Pediatricians’ obesity guidelines rest on shaky evidence about eating disorder risks
To address soaring rates of childhood obesity, the American Academy of Pediatrics last year endorsed…
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STAT+: FDA approves Roche’s injectable version of blockbuster multiple sclerosis drug
Swiss pharma giant Roche won approval from the Food and Drug Administration on Friday for…
Five takeaways from Congress’ hearing on overhauling organ transplant system
WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, two transplant doctors, one watchdog and a nephrologist-turned-advocate sat before members…
STAT+: After FDA rejection, Sanofi and Regeneron’s Dupixent succeeds in late-stage trial of chronic hives
Sanofi and Regeneron’s blockbuster drug Dupixent successfully treated patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria, an inflammatory…
Medicine struggles to define chronic Lyme. Long Covid has only made it harder
Going to the doctor is already tricky enough for people with chronic symptoms of Lyme…
STAT+: Can amylin drugs best Wegovy and Zepbound? Companies bet on next big obesity target
Nearly two decades ago, a small company called Amylin Pharmaceuticals saw that its first commercial…
After decades of anti-vaccine rhetoric, RFK Jr. pivots to chronic diseases — and gets Trump on board
WASHINGTON — Last month, before he called it quits on a presidential run, Robert F….
Is the GLP-1 party running down for Hims, and a study for the weekend
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Glucose monitors, mpox vaccine inequity and effects of LGBTQ+ restrictions
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STAT+: Continuous glucose monitoring for the masses is here. Are we ready for it?
NEW YORK — Glucose tracking is the future, Dexcom executives gushed at a glitzy launch…
FDA approves latest Covid vaccines, and Harris makes her case
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Opinion: Mask bans disenfranchise millions of Americans with disabilities
Last week, a mask ban in Nassau County, New York was signed into law. If…
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New Medicare drug prices, antimicrobial-resistant meningitis, unlucky American women
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Morning Rounds: Getting healthier in the checkout aisle and the alcohol aisle
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How experiencing famine in the womb may shape people’s health as adults
Hunger killed an estimated 4 million people in Ukraine between 1932 and 1933 — the…
As Covid deaths drop, heart disease and cancer remain leading causes of death
Since its emergence in 2020, Covid has jumbled the list of the 10 leading causes…
Trump’s real health care agenda isn’t in Project 2025 — it’s in his own words
WASHINGTON — Former President Trump has made it abundantly clear that nobody else speaks for…
STAT+: How UnitedHealth turned a questionable artery-screening program into a gold mine
The nation’s largest health care company pressed thousands of its clinicians to use a thinly…
More heart patients getting prompt post-hospital care, but disparities increase
Recovery from a cardiac-related hospitalization requires coordinated, timely care to prevent a return to the…
Q&A: Trans adults face ‘shocking’ risk of cirrhosis, especially alcohol-driven
People under 45 have been driving an increase in liver-related deaths, especially those caused by…
Researchers identify ‘molecular switch’ in lupus that could stymie harmful immune response
Lupus, in superhero terms, tells a devastating story. A loyal hero turns villain and works…
Q&A: The U.S. is losing control of hypertension. China’s ‘village doctors’ have lessons
The U.S. has slid backward on control of high blood pressure, despite ready access to…
STAT+: Medicare’s big experiment to fix kidney failure care hasn’t worked so far, studies say
A few years ago, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services launched a big experiment….
By the numbers: America’s alcohol-related health problems are rising fast
In the pit of the pandemic, with no one to see and nowhere to go,…
Standalone organ donor centers have sprouted all over the U.S. Do they work better than hospitals?
Not much sets the world of transplant medicine abuzz. But in the early 2000s, a…
WHO warns global health toll of alcohol remains ‘unacceptably high’
The global health toll of alcohol remains “unacceptably high” across the globe, the World Health…
Hank Green on his ‘Pissing Out Cancer’ comedy special, ulcerative colitis, and the jokes that got cut
There’s a website dedicated to asking how many days it’s been since Hank Green started…
STAT+: Vertex reports positive results in stem cell trial for type 1 diabetes
ORLANDO — Twelve people with type 1 diabetes who received a therapy derived from stem…
‘We’re failing right now’ in type 2 diabetes, FDA chief says
ORLANDO — The United States is at a critical juncture in its efforts to treat…
STAT+: Google’s Verily to offer GLP-1 drugs through Lightpath, its retooled chronic care app
For the second time in as many years, Google’s health tech spinout Verily is pivoting….
Lab experiment shows exactly how heat waves can put hearts into ‘oxygen debt’
When temperatures soar, so do heart attacks. Now, a lab experiment explains just how temperatures…
‘Concern is real’ about long Covid’s impact on Americans and disability claims, report says
The Covid pandemic has been called a “mass-disabling event” since early on — the kind…
Study finds BMI, despite flaws, is useful estimate of body fat in children
The body mass index has long been slammed as a blunt instrument for evaluating health,…
NIH documents show how $1.6 billion long Covid initiative has failed so far to meet its goals
More than three years ago, the National Institutes of Health launched a $1 billion-plus initiative…
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…
High blood pressure in kids doubles their risk of cardiovascular disease, study finds, bringing a call for routine screening
Children and adolescents diagnosed with high blood pressure have double the risk of major cardiovascular…
Decline in heart failure deaths has been undone, led by people under 45
Heart failure mortality rates are moving in the wrong direction, a new analysis reports, reversing…
STAT+: Telehealth startups see an opportunity in long-ignored, complex chronic diseases
If her neurologist moved to China, Lauren Stiles says she’d follow him there. “There’s so…
After years of just ‘running, running,’ a crisis led to a lupus diagnosis. Now she connects others
Teenagers don’t get arthritis. That’s what Tiffany Peterson kept hearing as that dreadful feeling in…
Gut bacteria could play role in kidney autoimmune disease, study shows
Right now, inside your digestive tract, there are trillions of bacteria, fungi, and viruses that…
Multiple sclerosis has distinct subtypes, study finds, pointing to different treatments
For years, researchers have been hopeful they could get under the hood of multiple sclerosis….
STAT+: A preview of Intra-Cellular Therapies’ depression drug, and sizing up the MASH opportunity
I am one week away from the launch of my weekly email newsletter! It’s called…
STAT+: In small study, baby aspirin cuts fat buildup in liver disease patients
Low-dose aspirin led to a reduction in liver fat among patients with metabolic-associated liver disease,…
Inside a push to create an NIH office for post-infection chronic illness
When the White House released President Biden’s 2025 budget requests this week, funding for biomedical…
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…
A disabled artist’s journey from ‘Oh, sorry’ to social justice activism
Sonya Rio-Glick was born three months and six days premature, alongside her twin, in the…
Small study adds to growing hope CAR-T cell therapy could revolutionize autoimmune disease treatment
People with autoimmune disorders don’t usually get to talk about a cure. There’s symptom management,…
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+: Mystery of allergic memory gets closer to answer: a rare group of B cells
Maria Curotto de Lafaille’s lab was trying to make human plasma cells in a dish….
Opinion: The Philips CPAP nightmare exposes shortcomings in medical device regulation
Millions of Americans’ bedtime routine includes wearing a mask attached to a respiratory machine that…