How doctors are pressuring sickle cell patients into unwanted sterilizations
BATON ROUGE, La. — The surgery was supposed to alleviate worry, but now, years later,…
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STAT+: Health care leaders plot how to expand diversity in clinical trials
Even with the recent awareness that clinical trials often lack the diversity that would make…
STAT+: Software glitch caused Tandem insulin pumps to prematurely shut down, FDA warns
At least 224 diabetes patients have been harmed by a software error causing their insulin…
Opinion: Listen: Why rehabilitation engineers need to listen to patients and their families
In 2020, James Sulzer’s personal and professional lives suddenly intersected after his then 4-year-old daughter…
After private equity firms gobbled up wheelchair makers, users pay the price in long repair times
When Maureen Amirault purchased her first electric wheelchair in 2020, she had been living with…
FDA wants to hear your thoughts on advisory committees
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Philips will pay $1.1 billion to resolve U.S. lawsuits over breathing machines that expel debris
WASHINGTON — Medical device maker Philips said Monday it will pay $1.1 billion to settle…
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…
Opinion: The grim reality of relocating to get access to gender-affirming care
In my work as a pediatric psychologist, I’ve been seeing a surge in the number…
She was too sick for a traditional transplant. So she received a pig kidney and a heart pump
NEW YORK — Doctors have transplanted a pig kidney into a New Jersey woman who…
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STAT+: Telehealth startups see an opportunity in long-ignored, complex chronic diseases
If her neurologist moved to China, Lauren Stiles says she’d follow him there. “There’s so…
VP Harris announces final rules mandating minimum standards for nursing home staffing
The federal government is for the first time requiring nursing homes to have minimum staffing…
STAT+: Hospital price transparency rules are seeding a new crop of health tech startups
Federal rules forcing hospitals and insurers to post rates for medical procedures have taken effect,…
Opinion: Congress: Protect patients and enact the Nuclear Medicine Clarification Act
If a preventable error that might cause harm occurs during medical care, should there be…
High physician empathy could offer patients with lower back pain lasting benefits, study shows
Amid the many demands of practicing medicine, doctors can have less time and energy for…
After years of just ‘running, running,’ a crisis led to a lupus diagnosis. Now she connects others
Teenagers don’t get arthritis. That’s what Tiffany Peterson kept hearing as that dreadful feeling in…
Medicaid redetermination cost community health centers an average of $600K each
It’s been a year since states began the process of Medicaid redetermination, going through their…
Your dog is probably on Prozac. Experts say that says more about the American mental health crisis than pets
Dogs, our sunny, selfless shadows, crave little more than a daily walk, a treat or…
Opinion: Personalized medicine: We’re not there yet
When Francis Collins, then-director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, testified before Congress in…
Why very few people who are eligible for a cochlear implant actually get one
Cochlear implants have successfully improved hearing loss for decades, but few people who qualify for…
Opinion: I saw the promise of diversity efforts in health care. A moment later I saw its critical gaps
Health care was once moderately immune to the anti-diversity, anti-equity, and anti-inclusion craze. Not anymore….
New HHS guidance requires consent for pelvic, breast, and other sensitive examinations
Hospitals performing pelvic and other sensitive exams for training purposes without patients’ explicit consent, including…
STAT+: Critics say U.K. decision on ALS drug could have ‘chilling effect’ on access to new genetic medicines
LONDON — Neurologists and patient advocates are up in arms over a policy decision by…
STAT+: Washington wants to avert another Change Healthcare-like fiasco. Here’s what could be coming
Washington is cracking down on the technology running behind the scenes in health care following…
Opinion: Primary care physicians should be at the heart of treating Alzheimer’s
When the results of President Biden’s annual physical were released last month, many wondered why…
STAT+: Patient advocates clash over wisdom of ‘approving drugs faster and faster’
NEW YORK — Over 30 years ago, Gregg Gonsalves and other AIDS activists persuaded Congress…
EU adviser says Illumina merger was not problematic
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Getting CRISPR treatments to patients remains a major challenge. Could lab-developed tests help?
CRISPR is no longer a promising but unproven technology — it is a reality. But…
STAT+: Q&A: Mark Parrino says it’s time to ‘completely re-examine’ methadone treatment for opioid addiction
Nobody has made more of an impact on methadone treatment than Mark Parrino. For decades,…
Inside a push to create an NIH office for post-infection chronic illness
When the White House released President Biden’s 2025 budget requests this week, funding for biomedical…
STAT+: AI health care companies say they’ll keep humans in the loop. But what does that actually mean?
Developers of artificial intelligence models slowly making their way into medicine have long parried ethical…
After Amylyx ALS trial failure, patients share disappointment and fear — but some hope
The news last week that a Phase 3 trial of Amylyx Pharmaceuticals’ amyotrophic lateral sclerosis…
Rigid rules at methadone clinics are jeopardizing patients’ path to recovery from opioid addiction
DETROIT — Every morning, Rebecca Smith, nursing a surgically repaired knee, carefully walks down the…
STAT+: New methadone rules are about to take effect. Here are 6 ways treatment could shift
The federal government is reforming methadone care for the first time in over two decades….
STAT+: IVF doctors demand full details on fluid that grows embryos amid CooperSurgical lawsuits
Patients from all over the country are filing lawsuits against medical supply giant CooperSurgical, alleging…
A disabled artist’s journey from ‘Oh, sorry’ to social justice activism
Sonya Rio-Glick was born three months and six days premature, alongside her twin, in the…
Opinion: Charging patients to message their doctors mostly benefits major hospital systems
Thinking about messaging your physician about a weird rash? You may want to hold off…
How the U.S. is sabotaging its best tools to prevent deaths in the opioid epidemic
The opioid overdose epidemic has burned through the U.S. for nearly 30 years. Yet for…
Watch: Why fentanyl withdrawal is agony and how medication can prevent it
Over 2 million Americans have opioid use disorder, according to some estimates. Illicit opioids such…
STAT+: RaDonda Vaught, nurse that accidentally killed patient, to speak at CommonSpirit event on patient safety
CommonSpirit Health is hosting an educational event this month featuring RaDonda Vaught, the Tennessee nurse…
Opinion: Palliative psychiatry offers a new path for some people with serious mental illness
The Canadian surgeon and urologist Balfour Mount is considered the father of palliative care in…
Opinion: How to make after-hours primary care better for doctors — and patients
One of us, Jeffrey M., is on weekend call for our office-based internal medicine practice….
STAT+: Digital tools helped lower blood pressure in marginalized patient groups
If you have high blood pressure, it’s increasingly likely that your doctor or your insurer…
STAT+: A gene therapy designed to heal skin wounds helped preserve a boy’s vision
In the clinical trial, the gene therapy seemed to be helping the boy’s skin wounds…
Vertex still knows how to do what it does best
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A scholar of the patient ‘revolution’ tracks the arc from powerlessness to influence
At the end of each chapter in “Rebel Health: A Field Guide to the Patient-Led…
Lead aprons not necessary for patients during X-rays, says largest U.S. dental group
Since the 1920s, lead vests and aprons have served as trusted shields against the harmful…
Chicago children’s hospital network down as experts warn of rising cyber threats
Chicago pediatric hospital Lurie Children’s has been forced to take its network offline in the…
STAT+: General Catalyst wants to take over a safety-net health system in Akron. The city has questions
General Catalysts’s grand vision for a venture capital-owned hospital system seamlessly blending AI and tech…
We’re naming cancers all wrong, oncology leader says
Naming cancers solely by the organs they originate in is getting a bit old, according…