Opinion: STAT+: Pharma’s role in value-based care starts with value-based research
Modern medicine has been sculpted by the ever-expanding knowledge of biological processes in conjunction with…
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Virtual Event: A Conversation with the STAT Madness Crowd Favorite
Editor’s note: A livestream of the event will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET….
Covid hasn’t given up all its secrets. Here are 6 mysteries experts hope to unravel
For a formidable adversary with plenty of secrets up its sleeve, the coronavirus presented one…
Opinion: Men and women may respond differently to vaccines. Research needs to account for that
Two days after getting my second dose of the Moderna mRNA vaccine as part of…
Covid vaccines didn’t work for many cancer patients — but researchers are designing a new shot for them
A couple months before the pandemic started, Joseph Ford started experiencing a rash of pinpoint…
An mRNA vaccine boost may help CAR T-therapy treat solid cancers
NEW ORLEANS — While CAR T-therapy has cured some people with blood cancers, this form…
STAT+: Biden’s new high-stakes research agency needs a home. For cities and states, the race for ARPA-H is on
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration’s new high-stakes research office has a name, an official place…
Opinion: 3 steps ARPA-H needs to take to accomplish its mission
Since its formation in the 1950s, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, better known as…
Biden administration ramps up long Covid research efforts following criticism
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Tuesday announced plans to ramp up research into long…
Research on mice that ‘sweat out’ fat wins STAT Madness for University of Pennsylvania
Pizza rat, watch out: pizza-faced mice are on their way to stealing your crown. A…
‘Skinny, greasy mice,’ artificial cells and tumor mapping: Researchers vie for STAT Madness championship
Were the oily rodents impressive enough? More amazing than the family tree of tumors? Than…
Pandemic took a toll on teen mental health, CDC report says
NEW YORK — More than 4 in 10 U.S. high school students said they felt…
STAT+: Biden’s high-stakes biomedical science agency ARPA-H will be part of the NIH — but there’s a twist
WASHINGTON — President Biden’s “moonshot” biomedical research agency will be housed within the National Institutes…
Even as medicine becomes more diverse, main authors in elite journals remain mostly white and male
A new analysis of two of the nation’s most prestigious medical journals shows that women…
Obesity can turn a helpful immunotherapy into a harmful one, mouse study shows
Researchers have long known that obesity rewires the immune system. Now a new study suggests…
STAT+: Lawmakers and a Pelosi aide turn lobbyist to push for new health agency’s independence
WASHINGTON — Health secretary Xavier Becerra is suddenly the target of a frenzied lobbying campaign…
‘A slow-moving glacier’: NIH’s sluggish and often opaque efforts to study long Covid draw patient, expert ire
WASHINGTON — The National Institutes of Health is fumbling its first efforts to study long…
NIH’s identity crisis: The pandemic and the search for a new leader leave the agency at a crossroads
WASHINGTON — Under the reign of Francis Collins, the National Institutes of Health was untouchable….
Opinion: Listen: Pharma companies market their drugs to young adults — so why don’t they include them in clinical trials?
Sneha Dave has been living with a chronic disease for 17 years — almost her…
New Covid trial results may point toward better ways to study medicines
The battle against Covid-19 has been marked by false hope, as too many people embraced…
With new ‘brain-reading’ research, a once-tarnished scientist seeks redemption
Niels Birbaumer, once a prominent neuroscientist at the University of Tübingen in Germany, fell hard…
STAT+: What makes a biotech a biotech?
The prototypical biotech company is easy to envision: think Moderna, Alnylam, and Genentech. But what…
Opinion: Welcome back, Dr. Califf: Patients will see you now
The confirmation of Robert Califf to lead the Food and Drug Administration is among the…
Opinion: If pharma can market to youths by TikTok, it should include them in clinical trials
The pharmaceutical industry has rapidly adapted to promoting prescription drugs to young people on TikTok,…
Swapping out the brain’s cleanup crew treats neurological disease in mice, study shows
From anemia to leukemia, unhealthy cells can make for unhealthy people, but replacing these cells…
STAT+: Biden’s agency to ‘end cancer as we know it’ is finally real. But it has a chaotic road ahead
WASHINGTON — Congress has finally funded the agency that President Biden has pledged will help…
STAT+: FDA effort to improve clinical trial diversity failed to make a difference for Black patients, study finds
Six years ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration launched a five-year action plan to…
Newly discovered brain cells may be a memory filing system, study suggests
A scientist opens a laptop in front of a patient. On screen, a boy, tied…
‘We’re all in this together’: As long Covid studies continue, researchers cast a wider net
There are almost as many questions about long Covid as there are symptoms. From the…
Women see more adverse events with chemotherapy and newer cancer treatments, study finds
When Crystal Ortner was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer, her doctors decided to tackle…
STAT+: Awaiting ‘definitive’ Alzheimer’s drug data, Roche and Genentech launch ambitious new study
Partners Roche and Genentech are studying whether their investigational treatment for Alzheimer’s disease can prevent…
Organoids reveal the tipping point when kidney damage turns irreversible
Chronic kidney disease is a serious medical problem that changes the lives of about 13%…
Opinion: If academic medicine is serious about diversity, its institutions need to pay up
As I began interviewing for my first post-fellowship position as a neuro-oncologist, I immediately realized…
STAT and MIT rooted out the weaknesses in health care algorithms. Here’s how we did it
In July 2021, STAT and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology set out to answer a…
Opinion: Treating kids with sleep disorders stirs thoughts of a lifetime of restless nights
When I was about 7 years old, I lost the ability to place my head…
Virtual Event: ‘Augmented’: The future of brain-controlled prosthetic limbs
Editor’s note: A livestream of the event will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET…
Opinion: Improving diversity in Alzheimer’s research can help update the ‘gold standard’ for all medical research
The health inequities that have long plagued the U.S. were highlighted and worsened by the…
Here are the contenders for STAT Madness 2022. Voting begins March 1
Many of the biggest science breakthroughs of 2021 centered, unsurprisingly, around the story of the…
STAT+: Political pressure in the U.K. prompted more universities to report clinical trial results
Sometimes, sabre rattling works. Three years ago, a U.K. Parliamentary committee chair warned dozens of…
Provocative new findings suggest a surprising cause of Down syndrome: cells linked to aging
Down syndrome is the most common genetic disorder, impacting about 1 in 700 newborns around…
Predicting preeclampsia from a blood test holds promise for pregnancy complications
Preeclampsia is a potentially serious problem that usually surfaces late in pregnancy, posing an immediate…
Opinion: STAT+: Building a better on-ramp for health innovation
The pandemic crisis has illuminated a stark reality that innovators, particularly those in biotech, have…
To lawyers, conviction of Harvard chemist with China ties shouldn’t chill science. Researchers aren’t so sure
The trial was supposed to be a bellwether — an indicator of whether federal investigators…
Opinion: Gain-of-function research advances knowledge and saves lives
Congress is considering a massive overhaul of the nation’s scientific enterprise, much of it in…
With a ‘biological computer,’ scientists look to target cancer while sparing healthy cells
The holy grail of cancer drug targets is akin to a unicorn horn: a marker…
STAT+: 4 epilepsy-focused biotech companies to watch
More companies than ever before are training their sights on developing treatments for epilepsy, which…
STAT+: University of Chicago professor charged with insider trading over a cancer drug trial
A University of Chicago associate professor who worked as a clinical trial investigator for Five…
Scientists are just starting to tease out the microbiome’s role in CAR-T outcomes among cancer patients
As cancer-killing CAR-T cells course through the body, they make occasional pit stops at the…
Opinion: It’s not the mission of universities to perpetuate inequity. Why do Emory and others do that?
As billions of people in the Global South continue to confront Covid-19 unprotected because they…
Q&A: After finding few answers about her own rare cancer, Corrie Painter is crowdsourcing to fill cancer ‘data vacuum’
In May 2010, Corrie Painter received shocking news: She had angiosarcoma, an extremely rare cancer…