptics, this physician was one of fibromyalgia patients’ few true allies. Or was he?
Cindy Bradley-Graziadei almost didn’t take the test. By the time she saw it advertised, in…
STAT+: Inside the downfall of longevity crusader Aubrey de Grey — and the cult of personality that concealed a pattern of harassment
“You’ve been a bad boy,” Moses Znaimer, the bespectacled media mogul often referred to as…
STAT+: Epic’s sepsis algorithm is going off the rails in the real world. The use of these variables may explain why
In marketing materials and internal documents, national electronic health record vendor Epic Systems has touted…
‘Health equity tourists’: How white scholars are colonizing research on health disparities
Fueled by the massive health disparities exposed by the coronavirus pandemic and the racial reckoning…
STAT+: Epic’s AI algorithms, shielded from scrutiny by a corporate firewall, are delivering inaccurate information on seriously ill patients
Several artificial intelligence algorithms developed by Epic Systems, the nation’s largest electronic health record vendor,…
STAT+: ‘In their own bubble’: How a cancer center promoted an exclusive experimental drug to attract patients
A new medication for children with a rare and life-threatening cancer called neuroblastoma had a…
A deathbed double standard: It’s hard to get released on medical parole — unless you’re about to become a Covid-19 statistic
During his 39 years in prison, the closest Joseph Messere ever came to walking free…
STAT+: Inside the fall of Watson Health: How IBM’s audacious plan to ‘change the face of health care’ with AI fell apart
It was a summer day in 2018, and the outlook could hardly have seemed more…
STAT+: As the FDA clears a flood of AI tools, missing data raise troubling questions on safety and fairness
Artificial intelligence is the fastest-growing frontier in medicine, but it is also among the most…
STAT Plus: Hospitals turn to big tech companies to store and analyze their data — leaving patients in the dark on privacy protections
The nation’s largest hospital systems are rapidly shifting sensitive health data into cloud storage platforms…