STAT+: Facebook is receiving sensitive medical information from hospital websites
A tracking tool installed on many hospitals’ websites has been collecting patients’ sensitive health information…
Category: Special Report
‘How do you decide?’: Cancer treatment’s CAR-T crisis has patients dying on a wait list
Within two years of being diagnosed with multiple myeloma, Shawn Goltzene had blasted through nearly…
STAT+: From burst bubble to medical marvel: How lipid nanoparticles became the future of gene therapy
Paddy Doherty leaned back in the narrow hospital bed and watched a bag of clear…
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…
STAT+: Hospitals have been financially propping up medical schools, but now it’s squeezing their bottom lines
Before Banner Health agreed to shore up a pair of financially struggling medical schools, leaders…
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….
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STAT+: Why formally ending the pandemic is going to be a huge headache for the entire health care system
WASHINGTON — President Biden made it clear this week he wants to transition toward a…
The nation hasn’t made much progress on health equity. These leaders forged ahead anyway
This special report is the second of two parts. Read part one here. When Quinn…
How medicine erased Black women from a ‘white man’s disease’
What Christi Taylor-Gentry remembers most about third grade are the times when the teaching stopped…
STAT+: Biogen’s reckoning: How the Aduhelm debacle pushed a troubled company and its fractured leadership to the brink
The shocking revelation came in a Saturday afternoon email, restricted to a tight circle of…
‘Naively ambitious’: How COVAX failed on its promise to vaccinate the world
Around the world this spring, country after country awaited their first Covid-19 vaccine shipments. They’d…
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A hospital, and a family, lost during the pandemic
DAWSON, Ga. — When the days feel too hard, Latasha Taylor finds peace standing…
A community pioneer lost, and remembered
BELLE GLADE, Fla. — It was the first day of the new year when Angela…
The land as medicine
HALE COUNTY, Ala. — Small, cramped trailer homes and old farmhouses can be glimpsed…
The Guardian of the Glades
PAHOKEE, Fla. — The semitruck carrying all of the food was late. Tammy Jackson-Moore…
DISTANCED: Pandemic stories of Black life in the rural South
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STAT+: ‘Change is messy’: Inside the tumultuous efforts to stabilize BIO, the biotech lobby
WASHINGTON — The Biotechnology Innovation Organization, the lobbying group that represents roughly 1,000 biotech companies,…
‘It’s soul-draining’: Health workers deployed to Covid hot zones are overwhelmed by deaths among the unvaccinated
BATON ROUGE, La. — Bren Ingle watched through a set of twin glass doors as…
STAT+: Inside ‘Project Onyx’: How Biogen used an FDA back channel to win approval of its polarizing Alzheimer’s drug
It was perhaps the most contentious drug approval in decades, shocking drug company executives, insurance…
Watch: An unusual 30th birthday gift: Why I got a colonoscopy so young — and documented every step
The passing of Chadwick Boseman from colorectal cancer at the age of 43 devastated so…
Chadwick Boseman’s tragedy is America’s tragedy: In colorectal cancer hot spots, young men are dying at higher rates
Three months before “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman died from stage 4 colon cancer at…
More than two-thirds of Congress cashed a pharma campaign check in 2020, new STAT analysis shows
WASHINGTON — Seventy-two senators and 302 members of the House of Representatives cashed a check…
Pharma funded more than 2,400 state lawmaker campaigns in 2020, new STAT analysis finds
WASHINGTON — State lawmakers in Oregon have tried to lower high drug prices from nearly…
As Covid dissipates in the U.S., cold and flu viruses may return with a vengeance
A curious thing happened during the Covid-19 pandemic: With masks, social distancing, and Purell galore,…
Shuttered hospitals, soaring Covid-19 deaths: Rural Black communities lose a lifeline in the century’s worst health crisis
DAWSON, Ga. — In every corner of Latasha Taylor’s home are plants she knows nothing…
STAT+: ‘It’s not a cure’: A gene therapy is opening a new chapter for children, but challenges endure
WEST BOYLSTON, Mass. — When Rachael and Pat Brown rattle off all that their daughter…
He’s a Stanford professor and a Nobel laureate. Critics say he was dangerously misleading on Covid
One day last August, as they struggled to figure out whether to lift Covid-19 restrictions,…
Troubling podcast puts JAMA, the ‘voice of medicine,’ under fire for its mishandling of race
Weeks after it was scrubbed from the Journal of the American Medical Association’s website, a…
In Palm Beach, Covid-19 vaccines intended for rural Black communities are instead going to wealthy white Floridians
PAHOKEE, Fla. — The winds blew southwest the day of Pahokee’s Covid-19 vaccination drive, which…
STAT+: At Flagship Pioneering, the brazen venture capital firm that bankrolled Moderna, there’s a tolerance for failure but not for weakness
Not long ago, the name Flagship Pioneering was as likely to elicit an eye roll…
Hospitals’ Covid-19 heroics have them poised for power in the new Washington
WASHINGTON — For frontline health care workers at hospitals, the Covid-19 pandemic has been a…
The coronavirus at 1: A year into the pandemic, what scientists know about how it spreads, infects, and sickens
The coronavirus behind the pandemic presents some vexing dualities. It’s dangerous enough that it dispatches…
The Covid-19 vaccines are a marvel of science. Here’s how we can make the best use of them
It appears science may have found the Covid-19 pandemic’s off-ramp. Two vaccines developed with stunning…
Data show hospitalized Covid-19 patients are surviving at higher rates, but surge in cases could roll back gains
Patients hospitalized with Covid-19 are surviving at higher rates than in the early days of…
STAT Plus: The 8 most important leaders of Operation Warp Speed
Below are the eight most important people leading Operation Warp Speed. It is based on…
The Road Ahead: Charting the coronavirus pandemic over the next 12 months — and beyond
Think back through the pandemic. Think about the moments that stand out as beacons in…
STAT Plus: As Elon Musk’s Neuralink prepares to draw back the curtain, ex-employees describe rushed timelines clashing with science’s slow pace
The hype from Elon Musk has been coming for weeks: This Friday, his secretive brain-implants…
Ramped-up testing and daily briefings: Inside Biden’s plan to take over a tumultuous Covid-19 response
WASHINGTON — No president has ever inherited a pandemic. But if Joe Biden is elected…
STAT Plus: How Teladoc won: The inside story of how well-timed bets propelled it ahead of the competition
The unquestioned leader in a virtual care sector that has surged in the Covid-19 era,…
Pharma is showering Congress with cash, even as drug makers race to fight the coronavirus
WASHINGTON — The world’s biggest drug makers and their trade groups have cut checks to…
STAT Plus: Harry Reid and Alex Trebek tried Patrick Soon-Shiong’s experimental cancer therapy. Can their results be duplicated in a clinical trial?
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s pancreatic cancer went into remission. “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek,…
An invisible hand: Patients aren’t being told about the AI systems advising their care
Since February of last year, tens of thousands of patients hospitalized at one of Minnesota’s…
The CDC has always been an apolitical island. That’s left it defenseless against Trump
WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the country’s top public health agency,…
STAT Plus: After a bribery scandal in China, GSK found a suspected whistleblower. The real one is still waiting in the shadows
Alarmed that colleagues were bribing Chinese doctors and giving kickbacks to hospital workers to boost…
Facing a broken mental health system, many U.S. teens fall off a dangerous ‘cliff’ in their care
An 18th birthday can mean many things. It’s a formal step into adulthood. It’s the…
STAT Plus: Two years of halting progress and high turnover preceded Atul Gawande’s exit as Haven CEO
Atul Gawande’s announcement last week that he was stepping down as CEO of a high-profile…
STAT Plus: With remdesivir, Gilead finds itself at strategic crossroads, with its reputation (and far more) at stake
Never in modern times have such high hopes for millions of lives rested on one…
Three potential futures for Covid-19: recurring small outbreaks, a monster wave, or a persistent crisis
As epidemiologists attempt to scope out what Covid-19 has in store for the U.S. this…
STAT Plus: China has near-total control of the world’s antibiotic supply. Is America at risk as a result?
WASHINGTON — The baby had so many pustules ravaging his face he could barely open…
Coronavirus pandemic threatens to take crushing toll on rural areas, data show
As the impact of the coronavirus crisis careens toward smaller towns and rural areas, a…