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Exclusive By Adam Feuerstein, Matthew Herper and Damian Garde

Inside ‘Project Onyx’: How Biogen used an FDA back channel to win approval of its polarizing Alzheimer’s drug

Prescription Politics By Lev Facher

More than two-thirds of Congress cashed a pharma campaign check in 2020, new STAT analysis shows

cold and flu viruses

Special Report By Helen Branswell

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

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Special Report By Eric Boodman

He’s a Stanford professor and a Nobel laureate. Critics say he was dangerously misleading on Covid

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Special Report By Usha Lee McFarling

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

COVID-19 patient hand

Special Report By Andrew Joseph

Data show hospitalized Covid-19 patients are surviving at higher rates, but surge in cases could roll back gains

Road ahead

Special Report By Andrew Joseph

The Road Ahead: Charting the coronavirus pandemic over the next 12 months — and beyond

Special Report By Lev Facher

Pharma is showering Congress with cash, even as drug makers race to fight the coronavirus

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The Glades

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

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BIO rebuild

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

J'Haun Egerson-Carter

Special Report By Nicholas St. Fleur

Chadwick Boseman’s tragedy is America’s tragedy: In colorectal cancer hot spots, young men are dying at higher rates

Prescription Politics By Lev Facher

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

Latasha Taylor

Special Report By Olivia Goldhill

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

Kate Brown

Special Report By Andrew Joseph

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

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Special Report By Brent Crane — The Wire

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

Anquan Boldin Stadium

Special Report By Olivia Goldhill

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

VC funding

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

Hospital power in DC

Special Report By Rachel Cohrs

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

Portrait of Covid-19

Special Report By Andrew Joseph

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

Vaccine summit

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

Pfizer freezer farm

Special Report By Damian Garde — STAT and Jonathan Saltzman — Boston Globe

The story of mRNA: How a once-dismissed idea became a leading technology in the Covid vaccine race

Pinterest racism

Special Report By Erin Brodwin

Externally polished, internally marginalized: Inside the fight over Pinterest’s health misinformation policy

Special Report By Lev Facher

First-of-its-kind examination shows how widely pharma showers campaign cash at the state level

Perna, Slaoui, Trump

Special Report By Nicholas Florko

The 8 most important leaders of Operation Warp Speed

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Special Report By Erin Brodwin and Rebecca Robbins

As Elon Musk’s Neuralink prepares to draw back the curtain, ex-employees describe rushed timelines clashing with science’s slow pace

BIDEN_COVID

Special Report By Lev Facher

Ramped-up testing and daily briefings: Inside Biden’s plan to take over a tumultuous Covid-19 response

TELADOC medal

Special Report By Rebecca Robbins and Erin Brodwin

How Teladoc won: The inside story of how well-timed bets propelled it ahead of the competition

Soon Shiong Collage

Special Report By Rebecca Robbins and Adam Feuerstein

Harry Reid and Alex Trebek tried Patrick Soon-Shiong’s experimental cancer therapy. Can their results be duplicated in a clinical trial?

AI hospital care

Special Report By Rebecca Robbins and Erin Brodwin

An invisible hand: Patients aren’t being told about the AI systems advising their care

CDC Moat

Special Report By Nicholas Florko

The CDC has always been an apolitical island. That’s left it defenseless against Trump