STAT | A decade of reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine

Skip to Main Content

Experience STAT's journalism live at an upcoming STAT Summit

Experience STAT's journalism live at an upcoming STAT Summit

October 15, 2025

STAT Plus: Implementing AI is hard: Three safety-net clinics on the challenges
October 15, 2025

STAT Plus: German biotech Tubulis raises $358 million to advance cancer treatments
October 14, 2025

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off
October 14, 2025

STAT Plus: Kailera Therapeutics, an obesity drug startup, raises $600 million
October 14, 2025

STAT Plus: The word ‘dementia’ is about to lose its value
October 14, 2025

The long history of euphemisms around the use of animals in lab research

Test your knowledge with our new weekly mini crossword

Play the STAT mini

Meet the 2025 STAT Wunderkinds

All are blazing new trails as they attempt to answer some of the biggest questions in science and medicine

Biotech October 15, 2025

STAT Plus: How North Carolina built manufacturing boomtowns for biotech

First Opinion Podcast October 15, 2025

Former acting CDC director on public health changes: ‘absolutely heartbreaking’

First Opinion October 15, 2025

Stop overloading older adults with Medicare plan choices

Exclusive October 14, 2025

STAT Plus: Inside FDA, career staffers describe how political pressure is influencing their work

Sponsored

Advertisement

Sign up for Newsletters

STAT+

Your go-to source for the world of life sciences, medicine, and biopharma. Subscribe now.

Cancel anytime.

STAT Plus: FDA declares Novo Nordisk plant, key to drug manufacturing for some biotechs, out of compliance

STAT Plus: Inside FDA, career staffers describe how political pressure is influencing their work

STAT Plus: Medicare Advantage insurers still in retreat as annual enrollment kicks off

STAT Plus: Why this cardiologist is cautious about the Apple Watch’s blood pressure feature

STAT Plus: As more nurses deliver primary care, an AI startup wants to guide their decisions and training

All STAT+ Stories

All Events

More From STAT

More From STAT

More From STAT

STAT offers a variety of in-person and virtual events throughout the year.

All Events

2025 STAT Summit

Boston, MA

STAT welcomes the year’s biggest newsmakers to the stage to discuss the state of the industry and the forces shaping its next decade.

STAT@ASH: Standing on Medicine’s Threshold

Orlando, FL

STAT@JPM26

San Francisco, CA

2026 Breakthrough Summit East

New York City, NY

All Events

All Trackers

More From STAT

More From STAT

More From STAT

We create tools to help you understand and track complex areas of development.

All Trackers

Obesity Drug Tracker

Here are the dozens of weight loss drugs in development to catch a booming market.

CRISPR Tracker

Follow the latest developments in genome editing.

Generative AI Tracker

A guide to the health systems and companies driving adoption.

Breakthrough Device Tracker

An authoritative database of FDA’s fast-tracked medical devices.

All Reports

More From STAT

More From STAT

More From STAT

STAT Reports blend data insights with qualitative observations on pivotal life sciences topics.

All Reports

2025 Edition: Ranking Biotech's Top Venture Capital Firms

$499

Dive into the performance of leading biotech venture capital firms and find out who got the best returns this year.

All Podcasts

More From STAT

More From STAT

More From STAT

From policy to practice: STAT's podcasts decode health care complexities.

All Podcasts

The Readout LOUD

Our weekly biotech podcast digs deep into industry goings-on.

First Opinion Podcast

Our opinion podcast discusses the people, issues, and ideas that are shaping health care.

Color Code

Our podcast raising the alarm on racial inequities in American health care.

More From STAT

Events Trackers Reports Podcasts

More Stories

AI Prognosis October 15, 2025

STAT Plus: Implementing AI is hard: Three safety-net clinics on the challenges

Biotech October 15, 2025

STAT Plus: German biotech Tubulis raises $358 million to advance cancer treatments

Health October 14, 2025

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off

Biotech October 14, 2025

STAT Plus: Kailera Therapeutics, an obesity drug startup, raises $600 million

Neurotransmissions October 14, 2025

STAT Plus: The word ‘dementia’ is about to lose its value

First Opinion October 14, 2025

The long history of euphemisms around the use of animals in lab research

Health tech October 14, 2025

STAT Plus: As more nurses deliver primary care, an AI startup wants to guide their decisions and training

Exclusive October 14, 2025

STAT Plus: Lyra launches ‘clinical-grade’ chatbot amid growing concern about mental health and AI

Biotech October 13, 2025

STAT Plus: FDA declares Novo Nordisk plant, key to drug manufacturing for some biotechs, out of compliance

The Workup October 13, 2025

STAT Plus: Why this cardiologist is cautious about the Apple Watch’s blood pressure feature

First Opinion October 13, 2025

Drug developers shouldn’t shortchange the autoimmune community

Insurance October 13, 2025

STAT Plus: Medicare Advantage insurers still in retreat as annual enrollment kicks off

The Readout October 14, 2025

STAT Plus: J&J reportedly in talks to buy Protagonist

Pharmalot October 14, 2025

STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a troubled Novo plant, pressure on the Novavax board, and much more

Health tech October 12, 2025

STAT Plus: One Mass. health system is turning to AI to ease shortage of primary care doctors. Some don’t like it

Politics October 11, 2025

STAT Plus: Deep cuts made to CDC’s flagship MMWR publication reversed hours later

Politics October 11, 2025

STAT Plus: CDC battered by government shutdown firings, while some are rescinded

Pharma October 10, 2025

STAT Plus: Sarepta to seek approval for gene therapy in rare form of muscular dystrophy

First Opinion October 15, 2025

Stop overloading older adults with Medicare plan choices

First Opinion Podcast October 15, 2025

Former acting CDC director on public health changes: ‘absolutely heartbreaking’

Neurotransmissions October 14, 2025

STAT Plus: The word ‘dementia’ is about to lose its value

First Opinion October 14, 2025

The long history of euphemisms around the use of animals in lab research

The Workup October 13, 2025

STAT Plus: Why this cardiologist is cautious about the Apple Watch’s blood pressure feature

First Opinion October 13, 2025

Drug developers shouldn’t shortchange the autoimmune community

Newsletters

Mon - Fri

Your daily dose of news in health and science

Our Picks

Our Picks

STAT’s selection of must-read stories and investigations

STAT Plus: From erectile dysfunction to weight loss, how telehealth got hooked on drug-first thinking

By Katie Palmer

STAT Plus: Perimenopause is the new buzzword in the business of women’s health

STAT Plus: Fights over Tylenol, SSRIs highlight the enduring lack of pregnant women in drug trials

By Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: The way we talk about dementia is about to change completely

By Jason Karlawish

Science social media star Dr. Noc on the value of edutainment

STAT Plus: Hospitals get dinged for reporting too many infections. In some cases, the solution is not to test

STAT Plus: From an elixir for ‘little hotheads’ to deadly overdoses, how Tylenol became a medicinal scapegoat

By Megan Molteni

What the evidence tells us about Tylenol, leucovorin, and autism

By Matthew Herper

STAT Plus: Bristol Myers to buy startup Orbital Therapeutics, building out cell therapy pipeline

Biotech October 10, 2025

STAT Plus: Bristol Myers to buy startup Orbital Therapeutics, building out cell therapy pipeline

Biotech October 9, 2025

STAT Plus: In biotech, Boston reigns supreme, but its competitive edge is being challenged in new ways

Biotech October 9, 2025

STAT Plus: Novo Nordisk to buy Akero Therapeutics, picking up promising MASH drug

STAT Plus: Canadian lawmakers urge the government to suspend imports of long-tailed macaques

Pharmalot October 10, 2025

STAT Plus: Canadian lawmakers urge the government to suspend imports of long-tailed macaques

Pharmalot October 10, 2025

STAT Plus: Roche suffers setback as court allows generic version of its rare disease drug to be sold in India

Pharmalot October 10, 2025

STAT Plus: Up and down the ladder: The latest comings and goings

President Trump is in ‘exceptional health,’ his doctor says, after visit to Walter Reed

Health October 10, 2025

President Trump is in ‘exceptional health,’ his doctor says, after visit to Walter Reed

Health October 10, 2025

STAT Plus: HHS employees to be fired as White House enacts mass terminations it blames on shutdown

Health October 8, 2025

More people with psychosis are using cannabis. Medical professionals are worried

STAT Plus: Court ruling allows Medicare to negotiate prices for larger number of drugs

Politics October 7, 2025

STAT Plus: Court ruling allows Medicare to negotiate prices for larger number of drugs

Politics October 6, 2025

STAT Plus: Acting CDC director calls for MMR vaccine to be broken up into three shots

Politics October 3, 2025

STAT Plus: Trump administration delays effort to address Medicare drug price negotiation loophole

Video

STAT reporters break down Trump’s announcement on Tylenol, autism and vaccines

STAT Plus: What is happening at the CDC?

STAT Plus: How AI scribes could usher in higher medical bills

STAT Plus: Deconstructing RFK Jr.’s explanation for the cancellation of mRNA vaccine contracts

Telehealth

Telehealth

STAT Plus: Coalition for Health AI faces escalating attacks by Trump officials, loss of founding member Amazon

Health tech October 9, 2025

STAT Plus: Coalition for Health AI faces escalating attacks by Trump officials, loss of founding member Amazon

Health tech October 9, 2025

STAT Plus: Startups supporting Parkinson’s care pick up new investments and key hospital partnerships

Health tech October 8, 2025

STAT Plus: Digital health M&A picks up, driven by AI and private equity

STAT Plus: They advised federal health agencies on the ethics and impact of scientific research. They’re no longer wanted

In the Lab October 7, 2025

STAT Plus: They advised federal health agencies on the ethics and impact of scientific research. They’re no longer wanted

In the Lab October 6, 2025

2025 Nobel Prize in medicine goes to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for immune system discoveries

In the Lab October 3, 2025

STAT Plus: As NIH launches new autism research effort, the focus is on environmental factors

STAT Plus: Hospitals nab $4 billion in extra Medicaid funds, before Republican cuts take effect

Hospitals July 25, 2025

STAT Plus: Hospitals nab $4 billion in extra Medicaid funds, before Republican cuts take effect

Hospitals June 16, 2025

STAT Plus: Senate GOP proposes steeper cuts to Medicaid funding in tax cut bill

Hospitals June 14, 2025

STAT Plus: Hospitals would be hit hardest by Medicaid cuts in GOP tax bill, report finds

STAT Plus: Here’s who will be hit with higher premiums if ACA enhanced subsidies expire

Insurance September 18, 2025

STAT Plus: Here’s who will be hit with higher premiums if ACA enhanced subsidies expire

Insurance September 17, 2025

STAT Plus: Major health insurer group says members will continue to cover vaccines, a step that may ease anxiety over access

Insurance September 9, 2025

STAT Plus: CMS delays rule requiring Medicare Advantage insurers to remind members of unused benefits

Podcasts

Party in biotech land and AstraZeneca’s miscalculation

When patients refuse cancer treatment

A pharma C-suite shakeup and Trump’s deal with Pfizer

Science social media star Dr. Noc on the value of edutainment