STAT+: House panel weighs new plan for Medicare coverage of Wegovy, cancer blood tests
WASHINGTON — A House panel is exploring holding a vote on scaled-back versions of two…
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Opinion: Achieving telehealth equity for people with hearing loss
Gen Z has made captioning cool. Captions are now widely available in social media, entertainment…
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…
Getting CRISPR treatments to patients remains a major challenge. Could lab-developed tests help?
CRISPR is no longer a promising but unproven technology — it is a reality. But…
STAT+: Leaked version of EFTA-India free trade deal sparks alarm over access to medicines
A leaked version of a proposed agreement between India and the European Free Trade Association…
Medical devices with screens aren’t accessible to the blind. Congress has chance to change that
Katie Keim was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1967 when she was eight, well…
STAT+: A Harvard course seeks to put food on the table in medical education
BOSTON — Doctors often don’t have a lot of time to chat with patients during…
Amid a dire nationwide therapist shortage, could lay counselors help close the gap?
One morning last May, 10 students and two instructors from across California gathered on Zoom…
STAT+: GSK is replacing its popular Flovent inhaler with authorized generics, raising cost concerns for asthma patients
As of Jan. 1, thousands of asthma patients in the U.S. will no longer be…
Violet CEO on measuring clinician inclusiveness: ‘It’s almost like a credit score’
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Gaurang Choksi is the founder and CEO of Violet, a health equity…
Doctors call out ableism in cancer care: ‘The biggest accommodation is attitude’
People with disabilities often spend a lot of time navigating bias and educating others about…
Boston’s mobile clinics offer model of health care that meets patients where they are
BOSTON — Chongcan Zhu, an 83-year-old longtime resident of Boston, lives alone — but she…
A nonprofit group is pushing to get estrogen FDA approved for gender-affirming care
Hormone replacement therapies have long been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use…
Progress in childhood cancer has stalled for Blacks and Hispanics, report says
Advances in childhood cancer are a success story in modern medicine. But in the past decade, those…
How pharmacy deserts are putting the health of Black and Latino Americans at risk
Pharmacies were once abundant in the South Side of Chicago. Now, residents living in the…
Health disparities drive everything from school absenteeism to loneliness, say experts
When Jason Farley was growing up in rural Alabama as a young gay man, he…
Latest data shows millions of eligible Americans have been disenrolled from Medicaid
More than 10 million people were disenrolled from Medicaid over the past six months, according…
Opinion: State Prescription Drug Affordability Boards could end up limiting access to the life-saving cystic fibrosis medication Trikafta
I was living on the precipice of end-stage disease when I enrolled in the clinical…
The official definition of infertility now includes LGBTQ+ and single people
Infertility has a new definition in the U.S. — one that could make a big…
Opinion: The Wegovy shortage is part of a much bigger problem with weight loss drugs
After physically debilitating cancer treatment, Laurie Brunner encountered another medical hurdle: She had developed lymphedema…
STAT+: Generic makers fall short when providing access to low- and middle-income countries, analysis finds
A handful of the largest purveyors of generic medicines have made only halting progress to…
As Biden plans to ban medical debt from credit scores, advocates press for more change
The dramatic impact of medical debt on credit scores may soon be a thing of…
In North Carolina, a radical experiment targets social determinants of health with fresh produce and safe housing
Late last summer, Elizabeth Jacques brought her youngest daughter, Elena, for a medical checkup. At…
They’re immigrants, farmworkers, and new moms. And they’re facing postpartum depression at higher rates
Over more than a decade working with immigrant farmworkers in the public clinics of the…
Ketamine can be transformative for people with suicidal thoughts — if they can access it
Every day, Marisa Russello was overwhelmed by suicidal thoughts. Even one negative thought might cause…
Opinion: Drugs alone can’t win the war against tuberculosis
Recently, after years of pressure, advocates including author and philanthropist John Green scored victory against…
Opinion: The high out-of-pocket cost of donating a kidney
“All of your medical and surgical expenses will be paid by your recipient’s insurance,” the…
Opinion: Former Sen. Max Baucus: Breakthrough Alzheimer’s drugs are out of reach for many in rural states like Montana
New treatments are delaying the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, giving people aging with memory decline…
Opinion: Enough with the health care policy patchwork. It’s time for universal insurance
Everyone knows that the United States is the only high-income country without universal health insurance….
Opinion: A program to bring internet access to low-income people is running out of money. Health care will suffer
This past winter, one of us, Alister, was speaking with the daughter of an elderly…
J&J expands global access to TB drug as popular novelist joins advocacy campaign
Advocates have been fighting Johnson & Johnson for years over a patent on a lifesaving…
Opinion: Right-wing politicians are stoking renewed moral panic about HIV
In May, just before Pride Month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released news…
Opinion: Sickle cell cures are coming. African children can’t be left behind
The treatment of sickle cell disease is on the cusp of a historic breakthrough, with…
Why nearly half of Americans with Parkinson’s don’t see a neurologist
It took Richard Huckabee nine years to get a Parkinson’s diagnosis. A district manager for…
We have a cure for hepatitis C — so why aren’t more people getting treatment?
In 2005, Nick Voyles was diagnosed with hepatitis C after being released from five years…
New DNA test aims to make cervical cancer screening more accessible in low-income countries
A genomic test for the human papillomavirus has shown promise in early-stage trials, raising hopes…
Opinion: Listen: How to save PrEP access — and even expand it
Under the Affordable Care Act, health insurers are required to cover all costs associated with…
Opinion: Cancer drug shortages should have patients rioting in the streets
Cancer patients, like those I treat in San Diego and thousands more across the country,…
Texas wants to wean trans youth off meds in a ‘safe and medically appropriate’ way. Doctors say that’s impossible
In a wave of anti-LGBTQ legislation, 19 U.S. states thus far have banned at least…
Opinion: A breakthrough drug will require big changes for eye care doctors
Advancement in the science of eye care over the past 10 years has led to…
‘Stunning’ change to United’s colonoscopy coverage roils physicians and patients
When gastroenterologists learned in March that UnitedHealthcare plans to barricade many colonoscopies behind a controversial…
Opinion: Long waits to see a doctor are a public health crisis
In 2004, the physician search firm Merritt Hawkins first issued their Survey of Physician Appointment…
Hospitals that denied emergency abortion broke the law, feds say
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two hospitals that refused to provide an emergency abortion to a pregnant woman who…
Opinion: Judicial overreach is an immediate hazard to already precarious public health
The United States is in poor health. Life expectancy rates have dropped precipitously, and racial…
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Opinion: I’m a biopharma supply chain specialist — and even I can’t find the Adderall I’m prescribed
For 10 years, I have depended on Adderall to help me function. But in February,…
Opinion: How the U.S. health care system is like a Jackson Pollock painting
When I envision the U.S. health care system, the first thing that comes to mind…
1 in 6 people experience infertility worldwide, according to WHO report
One in six people across the globe face infertility at some point in their lifetime,…
Opinion: I finally got used to practicing telepsychiatry. Now the DEA wants to change everything
I am by no means telepsychiatry’s biggest fan. But since March 2020, when my practice…
Opinion: Living kidney donors rely on a promise to protect our future health. We’re scared it will go away
Five years ago, I donated my “spare” kidney at the Mayo Clinic to a woman…
‘This is a nonpartisan issue’: Planned Parenthood’s Alexis McGill Johnson on fighting for reproductive rights
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the news…