America’s ERs struggle with timely care for stroke patients
In the world of stroke care, time is everything. At stroke onset, a clot or…
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Radiation, a mainstay of cancer treatment, begins a fade-out
Every year, doctors get better tools to fight cancer. Engineered cancer-killing cells, immunotherapies, targeted drugs,…
Opinion: Home blood pressure machines are often wrong. The FDA must speak up
Hypertension is considered to be the No. 1 risk factor for death globally. So it’s…
STAT+: In the case of a devastating disease, the FDA weighs an experimental drug’s muddled data and a desperate need
Emma Albee knows the experimental drug she takes is not a cure. It won’t allow…
Kim Kardashian sparks debate on the benefits of full-body MRI scans
The last time Kim Kardashian posted about medical imaging, it was to prove her butt…
Tuberculosis outbreak tied to bone grafts underscores shortcomings of testing
One person has died and at least four have been sickened by tuberculosis in infected…
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How a beautiful symptom of a brutal dementia informs our understanding of creativity
Carol Spence’s vision is flooded with green. As her brush swoops right and swishes left,…
Opinion: What ‘The Bear’ can teach us about hospitality in medicine
The FX/Hulu show “The Bear” transports viewers inside the tense world of restaurants. In Season…
From windows to wall art, hospitals use virtual reality to design more inclusive rooms for kids
BERKELEY, Calif. — For many young patients, harsh lights, bare walls, and windows facing parking…
Opinion: Doctors need to pay more attention to non-physical side effects of health care
When faced with a new diagnosis, a patient knows that the necessary treatment may make…
Community health workers, experts in the in-between, fight for their place in the system
NEW YORK — A nurse supervisor at Montefiore Comprehensive Health Care Center in the Bronx…
Pandemic slowed cancer diagnoses, but late-stage cancers came back with a vengeance
Early-stage cancer diagnoses decreased by nearly 20% in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic….
STAT+: Alarmed by popularity of Ozempic and Wegovy, insurers wage multi-front battle
Patients are bracing for “D-Day,” the date their insurance companies will stop covering the drugs….
Primary care physicians are learning how to fill the gaps in gender-affirming medicine
Harrison has an informal test that he runs on primary care physicians when he meets…
STAT+: Medicare wants to improve Alzheimer’s care, but sidesteps drug prices
WASHINGTON — Medicare announced today a pilot program aimed at improving dementia care and reducing…
A psychologist’s lifetime of challenging assumptions while living with paralysis
Nikki Saltzburg was born three months premature while her parents were vacationing in Bermuda. With…
Opinion: Q&A: Giving voice to patients navigating cancer, rare disease, and more
Health care is about many things — understanding and treating disease, practicing medicine, developing new…
Inside the hospital gardens that give respite from a world of ills
WILLOWBROOK, Calif. — In this neighborhood just north of Compton, Martin Luther King Jr. Community…
Watch: In a children’s hospital gardens, families find sanctuary
Boston Children’s Hospital is located in the heart of the city’s bustling Longwood medical area….
Misdiagnoses cost the U.S. 800,000 deaths and serious disabilities every year, study finds
Diagnostic errors — that is, overlooking a disease, or diagnosing it erroneously or late —…
Preparation over panic: How a Boston hospital is priming medical residents for an era of AI medicine
BOSTON — On a Friday morning in July, an internal medicine resident at Beth Israel…
Cancer drug shortages deliver ‘gut punch’ to patients unsure if their survival odds will be undercut
Mairéad McInerney will never know if changes in her treatment plan have undercut her odds…
J&J expands global access to TB drug as popular novelist joins advocacy campaign
Advocates have been fighting Johnson & Johnson for years over a patent on a lifesaving…
White House announces new plan to address the growing threat of xylazine in overdose crisis
The White House on Tuesday unveiled a new plan to address the growing presence of…
Why nearly half of Americans with Parkinson’s don’t see a neurologist
It took Richard Huckabee nine years to get a Parkinson’s diagnosis. A district manager for…
A rare disease has run through five generations of his family, so he’s built community for others
For Jack Johnson, getting diagnosed with Fabry disease at age 7 was more of a…
New Biden initiative targets controversial hospital ‘facility fees’ that often surprise patients
As part of the Biden administration’s broader efforts to lower health care costs, the White…
Most ambulances ‘run hot’ with lights and sirens blaring. But that’s starting to change
Jonathan Studnek knows some people imagine that driving an ambulance at high speed with lights…
STAT+: UPenn and St. Luke’s have withdrawn from US News’ best hospitals list. Will others follow?
Mercy Philadelphia Hospital was planning on shutting down. Losing Mercy, a safety-net hospital serving a…
STAT+: Dexcom CEO on strategy for bringing continuous glucose monitoring to type 2 diabetes patients
For years, diabetes tech company Dexcom has been striving to get its continuous glucose monitors…
For Duchenne moms who pushed for cures, new breakthrough therapy can’t rebuild what’s lost
Pat Furlong was sitting in her home office in Middletown, Ohio, last Thursday, refreshing a…
A replacement for race: Medical experts explore how to eliminate bias in clinical algorithms
WASHINGTON — Most of the medical community has acknowledged that racism is baked into many…
‘I felt like I was dying’: How women with postpartum depression fall through the cracks of U.S. health care
Five and a half months after Kristina Dulaney had her second daughter, she developed postpartum…
In absence of Roe v. Wade, an abortion doctor dwells on all the patients she does not see
Last year, just a few months after the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade…
STAT+: Using its Covid know-how, Color Health aims to make cancer screenings convenient
Color Health wants to take away any reason you might have for skipping screenings for…
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Opinion: Bloated patient records are filled with false information, thanks to copy-paste
I recently took care of a patient whose medical records included multiple notes about her…
Opinion: Cancer drug shortages should have patients rioting in the streets
Cancer patients, like those I treat in San Diego and thousands more across the country,…
Opinion: What happens when patients beat their doctors to their test results
Not so long ago, a father broke down in tears with me over Zoom —…
STAT+: Fed up with exorbitant health costs, employers and workers are taking insurers to court
Companies, unions, and workers are at a breaking point over how much they pay for…
Opinion: Want to help with medical breakthroughs? Donate some extra cells to a biobank
Right now, it’s possible that cells from my body are growing in a lab somewhere…
Watch: Why do we get seasonal allergies?
There’s nothing better than a beautiful spring day after a long, cold winter. But there’s…
Opinion: PAs need a new name, but ‘physician associate’ won’t cut it. Here’s a better idea
I’m standing over an operating table, excising a skin cancer from the forehead of an…
Opinion: The agony of finding decent health care for my young-adult daughter with Down syndrome
Several years ago, a local artist asked if she could paint my younger daughter, then…
Opinion: The DEA needs to officially allow telehealth prescribing for opioid use disorder
The statistics are dismal, though they bear repeating: 81% of overdose deaths in the U.S….
Opinion: Newly diagnosed cancer patients need help navigating the system
“Hey, I’m sorry to bother you, but I could really use your advice on something.”…
Opinion: Listen: Ezekiel Emanuel explains why cancer patients shouldn’t pay out-of-pocket costs
The high cost of cancer treatment in the U.S. is literally killing people. “Over a…
STAT+: Lured by a bigger payday, a medical device maker sold fake plastic parts. Many were implanted in chronic pain patients
Stimwave’s pitch was alluring. As a startup tackling chronic pain with nerve-stimulating devices, it promised…
Opinion: More young people should be getting their cholesterol tested and taking statins
For busy primary care physicians like me, an annual physical with a 27-year-old male is…
Texas wants to wean trans youth off meds in a ‘safe and medically appropriate’ way. Doctors say that’s impossible
In a wave of anti-LGBTQ legislation, 19 U.S. states thus far have banned at least…
Opinion: STAT+: An overlooked way to make participants in clinical trials look more like America
A recent report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (of which one…