Joe Biden’s campaign-trail challenge: Casting doubt on a Trump vaccine without fueling broader vaccine skepticism
WASHINGTON — To Joe Biden and his campaign allies, it’s a straightforward distinction: They trust…
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Opinion: The White House Coronavirus Task Force needs to stop hiding its weekly reports from the public
Since June, the White House Coronavirus Task Force has been compiling detailed reports on how…
STAT Plus: Biden-aligned group outlines potential Day 1 drug pricing actions
WASHINGTON — A leading think tank aligned with the Democratic Party is laying the groundwork…
Opinion: Trump’s ‘most favored nation’ executive order on drug prices is a scam for seniors
The White House announced a most favored nations executive order on Sunday, its latest attempt…
Trump’s last-ditch drug pricing moves could help him in November. But they likely won’t save Americans money
WASHINGTON — With 50 days to go before the 2020 election, President Trump is taking…
With election looming, Trump releases major, last-ditch drug pricing order
WASHINGTON — President Trump released an executive order Sunday that would drastically cut how much…
Trump pledges a Covid-19 vaccine by end of 2020 — without acknowledging the scientific uncertainty
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday pledged a Covid-19 vaccine would be available by the…
STAT Plus: Drug industry lobbyists circulate two drug pricing proposals in hopes of warding off a Trump executive order
WASHINGTON — The pharmaceutical industry is weighing two drug pricing policies that it could offer…
FDA commissioner needs to push back and tell Trump the agency is not part of the ‘deep state’
The next 73 days are going to be very difficult for Stephen Hahn. As the…
Drug makers rebut Trump tweet that FDA ‘deep state’ is delaying Covid-19 vaccines and drugs
WASHINGTON — In a tweet Saturday morning, President Donald Trump accused the Food and Drug…
PhRMA scrambles to respond to Trump’s drug pricing ultimatum, as Monday deadline looms
WASHINGTON — Drug makers and their lobbyists are struggling to agree on a strategy that…
Opinion: The Trump administration’s ‘public charge’ rule and Covid-19: bad policy at the worst time
As Covid-19 sweeps across the country, many immigrant communities are being hit hard by the…
‘No miracle is coming’: In acceptance speech, Biden rips Trump for Covid-19 mismanagement
WASHINGTON — Former vice president Joe Biden excoriated President Trump’s Covid-19 response as he accepted…
Trump to order government to buy certain drugs solely from U.S. factories, setting up major shakeup for industry
WASHINGTON — President Trump will sign an executive later today directing the federal government to…
STAT Plus: The FDA is finalizing its long-awaited rules for CBD
A version of this story first ran in D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s weekly newsletter about the…
STAT Plus: The drug industry’s new tactic in Washington: calling Trump’s bluff
WASHINGTON — The pharmaceutical industry has sparred with President Trump for four years over drug…
STAT Plus: In unusual arrangement, deputy HHS secretary’s wife has been lobbying the agency on behalf of health care companies
WASHINGTON — Emily Hargan, who is married to Department of Health and Human Services Deputy…
STAT Plus: Many drug companies working on Covid-19 vaccines and treatments are lobbying harder than usual
WASHINGTON — Pharmaceutical companies racing to develop coronavirus treatments and vaccines have upped their lobbying…
Trump said more Covid-19 testing ‘creates more cases.’ We did the math
The counter-narrative began almost instantly. After the U.S. count of Covid-19 cases began an inexorable…
New Covid-19 study, despite flaws, adds to case against hydroxychloroquine
Hydroxychloroquine did not lead to faster symptom improvement among patients who had Covid-19 symptoms and…
Listen: Trump’s FDA pressure, a microcosm of the pandemic, and squabbling over a vaccine
Who will stand up to the White House? How can hospitals protect workers from Covid-19?…
A flawed Covid-19 study gets the White House’s attention — and the FDA may pay the price
Studies in thousands of people on multiple continents now show the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine does…
As Covid-19 cases surge, Pence touts progress made from earlier peaks
As criticism mounts that the White House has turned a blind eye to the worsening…
Ousted federal vaccine expert alleges health secretary has continued to retaliate
WASHINGTON — Rick Bright, the ousted federal vaccine expert, amended his whistleblower complaint Thursday against…
Top U.S. health officials say they were never told to slow down Covid-19 testing, contradicting Trump
WASHINGTON — Four key government health care officials said Tuesday that despite recent remarks from…
STAT Plus: The new Janet: The FDA turns to a quiet problem-solver who brings expertise — and a little controversy
WASHINGTON — Janet Woodcock, one of the FDA’s most powerful regulators, has an almost mythic…
Opinion: How many needless Covid-19 deaths were caused by delays in responding? Most of them
More than 120,000 Americans have now perished from Covid-19, surpassing the total number of U.S….
Trump tries to convince voters he’s lowered drug prices, based only on a modest tweak to Medicare
WASHINGTON — President Trump used a glitzy Rose Garden address, flanked by pharmaceutical company CEOs…
STAT Plus: Amid conflict-of-interest criticisms, top FDA officials recuse themselves from Covid-19 vaccine approvals
A version of this article first appeared in D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s weekly newsletter about the…
9 ways Covid-19 may forever upend the U.S. health care industry
WASHINGTON — In the U.S. alone, Covid-19 has claimed nearly 100,000 lives and 30 million…
In combative remarks, Azar tells WHO that its Covid-19 response ‘cost many lives’
WASHINGTON — Health secretary Alex Azar on Monday publicly blasted the World Health Organization, telling…
Opinion: A pandemic plan was in place. Trump abandoned it — and science — in the face of Covid-19
President Obama was bothered. It was the summer of 2009 and he was in a…
The Trump administration outlines audacious plan to deliver ‘hundreds of millions’ of Covid-19 vaccine doses by end of 2020
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday rolled out a hyper-ambitious plan to develop and…
Rick Bright is facing attacks from Republicans across Washington, but his opponents can’t seem to land a punch
WASHINGTON — It may have been Rick Bright’s best day in two months. The ousted…
Trump administration fires back at ousted vaccine expert as he testifies on his role in U.S. coronavirus response
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration accused a federal whistleblower Thursday of “one-sided arguments and misinformation”…
Biotech’s new chief lobbyist says she’s a social justice advocate. Will the industry walk the walk?
WASHINGTON — Michelle McMurry-Heath doesn’t talk about biotech the way her peers do. Where other…
6 takeaways from the Senate’s surreal virtual hearing on the U.S. coronavirus response
WASHINGTON — The Senate’s first major hearing on the Covid-19 pandemic began with the sounds…
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14 questions for Fauci, Redfield, and the other Trump officials testifying on the U.S. coronavirus response
The Trump administration figures who’ve led the federal government’s coronavirus response have escaped the wrath…
Vaccine expert says he was punished for raising concerns about Trump’s coronavirus response, nepotism
WASHINGTON — Rick Bright, the ousted head of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority,…
A bipartisan group of former health officials seeks to sell a $46.5 billion coronavirus plan to the White House
WASHINGTON — In the past month, President Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner has…
How a Los Angeles doctor got swept up in the swirl of the Trump White House as it confronts the pandemic
He advised Joe Biden’s initiative to transform the fight against cancer. He interviewed Bill Clinton…
Trump hopes for 2 million tests per week by end of May — the low end of experts’ estimates of what’s needed to reopen
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Monday unveiled a “blueprint” to increase capacity for coronavirus…
Why was an unknown federal bureaucrat involved in Trump’s emergency hydroxychloroquine authorization?
WASHINGTON — Rick Bright, an otherwise unknown federal bureaucrat, burst onto the political stage this…
Opinion: Trump’s cuts to WHO funding: irresponsible, irrational, and simply wrong
The Covid-19 pandemic has shown us that an infectious disease outbreak in one corner of…
General Motors, 3M, and pharma companies beef up lobbying firepower amid coronavirus pandemic
WASHINGTON — General Motors and 3M, two major corporations that have feuded publicly with President…
Trump outlines ‘phases’ for reopening states once coronavirus cases begin to decline
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday told governors that they could begin to ease stay-at-home…
Democrats scramble to turn the 2020 election into a referendum on Trump’s coronavirus response
WASHINGTON — Democratic groups are scrambling to recalibrate the party’s health care messaging for the…
Trump pledges to put a hold on U.S. funding for the World Health Organization
WASHINGTON — President Trump said Tuesday that the United States would halt funding to the…
The U.S. gets a D- in the coronavirus fight. That stands for ‘disorganization,’ and it’s fixable
NEW YORK — Leora Horwitz has seen other disasters. Now the director of the Center…
Fact-checking Trump’s claims about hydroxychloroquine, the antimalarial drug he’s touting as a coronavirus treatment
WASHINGTON — President Trump can’t seem to stop talking about hydroxychloroquine. There is currently no…