Regeneron gene therapy improves hearing in child
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What will it take to end health care worker burnout?
Long hours and high-pressure situations have long characterized the health care profession — but in…
Opinion: Want to end historic health care strikes? Fix a broken, outdated reimbursement model
History was made this month as more than 75,000 workers staged the largest health care…
The XBI biotech index hit its lowest point since 2018. No one knows what comes next.
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Why AstraZeneca’s CEO is accusing British tabloids of ‘fake news’
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Johnson & Johnson antiviral pill for dengue shows early efficacy
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Opinion: Done right, AI can give patients crucial information on the quality of their care
Almost as soon as ChatGPT was released to the public, doctors began focusing on how…
Why Biogen is purposefully becoming more risk averse, according to Biogen’s CEO
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Wegovy doesn’t work for everyone, and no one’s quite sure why
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With Ozempic, Wall Street moves on from a whole other class of medicines
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STAT+: Venture capital firm General Catalyst wants to buy a health system
Venture firms, convinced they’re jumpstarting the world’s most helpful tech products, have struggled mightily to…
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NIH funds expanded access projects for ALS
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Moderna’s plan to make a single vaccine for Covid, influenza, and RSV is on track
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Women spend 20% more per year on out-of-pocket health costs, says report
Women of all ages pay a total of $15.4 billion more than men on annual…
Opinion: Value-based payments are making it harder to see your primary care doctor on short notice
Difficulty scheduling an urgent or time-sensitive appointment is now the most common gripe my patients…
Why doesn’t the U.S. have more Black midwives?
In the wake of growing alarm over the disproportionately high rates of maternal mortality in…
STAT+: Dana-Farber, in break with Brigham and Women’s, will build new cancer center with Beth Israel
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have announced plans to build a…
Surgical outcomes, who does better — male vs female surgeons?
Want to ensure that patients will get better outcomes after surgery? It’s easy, just do…
What do new weight loss drugs mean for the future of bariatric surgery?
Over the past year, weight loss drugs have captured the public’s imagination but also raised…
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STAT+: NYU launched private ChatGPT for its health data, and set its staff loose to experiment
NEW YORK — A fourth-year medical student, a music therapist, a child psychiatrist, and a…
Mid-year drug price hikes are back despite Inflation Reduction Act
It’s almost a tradition. At the start and halfway points of each year, many pharmaceutical…
Gender-affirming surgeries tripled in the U.S. between 2016-2019, study finds
The number of gender-affirming surgeries taking place in the U.S. nearly tripled between 2016 and…
How the first Native Hawaiian psychiatrist set a course for diversifying medicine
Benjamin Young didn’t set out to be the first Native Hawaiian psychiatrist. Nor did he…
Why so few get screened for lung cancer, the deadliest cancer in the U.S.
It was Thanksgiving 2021, and Michael Young was at Target buying a turkey baster. “I’m…
America’s ERs struggle with timely care for stroke patients
In the world of stroke care, time is everything. At stroke onset, a clot or…
Opinion: The best way for the NIH to reduce drug prices is to address drug spending
As STAT reported recently, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) has…
Kim Kardashian sparks debate on the benefits of full-body MRI scans
The last time Kim Kardashian posted about medical imaging, it was to prove her butt…
Attacks at US medical centers show why health care is one of the nation’s most violent fields
Word spread through an Oregon hospital last month that a visitor was causing trouble in…
Pandemic slowed cancer diagnoses, but late-stage cancers came back with a vengeance
Early-stage cancer diagnoses decreased by nearly 20% in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic….
Pediatricians’ group reaffirms support for gender-affirming care while planning research review
The American Academy of Pediatrics reaffirmed its support for gender-affirming medical care for transgender children…
Henrietta Lacks settlement hailed by experts as step toward correcting medicine’s racist history
For what would have been Henrietta Lacks’s 103th birthday, her family got her some justice:…
Cases of alpha gal syndrome caused by tick bites on the rise, CDC reports
For many Americans, the warmer spring and summer months bring backyard barbecues and scenic hikes…
Ending racial health disparities hinges on penalties, political will, experts say
The nation’s widespread racial health disparities won’t be erased without changes to how health care…
One year into 988 hotline, staff push for fixes to ambitious new system
One year after 988 launched as the new number for the national U.S. mental health…
STAT+: Blue Cross Blue Shield insurers keep winning from Affordable Care Act’s risk program
A program that undergirds the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketplaces continues to bolster the…
STAT+: UPenn and St. Luke’s have withdrawn from US News’ best hospitals list. Will others follow?
Mercy Philadelphia Hospital was planning on shutting down. Losing Mercy, a safety-net hospital serving a…
‘We fail people’: New data on disparities in Medicaid access to opioid addiction treatment
An estimated 82,998 people died from opioid overdoses in the U.S. last year. A new…
STAT+: Drug middlemen catch flak at another congressional hearing
Drug middlemen once again were on the hot seat at a congressional hearing on Wednesday….
Suicides and homicides among young Americans jumped early in the pandemic, study says
The homicide rate for older U.S. teenagers rose to its highest point in nearly 25…
STAT+: Fed up with exorbitant health costs, employers and workers are taking insurers to court
Companies, unions, and workers are at a breaking point over how much they pay for…
STAT+: Sen. Cassidy wants to put a stop to FDA delays in drug review process
WASHINGTON – Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) is looking into ways to speed up the Food…
Cross-border ‘twinning programs’ may reduce survival disparities for childhood leukemia
A few miles can mean a life or death difference to children with cancer, if…
‘A target on my back’: New survey shows racism is a huge problem in nursing
A family nurse practitioner in New York City, Jose M. Maria has come to expect…
STAT+: Addiction treatment center founder indicted in sprawling fraud scheme
Over the last few years, Daniel Cleggett Jr. appeared to be living a charmed life….
Opinion: Three ways to test medical AI for safety
This article is adapted from “The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond,” by Peter…
“Patients are not hot potatoes”: How the fight over dialysis coverage is putting kidney failure patients at risk
As soon as she heard the Supreme Court decision, LaVarne Burton began to worry. As…
Babies born to opioid users have shorter hospital stays with parental involvement: study
Babies born to opioid users had shorter hospital stays and needed less medication when their…
Demand for home health aides is soaring. So why are they still so undervalued?
On most days around 2pm, home health aide Duane Crichlow can be found in an…
Trans health care, already under attack, faces new obstacle with end of Covid public health emergency
As states across the U.S. introduce anti-trans legislation, transgender and nonbinary people face increasing restrictions…
As states ban gender-affirming care, Minnesota aims to be a refuge for trans youth
Across the U.S., lawmakers are pushing for restrictions on transgender youth’s right to gender-affirming care…