Opinion: Exploitation in the name of biomedical innovation cannot be tolerated
Biogen’s announcement on Tuesday that it is “substantially eliminating” its spending on Aduhelm caps a…
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Opinion: Global health should not be determined by pharma investors and shareholders
What could go wrong when pharmaceutical company shareholders and investors shape the public health response…
STAT+: When should drugmakers go all in and cut off essential medicines to Russia?
Just say nyet? As the war in Ukraine intensifies, several of the world’s largest pharmaceutical…
STAT+: New details emerge about a U.S. scientist’s obscured role in the ‘CRISPR babies’ scandal
More than three years after the now-infamous Chinese scientist He Jiankui sent shockwaves around the…
STAT+: Few public biotech companies disclose environmental, social, and governance steps
Environmental, social, and governance issues are gaining greater attention among investors, but only 30% of…
Opinion: Health tech needs to rebuild trust in the wake of the Theranos verdict
Monday’s news that Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and CEO of Theranos, was found guilty of…
Opinion: It’s not the mission of universities to perpetuate inequity. Why do Emory and others do that?
As billions of people in the Global South continue to confront Covid-19 unprotected because they…
Opinion: Why the big questions about drug prices are rarely asked: It’s hard to do
Public debate over legislation to allow Medicare to negotiate the price of drugs has been…
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Most advanced lab-grown human embryos prompt a pressing question: Are they getting too real?
The stem cells were no more than a week old when scientists moved them from…
STAT+: Obesity journal editor’s extensive company ties raise concerns about conflicts of interest in publishing
Over the past seven years, a top editor at a medical journal devoted to obesity…
Q&A: Bioethicist Leigh Turner on the worrisome boom in unregulated stem cell clinics
In 2016, the Food and Drug Administration put the emerging stem cell cottage industry on…
Opinion: Listen: A physician and philosopher on the dangers of ‘curating’ natural deaths and executions
Americans have a tendency to fixate on what’s commonly thought of of as “a good…
Opinion: What the death rattle and capital punishment have in common
Death rattle. That’s the sound some dying people make, caused by a buildup of mucus…
Philanthropist-funded study at a prestigious hospital raises thorny questions about clinical research
The opportunity seemed too good to pass up. It was 2020, and the CEO of…
Opinion: Feeling guilty about getting a booster shot? Here’s something you can do
The same week that Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and…
Opinion: On a day to celebrate the Nobel in medicine, a stain still mars the institute that awards it
As the Nobel Assembly at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute announces the winners of the 2021 Nobel…
Opinion: Start now to prevent the next Purdue Pharma debacle
The judgment finalizing the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy case is a likely bitter end to litigation…
Return of the mammoth? George Church-backed company launches with $15 million for elephant-sized quest
Harvard scientist George Church, a pioneer of both DNA sequencing and gene editing, has been…
Any qualms about an extra Covid vaccine dose? STAT readers respond
Covid-19 vaccine boosters continue to stir controversy as most of the world seeks a first…
STAT+: SENS Research Foundation removes Aubrey de Grey over concerns he was interfering in sexual harassment investigation
Antiaging science’s most prominent prophet, Aubrey de Grey, has been removed from his post as…
STAT+: Medical journal editorial writers have financial conflicts of interest, too
In the latest look at conflicts of interest in science, a new analysis found 15%…
Opinion: Responsible AI: leveraging data and technology to counteract bias
Left unchecked, algorithmic approaches can perpetuate bias in health care. Implementing responsible AI can help…
By creating mouse eggs entirely from scratch, researchers raise the prospect of a futuristic fertility treatment
The tiny clump of mouse cells didn’t look like an ovary. For one thing, it…
Opinion: Vaxxed or axed: To protect patients, every health care worker must be vaccinated
Masks are off. Theaters and indoor dining are back. Life seems to be returning to…
Researchers raise concerns about using genetic risk scores to pick ‘healthier’ embryos
As more people turn to in vitro fertilization for help with conceiving, a host of…
Scientific panel loosens ’14-day rule’ limiting how long human embryos can be grown in the lab
An influential scientific panel cracked open the door on Wednesday to growing human embryos in…
A doctor trained nurse practitioners to do colonoscopies. Critics say his research exploited Black patients
At a time when medical researchers are under pressure to increase diversity in clinical trials,…
Six patients with dementia went to Mexico for an unproven gene therapy, a biotech CEO claims
Six patients with dementia traveled to Mexico last year to be injected with a gene…
International team creates first chimeric human-monkey embryos
A team of scientists from the U.S., China, and Spain reported Thursday they have created…
Opinion: A skeptic’s take on Neuralink and other consumer neurotech
The titans of Silicon Valley say that the brain-computer interface revolution is coming, and neurotech…
STAT+: Boston’s hospital chiefs moonlight on corporate boards at rates far beyond the national level
As chief of Boston Children’s Hospital, one of the most esteemed pediatric hospitals in the…
At least 4 founders of Time’s Up Healthcare resign as organization mum on sexual harassment suit
At least four founding members of Time’s Up Healthcare resigned Thursday from the organization following…
Opinion: Using the new Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine to create equity and trust
The Food and Drug Administration’s recent approval of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine for emergency…
Opinion: With Covid-19 vaccines, ‘fair’ isn’t always fair enough
The success of Operation Warp Speed in delivering two effective Covid-19 vaccines in record time…
Opinion: Disadvantage indices can help achieve equitable vaccine allocation
Policymakers have wrestled for months with how to fairly prioritize populations for Covid-19 vaccines. But…
STAT+: Family medicine residents don’t interact with pharma as much as they once did
Amid concerns about pharmaceutical industry influence on physicians, a new survey finds fewer family medicine…
Opinion: STAT+: Talent, culture, and ethics are all necessary ingredients in the biotech recipe for success
Even as hopes soar that soon-to-be-distributed Covid-19 vaccines will help quench the global coronavirus pandemic,…
The polio vaccine had Elvis. Can celebrities similarly spur acceptance of the Covid-19 vaccine?
Former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton announced earlier this month their…
Opinion: FDA: Leave the door open to Covid-19 vaccination for pregnant and lactating health workers
On Thursday, the FDA will review the near-term fate of the Pfizer/BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine. It…
Opinion: Drug companies’ payments and gifts affect physicians’ prescribing. It’s time to turn off the spigot
Each year, about half of all U.S. doctors accept money or gifts from drug and…
‘There absolutely will be a black market’: How the rich and privileged can skip the line for Covid-19 vaccines
Bill Lang didn’t get much of a break over Thanksgiving. Almost every day last week,…
Opinion: Frameworks for medical rationing must be created of, for, and with the people
When a vaccine for Covid-19 becomes available — and the supply is sure to be…
Opinion: If donating a kidney to a stranger is ethical and allowable, taking part in a Covid-19 challenge trial should be, too
A few months ago, one of us (S.B.) found himself staring up into the bright…
Opinion: Give teachers high priority access to Covid-19 treatments and vaccines
The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed what far too few Americans acknowledge about schools and teachers:…
Opinion: The ethics of pausing a vaccine trial in the midst of a pandemic: a conversation with Ruth Faden
The revelation that AstraZeneca paused its clinical trials for a Covid-19 vaccine has focused attention…
The U.S. must do some heavy lifting to prepare for heritable genome editing
Countries contemplating giving the green light to heritable genome editing received specific guidance from an…
We’re not ready for more ‘CRISPR babies,’ expert panel warns, but it outlines steps before future attempts
Nearly two years after the birth of the first “CRISPR babies” stunned the world, an…
Opinion: Hospital CEOs, med school leaders shouldn’t sit on for-profit health care company boards
In late July, Dr. Elizabeth Nabel, president of Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital, came under…
Opinion: A pandemic ethical conundrum: Must health care workers risk their lives to treat Covid-19 patients?
The sweep of Covid-19 across the globe has raised a fundamental question about medical ethics:…
STAT+ Conversations: AI’s march into the clinic
Editor’s note: A livestream of the conversation will be embedded above at 1 p.m. ET…