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Health Angus Chen

Palliative care for cancer patients is found to be as effective given virtually as in person

Health Angus Chen

How can hospitals boost cancer screening rates? Researchers report that an AI helped

Health Olivia Goldhill

What to watch for in the crucial FDA meeting on MDMA therapy for PTSD

Health Associated Press

Woman is back on dialysis after doctors remove transplanted pig kidney

The Readout Meghana Keshavan

STAT Plus: The surprising outperformance of a new drug against existing competitors, and other biotech updates

Health Lev Facher

Drug treatment that insists on abstinence? Federal agencies are just saying no

Exclusive Betsy Ladyzhets

NIH documents show how $1.6 billion long Covid initiative has failed so far to meet its goals

Health Helen Branswell

A third U.S. farmworker infected with bird flu is the first to experience respiratory symptoms

The Readout Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: Biohaven’s autoimmune drug disappoints, and other biotech news updates from the week

Health John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Value-based payment is getting renewed attention. What it means isn’t getting any clearer

Health Annalisa Merelli

The new menstruation: Girls are getting their periods earlier and less regularly

The Readout Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: Wegovy linked to lower risk of alcohol use disorder in real-world study

Special Report Anissa Durham

New obesity drugs are seemingly everywhere. Black Americans feel left out

Special Report Anissa Durham

Black voices, Black bodies: Life in the age of Ozempic

Health Annalisa Merelli

Heat waves associated with increased risk of preterm birth in the U.S.

The Readout Meghana Keshavan

STAT Plus: Biotech’s most interesting fundraisings from the last week

Health Lev Facher

At Las Vegas conference, methadone clinics blast idea of doctors prescribing directly

A STAT Investigation Eric Boodman

The doctor would treat her sickle cell pain crisis — if she promised not to get an abortion

First Opinion Alexandra Phelan and Lawrence O. Gostin

The world needs the new pandemic treaty

In the Lab Angus Chen

STAT Plus: ASCO preview: a promising solid tumor CAR-T, an AI patient navigator, and improving palliative care

Health Helen Branswell

New evidence supports fear that drinking raw milk containing bird flu viruses may be dangerous

The Readout Meghana Keshavan

STAT Plus: More tumult at BIO amid the company’s fourth CEO in four years

Biotech Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: Ozempic cut risk of death in diabetes patients with chronic kidney disease

Pharma Olivia Goldhill

STAT Plus: After MDMA therapy, she considered suicide. The trial data tell a different story

Matt's Take Matthew Herper

New data show the HPV vaccine prevents cancer in men, too. Why don’t more people get it?

Health Elizabeth Cooney

Reversing progress, stroke rates are rising, especially in working-age adults

The Readout Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: In light of H5N1 outbreak, U.S. in talks with mRNA vaccine makers on bird flu

Health Megan Molteni

Wastewater testing specifically for bird flu virus will scale up nationally in coming weeks

Health Helen Branswell and Megan Molteni

Michigan reports a human case of bird flu, the nation’s second linked to H5N1 outbreak in dairy cows