Pandemic response gets a permanent new home at the White House
WASHINGTON — The era of the rotating cast of public health czars at the White House…
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Infectious disease board recommends hospitals stop screening asymptomatic patients for Covid-19
An influential board of infectious disease physicians recommended Wednesday that hospitals and other health care…
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Congress reaches major health policy deal on Medicare, Medicaid, and pandemic preparedness
WASHINGTON — Leaders in Congress have reached a sweeping deal to ease Medicare pay cuts to…
STAT+: Drugmakers ask regulators to change standards on new Covid antibody drugs for most vulnerable
Biotech executives and a handful of academics pleaded with U.S. and European regulators on Thursday…
STAT+: Nine in 10 health care companies with financial stress are owned by private equity
Almost 90% of the health care companies deemed to be under financial stress by a…
Death certificate records of long Covid are a ‘floor of an estimate,’ experts say
Long Covid has begun appearing on death certificates for a small percentage of people who…
STAT+: Lawmakers tell Pfizer CEO to ‘back off’ on planned price hike for Covid-19 vaccine
A pair of U.S. lawmakers wrote Pfizer chief executive officer Albert Bourla that he should…
WHO names Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, as chief scientist
Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, the world’s second largest private funder of biomedical…
Covid vaccines averted 3 million deaths in U.S., according to new study
This Wednesday will mark two years since nurse Sandra Lindsay became the first person in…
STAT+: Coming soon: Permanent Covid-19 safety rules for health care workers
The federal agency that oversees workplace safety is moving forward with making certain Covid-19 protections…
STAT+: The Covid-19 test maker that pivoted to being a health insurance company
Curative rose to prominence during the throes of the pandemic, as people and governments across…
Getting ahead of ‘tsunami’ of chronic disease will require data and creativity, experts say
Chronic disease is omnipresent in the United States. Trillions of dollars are devoted to and…
Walensky says CDC needs more authority from Congress to collect public health data
WASHINGTON — The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention needs Congress to help it collect…
FDA authorizes updated Covid-19 boosters for youngest children
The Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday it had amended the emergency use authorizations for…
STAT+: U.S. delays backing for patent waivers on Covid-19 therapies and diagnostics
The U.S. government will not support extending a Dec. 17 deadline for waiving intellectual property…
Medical malpractice lawsuits, delayed by the pandemic, are hitting hospitals harder than expected
Carlos David Castro Rojas was a healthy 27-year-old engineering student when he fell off a…
Covid evolution wipes out another antibody treatment, threatening the country’s medicine cabinet
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday ended its emergency authorization for the only remaining…
With no exit strategy from ‘zero Covid’ policy, China could face tsunami in cases, experts fear
As the world watches the rare spectacle of protesters challenging China’s authoritarian leadership over its…
Opinion: Rushing into the World Bank’s Pandemic Fund is a bad idea
The World Bank has rolled out a new Financial Intermediary Fund for Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness,…
China eases Covid rules after wide protests of lockdowns
BEIJING — Chinese authorities eased some anti-virus rules but affirmed their severe “zero Covid” strategy…
Real-world data show updated Covid-19 boosters increase protection against infection
The updated Covid-19 boosters increase people’s protection against symptomatic infection from the coronavirus, according to…
Opinion: A tripledemic hurricane is making landfall. We need masks, not just tent hospitals
A viral hurricane is making landfall on health care systems battered by three pandemic years….
mRNA revolutionized the race for a Covid-19 vaccine. Could cancer be next?
This story has been adapted from the STAT Report “The future of messenger RNA: Covid-19…
How infectious disease experts are responding to Covid nearly three years in
The world is fast approaching the third anniversary of those days when we got our…
Pfizer CEO says Covid vaccine will remain ‘free for all Americans,’ overlooking indirect costs
BOSTON — As Pfizer prepares to hike the price of its Covid-19 vaccines, the company’s…
mRNA drugs with a built-in ‘copy machine’ could lead to safer, more effective therapies
This story has been adapted from the STAT Report “The future of messenger RNA: Covid-19…
In country after country, primary care doctors report high burnout and degraded patient care
The increased stress doctors have faced throughout the Covid-19 pandemic is making some feel like…
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In a Republican-led House, anti-science probes top the agenda
WASHINGTON — The Covid-19 investigations are coming. When Republicans take control of the House of Representatives…
The scientist behind Pfizer’s Covid vaccine says a flu pandemic is only a matter of time
BOSTON — Even after leading the charge combating the worst pandemic in a century, vaccine…
Covid-19 vaccines were a success, but mRNA still has a delivery problem. Two startups have an unorthodox solution
This story has been adapted from the STAT Report “The future of messenger RNA: Covid-19…
‘I pushed back’: Fauci on how his response to Trump on Covid turned him into ‘public enemy No. 1’
As he faces the possibility of increased scrutiny from what is likely to be a…
White House’s Jha isn’t predicting a holiday Covid surge this year
Ashish Jha, the White House Covid-19 coordinator, predicted Tuesday that the United States will not…
‘A very worrying scenario’: Internal documents on India Covid-19 vaccine raise troubling questions about approval process
As the Covid-19 pandemic spread across the world two years ago, one of India’s leading…
Moderna data suggests new Covid booster is more effective against Omicron variants
New data indicate Moderna’s Covid bivalent booster may be more effective against currently circulating Omicron…
A Democratic Senate improves the outlook for Biden health and science priorities, including key nominees
WASHINGTON — The outlook for the White House’s health and science priorities just got a…
Opinion: Lessons from polio about the need to vaccinate kids against Covid-19
As pediatricians, epidemiologists, and professors of public health — as well as mothers — we…
U.S. set to face third Covid winter without key tools and treatments
The country is heading into its third Covid winter without crucial tools we’ve relied on…
STAT+: FDA panel votes against Veru’s drug for severe Covid
An FDA advisory panel voted 5-to-8 to recommend rejecting a new drug for patients hospitalized…
Opinion: Listen: Covid is not a ‘racial equity success story’
The idea that the narrowing gap between Covid-19 deaths among white Americans and Americans of…
Free sunscreen, ear plugs — and Covid shots? At the NASCAR race, vaccinations are still a tough sell
AVONDALE, Ariz. — Under the bright lights of the Phoenix Raceway, as a hundred thousand…
Pfizer, BioNTech report bivalent Covid-19 booster more protective than original vaccine
New data from Pfizer and BioNTech on their bivalent Covid-19 vaccine suggests the updated product…
Opinion: How the world can end Covid-19 as a public health threat
The journal Nature published today global consensus recommendations to end Covid-19 as a public health…
Here’s why we’re not prepared for the next wave of biotech innovation
The first time I remember hearing the words “biology’s century,” it was a sales pitch….
Twitter has spent years trying to combat health misinformation. Will Musk’s takeover make that harder?
In the years since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, many health-care professionals have turned…
Opinion: Biopharma innovation needs to harness lessons learned from Covid-19
The pandemic is a prime case study of what can be accomplished when science delivers….
Pulse oximeters and their inaccuracies will get FDA scrutiny today. What took so long?
A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee Tuesday will take up the issue of whether…
Listen: Anti-science at the polls, a biotech odd couple, & the stakes of the midterms
Can Covid denialism get you elected? How is the music business like biotech investing? And…
Got questions about the timing of flu and Covid vaccines? Here’s what experts say
Over the past few weeks, cases of flu have begun to creep up across the…
Opinion: Covid-19 is an inverse equity story, not a racial equity success story
As MacArthur Foundation fellow Jennifer Richeson noted in The Atlantic in 2020, Americans love to…
On the campaign trail, Republicans ramp up anti-science, anti-Covid, often anti-Fauci messaging
WASHINGTON — Even as the pandemic fades from our daily lives, it is at the…