STAT+: Addiction treatment center founder indicted in sprawling fraud scheme
Over the last few years, Daniel Cleggett Jr. appeared to be living a charmed life….
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Opinion: How ‘screen and refer’ systems fail to help patients
We’ve all had the experience of a doctor or other health care worker staring at…
STAT+: Learning to treat long COVID could help those struggling with chronic fatigue syndrome, too
CONCORD, N.H. — Veronica Dane had always been active, from playing soccer as a kid…
Opinion: Cancer patients shouldn’t be responsible for out-of-pocket costs
In 2023, just under 2 million Americans will be diagnosed with cancer. Many will endure…
Opinion: Checklists to screen for patients’ social needs aren’t helping
I once saw a patient who came to the emergency room with injuries that were…
STAT+: FDA approves first treatment for skin condition that causes persistent wounds, a redosable gene therapy
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first treatment for a devastating condition…
Soft, stretchable electronic skin could reconstruct the sense of touch
The largest organ in the body is a wonder. Skin is soft, flexible, and sensitive…
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Senators probing largest Medicare Advantage plans over how algorithms factor in care denials
Senators warned the country’s largest Medicare Advantage insurers at a hearing on Wednesday that they…
Opinion: Do chatbots have more time to be empathetic than physicians?
As an oncologist, Jennifer Lycette gets to know her patients particularly well. She’s doubtful that…
Opinion: A breakthrough drug will require big changes for eye care doctors
Advancement in the science of eye care over the past 10 years has led to…
‘Stunning’ change to United’s colonoscopy coverage roils physicians and patients
When gastroenterologists learned in March that UnitedHealthcare plans to barricade many colonoscopies behind a controversial…
STAT+: AbbVie sues a behind-the-scenes company for exploiting its patient assistance program
AbbVie has filed a lawsuit against a behind-the-scenes company that helps health plan sponsors take…
STAT+: How the FDA’s pandemic flexibilities boosted mental health apps — and what happens now
In April 2020, the Food and Drug Administration announced a pandemic enforcement policy allowing mental…
Opinion: Listen: The coercion built into medical privacy consent forms
Alex Rosenblat is particularly careful when it comes to her digital privacy. She requests to…
Breast cancer screening should begin at 40, not 50, federal health panel recommends
The United States Preventive Services Task Force on Tuesday created new guidelines recommending all women…
STAT+: What to know about a pivotal FDA hearing on Sarepta’s gene therapy for Duchenne
On Friday, a committee of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration will meet to…
An artist uses the canvas to make sense of her partner’s illness, and her own
For Lauryn Welch, a 32-year-old artist with roots in New Hampshire, painting and chronic illness…
Opinion: The amoxicillin shortage continues to force pediatricians and families to scramble
“So, you don’t have it in liquid form?” I asked. The answer, as usual, was…
‘Are we better off with the information?’: Experts spar over the benefits of liquid biopsy to catch cancer
New technologies are making it possible to detect cancer earlier than ever — but the…
In a first, a potentially fatal rare blood vessel disorder is treated in the womb
For Darren Orbach, a pediatric neurointerventionalist at Boston Children’s Hospital, the first-of-its-kind procedure to fix…
STAT+: Gene therapy has helped boys like Conner walk. Scientists are trying to keep it that way
In the beginning, Conner Curran ran up the stairs. It was a miraculous moment for…
Opinion: Why a chatbot might seem more empathetic than a human physician
An April 28 article in JAMA Internal Medicine, “Comparing Physician and Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Responses…
After early-stage breast cancer, interrupting endocrine therapy to become pregnant didn’t raise risk of recurrence
Women who’ve been treated for hormone-sensitive breast cancer often face five to 10 years of…
Rise in suicide-related ED visits among youth raises larger questions around mental health care
Visits to the emergency department related to suicide among children and adults aged 6 to…
Opinion: Long waits to see a doctor are a public health crisis
In 2004, the physician search firm Merritt Hawkins first issued their Survey of Physician Appointment…
For Spanish-speaking Latinas, language gaps — real or perceived — tied to discrimination during labor
The research question that pursued Jessica Valdez, an OB-GYN resident physician at the University of…
Hospitals that denied emergency abortion broke the law, feds say
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two hospitals that refused to provide an emergency abortion to a pregnant woman who…
Putting radiation to the test to heal irregular heartbeat
ST. LOUIS — Doctors are zapping the heart with radiation normally reserved for cancer, a…
To prevent preeclampsia, experts push for broader blood pressure testing at home
Eleni Tsigas likens her first experience with preeclampsia to a plane crash. She was in…
Opinion: STAT+: At-home clinical trials are the future
In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, much of the clinical trials industry came…
Dying patients protest looming telehealth crackdown
At age 93, struggling with the effects of a stroke, heart failure and recurrent cancer,…
STAT+: The high hopes — and high stakes — behind Microsoft and Epic’s plan to use AI to answer patient questions
Generative artificial intelligence tools have triggered a flood of speculation about the technology’s ability to…
Opinion: Rural hospitals are closing labor and delivery services. Babies’ lives are in jeopardy
A hospital in Idaho recently announced it will shutter its labor and delivery services due…
STAT+: A bellwether moment: Once a distant dream, gene therapy for Duchenne nears historic decision
Brent and Sabina Furbee could see something was wrong with their son, Emerson, even if…
Here’s a new data point for cancer patients to consider: ‘time toxicity’
When Jeannette Cleland learned earlier this year that she could get chemotherapy at home, after…
This biotech wants to one day make human eggs from scratch. But first, they’re trying to rethink IVF
Christian Kramme grew up in a big family, the youngest of seven kids raised in…
Often overlooked, a common infection during pregnancy kickstarts a conversation about newborn screening
On a spring day in the late 1980s, pediatrician Mark Schleiss was confronted with a…
Opinion: How the U.S. health care system is like a Jackson Pollock painting
When I envision the U.S. health care system, the first thing that comes to mind…
Opinion: Millions of people take birth control to treat endometriosis — but it doesn’t work
At 14, after nearly three years of haunting the local urgent care clinic because of…
When confronted with mysterious illness in college, ‘Chronically Catherine’ started writing
“Living With” explores the contours of life with chronic illness, from the prelude to diagnosis to…
To build trust among LA’s unhoused, a street medicine team turns to technology
LOS ANGELES — On an unusually cold and rainy Los Angeles afternoon, physician assistant Robert…
Hospitals pledge to protect patient privacy. Their websites leak visitor data like a sieve
Every hospital in America promises to protect the privacy of its patients and the details…
STAT+: A devastating skin condition could soon get its first medication, as the frontiers of gene therapy expand
Wounds have been a constant fact of Aaron Owens’ life. His skin is so fragile…
Opinion: Emergency rooms need clear guidelines about how to handle law enforcement
The patient arrived in the trauma bay with gunshot wounds to his chest and abdomen….
Trans health care, already under attack, faces new obstacle with end of Covid public health emergency
As states across the U.S. introduce anti-trans legislation, transgender and nonbinary people face increasing restrictions…
Why the world’s smallest wheelchairs are going unused
DALLAS — Inside Kelly Eakin’s garage in suburban Maryland, two of the world’s smallest wheelchairs…
As states ban gender-affirming care, Minnesota aims to be a refuge for trans youth
Across the U.S., lawmakers are pushing for restrictions on transgender youth’s right to gender-affirming care…
‘It’s a universal experience’: Doctor who treats Boston’s homeless population on why community is vital to health
After 40 years at the helm of nonprofit Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program,…
STAT+: Cerebral and other telehealth startups face new legal and regulatory challenges over ad models
A potential class-action lawsuit against troubled digital prescribing startup Cerebral raises crucial questions about whether…
Virtual Event: Can Tech Fix Primary Care?
Editor’s note: A livestream on the event will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET….