New research cautions about possible risks of acetaminophen use during pregnancy
Nearly 100 doctors and scientists issued a consensus statement Thursday warning of possible links between…
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‘Health equity tourists’: How white scholars are colonizing research on health disparities
Fueled by the massive health disparities exposed by the coronavirus pandemic and the racial reckoning…
Saying ‘person with schizophrenia,’ not ‘schizophrenic,’ can affect clinician beliefs, study finds
Mental health counselors had kinder and less authoritative reactions to statements that used the phrase…
Listen: A reporter and a reader on rethinking how we gain weight
Research on excess body weight and obesity has long been predicated on the fundamental assumption…
STAT+: U.K. government launches a new system to monitor clinical trial reporting
After a prolonged effort, the U.K. government is now tracking whether clinical trial sponsors are…
New study revives a Mozart sonata as a potential epilepsy therapy
Could this be the return of the “Mozart effect”? In 1993, researchers reported that after…
Black children have more complications during appendectomies and incur higher costs, study shows
Black children consistently have more medical complications during appendectomies than their white peers, including higher…
Storing donor lungs at warmer temperatures keeps them viable far longer, study finds
Storing donor lungs at a slightly warmer temperature – 10 degrees Celsius instead of 4…
Opinion: NIH needs to create a National Institute of Surgery
I recently received the 42nd grant rejection of my academic career, bringing my overall success…
Opinion: STAT+: Combating the burnout bottleneck among clinical research workers
Health care professionals of all stripes were battling burnout and mental illness before the pandemic…
Opinion: How a ‘fatally, tragically flawed’ paradigm has derailed the science of obesity
I’ve been a science reporter for 40 years. I’ve wanted to assume that the experts…
Opinion: STAT+: Digital clinical trials can personalize patient engagement, accelerate therapy development
Biopharmaceutical companies were conducting more than 9,000 clinical trials in the U.S. in March 2020…
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How the Delta variant’s remarkable ability to replicate threw new twists into the Covid-19 pandemic
One of the key reasons the Delta variant has ignited new surges of Covid-19 infections across…
Medical cannabis unlikely to benefit most chronic pain patients, international researchers say
Medical cannabis might be a helpful therapy for some people who have chronic pain, but…
Pandemic lockdown tied to worse outcomes in metastatic colorectal cancer, French study says
One of the most pressing questions during the coronavirus pandemic has been its impact on…
Never-smokers’ lung cancers are genetically different from smokers’ tumors, study shows
Researchers have identified unique genetic signatures of lung cancer in people who never smoked cigarettes,…
Vaccination reduces risk of long Covid, even when people are infected, U.K. study indicates
People who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 appear to have a much lower likelihood of…
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Scientists engineer nasal cartilage cells to repair aching knees
In osteoarthritis of the knee, cartilage that should cushion the bones erodes, leaving people in…
Inside Pfizer’s labs, ‘variant hunters’ race to stay ahead of the pandemic’s next twist
PEARL RIVER, N.Y. — Delta was tearing its way through India and, as the death…
Does breast density matter for older women’s risk of cancer?
Breast density is a known risk factor for developing breast cancer, but that well-accepted research…
Opinion: Listen: A father describes the legacy of his son’s ultra-rare disease
Bertrand Might was born with a rare disease that had never before been diagnosed, an…
As Delta spread, Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness against infection fell from 90% to 66% in one key study
The effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines at preventing infection fell in one study of U.S. frontline…
As diabetes prevalence rises in children and adults, screening age drops to 35 for overweight adults
The age at which adults who are overweight or obese should be screened for type…
Can parents handle finding out their newborn is at higher risk of certain diseases? A small study suggests they can
There’s a heated debate over whether to expand genomic sequencing to more newborns — especially…
Opinion: Accountable care organizations don’t cut costs. It’s time to stop the managed care experiment
For the last half-century, Congress has endorsed essentially the same approach to cutting health care…
STAT+: SENS Research Foundation removes Aubrey de Grey over concerns he was interfering in sexual harassment investigation
Antiaging science’s most prominent prophet, Aubrey de Grey, has been removed from his post as…
Opinion: Delay of British chronic fatigue syndrome guidelines are a setback for people with long Covid
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), a British agency charged with developing…
Opinion: Look to nurses to help accelerate the transformation of health care
The chaos and crisis of the Covid-19 pandemic have forced remarkable transformations in the U.S….
Opinion: That ‘damn machine’: the dark side of mechanical ventilators in the ICU
I walk in to Mr. W’s room to say hello. He is 73 years old…
STAT+: A new technology, based on a quirk of evolutionary biology, may be the next big thing for CRISPR
On a chilly morning last November, Michael Segel stepped through the glass doors of the…
STAT+: Medical journal editorial writers have financial conflicts of interest, too
In the latest look at conflicts of interest in science, a new analysis found 15%…
Opinion: Scientific, moral imperatives underlie the ARPA-H mandate to include rare disorders
The response to Covid-19 by the biomedical research community in the U.S. and around the…
STAT+: Discovery of rare mutation in a brain protein adds fuel to debate over cause of Alzheimer’s disease
In 2014, two siblings came to see Lena Kilander about some of the problems they’d…
Opinion: A country-wide collaboration to address the maternal health crisis
After languishing in the background for far too long, the shockingly high rate of complications…
Scientists unlock clues to determining how safe vaccinated people are from Covid-19
Imagine peering into people’s blood and being able to pick up a simple marker of…
Opinion: To protect from lab leaks, we need ‘banal’ safety rules, not anti-terrorism measures
“How did it start?” is among the many questions raised by the Covid-19 pandemic. Answering…
STAT+: New immunotherapy approach wiped out tumors in two patients with advanced lung cancer, study reports
Drugs called immune checkpoint inhibitors have transformed treatment of many types of tumors, but metastatic…
Opinion: STAT+: To ensure equity and accuracy, clinical research must reflect the diversity of patients
In the journey from lab to label for a new and promising treatment, clinical research…
Opinion: Digital twins: Will doubling up help personalize health care?
Two often-cited emerging trends in the health care space are personalized care and remote care….
STAT+: Scientists plumbing mysterious RNAs in the human genome find a possible treatment for an inherited disorder
When hundreds of scientists from around the world finally pieced together a draft of the…
Opinion: STAT+: Human-centered design can boost clinical trial recruitment, retention
By disrupting the clinical trials process, the Covid-19 pandemic has served as a tipping point…
Billions in new research funding sparks a lobbying frenzy among patient advocates
WASHINGTON — President Biden’s vision for an ambitious new government research center is never quite…
Large study finds genetic signals that might be used to predict early menopause
A large new study scanned the genes of hundreds of thousands of women near the…
Opinion: Listen: A longtime glioblastoma survivor on how to keep surviving
In this week’s episode of the “First Opinion Podcast,” writer and philosopher Adam Hayden opens…
Opinion: ‘Here be dragons’: Long-term survivors like me can help map the boundaries of cancer
“I hope to see you again in six months!” I call back to my radiation…
Opinion: A close brush with gun violence made me think about how to confront an epidemic during a pandemic
How do we cope with an epidemic in the middle of a pandemic? It’s a…
Opinion: Clinical research doesn’t reflect the Alzheimer’s population. That needs to change
New data from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of…
STAT+: New research exploring centenarians’ gut microbiomes reveals a potential clue to their longevity
New research into the microbiomes of centenarians reveals a potential clue to their longevity, adding…
Opinion: Pharmacoequity: a new goal for ending disparities in U.S. health care
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought to the public’s attention alarming racial disparities in health. According…
STAT+: For the first time ever, Lander’s White House science office will have an entire wing dedicated to health
WASHINGTON — Eric Lander, the renowned genomics researcher, has kept a low profile in his…