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Politics Sarah Owermohle

Revamped Covid panel argues for research limits, even bans

Health Angus Chen

Study of trans men suggests that androgen hormone therapy can lower breast cancer risk

Health Tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: In Theranos’s backyard, a health tech leader takes another crack at better blood tests

Health Angus Chen

STAT Plus: An mRNA vaccine for cancers associated with HPV shows promise in mice

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: As a U.S. agency denies permits to import monkeys for research, industry starts pushing back

First Opinion Sanjay Kishore and Suhas Gondi

Nonprofit hospitals are failing Americans. Their boards may be a reason why

First Opinion Ruth Hailu, Andrew Beam and Ateev Mehrotra

ChatGPT-assisted diagnosis: Is the future suddenly here?

Health Isabella Cueto

Revenge of the gaslit patients: Now, as scientists, they’re tackling Ehlers-Danlos syndromes

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Politics Sarah Owermohle and Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: HHS chooses a location for ARPA-H — sort of

Health Carla K. Johnson — Associated Press

Prostate cancer treatment can wait for most men, study finds

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Politics Joanne Silberner

STAT Plus: Medicare will take R&D costs, effectiveness into account when it negotiates drug prices. But studies show that doesn’t affect prices

Politics Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: Biden makes big demands for cancer research and new ARPA-H agency

Opinions+ Irfan Khan

STAT Plus: Developing new drugs starts with building the next generation of clinical investigators

STAT Madness Elissa Welle

Meet the contenders for STAT Madness 2023. Voting begins March 1

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Little transparency, lots of waste: NIH funds pediatric research, but many trials results go unpublished

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Charles River suspends shipments of monkeys used in research amid federal probe

In the Lab Kanis Leung and Emily Wang Fujiyama — Associated Press

Hong Kong pulls visa for ‘CRISPR babies’ scientist He Jiankui

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Government watchdog calls for stronger oversight of for-profit research review boards

Health Calli McMurray

Current treatments for cramps aren’t cutting it. Why aren’t there better options?

Health Elaine Chen

Researchers link certain genes to obesity complications in women

First Opinion Mini Kahlon

How ‘empathetic engagement’ can increase access to mental health care

In the Lab Andrew Joseph

Scientific institutions must embrace antiracist policies, National Academies report urges

Health Helen Branswell

In large study, a single antibiotic dose slashed rate of sepsis in childbirth

In the Lab Angus Chen

STAT Plus: Engineered virus shows promise against aggressive form of breast cancer

Health Elaine Chen

Seizure drug offers hope of expanding the pool of donor hearts

In the Lab Jonathan Wosen

New mouse study shows genes aren’t only way to pass obesity to next generation

First Opinion Bruce Bloom

2022 was a breakthrough year for understanding rare diseases. 2023 needs to be better

Pharmalot Ed Silverman and Andrew Joseph

STAT Plus: Leading ALS advocacy group roiled by infighting over money and priorities

First Opinion Juergen Eckhardt and George Church

Disruptive science is leaping forward, not limping along

Health Tech Matthew Herper and Casey Ross

STAT Plus: New antidepressant study provides hints to Verily’s future

Health Usha Lee McFarling

MRI scans reveal disparate impact of poverty and other ‘toxic stress’ on brains of Black children

In the Lab Sarah Owermohle

Federal panel approves plans to safeguard lab-made virus research

First Opinion Yap Boum II and Sunil Parikh

How a checklist can help decolonize global health research