‘There is a real cost’: As Covid shows, barring bedside visitors from ICU deprives patients of the best care
For Teresa Ciappa, home was other people — and for the people in her life,…
Category: research
Opinion: The first challenge for ARPA-H should be electronic health record migration
Most new, high-profile initiatives start with something splashy. President Biden’s proposed transformative biomedical agency, the…
Researchers analyzed 4,063 papers on tools to help guide care. Only 12 were replications
Clinical decision support is one of digital health’s great promises. Faced with a surplus of…
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Alphabet firm DeepMind releases massive database of 3D protein structures
With the advent of cheap genetic sequencing, the world of biology has been flooded with…
Opinion: Circumventing Covid-19 with better ventilation and air quality
Gathering outdoors has provided people a safer alternative to meeting inside during the Covid-19 pandemic….
STAT+: San Francisco, Austin, or Raleigh? White House contemplates an out-of-D.C. address for new biomedical research agency
WASHINGTON — The White House isn’t worried about Congress underfunding the new biomedical research agency…
Opinion: Lessons learned — and lost — from a Vietnam-era study of addiction
Opioids like heroin, morphine, OxyContin, and fentanyl occupy a spot in the public imagination as…
NIH’s Francis Collins: For Biden’s new research agency to succeed, it should prepare for some projects to fail
WASHINGTON — Francis Collins is ready for the National Institutes of Health to fail spectacularly….
By creating mouse eggs entirely from scratch, researchers raise the prospect of a futuristic fertility treatment
The tiny clump of mouse cells didn’t look like an ovary. For one thing, it…
Researchers use machine learning to translate brain signals from a paralyzed patient into text
Assistive technologies such as handheld tablets and eye-tracking devices are increasingly helping give voice to…
Landmark gene therapy trial points to a wider window to alter course of rare disease
The suspicion that something was wrong started when the 1-year-old girl’s parents noticed she had…
Gene hunters turn up new clues to help explain why Covid-19 hits some people so hard
On March 16, 2020, five days after the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a global…
Opinion: Uterine fibroids affect millions of women. Why has this condition been overlooked for decades?
In 2007, the late Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-Ohio) wrote an op-ed calling for passage…
Smokers of menthol cigarettes have a harder time quitting, large new study finds
A new study published Tuesday finds that smoking menthol cigarettes versus unflavored cigarettes is associated…
For people in sickle cell crisis, specialized infusion centers offer far better care than the ER, study finds
People with sickle cell disease who were experiencing acute pain crises received far better care…
Scientists devise a battery-free pacemaker that can be absorbed by the body
Scientists have designed a temporary, battery-free pacemaker that can be broken down by the patient’s…
STAT+: Gene therapy to regenerate cardiac muscle after a heart attack passes a key test in pigs
By delivering a viral payload of gene silencers directly to the heart, scientists have developed…
Opinion: For now, stem cells for Covid-19 are mostly a shot in the dark
The uncertainty over how to effectively treat Covid-19 is proving to be an opportunity for…
After racing to help the world understand Covid-19, scientists grapple with how to pick up the research they put on hold
In the earliest days of the pandemic, it was the small, long-underfunded coterie of dedicated…
STAT+: What the cancer research community can learn from the Covid-19 response
The Covid-19 pandemic’s rapid spread across the world demanded a quick, collaborative response. Now, experts…
Opinion: Listen: Priscilla Chan on pediatric biology and research: ‘Children are not tiny adults’
For this week’s episode of the “First Opinion Podcast,” I spoke with Priscilla Chan, co-founder…
How the pandemic has reshaped collaboration — and competition — in science
For as long as people have pointed telescopes at the night sky and slipped drops…
STAT+: Key science officials detail their plans for a new research agency — and Congress is getting closer to funding it
WASHINGTON — Two key federal health officials are pitching a new branch of the National…
STAT+: Medical journal argues a drug maker’s libel suit is really a public relations campaign to chill research
File this under “Not every legal brief is eye-glazing.” Two months ago, Pacira Biosciences (PCRX)…
Opinion: 3D bioprinting can help end organ transplant waitlists — if the FDA stops delaying
Right now, more than 100,000 Americans are waiting for organ transplants. Due to a lack…
Gender bias toward men in patent awards results in less biomedical innovation for women, study suggests
Research has long shown that fewer patents are awarded to women than to men. Now…
STAT+: Scientists unshelve a decades-old antibiotic to fight a new foe — ovarian cancer
Ovarian cancer, which kills about 15,000 Americans every year, has historically been one of the…
Why two scientific powerhouses are teaming up to tackle rare cancers long overlooked in research
As a medical school student, oncologist Vinod Ravi felt like he understood what it took…
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To explore space radiation’s impact on reproduction, scientists sent freeze-dried mouse sperm to the ISS
While billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk were vying to launch themselves into space,…
STAT+: Advocates blast the FDA for not moving as fast on ALS as on Alzheimer’s
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration fast-tracked Biogen’s divisive Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, but it’s…
Opinion: The future of pandemic preparedness: agile coordination around clinical trials
The SARS-CoV-2 virus presented the world with a host of clinical challenges, not least its…
A safer, low dose of laughing gas may be enough to help some patients with major depression, study finds
Laughing gas may be most associated with its use in dentistry, but in recent years,…
Opinion: Scientific publishing’s new weapon for the next crisis: the rapid correction
Some observers have hailed the response to Covid-19 as a triumph for science. A hesitant…
Elation, pride, and a slew of questions: Clinical trial participants reflect on their own complicated reactions to Aduhelm approval
For the roughly 3,500 people who volunteered as clinical trial participants for the Alzheimer’s therapy…
STAT+: AstraZeneca drug prevents breast cancer caused by BRCA mutations from returning
Lynparza, a cancer-fighting pill marketed by AstraZeneca and Merck, reduced the risk that breast cancer…
With a souped up synthetic genome, scientists make bacteria impervious to viral attack
Two years ago, scientists in Britain swapped out the DNA of the bacteria Escerichia coli…
Opinion: NIH: It’s time to make your mark on the renaissance of medicinal psychedelics
Just a few years ago, investments in medicinal psychedelic research were rare in even the…
Machine learning is booming in medicine. It’s also facing a credibility crisis
The mad dash accelerated as quickly as the pandemic. Researchers sprinted to see whether artificial…
Opinion: Created correctly, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health will accelerate medical innovation
The U.S. needs a bold initiative to achieve transformative progress in the fight against Alzheimer’s…
STAT+: From two unusual organ donations, scientists garner a unique trove of single-cell genetic data
Late at night, in a California hospital, a brain-dead patient was being prepared to offer…
Scientific panel loosens ’14-day rule’ limiting how long human embryos can be grown in the lab
An influential scientific panel cracked open the door on Wednesday to growing human embryos in…
With engineered proteins, scientists use optogenetics for the first time to help a blind patient see again
Somewhere in Paris, in a white room, seated at a white table, a man wearing…
Opinion: Use single-cell biology to shed light on pediatric diseases currently in the dark
There are few things harder for a physician to say to a patient than “I…
In new study, stem cells self-organize into a mini model of a beating heart
Researchers have worked for years to create organoids — miniature cellular structures that recapitulate features…
Former Google CEO Schmidt says AI ‘will have its biggest impact’ in health care
For the myriad applications of artificial intelligence, Eric Schmidt, the onetime Google CEO, sees one…
STAT+: Dana-Farber receives $50 million gift to study pancreatic cancer
Dr. Laurie Glimcher often gets calls from people she knows around the world asking if…
AIDS virus used in gene therapy to fix ‘bubble baby’ disease
A gene therapy that makes use of an unlikely helper, the AIDS virus, gave a…
Reawakened immune cells show promise in mice against zombie cells tied to diseases of aging
Scientists have started to test whether natural killer, or NK, cells can be trained to…
Opinion: STAT+: The pharma industry needs to measure patient experience from the patients’ perspectives
The relationship between clinical outcomes and the patient experience — the sum of all of…
STAT+: Eli Broad’s medical research legacy will ‘touch almost the whole world’
Among scientists around the world, Eli Broad’s name will forever be tied to the role…