Analysis: What led to the firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez | STAT
Susan Monarez’s resistance to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s moves to assert control over vaccine guidance is at the center of her dismissal as CDC director| STAT
Susan Monarez’s resistance to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s moves to assert control over vaccine guidance is at the center of her dismissal as CDC director| STAT
Here’s a breakdown of what we know about the eight new members of the CDC's vaccine advisory panel selected by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.| STAT
With all the discussion around the adolescent mental health crisis, a prime suspect has gone relatively unnoticed: sleep.| STAT
Data from an expansive federal survey on youth behavioral habits, including their sexual orientation and gender identity, have been removed from the website of the CDC.| STAT
As part of the sweeping layoffs that rocked HHS, the entire staff that oversaw an annual survey to better understand infant and maternal health was placed on administrative leave.| STAT
A new Biden administration initiative requires hospitals to “make information about these facility fees publicly available to consumers.”| STAT
Dr. Oz's assets range from a tree trimming company to a cattle farm to UnitedHealth stock, and they're worth up to $334 million.| STAT
The Trump administration has proposed a pilot initiative to address controversy over the 340B drug discount program.| STAT
NIH plans to shrink the share of grant applications it will award for the remainder of the fiscal year, in some cases by more than half.| STAT
While scientists who have been studying H5N1 bird flu for a couple of decades have a very healthy respect for it, a number are hedging their bets about what the virus's future path will look like.| STAT
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President Trump wants to make it easier to involuntarily treat people with serious mental illnesses, but critics say the approach lacks sufficient evidence to be expanded.| STAT
For a third time, Sarepta Therapeutics has convinced a top Food and Drug Administration official to overrule the prevailing view of their staff and| STAT
The number of basic science papers published by NIH grant recipients has been falling since 2013, when the agency’s budget was cut by 5%.| STAT
Sarepta Therapeutics refused a FDA request to halt shipments of Elevidys, its gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy| STAT
Alkermes’ investigational drug helped people with a type of narcolepsy stay awake during the day in a mid-stage trial.| STAT
In a new study, Nobel laureate David Baker and colleagues detail new methods for targeting undruggable "disordered" proteins.| STAT
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The Biden administration has significantly opened the door to drug treatment strategies that help reduce substance use, even if patients aren't fully abstinent.| STAT
An internal document reveals how UnitedHealth Group's leadership prepared to downplay complaints about its business practices at a shareholder meeting| STAT
Using yogurt to replace a colonoscopy may sound far-fetched, but scientists just showed that bacteria can be engineered to detect cancerous DNA.| STAT
Had I not needed a colonoscopy at age 22 for something else, a precancerous growth in my intestinal lining would not have been detected and removed.| STAT
The standard public health approach in a measles outbreak is a full-throated appeal for vaccinations. RFK Jr. is working from a different playbook.| STAT
A child in Texas has died from measles, the first death from measles in the United States since 2015.| STAT
The growing susceptibility of adults to measles worries infectious disease experts who know how difficult this infection can be when it is experienced in adulthood.| STAT
The CEO of a health care price transparency company tried to estimate the cost of his baby’s birth to the nearest $1,000. Health care prices are so complex, even he couldn’t do it.| STAT
EXCLUSIVE: Documents obtained by STAT show that HHS recommended a ban on the chemicals in kratom that could, if the DEA agrees, make the popular herbal supplement as illegal as heroin or LSD.| STAT
The National Institutes of Health and some VA regions are scouring existing grants using lists of flagged words, which include not just known trigger| STAT
The allegations involving the Stanford president and other recent cases herald a public arrival for the awareness of image manipulation as a serious problem in science.| STAT
The first gene therapy in the U.S. to treat a rare, inherited disease — made by $ONCE — now has a price tag.| STAT
HHS has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract for vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics.| STAT
Elizabeth Holmes had more resources, talent, and opportunity than most founders will ever see — and she blew it. Now, writes Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz, she seems to be trying again.| STAT
Why do health experts fear the West Texas measles outbreak may be much larger than reported? For some, it’s a question of simple math.| STAT
In response to Trump science policies, universities are accepting fewer graduate students than normal and freezing positions, STAT has learned.| STAT
A federal judge issued a nationwide temporary pause on plans by the NIH to substantially slash research overhead payments.| STAT
The NIH said Friday night that it would slash support for indirect costs on all existing and future grants to 15%| STAT
U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately.| STAT
The CDC said Thursday that the mutations, detected in a sample taken from a Louisiana patient, may help bind the virus to the upper airways in people.| STAT
Moderna's caustic work environment has driven away top talent. There are signs the secretive startup has hit roadblocks with its most ambitious projects.| STAT
“The marketplace is fragile and failing,” said Evan Loh, chief executive officer at Paratek Pharmaceuticals.| STAT
Slide decks presented last summer by an IBM Watson Health executive largely blame the problems on the training of Watson for Oncology by IBM engineers and doctors at the renowned Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.| STAT
A letter from lawmakers reflects rising tensions as federal health officials weigh the health risks of alcohol and a revision of dietary guidelines.| STAT
As data builds about alcohol's harms, experts are becoming increasingly concerned about Americans’ drinking patterns, and how best to talk to the public about its potential risks.| STAT
More and more studies show that alcohol isn't healthy after all. Dietary guidelines are up for revision in 2025, and already, there's debate over research and industry influence.| STAT
Kellogg’s is desperate to save Tony the Tiger and Toucan Sam from Mexico’s healthy food rules — rules the U.S. may soon copy.| STAT
There's an overlooked innovation in the FDA's non-approval of MDMA for PTSD — combining a medication and a psychotherapy as a bundled intervention.| STAT
Amylyx Pharmaceuticals will take its ALS drug off the market in the U.S. and Canada, ending a multi-year saga for patients with the disease.| STAT
To fight an existential-scale threat like antibiotic resistance, the world needs all the brainpower it can muster. Just the opposite is happening, with an ever-diminishing number of scientists working to develop new antibiotics.| STAT
Mount Sinai, a leading hospital network in New York, mounted a behind-the-scenes campaign to blunt the fallout over revelations about its brain research study, STAT has learned.| STAT
CRISPR experts said the edited human embryos were seriously flawed. That they were implanted to create a pregnancy, said one, is "horrifying to me."| STAT
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Guidelines for prescribing statins and high blood pressure drugs are being reconsidered in light of a new cardiovascular risk model. New studies point to the large potential harms as well as benefits.| STAT
The CDC announced late Thursday that a person in Colorado has tested positive for an H5 bird flu virus — the first such recorded infection in the U.S.| STAT
The first signs that H5N1 avian flu was starting to spread from person to person would trigger a race to produce massive amounts of vaccine.| STAT
CVS Caremark, one of the largest pharmacy benefit managers in the country, agreed to pay at least $45 million to the state of Illinois to settle| STAT
A new surgical technique improved walking for people with below-the-knee amputations and helped them better control their prosthetics.| STAT
Richard Lynn's work has been repeatedly condemned for using flawed methodology and deceptively collated data to support racism. It's past time to retract the studies.| STAT
People who drink raw milk from an H5N1-infected cow could get seriously sick, scientists say.| STAT
Clinical trial results have a greater impact when participants reflect the diversity of those who could potentially benefit from the treatments being evaluated. Community-based trials can help achieve that.| STAT
Psychiatry residents are paid about $19 per hour for the highly skilled work they do. That should fulfill their "social contract" quite nicely.| STAT
"The more we involve people who are living with the challenges, the faster progress we will make toward a treatment or an invention or an innovation that will address those needs."| STAT
In a Q&A with STAT, geneticist Chris Mason talks about a new space atlas, creating a baseline for human health in space, and his thoughts on the “second Space Age.”| STAT
President Biden must take a cognitive screening test. Voters deserve to know the results.| STAT
The National Academy of Sciences finds that long Covid is affecting adults and children alike, in ways that may not be captured by the Social Security Administration.| STAT
Michigan's aggressive approach to H5N1 testing in animals and farmworkers hasn't been embraced by the other 11 states with dairy cow outbreaks.| STAT
Finland is set to potentially become the first country to offer bird flu vaccine to people at risk of exposure to the virus.| STAT
The four patients have been able to race and repair cars with the improved hand control afforded by the new prosthesis, as well as canoe, ice fish, and ride a snowmobile.| STAT
UnitedHealth executives pressured clinical staff to follow an algorithm to cut off patients’ rehab care, leading to coverage decisions that may violate Medicare regulations.| STAT
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Over the last decade, private equity firms acquired scores of wheelchair makers. Now, users routinely wait months to get their chairs repaired.| STAT
Texas health officials reported Monday that an individual who had been in contact with presumably infected cattle has contracted H5N1 avian flu.| STAT
The pre-colonoscopy liquid diet is unnecessary and harder on the patient.| STAT
A STAT investigation found artificial intelligence is driving Medicare Advantage denials to new heights, cutting off care for seniors.| STAT
HHS should borrow a page from Rudolf Virchow, the founder of social medicine, and recognize that "disease is an expression of individual life under unfavorable conditions."| STAT
Seventy-two senators and 302 members of the House of Representatives cashed a check from the pharmaceutical industry ahead of the 2020 election, according to a new STAT analysis.| STAT
Three health economists tried to quantify exactly how much hospital ransomware attacks put patients at risk. Here’s what they found.| STAT
American men's life expectancy is now 73.2 years, compared with women's 79.1. While women generally live longer than men, the gap has expanded in recent years.| STAT
EXCLUSIVE: An organizational chart for Operation Warp Speed, obtained by STAT, reveals a highly structured initiative in which military personnel vastly outnumber civilian scientists.| STAT
The most influential researchers have long believed so dogmatically in one theory of Alzheimer’s that they thwarted alternative approaches.| STAT
“Increasingly, I think patients, health insurers, providers and even investors are really saying, ‘How do we make sure digital health tools work, and what does work even mean?’ "| STAT
The NIH says it’s used up most of its $1.15 billion of long Covid funding and more money is not forthcoming, per new budget details.| STAT
The pandemic has been catastrophic. But consider something that may have escaped you: You have witnessed — and you are a beneficiary of — a freaking miracle.| STAT
The federal government has burned through more than $1 billion to study long Covid, and there's basically nothing to show for it.| STAT
Moderna Therapeutics, the most highly valued private company in biotech, has run into troubling safety problems with its most ambitious therapy, STAT found.| STAT
