A call to add sexual orientation and gender identity data to electronic health records
There are more openly LGBTQ+ people in the U.S. than ever, but little is known…
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Transgender women’s higher risk for HIV is influenced by discrimination, CDC finds
Transgender women, in particular those belonging to marginalized racial and ethnic groups, have disproportionately high…
Lilly’s gene therapy restores hearing in an 11-year-old, paving way for more treatment
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STAT+: A Harvard course seeks to put food on the table in medical education
BOSTON — Doctors often don’t have a lot of time to chat with patients during…
STAT+: More patients are getting their meds online. Big Pharma wants in on the action
Since the pandemic, patients have become increasingly comfortable with getting their medications online. Direct-to-consumer telehealth…
The four biotech stories you need to read this morning
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Patients’ social needs often get lost in health records. Generative AI could help
Generative AI’s earliest applications in medicine have largely focused on curing not patients, but the…
JPM Day 3 had a cautiously optimistic outlook
In honor of JPM Week, you’re reading a special edition of our biotech newsletter, The…
STAT+: Backed by Mayo Clinic and Microsoft, a nonprofit forms to test AI tools used in health care
A group of academic hospitals and technology companies will form a new nonprofit venture to…
After loved ones’ long-awaited organ transplants, caregivers often find challenges are just beginning
By the time his wife Glenda Daggert received a double organ transplant in 1999, Ira…
Cardiac psychologists are pushing to protect heart patients’ often-overlooked mental health
Margery Quackenbush was attending a board meeting of the nonprofit where she served as executive…
STAT+: UnitedHealth used secret rules to restrict rehab care for seriously ill Medicare Advantage patients
Health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group used secret rules to restrict access to rehabilitation care requested…
Violet CEO on measuring clinician inclusiveness: ‘It’s almost like a credit score’
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Gaurang Choksi is the founder and CEO of Violet, a health equity…
The clock is ticking, and cytokinetics is running out of December
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Opinion: The unique pain and joy of celebrating Christmas with a child in the pediatric intensive care unit
In the days leading up to Christmas in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), medical…
Health data breaches hit an all-time high in 2023
Odds are, you’ve gotten at least one of the unnerving letters in your mailbox this…
Morning Rounds: Why health care costs are nearly a fifth of the GDP
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BioMarin appeases an activist
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After ‘SNL’ skit on sickle cell CRISPR therapy, advocates cite errors and stereotypes
Mary Brown was sipping coffee at home in Ontario, Calif., Sunday morning when a friend…
Morning Rounds: Americans put faith in nurses as overall confidence in health care ebbs
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A medical student was isolated by an autoimmune disorder. Poetry was a way out
When Leena Danawala’s poetry was published in JAMA last month, the medical journal became just…
STAT+: Health care industry fights back against crackdowns on health data tracking
Wherever you go on the internet, trackers follow. These ubiquitous bits of code, invisibly embedded…
The legal pathway for experimental, ultra-rare disease treatments is rocky and expensive
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Opinion: Alzheimer’s drug approvals show we need a reevaluation of patient advocacy
When faced with a loved one’s progressive neurodegenerative disease, like Alzheimer’s, or your child’s rare…
STAT+: ‘We’ve exhausted all avenues’: A small biotech may give up on its ultra-rare disease drug over frustration with FDA
Jamie Dubuque faces the future with a mixture of gratitude and trepidation. Her son, Declan,…
STAT+: New Jersey’s telehealth restrictions cut off access to lifesaving care, lawsuit alleges
Since states started rolling back pandemic-inspired flexibilities that allowed physicians to easily practice telehealth across…
Morning Rounds: Americans’ health is trending downward, poll finds
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Morning Rounds: Teen pregnancies down, but remain higher in the U.S.
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Health records don’t always show when patients are dead. One researcher is trying to change that
Health professor Neil Wenger was deep into a years-long study on seriously ill primary care…
STAT+: New federal rules demand transparency into AI models used in health decisions
Federal health technology regulators on Wednesday finalized new rules to force software vendors to disclose…
Morning Rounds: For kids with high BMI, task force not ready to recommend weight loss drugs
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Opinion: Listen: When do tests hurt more than help?
Manil Suri and Daniel Morgan are an unusual team: Manil is a mathematics professor and…
Gene therapy offered this 7-year-old freedom. The price: a grueling year
PHILADELPHIA — The meds Shelby Campbell needed for her rare blood disorder stopped working just…
Doctors call out ableism in cancer care: ‘The biggest accommodation is attitude’
People with disabilities often spend a lot of time navigating bias and educating others about…
STAT+: Humana used algorithm in ‘fraudulent scheme’ to deny care to Medicare Advantage patients, lawsuit alleges
Medicare Advantage beneficiaries on Tuesday filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that the health insurance giant…
Morning Rounds: Can you take GLP-1 drugs during pregnancy?
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Opinion: It’s time to rethink the Medicare annual wellness visit
In 2011, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services created the annual wellness visit (AWV),…
Morning Rounds: Preterm birth rates vary across the U.S., with the highest in the Southeast
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Chronic fatigue syndrome estimated to affect 3.3 million in U.S., more than previously thought: CDC
Health officials on Friday released the first nationally representative estimate of how many U.S. adults…
CRISPR is about to make history. Here’s the 5-minute rundown of what to expect
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STAT Health News: Abortion ‘companion networks,’ NEJM’s racist past, and other stories you need to read
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Morning Rounds: Couples share high blood pressure, and other health stories you should read today
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ChatGPT doesn’t know much about drugs, Hims & Hers enters weight-loss market
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STAT Morning Rounds: The health news you need to read today
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Opinion: A well-meaning FDA policy is a threat to pediatric cancer treatment
The medical community today faces a deceptively simple question: How quickly should we act when…
STAT+: Patients wants test results now, and radiologists need time to explain. Can they meet in the middle?
One of the hardest parts about getting an X-ray or a CT scan is the…
People with congenital heart disease are living longer — but facing new threat of heart failure
When Jennifer Case was living in Los Angeles in her early 30s, she was hospitalized…
STAT+: Radiology captures the tension between AI’s potential and concern for patients
Radiology has long led the way in the application of artificial intelligence in medicine. More…
Opinion: Listen: What we take for granted after 30 years of Prozac
When Prozac first entered the psychiatry scene in in the late ’80s, the profession was…
Opinion: Listen: Living in cancer limbo
Fifteen years ago, Mara Buchbinder and colleagues came up with the concept of the “patient…