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Health tech Mario Aguilar and Rachel Cohrs Zhang

STAT Plus: House panel eyes PBM reform to pay for telehealth extensions

The Readout Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: Vertex starts gene therapy Casgevy in five patients 

The Readout Meghana Keshavan

STAT Plus: Merck may have a competition for ever-scarce BCG

The Readout Meghana Keshavan

STAT Plus: ICER casts doubt on Sarepta’s DMD gene therapy

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Senate drug shortage bill would pay hospitals bonuses for good contracting practices

Politics Nicholas Florko

STAT Plus: Statehouses are a hotbed of tobacco lobbying and legislation

Politics Mario Aguilar and Rachel Cohrs Zhang

STAT Plus: Lawmakers unlikely to permanently extend telehealth flexibilities this year

Politics Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: Health economist marks up UnitedHealth CEO’s Senate hearing on the Change Healthcare cyberattack

Politics Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: Republicans, concerned about dairy industry, urge calm about H5N1 bird flu

The Readout Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: The biotech news you need to read this morning

Pharma John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: DEA reverses a policy to avert morphine shortages

Politics Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: Lawmakers grill UnitedHealth CEO on Change cyberattack: ‘Your company let the country down’

Politics Sarah Owermohle

Lawmakers, as part of ‘lab leak’ Covid inquiry, press to bar EcoHealth from federal research funds

The Readout Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: The latest government crackdowns on biotech you need to know

Politics Associated Press

STAT Plus: DEA will move to reclassify marijuana in a historic shift, AP sources say

The Readout Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: FDA wants to hear your thoughts on advisory committees 

Politics Nicholas Florko

STAT Plus: Backers of menthol cigarette ban vow to keep up the fight, but concede it will be a long battle

Politics Katherine MacPhail

STAT Plus: Expanded methadone access: giving patients greater choice

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Biden cybersecurity plan for hospitals entails carrots first, then sticks, health official says

Politics Rachel Cohrs Zhang

STAT Plus: Federal judge rules against two drugmakers challenging Medicare drug price negotiation program

Politics Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: FDA finalizes plan to regulate some lab-developed tests

Politics Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: Biden administration punts menthol cigarette rule indefinitely

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Momentum builds for House bill cracking down on Chinese biotechs

Exclusive John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Takeda is fourth big company to leave BIO since December

Politics Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: Supreme Court judges wrestle with abortion access in emergency cases

Health Nicholas Florko

STAT Plus: Chocolate milk will stay on school lunch menus, as USDA reverses course

Politics Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: FTC’s noncompete ban would force sweeping changes in health care, if it survives legal battle

Politics Rachel Cohrs Zhang

STAT Plus: Health care lobbying giants spent big as little got done in Congress

Politics Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: Trump surrogates hint at how he could reshape U.S. health care policy