Why is it so hard to pay healthy medical research volunteers fairly? | STAT
How much would you have to be paid to risk a bout with a disease that most Americans associate with the Oregon Trail?| STAT
How much would you have to be paid to risk a bout with a disease that most Americans associate with the Oregon Trail?| STAT
Novartis is buying Avidity Biosciences for $12 billion, picking up RNA-based medicines for neuromuscular diseases as it seeks to grow its pipeline.| STAT
“Good for Cigna!” or “insurers hold all the power”? Readers debate a recent STAT op-ed.| STAT
And more health news stories of the day from the Morning Rounds newsletter.| STAT
From new hires to departures, promotions and transfers, here are the latest comings and goings in the pharmaceutical industry.| STAT
The FDA delivered a split decision on a blood cancer drug from GSK, approving its use in one combination regimen but rejecting another| STAT
The winners include a gene therapy for a rare form of deafness, a drug for vaping addiction, and a generic antibiotic.| STAT
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Sometimes the biggest moments at a conference happen backstage. At the annual STAT Summit, that kind of moment involved a pharma CEO and a toddler in a tuxedo.| STAT
And more health news from today's Morning Rounds newsletter.| STAT
Researchers worry that Medicaid home care eligibility decisions are often made without public scrutiny and based less on health than on cost.| STAT
Can "food noise" be measured? Telehealth giant Ro is rolling out a new scale for obesity care.| STAT
TrumpRx and a most-favored nation policy won’t lower prices for patients, writes the CEO and co-founder of I-MAK.| STAT
There’s a gray market in GLP-1s. It’s dangerous, but for people like this author, the risks feel worth it.| STAT
Advocacy groups form a buyer's club to obtain generic versions of pricey Vertex cystic fibrosis drug.| STAT
The FDA delivers a split decision on GSK’s blood cancer drug Blenrep, approving its use in some cases.| STAT
Can Trump take credit for North Carolina's booming biopharma industry? Which drugs could get a shortcut to the market? All that and more on this week's episode of "The Readout…| STAT
Fertility benefits firms hope Trump's IVF announcement will help them win over more clients.| STAT
In today's D.C. Diagnosis newsletter, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis downplays the importance of health insurance as the shutdown drags on, plus other policy news.| STAT
Moderna's experimental vaccine for cytomegalovirus, a cause of disability in newborns, failed in a Phase 3 trial| STAT
New analysis finds the median net price for 154 newly launched drugs, when adjusted for inflation and manufacturer discounts, rose by 51% between 2022 and 2024.| STAT
The Trump administration is preparing a new probe into drug-pricing practices among U.S. trading partners, laying the ground for fresh tariffs| STAT
The privatization of medical research can’t replace what the NIH has provided.| STAT
Plus more biotech news, brought to you by The Readout.| STAT
Competitive bidding for catheters means reduced patient choice, jeopardized supply chains, and an incentive to push cheap, poorly made products.| STAT
Enhertu can help patients with breast cancer when given earlier in the disease, according to data presented at the ESMO Conference 2025.| STAT
Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine| STAT
In a climate of fear, CDC scientists are withdrawing names from papers, and local and global health agencies are losing confidence.| STAT
Amid deadly shootings, CDC has fired experts and shut down research on preventing gun violence. Expert calls it a "cruel irony."| STAT
Buildings on the CDC’s Roybal Campus, near the campus of Emory University, were struck with gunfire, leaving bullet holes in windows.| STAT
Workers across the CDC were summarily fired on Tuesday, triggering what will be an unprecedented and chaotic withdrawal of the agency from many areas of disease prevention.| STAT
Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired| STAT
The White House’s mass firing of CDC staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with the cuts.| STAT
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A medical student was isolated by an autoimmune disorder. Poetry was a way out.| STAT
Sickle cell disease, long ignored by drugmakers, turned out to be a perfect target for the flashy gene editing tool CRISPR. The question is, what next?| STAT
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NIH documents show how the $1.6 billion long Covid initiative called RECOVER has failed so far to meet its goals.| STAT
Fatigue is common among long Covid patients, which means that recommendations to exercise can be controversial. A new study tried a different approach.| STAT
"We need, in chronic illness care ... a patient-centered approach in which the patient's desires and wishes are foremost," said writer Meghan O'Rourke at the #STATSummit.| STAT
Seven million women across the country live in areas of limited or no access to maternity health care services.| STAT
The tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area is not, in fact, the largest in U.S. history. But it does offer an important public health lesson.| STAT
Safe gain-of-function research is necessary to identify new treatments for diseases like for tuberculosis — but the NIH has imposed unfounded stops.| STAT
A popular and respected scientist is reported to be in line to lead the nation's most important cancer research office.| STAT
Health secretary RFK Jr. earlier this week said it's Matthew Buzzelli, listed on the CDC's website as chief of staff. But the situation is a bit murky.| STAT
Trump executive order declaring two sexes defies decades of research into how human bodies grow and develop| STAT
STAT asked scientists who have long worked on influenza or in veterinary medicine what they viewed as the most pressing questions about the H5N1 bird flu outbreak.| STAT
Whereas the two earlier human cases reported this year experienced only conjunctivitis — known as pink eye — the Michigan worker experienced respiratory symptoms.| STAT
While the bird flu virus risk to the general public is still very low, the threat is more significant for farm workers in contact with cows.| STAT
The spread of bird flu in mammals with which humans have close contact has unsettled many scientists. “That’s a different ball game altogether,” one said.| STAT
Bird flu researchers turn to Finland’s mink farms, tracking a virus with pandemic potential.| STAT
The new #Covid19 death rate is significantly below earlier estimates and raises hopes that the worst consequence of the #coronavirus will be rare.| STAT
Politicians are depicting a health care system in meltdown. The numbers point to a different story, one that is more nuanced and not nearly so dire.| 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
In a new study, Nobel laureate David Baker and colleagues detail new methods for targeting undruggable "disordered" proteins.| 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
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 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
