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How a family’s frantic search for remdesivir — and a 330-mile road trip — reshaped Tennessee’s Covid-19 response
This is one in a series of reports from hospitals responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. The…
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STAT Plus: AI startup transcribes and annotates doctor visits for patients
Most attempts to use artificial intelligence to transcribe doctor visits are aimed at limiting documentation…
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Opinion: Lead aprons offer little protection during X-rays. Why do so many clinicians keep using them?
Think back to the last time you had an X-ray: The technician probably placed a…
Opinion: Collateral damage occurs when doctors and patients wear ‘Covid-19 blinders’
My friend Mina had a stroke at home while an infectious disease pandemic raged around…
Doctors anticipate patient requests for experimental remdesivir before all the evidence comes in
Before Wednesday’s hopeful news about the experimental antiviral remdesivir broke, doctors treating patients hospitalized for…
STAT Plus: Patients, drug makers grapple with how to continue cancer trials during the coronavirus
The coronavirus pandemic has thrown a wrench into plans for hundreds of clinical trials seeking…
Opinion: It’s time to make ClinicalTrials.gov a better tool for patients. Here’s how
Millions of people visit ClinicalTrials.gov each year to find a trial that they or a…
Opinion: Doctors discover telehealth’s silver lining in the Covid-19 crisis
Before the Covid-19 crisis, I — like most physicians — thought that in person, face-to-face…
Opinion: Using social distancing to test if technology can solve the loneliness epidemic
As the coronavirus spreads exponentially across the United States, widespread social distancing is thought to…
Opinion: I got Covid-19 and got lucky. The emotional impact hurt more
I tested positive for Covid-19 not long ago. It wasn’t a worried-well test, or even…
A system to allocate scarce ventilators and ICU beds gains traction for not counting any group out
Bracing for a surge of Covid-19 patients and facing shortages of the resources necessary to…
Watch: Ventilators are in high demand for Covid-19 patients. How do they work?
Ventilators are one of the most important tools hospitals have for keeping Covid-19 patients in…
In a time of distancing due to coronavirus, the health threat of loneliness looms
Dan Blazer and his wife were sheltering at home in North Carolina when their neighbors,…
For people with underlying health conditions, the coronavirus presents ‘all the ingredients’ for danger
An infection from the coronavirus can be a formidable threat to anyone. But it is…
Opinion: A chronic illness conundrum: Should I tell my employer about my MS?
As I prepared to tell my employer that I have relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis, I…
Opinion: A new self-triage tool can help you decide if you need medical care for Covid-19
If you have a cough, fever, or shortness of breath, how can you tell if…
Her son died. Two decades later, she met the medical student who got his heart
The young man handed her a stethoscope, opened his shirt, and pointed to where she…
STAT Plus: Hospitals turn to big tech companies to store and analyze their data — leaving patients in the dark on privacy protections
The nation’s largest hospital systems are rapidly shifting sensitive health data into cloud storage platforms…
See one woman’s complicated, costly journey to a Canadian strip mall pharmacy — all for cheaper insulin
Just after Emma Kleck turned 26, she started looking up flights to Canada. Kleck, who…
When the hoofbeats really are a zebra’s, a patient community helps me navigate a new rare-disease reality
“I have some unexpected news.” That’s what the doctor said to me when my 10-month-old…
Listen: Wall Street’s coronavirus freakout, why clinical trials frustrate patients, and a journey through the past
Is the market overreacting to the coronavirus? Why do so many clinical trials go unfilled?…
Opinion: To fight surprise medical bills, create a powerful united patient lobby
Physicians are taught to prioritize the interests of their patients, using their knowledge, preferences, and…
A startup aims to reimagine the executive physical — with Silicon Valley flourish and a $3,500 price tag
SAN FRANCISCO — The three-martini lunch may be on the decline, but many big companies…
Watch: What patients and their families learned from facing a deadly disease
Dr. David Fajgenbaum went from being a healthy third-year medical student to suddenly suffering multi-organ-system…
‘We need everyone for this’: U.S. hospitals harnessing resources to brace for any spike in coronavirus cases
When the H1N1 flu began spreading a decade ago, U.S. hospitals were flooded with patients….
A lottery like no other offers up a cutting-edge medicine — with lives on the line
The lottery that began this week was not about money, or about choosing a school,…
STAT Plus: 4 ways Walmart is hoping its retail savvy can overhaul the health care system
Walmart made waves in September when it announced an ambitious plan to create new, freestanding…
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to fund 30 patient groups, aiming to build a model for tackling rare diseases
SAN FRANCISCO — When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his spouse Dr. Priscilla Chan in…
Opinion: ‘Small’ tactics to counter Big Pharma’s influence on medication overload
Money talks in Washington, D.C., and no sector of the economy speaks more loudly than…
Opinion: An ‘Epic’ pushback as U.S. prepares for new era of empowering patient health data
Epic, the largest electronic health record company in the U.S., launched an effort last week…
Opinion: Health care needs AI. It also needs the human touch
As friends who work as pediatricians, we’ve had several conversations recently about artificial intelligence and…
Opinion: ‘Stuck in a tornado of life’: a patient’s chaos narrative
Cheryl overdosed on heroin — or so she’d hoped — the night before. But that’s…
‘How long do I have?’ A website on cancer survival rates, from the co-founder of GoodRx, seeks to provide clarity
Talking about cancer is hard. Talking about your chances of surviving cancer is even harder….
Opinion: Step aside, biomarkers. Look to the bank account for early signs of dementia
One crucial missing piece to the devastating puzzle of Alzheimer’s disease and other types of…
A clinical trial for Huntington’s opens the door to hope for some patients. Only so many can get in
PERRY, N.Y. — Reminders of Huntington’s disease populate Tammy Stewart’s apartment. They are also glimpses…
Opinion: Protect patient access to drug infusions administered in physician offices
As gastroenterologists, we treat patients in Portland, Ore., and Des Moines, Iowa, with challenging disorders…
STAT Plus: Patient charity settles allegations it helped MS drug makers pay kickbacks
A patient assistance charity has agreed to pay $4 million to settle allegations that it…