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Opioid Crisis Lawsuits
Pharmalot

Drug maker payments to doctors are linked to higher opioid overdose deaths

By Ed Silverman

FDA-Blood Sugar Monitor
Health

FDA approves first blood sugar monitor without finger pricks

By Associated Press

Robert Moir
In the Lab

How an outsider in Alzheimer’s research bucked the prevailing theory — and clawed for validation

By Sharon Begley

Atul Gawande
Business

Gawande, still mum on plans for new health venture, pulls out of major health conference

By Casey Ross

The Watchdogs

Does a journal of homeopathy belong in science?

By Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

Eli Lilly
Business

Eli Lilly arranged for surprise purchase of Loxo, as the biotech pressed potential of its experimental drug

By Matthew Herper

March For Life
Politics

As the March for Life approaches, anti-abortion leaders are rebranding as ‘pro-science.’ Scientists say otherwise

By Lev Facher and Megan Thielking

Celgene
Biotech

After its own megamerger, Celgene signs deals with two biotechs for their cancer drugs

By Jonathan Saltzman — Boston Globe

Jim Ewing 04
In the Lab

Pioneering surgery makes a prosthetic foot feel like the real thing

By Gideon Gil and Matthew Orr

Vicodin
First Opinion

Did I just feed an addiction? Or ease a man’s pain? Welcome to modern medicine’s moral cage fight

By Jay Baruch

Healey
Health

‘A blizzard of prescriptions’: Documents reveal new details about Purdue’s marketing of OxyContin

By Andrew Joseph

Data mining concept illo
First Opinion

Virtual repurposing can speed the discovery of new uses for existing drugs

By Inga Peter

Sentinel
A STAT Investigation

Failure to warn: An early warning system for drug risks falls flat

By Sheila Kaplan

China Gene Edited Babies
Exclusive

‘CRISPR babies’ lab asked U.S. scientist for help to disable cholesterol gene in human embryos

By Sharon Begley

Heroin and Fentanyl doses
Health

Why fentanyl is deadlier than heroin, in a single photo

By Allison Bond

Science Happens!

Episode 8: With some help from salamanders, will humans one day be able to regrow limbs?

By Carl Zimmer

Non-small Cell Carcinoma of the Lung
Health

A new way of testing tumors may help match patients with cancer immunotherapies

By Damian Garde

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