Health Katherine Gilyard Study: religious practice, spirituality can improve Black Americans’ cardiovascular health
Health Tech Casey Ross At Mayo Clinic, AI engineers face an ‘acid test’: Will their algorithms help real patients?
Health Ruth Hailu Patients whose blood pressure only spikes at the doctor’s office are twice as likely to die of a heart attack or other cardiac event
Health Shraddha Chakradhar Former NFL players die at a faster rate than other professional athletes, study finds
First Opinion Larry Husten Beware the hype over the Apple Watch heart app. The device could do more harm than good
Health Eric Boodman Capybara and eight-hour hunts: Why Bolivian hunter-gatherers have the healthiest arteries
Biotech Damian Garde STAT Plus: Data show strong results for Alnylam therapy for heart disease, but magnitude of benefit will stir debate
Health Tech Mario Aguilar STAT Plus: An ambitious stroke prevention study tests the Apple Watch’s promise in health
In the Lab Elizabeth Cooney New research digs into the genetic drivers of heart failure, with an eye to precision treatments
Biotech Damian Garde STAT Plus: Alnylam therapy for increasingly common heart disease succeeds in closely watched trial
The Readout LOUD Damian Garde and Adam Feuerstein Listen: CRISPR for the heart, biotech’s recovery, & what it means to be a ‘hot girl’
Biotech Matthew Herper and Megan Molteni STAT Plus: Verve Therapeutics begins human tests of first ‘base editor,’ aiming at heart disease
Biotech Matthew Herper STAT Plus: New analysis of Amarin’s Vascepa resurrects big questions about effectiveness
Health Akila Muthukumar STAT Plus: Popular drug may have new benefit in men with diabetes, but not women, study shows
Pharmalot Ed Silverman STAT Plus: High blood pressure pills are costly — but also hard to find — in some lower-income countries
Matt's Take Matthew Herper STAT Plus: Robert Califf is a fervent believer in data. At the FDA, will that be enough?
Special Report Damian Garde STAT Plus: It’s the cardiovascular version of Alzheimer’s — and, for a biotech with a promising drug, it could be a windfall
Health Elizabeth Cooney ‘Information alone is not enough’: New Jackson Heart Study leader commits to putting research into action
Health Tech Mario Aguilar STAT Plus: With Apple’s backing, can an app help heart attack patients navigate recovery?
In the Lab Megan Molteni STAT Plus: Gene therapy to regenerate cardiac muscle after a heart attack passes a key test in pigs
First Opinion Cynthia A. Stuenkel and JoAnn E. Manson Are five decades of progress in women’s health in peril?
In the Lab Shraddha Chakradhar In new study, stem cells self-organize into a mini model of a beating heart
Health Tech Casey Ross STAT Plus: AI caught a hidden problem in one patient’s heart. Can it work for others?
Health Usha Lee McFarling When a cardiologist flagged the lack of diversity at premier medical journals, the silence was telling
Health Rebecca Sohn Substance use, suicide, and cardiometabolic conditions drive rise in working-age mortality, report finds
Health Elizabeth Cooney STAT Plus: Challenging the link between statins and muscle pain, patients report no difference in aches when taking drug or placebo
Pharmalot Ed Silverman STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: FDA scientists say J&J Covid-19 shot is effective; vaccine makers predict big jump in deliveries this month