STAT+: A new startup ventures to make its mark in the virtual primary care market
As the digital health sector teems with new entrants, another virtual care startup is stepping…
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Rates of depression and anxiety climbed across the globe in 2020, analysis finds
Rates of depression and anxiety climbed globally by more than 25% in 2020, a devastating…
Opinion: The AMA needs to declare a national mental health emergency
As the pandemic continues to disrupt life across the U.S., a staggering number of Americans…
STAT+: Carbon Health pushes further into home care with remote monitoring purchase
On a buying streak, hybrid care company Carbon Health on Tuesday purchased Alertive Healthcare, a…
Telehealth has rapidly expanded. But companies are still struggling to reach rural populations
Despite the wide-ranging expansion of telehealth in the past year, there is still a broad…
Virtual Event: The 340B drug discount program is at a crossroads. What’s next?
Editor’s note: A livestream of the event will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET….
Watch: After nearly dying in Iraq, a veteran volunteers for a surgical first to ‘help the next troops’
After barely surviving a bomb attack in Iraq in 2005, veteran Jerry Majetich lived with…
‘I can still feel it’: New arm amputation surgery makes a ‘phantom’ hand seem real
“Can you give me a thumbs up?” the surgeon asks Jerry Majetich, an Iraq War…
STAT+: Cityblock Health raises another mega-round of funding, tipping its valuation over $5 billion
Cityblock Health, a startup using technology to deliver well-rounded primary care to people covered by…
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Opinion: 3 surprising trends in seniors’ telemedicine use during the pandemic
The explosive growth in telemedicine has been hailed by some as an important “silver lining”…
Opinion: Florida doctor: This devastating Covid surge didn’t need to happen
I recently came across a photo of myself in late December 2020 getting my first…
Opinion: A ‘great listening’ to patients could be a powerful legacy of the pandemic
A lasting memorial may be emerging for the millions of people who will have tragically…
Opinion: Cannabis legalization must address medical use, not just recreational use
Legislation to legalize cannabis at the federal level recently proposed by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.)…
Never too late: Cancer centers push patients to quit smoking
When cancer patients stop smoking, they heal faster, experience fewer side effects from treatment and…
Opinion: Patient advocacy organizations and FDA drug approval: lessons from Aduhelm
In the wake of last month’s controversial Food and Drug Administration approval of Biogen’s Aduhelm,…
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Opinion: Medicine needs to see what disability means, looks like, and feels like — in its ranks and in its patients
Licensers, employers, and others have asked about my status: disabled or not disabled? The first…
When Covid first hit, prostate cancer surgeries fell much more for Black men than white men
Last year’s lockdown during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic erased cancer surgery from…
In the same health system, Black patients are prescribed fewer opioids than white patients
Inequities in health care are pervasive, from access to quality of care, and a new…
Covid-19 kept families and caregivers out of hospitals. Some doctors think that shouldn’t happen again
PHILADELPHIA — On an early summer morning in North Philadelphia, Marsha El sits on a…
Opinion: Physicians, mental illness, and the problem with ‘passing’
My patient sits with her back hunched, eyes fixed on the taupe industrial carpet as…
A slice of Apple’s health research, Teladoc for Teams, & combating health misinfo
You’re reading the web edition of STAT Health Tech, our guide to how tech is…
‘The party is winding down’: States and insurers resurrect barriers to telehealth, putting strain on patients
Telemedicine is here to stay. But its free-for-all era may be coming to an end….
Death rates are declining for many common cancers in the U.S., report finds
Death rates are declining for more than half of the most common forms of cancer…
For people in sickle cell crisis, specialized infusion centers offer far better care than the ER, study finds
People with sickle cell disease who were experiencing acute pain crises received far better care…
Watch: An unusual 30th birthday gift: Why I got a colonoscopy so young — and documented every step
The passing of Chadwick Boseman from colorectal cancer at the age of 43 devastated so…
Chadwick Boseman’s tragedy is America’s tragedy: In colorectal cancer hot spots, young men are dying at higher rates
Three months before “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman died from stage 4 colon cancer at…
Clinicians open their notes to patients in a grand experiment in medical care
When Glenda Thomas of Framingham, Mass., checked her doctors’ notes online after a recent infusion,…
Opinion: A surprising pandemic side effect: People are more engaged with their health
About a month ago, one of our patients, a man in his mid-40s, came to…
Q&A: The CEO of the Alzheimer’s Association on the approval of Aduhelm — and why critics should stop dwelling on the decision
Harry Johns is ready to stop talking about whether or not the Food and Drug…
Opinion: Listen: Healing the healers: An advocate and a psychiatrist on clinicians’ mental health and burnout
This week on the “First Opinion Podcast,” I’m joined by Corey Feist and Wendy Dean…
STAT+: The parents hoped an existing drug might keep their kids from having seizures. Then they saw the price
When Amber Freed heard in 2020 that a drug might help save her young child…
Opinion: Listen: A nurse and a physician on harnessing the full potential of nurses
This week on the “First Opinion Podcast,” I’m joined by two members of the National…
Opinion: Listen: Danielle Ofri on Covid surges and her postmortem folder
This week on the “First Opinion Podcast” I’m joined by Danielle Ofri, a physician, writer-editor,…
STAT+: ‘It’s not a cure’: A gene therapy is opening a new chapter for children, but challenges endure
WEST BOYLSTON, Mass. — When Rachael and Pat Brown rattle off all that their daughter…
‘Swept under the carpet’: When health records are held ransom, patients are the hardest hit — and last to know
Allison Savage waited years for surgery to remove the elongated bones at the base of…
STAT+: Health tech companies form a new coalition to advance the role of real-world data
On Wednesday, five health data analytics companies announced they have banded together to form an…
Opinion: Doctors should talk about race and racism with their patients. Here’s how
“Why do Black lives matter?” a patient asked me. “Why can’t all lives matter?” It…
Opinion: Let’s banish the term ‘patient’ from the health care lexicon
Almost every industry has changed the term for the people they serve. We are now…
Opinion: My ‘postmortem’ folder and the intensely personal nature of the latest Covid-19 surge
Each morning I when I arrive at my primary care clinic, the first thing I…
Opinion: STAT+: The pharma industry needs to measure patient experience from the patients’ perspectives
The relationship between clinical outcomes and the patient experience — the sum of all of…
STAT+: STAT+ Conversations: In it for the long haul: the impact of long Covid
Editor’s note: A livestream of the conversation will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET….
STAT+: The price of a Vertex cystic fibrosis treatment stirs anger in Australia
The latest dustup over the cost of cystic fibrosis medicines sold by Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX)…
STAT+: ‘There are no alternatives’: As Pfizer discontinues an old glaucoma drug, a small group of patients struggles to cope
Next month, an eye drop that Carol Vaghar has taken for the past few years…
Opinion: Low-tech but high-value: Don’t stop reimbursing phone-only telehealth visits
At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and…
Opinion: For-profit nursing homes and hospices are a bad deal for older Americans
Nursing homes and hospice care are supposed to provide safe refuges for older people and…
Google is exploring a health record tool for patients
After 13 years, Google is coming back for patient health records. The tech giant has…
Opinion: Autism: awareness, acceptance, and the places in between
In its efforts to rebrand April, currently designated as Autism Awareness Month, the Autism Society…
Virtual Event: What gene-targeted therapies mean for patients with cancer
Editors note: A livestream of the event will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET….
STAT+: ‘Here to stay’: How the pandemic helped build a burgeoning home testing industry
Just a few years ago, the idea of at-home testing was practically antithetical to Caesar…
Opinion: Reforming and improving organ transplant systems will save lives, taxpayer dollars
Every day, 33 people — disproportionately people of color — die in the U.S. as…