Special Report

Special Report By Lev Facher

NIH’s identity crisis: The pandemic and the search for a new leader leave the agency at a crossroads

Special Report By Rachel Cohrs

Why formally ending the pandemic is going to be a huge headache for the entire health care system

Special Report By Usha Lee McFarling

The nation hasn’t made much progress on health equity. These leaders forged ahead anyway

Special Report By Usha Lee McFarling

20 years ago, a landmark report spotlighted systemic racism in medicine. Why has so little changed?

Special Report By Isabella Cueto

Jolting the brain’s circuits with electricity is moving from radical to almost mainstream therapy. Some crucial hurdles remain

Special Report By Damian Garde

It’s the cardiovascular version of Alzheimer’s — and, for a biotech with a promising drug, it could be a windfall

Special Report By Bethany Mollenkof

A hospital, and a family, lost during the pandemic

Special Report By Bethany Mollenkof

A community pioneer lost, and remembered

Special Report By Bethany Mollenkof

The land as medicine

Special Report By Bethany Mollenkof

The Guardian of the Glades

Special Report By Bethany Mollenkof

DISTANCED: Pandemic stories of Black life in the rural South

Exclusive By Nicholas Florko

‘Change is messy’: Inside the tumultuous efforts to stabilize BIO, the biotech lobby

Special Report By Lev Facher

‘It’s soul-draining’: Health workers deployed to Covid hot zones are overwhelmed by deaths among the unvaccinated

Special Report By Nicholas St. Fleur and Hyacinth Empinado

Watch: An unusual 30th birthday gift: Why I got a colonoscopy so young — and documented every step

Prescription Politics By Lev Facher

Pharma funded more than 2,400 state lawmaker campaigns in 2020, new STAT analysis finds

Special Report By Helen Branswell

As Covid dissipates in the U.S., cold and flu viruses may return with a vengeance

Special Report By Olivia Goldhill

Shuttered hospitals, soaring Covid-19 deaths: Rural Black communities lose a lifeline in the century’s worst health crisis

Special Report By Andrew Joseph

‘It’s not a cure’: A gene therapy is opening a new chapter for children, but challenges endure

Special Report By Usha Lee McFarling

Troubling podcast puts JAMA, the ‘voice of medicine,’ under fire for its mishandling of race

Special Report By Brent Crane — The Wire

At BGI, China’s genomics giant, the line between biotech and Beijing is increasingly blurry

Special Report By Olivia Goldhill

In Palm Beach, Covid-19 vaccines intended for rural Black communities are instead going to wealthy white Floridians

Special Report By Kate Sheridan

At Flagship Pioneering, the brazen venture capital firm that bankrolled Moderna, there’s a tolerance for failure but not for weakness

Special Report By Rachel Cohrs

Hospitals’ Covid-19 heroics have them poised for power in the new Washington

Special Report By Andrew Joseph

The coronavirus at 1: A year into the pandemic, what scientists know about how it spreads, infects, and sickens 

Special Report By Helen Branswell

The Covid-19 vaccines are a marvel of science. Here’s how we can make the best use of them