Opinion: Dollar stores: gateways to equitable Covid-19 vaccine distribution
With the number of Americans receiving Covid-19 vaccines each week starting to decline, it’s time…
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The editor of digital health’s newest journal wants to democratize medicine with data
As an ICU physician, Leo Anthony Celi knows the immense power health data can hold….
A doctor trained nurse practitioners to do colonoscopies. Critics say his research exploited Black patients
At a time when medical researchers are under pressure to increase diversity in clinical trials,…
HHS to prioritize newborn screening programs’ pipette tip orders
Programs that screen newborns for potentially deadline genetic conditions will now have higher priority when…
Opinion: STAT+: Improving health care means improving data diversity. Federated learning can help
Many companies are developing innovative artificial intelligence solutions for health care. Too often, though, these…
STAT+: Lander fends off controversy, pledges broader access to STEM careers during Senate confirmation hearing
WASHINGTON — Eric Lander, President Biden’s nominee to lead the White House’s science policy office,…
After 40 years, medical schools are admitting fewer Black male or Native American students
In what some are calling a “persistent failure” of medical schools to improve diversity, a…
STAT+: For the first time, the FDA may fine a drug maker for failing to post clinical trial results
The Food and Drug Administration is threatening to fine Acceleron Pharma (XLRN) for failing to…
STAT+: Glowing tumor-munching cells, captured on video, show the promise of a new approach to CAR-T cancer therapy
Wendell Lim stared at the video playing on his computer screen in amazement. In the…
STAT+: How one major distributor is prioritizing scarce pipette tips
Scientists across the spectrum — at universities, at public health labs, at biotechs — are…
How blackouts, fires, and a pandemic are driving shortages of pipette tips — and hobbling science
The humble pipette tip is tiny, cheap, and utterly essential to science. It powers research…
Could a souped-up version of existing Covid-19 tests be our shortcut to tracking variants?
Genomic sequencing is one of the best defenses against potentially deadlier or more transmissible variants…
In mouse experiments, scientists unlock the key to scar-free skin healing
Scars. Like memories, we all have them. When you look at a scar you might…
Opinion: Needed for long Covid: a less authoritarian approach to understanding, treatment
The public has become increasingly concerned about long Covid — ongoing symptoms and disabilities after…
STAT+: Beam Therapeutics unveils new CRISPR base editing tool to target the sickle cell mutation
Right now, trillions of donut-shaped red blood cells are whizzing through your arteries, ferrying oxygen…
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International team creates first chimeric human-monkey embryos
A team of scientists from the U.S., China, and Spain reported Thursday they have created…
Opinion: Building the perfect wearable for clinical trials
The pace of innovation in wearable technology has never been faster. As often as once…
On a limb: Despite resistance, a group of researchers is investigating the possibility of a new mental health disorder
For Abby Williard, school always felt like a slog. Growing up in a small town…
STAT+: Early trial shows promise aiming a modified cold-sore virus against brain tumors in children
A therapy that sends a modified cold-sore virus to selectively kill tumor cells and spark…
Opinion: STAT+: Unprecedented development of Covid-19 vaccines, treatments points to biopharma’s future
Business as usual has not been the mantra for companies developing Covid-19 vaccines and drugs….
Opinion: India shouldn’t insist on ‘bridging trials’ in the middle of a pandemic
India is facing a brutal second wave of Covid-19, with daily case counts approaching 100,000….
Opinion: A skeptic’s take on Neuralink and other consumer neurotech
The titans of Silicon Valley say that the brain-computer interface revolution is coming, and neurotech…
Covid-19 reinfections still seem rare, but the U.S. lacks good data
Reinfections from Covid-19 continue to seem rare, and are not responsible for the current, stubbornly…
1 in 3 Covid-19 patients are diagnosed with a neuropsychiatric condition in the next six months, large study finds
Six months after being diagnosed with Covid-19, 1 in 3 patients also had experienced a…
Opinion: To stem the pandemic, the U.S. needs a national Covid-19 genomic sequencing effort
More than a year into the pandemic, the United States is at yet another critical…
An HIV lab’s pivot to develop a single-dose Covid-19 vaccine wins STAT Madness ‘Editors’ Pick’
On Jan. 10 last year, Dan Barouch and members of his vaccine research lab were…
Researchers pursuing novel treatments for herpes infections and diabetes win STAT Madness
From curing herpes to treating diabetes in a new way, their innovations might one day…
Watch: Microrobots fight brain tumors in mice
Scientists have created a microrobot that can pass the near-impenetrable blood-brain barrier to treat brain…
What we know and don’t know about long Covid
It doesn’t have a formal name or a definition. No one can predict who will…
Wildfire smoke is particularly harmful to kids’ respiratory health, study finds
Wildfire smoke was associated with a far greater number of pediatric respiratory care visits than…
Undocumented immigrants sought far less health care after Trump launched his campaign, new study shows
WASHINGTON — Undocumented immigrants were less likely to visit primary care physicians after former President…
Opinion: Operations research advice for Covid-19 vaccination planners: think big, move fast
The world has marveled at the speed with which science took on and solved the…
STAT+: New monkey model of Alzheimer’s disease may accelerate search for human treatments
Researchers reported Thursday that they have created a new model for studying treatments of Alzheimer’s…
New models could help scientists study the earliest stages of embryonic development
A pair of research teams unveiled two new ways to replicate a key structure from…
Opinion: Trying to manage curiosity-driven science risks limiting discoveries
Ever since Arthur D. Little created the first consulting firm in 1886, management consultants have…
Nazi anatomical drawings are donated in effort to address ethical quandary — and spotlight a dark history
The drawings in the anatomical atlas are seen as unparalleled in their detail of winding…
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Avoiding a ‘gender recession’: New report details how the pandemic has impeded women’s STEMM careers
The pandemic has significantly impeded the careers of women in academic science, technology, math, and…
STAT+: ‘We’re only going to cure diseases if we understand them’: Whitehead director advocates for basic science
Ruth Lehmann became director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in July 2020. That…
Opinion: For early testing of convalescent plasma, we were ‘building the plane while we were flying it’
During the Covid-19 pandemic, clinicians have seen many remarkable things. Among them is how a…
Substance use, suicide, and cardiometabolic conditions drive rise in working-age mortality, report finds
Increasing mortality rates among working-age Americans since 2010 have been mainly driven by drug- and…
Here are the contenders for STAT Madness 2021. Voting begins Monday
For science, 2020 was a year like no other, as labs around the world shifted…
Challenging the link between statins and muscle pain, patients report no difference in aches when taking drug or placebo
Statins — among the most successful drugs ever developed — prevent deaths from heart attacks…
Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine performs as well in the real world as in clinical trials, new study concludes
Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine performed as well in the real world as it did…
STAT+: ‘It looks like a spaghetti bowl’: Scientists reveal a precise structure in a fabled worm’s tangled brain
Using Facebook-like algorithms, a bespoke microscope, and hefty doses of patience, a team of scientists…
With chronic migraines, she avoided light for 18 months — and developed a condition from centuries past
In 2017, Karen Porter mentioned something unusual at a routine neurology appointment: Everything she saw…
‘A massive gap in information’: Most vaccine clinical trials fail to report data on participants’ ethnicity or race
An analysis of the demographics of a decade’s worth of vaccine clinical trials has found…
Opinion: The effect of Covid-19 vaccines will — finally — be tested in pregnant people like me
The arrival of Covid-19 vaccines at the hospital where I work felt like a glimmer…
U.S. life expectancy fell by a year in the first half of 2020, CDC report finds
As the Covid-19 pandemic took hold, life expectancy in the United States dropped one full…
Opinion: The NIH needs to ensure that women are equally represented in grant funding decisions
For U.S. researchers, the room where it happens —”it” being decisions about funding — is…
Opinion: The hazards of medicine by tweet: the case of anti-cytokine therapy for Covid-19
Positive news about a potential Covid-19 treatment — a drug that blocks the receptor for…