Hospitals are using AI to predict the decline of Covid-19 patients — before knowing it works
Dozens of hospitals across the country are using an artificial intelligence system created by Epic,…
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Listen: The ousting of a vaccine official, how to use ventilators, & the fate of the JP Morgan conference
Why was the infectious disease community in denial about the unfolding pandemic? When can we…
Data on Gilead’s remdesivir, released by accident, show no benefit for coronavirus patients
The antiviral medicine remdesivir from Gilead Sciences failed to speed the improvement of patients with…
Opinion: Trump’s cuts to WHO funding: irresponsible, irrational, and simply wrong
The Covid-19 pandemic has shown us that an infectious disease outbreak in one corner of…
Opinion: Covid-19 will pass. Will we be able to say the same about the racism it has illuminated?
The Covid-19 pandemic is teaching me that the world can change almost overnight when it…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Former BARDA chief charges Trump politicizes science; India may suspend TB drug exports
Hello, everyone, and how are you today? We are doing reasonably well so far, thank…
In long essay, Bill Gates says time and innovation needed before coronavirus lockdowns end
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates on Thursday warned that the world’s emergence from coronavirus lockdowns will…
Opinion: When the Covid-19 pandemic is over, health care must not return to business as usual
I’m a doctor who treats patients with Covid-19 in the emergency department and the intensive…
Opinion: Our hospital’s community management strategy for Covid-19 works. Yours can, too
The Covid-19 pandemic is overwhelming hospital and emergency response systems in the U.S., much as…
‘It’s noisy’: Competing Covid-19 efforts could hamper progress, experts warn
As many of the most forward-thinking tech and biopharma behemoths — from Apple and Google…
For respiratory therapists on Covid-19 wards, a catheter shortage increases work — and risk
This is one in a series of reports from hospitals responding to the Covid-19 pandemic….
‘Where are all our patients?’: Covid phobia is keeping people with serious heart symptoms away from ERs
Stayc Simpson’s blood pressure readings are all over the place. Her heart rate is fluctuating…
An ousted vaccine agency director offers an explosive, direct allegation: Trump is politicizing science
WASHINGTON — Rick Bright, the U.S. official who was ousted this week from a post…
Opinion: Home testing for Covid-19 will provide the combination to unlock the U.S.
As the government struggles to help Americans move from lockdowns and shelter-in-place orders to a…
Poor countries must not be forgotten in the Covid-19 battle, Unitaid director warns
Founded more than a dozen years ago, Unitaid has received more than $3 billion in…
Poor countries must not be forgotten in the Covid-19 battle, Unitaid director warns
Founded more than a dozen years ago, Unitaid has received more than $3 billion in…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Biogen delays Alzheimer’s drug filing; BARDA head leaves amid shakeup
Rise and shine, everyone, another busy and challenging day is on the way. And though…
Opinion: Covid-19 and suicide: an uncertain connection
I live and work in Colorado, a beautiful state that can look to an outsider…
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Opinion: The view from two residents inside an ICU’s pandemic crew: Covid brain, relentless sorrow, and kindness in calamity
“Welcome to the Covid crew,” read the email we received in mid-March. With that quick…
Transplants plummet as overwhelmed hospitals focus on the coronavirus
Fred Banks apologizes for pausing mid-sentence to catch his breath. “I’m on oxygen 24/7,” explains…
People are dying from coronavirus because we’re not fast enough at clinical research
When medical historians look back at the Covid-19 pandemic, they will reckon with how the…
Director of U.S. agency key to helming vaccine development leaves role suddenly amid coronavirus pandemic
WASHINGTON — Rick Bright, one of the nation’s leading vaccine development experts and the director…
New analysis recommends less reliance on ventilators to treat coronavirus patients
By using ventilators more sparingly on Covid-19 patients, physicians could reduce the more-than-50% death rate…
FDA clears first Covid-19 test with at-home sample collection
Regulators at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday authorized the first coronavirus test…
Opinion: Mobile integrated health programs with paramedics should be on the front line of the Covid-19 fight
Long before the first case of a mystery respiratory disease was identified in China and…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Trump tones down hydroxycholoroquine hype; U.N. resolution calls for access to Covid-19 products
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Opinion: If pharma helps quench the Covid-19 pandemic, what will it want in return?
Make no mistake: The only long-term solution to the Covid-19 pandemic is a safe and…
Opinion: You are waiting for the surge
The death toll from the march of Covid-19 through New York City soars past 10,000….
How a coronavirus symptom checker came to steer patients to care from Texas to Estonia
When Covid-19 began spreading in the United States, Emory Healthcare was prepared in one way…
NIH Director Francis Collins on Tony Fauci, the WHO, and running a $39 billion research agency from home
WASHINGTON — Francis Collins hasn’t set foot on the National Institutes of Health’s campus in…
He ran marathons and was fit. So why did Covid-19 almost kill him?
A week after testing positive for Covid-19, Joshua Fiske drove himself to a New Jersey…
FDA takes another step to ease shortages of drugs for Covid-19 patients on ventilators
The Food and Drug Administration has taken yet another step in a bid to reduce…
General Motors, 3M, and pharma companies beef up lobbying firepower amid coronavirus pandemic
WASHINGTON — General Motors and 3M, two major corporations that have feuded publicly with President…
STAT Plus: Aytu Bioscience capitalizes on coronavirus antibody test demand, but the good times won’t last
A pivot towards reselling Chinese-made coronavirus antibody tests in the U.S. has transformed tiny Aytu…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Novartis to test hydroxycholoroquine in Covid-19; malaria drug failed to protect lupus patients from coronavirus
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend offered something…
Opinion: Managing a pharma company during three crises: lessons learned for Covid-19
When I started working in the biopharma industry 20 or so years ago, I didn’t…
Everything we know about coronavirus immunity and antibodies — and plenty we still don’t
People who think they’ve been exposed to the novel coronavirus are clamoring for antibody tests…
The months of magical thinking: As the coronavirus swept over China, some experts were in denial
The response to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States and other countries has been…
Novartis steps up to study of hydroxychloroquine in Covid-19
The drug giant Novartis said Monday it would conduct a 450-person study to determine if…
Opinion: Farmers markets provide healthy food and support local economies. Keep them open during Covid-19 lockdowns
The Farmers Market in Berkeley, California, where I’ve shopped for the last 20 years, recently…
STAT Plus: Dozens of financial firms want pharma to place Covid-19 patients over profits
More than three dozen asset managers, pension funds, and insurers are urging the pharmaceutical industry…
NIH partners with 16 drug companies in hopes of accelerating Covid-19 treatments and vaccines
WASHINGTON — The National Institutes of Health on Friday announced it would launch a sweeping…
STAT Plus video chat: What we know about Gilead’s remdesivir data
STAT reported Thursday that a Chicago hospital treating severe Covid-19 patients with Gilead Sciences’ antiviral…
California resists push to lift limits on nurse practitioners during Covid-19 pandemic
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As the demand for health care workers surges with the coronavirus case…
Opinion: Medical students called to the Covid-19 fight need support, protection
As the escalating Covid-19 pandemic puts increasing pressure on health systems, a shortage of medical…
Opinion: I was a ‘perfect setup’ to be fooled by Covid-19
“Hi, this is Pooja,” I answered my phone promptly. I had been waiting all day…
Influential Covid-19 model uses flawed methods and shouldn’t guide U.S. policies, critics say
A widely followed model for projecting Covid-19 deaths in the U.S. is producing results that…
Trump outlines ‘phases’ for reopening states once coronavirus cases begin to decline
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday told governors that they could begin to ease stay-at-home…
To speed coronavirus testing, FDA approves a new type of nasal swab
One of the biggest bottlenecks in testing people for the novel coronavirus has not involved…
FDA eases rules so compounders can make drugs for Covid-19 patients on ventilators
In response to shortages of medicines needed for Covid-19 patients on ventilators, the Food and…