Special Report

Special Report Casey Ross

Microsoft’s note-taking tool asks doctors to make a grand bargain: Share patient data, and get your life back

Special Report Matthew Herper

Here’s why we’re not prepared for the next wave of biotech innovation

Special Report Tara Bannow and Bob Herman

Private equity’s Welsh Carson, casting itself as a noble force, relentlessly pursues profits in health care

Special Report Karen Pennar

‘If I were a hospital, I’d be reading the tea leaves’: Pressures grow on the health care industry to reduce its climate pollution

Special Report Sarah Owermohle

A minuscule new HHS office has a mammoth goal: tackling environmental justice

Special Report Andrew Joseph

Two deadly days in St. Louis: An overdose cluster kills 8 Black people — and shows the new shape of the addiction crisis

Special Report Eric Boodman

In the label ‘adult failure to thrive,’ medicine reveals its own failures

Special Report Angus Chen

This clinical trial wanted to end breast cancer disparities. But first it needed to enroll Black women

Special Report Andrew Joseph

To protect people with addiction from discrimination, the Justice Dept. turns to a long-overlooked tool: the ADA

Special Report Todd Feathers, Simon Fondrie-Teitler, Angie Waller, and Surya Mattu — The Markup

Facebook is receiving sensitive medical information from hospital websites

Special Report Angus Chen

‘How do you decide?’: Cancer treatment’s CAR-T crisis has patients dying on a waitlist

Special Report Jonathan Moens

Costly Alzheimer’s treatment is spreading around the world, with virtually no science to back it up

Special Report Megan Molteni

From burst bubble to medical marvel: How lipid nanoparticles became the future of gene therapy

Special Report Matthew Herper

How Paxlovid came to be: From the germ of an idea to a vital tool against Covid

Special Report STAT Staff

Covid hasn’t given up all its secrets. Here are 6 mysteries experts hope to unravel

Special Report Tara Bannow

Hospitals have been financially propping up medical schools, but now it’s squeezing their bottom lines

Special Report Lev Facher

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

Special Report Rachel Cohrs

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

Special Report Usha Lee McFarling

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

Special Report Casey Ross

How a decades-old database became a hugely profitable dossier on the health of 270 million Americans

Special Report Isabella Cueto

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

Special Report 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 Adam Feuerstein and Damian Garde

Biogen’s reckoning: How the Aduhelm debacle pushed a troubled company and its fractured leadership to the brink

Special Report Olivia Goldhill — STAT and Rosa Furneaux and Madlen Davies — TBIJ

‘Naively ambitious’: How COVAX failed on its promise to vaccinate the world

Special Report Bethany Mollenkof

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