Opinion: Unseen battles: The harsh realities of veterans’ access to health care
I remember the day I left the military after six years of active-duty service. The…
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STAT+: New, serious safety risk related to MorphoSys’ cancer drug complicates, potentially threatens, Novartis acquisition
MorphoSys is dealing with an emerging safety issue related to pelabresib, the experimental treatment for…
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Opinion: Déjà WTO: The WHO’s pandemic agreement shouldn’t water down intellectual property obligations
As countries resume final negotiations on Monday for a landmark pandemic agreement intended to help…
Menopause Relaxation Techniques
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Sleep Problems and Menopause: What Can I Do?
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5 Tips for Traveling to the U.S. with Medications
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Trouble With Touch? Feeling Your World
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Appendix Pain: Preventing Appendicitis Complications
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Comparing Side Effects of Prostate Cancer Treatments
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Million Veteran Program
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Make the Connection: Videos and Info for Military Veterans
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Print Out Your VA Welcome Kit
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Your VA Primary Care Provider and PACT Team
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Opinion: STAT readers respond to First Opinion essays on site-neutral payments, free medical school tuition, and more
“Former HHS secretaries: Congress should adopt site-neutral payments for health care,” by Alex Azar and…
Cattle testing for H5N1 bird flu will be more limited than USDA initially announced
New federal rules aimed at limiting the spread of the H5N1 bird flu virus among…
Computer scientists unveil novel attacks on cybersecurity
Researchers have found two novel types of attacks that target the conditional branch predictor found…
Biden administration punts menthol cigarette rule indefinitely
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is walking away from a plan to permanently bar menthol cigarettes,…
STAT+: Momentum builds for House bill cracking down on Chinese biotechs
WASHINGTON — A House committee plans to mark up next month legislation that would restrict…
Burkina Faso: UN rights office deeply alarmed at reported killing of 220 villagers
The UN human rights office (OHCHR) on Friday raised alarm over the situation in northern…
STAT+: Another hospital sues MultiPlan, alleging scheme to ‘suppress’ payments
MultiPlan is facing a new class action lawsuit that alleges the company and large health…
The drama of psychoanalysis
Henry Miller, the witty and now dead neurologist from Newcastle, said that one of the…
ICBs failing to fairly allocate funding to hospices across the country, MPs told
Integrated care boards (ICBs) in some parts of England are giving hospices 20 times as…
Action demanded on alcohol as deaths hit record levels
Campaigners are calling for action to tackle a worsening public health crisis after new data…
Diabetes UK defends partnership with Slimming World in face of criticism
Diabetes UK is to go ahead with its partnership with the weight loss company Slimming…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about Cigna biosimilar plans, a Vertex deal in South Africa, and more
And so, another working week will soon draw to a close. Not a moment too…
When I use a word . . . The languages of medicines—British Approved Names
Vocabularies, lexicons, and glossariesAll languages have vocabularies. The definition of a vocabulary in the Oxford…
US Supreme Court hears arguments on whether states can regulate emergency abortions
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on 24 April that emergency abortions should be…
People in mental health crisis are still being criminalised owing to NHS failures, says report
A “culture of blame shifting and unaccountability” in the NHS has led to the service…
Experts call for school focused support to overhaul children’s mental health services
Badly needed support for children’s mental health in England should be focused on schools with…
Advance in the treatment of acute heart failure identified
A multicenter study has identified a potential new treatment for acute heart failure, a leading…
‘Just in case’ use of antibiotics was rife during COVID-19, says UN health agency
Antibiotics saw “extensive overuse” globally among hospitalized COVID-19 patients during the pandemic without improving clinical…
Achieving more equitable access to assisted reproduction
Infertility affects one in six people in their lifetime yet remains a neglected global health…
Opinion: True peer-to-peer conversations will improve prior authorization
It’s another busy day in my spine surgery clinic when my phone rings. Patients are…
Opinion: Solving academic medical centers’ existential crisis
Hospitals and health care systems across the United States have long been expected to provide…
Mental health crisis centers and EmPATH units: offering care that busy ERs can’t
On a spring afternoon in Tucson, Ariz., about a half dozen children and teens hung…
Stop tobacco industry sponsorship of continuing medical education
In a troubling development for tobacco control, Medscape, a continuing education website for health professionals,…
WATCH: Trinidad fights back against a plastic invasion
Small Island Developing States are particularly vulnerable to plastic pollution. As well as coping with…
UNESCO report spotlights harmful effects of social media on young girls
Digital technologies and algorithm-driven software – especially social media – present high risks of privacy…
Debate at UN examines impact of Portugal’s ‘Carnation Revolution’
On 25 April 1974, military officers overthrew the nearly 50-year dictatorship in Portugal in a…
Early trauma cuts life short for squirrels, and climate change could make matters worse
Life can be tough for young red squirrels living in the Canada’s Yukon territory, where…
Climate change could become the main driver of biodiversity decline by mid-century
Global biodiversity has declined between 2% and 11% during the 20th century due to land-use…
With hybrid brains, these mice smell like a rat
Mice lacking an olfactory system have had their sense of smell restored with neurons from…
Synthetic droplets cause a stir in the primordial soup
Our bodies are made up of trillions of different cells, each fulfilling their own unique…
How do birds flock? Researchers do the math to reveal previously unknown aerodynamic phenomenon
How do birds fly in a coordinated and seemingly effortless fashion? Part of the answer…
STAT+: Vertex offers limited access to a cystic fibrosis drug in South Africa — and may undercut a court case
After months of sustained criticism, Vertex Pharmaceuticals reached an agreement to provide a pricey cystic…
STAT+: After AI protein folding, David Baker’s lab identifies millions of smaller drug candidates
University of Washington professor David Baker has made a name for himself by borrowing computer…
STAT investigative series ‘Denied by AI’ wins major journalism prizes
Dear Readers, Please bear with me as I brag about two of STAT’s most accomplished…
Amid campus crackdowns, Gaza war triggers freedom of expression crisis
Across the United States, “heads are rolling” at the top of some Ivy League universities…
Gender therapy review reveals devastating impacts on teens
A top Human Rights Council-appointed expert has welcomed the decision by all health authorities in…
Early tests of H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest U.S. bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread
Andrew Bowman, a veterinary epidemiologist at Ohio State University had a hunch. He had been…