Prostate cancer treatment can wait for most men, study finds
Researchers have found long-term evidence that actively monitoring localized prostate cancer is a safe alternative…
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STAT+: Medicare will take R&D costs, effectiveness into account when it negotiates drug prices. But studies show that doesn’t affect prices
By law, Medicare will have to take a medication’s efficacy and its research and development…
STAT+: Biden makes big demands for cancer research and new ARPA-H agency
President Biden is banking on longtime bipartisan interest in eliminating cancer deaths to secure some…
Revamped Covid panel argues for research limits, even bans
WASHINGTON — Pathogen-altering research is back under fire here, as Republican lawmakers argue it should…
Study of trans men suggests that androgen hormone therapy can lower breast cancer risk
When transgender men transition, their risk for breast cancer tends to plummet and look more…
STAT+: Leading ALS advocacy group roiled by infighting over money and priorities
A blistering battle has broken out between the ALS Association and more than a dozen…
Opinion: Disruptive science is leaping forward, not limping along
A recent study and accompanying news story in the preeminent journal Nature provocatively concludes that…
STAT+: New antidepressant study provides hints to Verily’s future
A small Phase 2 trial of a new antidepressant may hold clues to the direction…
MRI scans reveal disparate impact of poverty and other ‘toxic stress’ on brains of Black children
Stressful experiences during early childhood — particularly economic strife — appear to act as a…
Federal panel approves plans to safeguard lab-made virus research
A panel of federal advisers voted unanimously Friday to advance a set of proposals to…
Opinion: How a checklist can help decolonize global health research
When institutions in the United States and other high-income countries embark on collaborations to improve…
STAT+: ChatGPT in health care: 5 burning questions about the buzzy new tool
If the buzz is to be believed, ChatGPT seems poised to upend everything from high…
Predictive biomarkers could ease the exhaustive trial-and-error of antidepressants
When a patient is suffering from depression and considering medication, practically all physicians have the…
STAT+: Calico looking for new chief scientist after celebrated biologist David Botstein quietly retires
Are you a promising middle or late-career scientist with a desire to extend human lifespan,…
Chatbots are creating thorny ethical questions about transparency in mental health care
The mental health field is increasingly looking to chatbots to relieve escalating pressure on a…
Buprenorphine deaths did not increase despite wider access during pandemic, study shows
The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic led to a sea change in addiction medicine —…
Is mesothelin a key to tackling solid tumors? Some biotech companies are betting that it is
On Target is a recurring feature from STAT that dives deep into the most promising…
STAT+: Pallone pushes NIH and FDA to disclose steps being taken to ensure clinical trial results are reported
A Democratic lawmaker is demanding to know what steps the U.S. Food and Drug Administration…
In a post-Dobbs world, pathologists who study pregnancy loss walk a thin line between medicine and the law
When Mana Parast examines a placenta, she knows she may never find the answers she…
HHS needs better oversight of research that alters pathogens, government watchdog says
WASHINGTON — The health department’s oversight of research that could enhance dangerous pathogens has vague…
Mental health benefits of gender-affirming hormones for teens persist for two years in new study
Trans and nonbinary teenagers who receive gender-affirming hormones experience less depression and anxiety and more…
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In the search for therapies for solid tumors, companies are turning to a novel target: claudin-6
On Target is a recurring feature from STAT that dives deep into the most promising…
STAT+: Liquid biopsy study suggests a better way to decide which colorectal cancer patients need chemo
They’re far too small to be seen by even the most sophisticated medical imaging device….
STAT+: Medicare paves the way for CAR-T in doctors offices
WASHINGTON — Medicare officials have taken a step toward making a cutting-edge cancer treatment called…
For most mild infections, long Covid symptoms clear after a year, large study finds
Since long Covid emerged, how best to define it, predict it, and treat it has…
The pandemic showed the power of viral sequencing. Now the U.K. plans to decode other respiratory bugs
Building on the global boom in viral surveillance during the pandemic, U.K. scientists on Tuesday…
Mistakes happen in research papers. But corrections often don’t
Mistakes happen — in life, in the lab, and, inevitably, in research papers, too. Journals…
Still fuming over the federal Covid response, Republicans redirect the House coronavirus committee
WASHINGTON — The House’s coronavirus committee will continue in a Republican-controlled chamber — but with…
Paying research participants — a lot — may be a key to increasing diversity in studies
Paying people to participate in medical research has been proposed as a way to narrow…
STAT+: Get ready for ‘the electric vehicles of biopharma’: Three biotech trends to watch in 2023
Predicting the future is famously a mug’s game. Between Covid-19, drug pricing legislation, and a…
California medical school apologizes for unethical prisoner experiments
SAN FRANCISCO — A prominent California medical school has apologized for conducting dozens of unethical…
STAT+: Parker Institute extends ‘crazy idea’ funding to two more cancer centers
With his Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, Sean Parker has been building a dream team…
In a first, children with rare genetic diseases get mitochondrial transplants from their mothers
At a far distant point in Earth’s ancient past, two separate, single-celled life forms —…
Science, Cell issue notices of concern on challenged papers co-authored by Stanford president
The leading journals Science and Cell on Thursday issued “expressions of concern” on papers co-authored…
Study offers a genetic explanation for why some drugs trigger a deadly brain disease
Medicines that reshape or tamp down immune responses may be life-changing for patients with cancer…
Death certificate records of long Covid are a ‘floor of an estimate,’ experts say
Long Covid has begun appearing on death certificates for a small percentage of people who…
‘Make People Better’: The CRISPR babies story you probably don’t know, and how it was filmed in real-time
In May of 2017, Samira Kiani found herself in a San Diego hotel ballroom surrounded…
STAT+: England to sequence genomes of 100,000 newborns, to try to catch illness earlier
LONDON — England is launching a pilot program sequencing the genomes of up to 100,000…
Revenge of the gaslit patients: Now, as scientists, they’re tackling Ehlers-Danlos syndromes
Type “Ehlers-Danlos syndromes” into a search engine, and multiple suggestions pop up. Is Ehlers-Danlos an…
STAT+: Novartis develops CAR-T therapy that can be made in a fraction of the standard time
NEW ORLEANS — For some patients suffering with certain blood cancers, CAR-T therapy can offer…
STAT+: ‘We’ve got a new target’: Bispecific antibody for multiple myeloma succeeds in mid-stage trial
NEW ORLEANS — Researchers had hoped in recent years that a protein called GPRC5D might…
Amid criticism, Stanford turns over review of its president to outside investigator
Stanford University has hired an outside law firm to lead the investigation of its president…
Pausing breast cancer treatment for pregnancy appears safe
Young women diagnosed with breast cancer often must delay pregnancy for years while they take…
STAT+: In ‘landmark’ study, cell therapy exceeds expectations in melanoma patients
When tumors like melanoma form, the immune system mobilizes for war. White blood cells called…
STAT+: Could Vertex’s cystic fibrosis medicines hold a clue to treating deadly pneumonia?
About a year ago, a grad student came running up to Wolfgang Kuebler, looking all…
Stanford is investigating its president over allegations of research misconduct
Stanford University has opened an investigation into its president, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a renowned neuroscientist and…
Q&A: Siddhartha Mukherjee on the rapid pace of cancer research and ‘luminous’ life of cells
The first cells Siddhartha Mukherjee ever saw were T cells, pulled from a mouse spleen…
Real-world data show updated Covid-19 boosters increase protection against infection
The updated Covid-19 boosters increase people’s protection against symptomatic infection from the coronavirus, according to…
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Sporting night vision goggles, a scientist probes the internal clocks that help parasites infect people
In the 1700s, French astronomer Jean-Jacques d’Ortous de Mairan noticed that the leaves of the…
STAT+: Biosplice, once the most valuable biotech startup, sees a pair of osteoarthritis trials fail
Biosplice’s bid to transform the treatment of everything from arthritis to cancer ran into a…