Skip to Main Content

Try STAT+ TODAY

viruses

Most Read

Pills dollar QALY

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Two dozen states side with HHS in its raucous dispute with pharma over a drug discount program

Bakul Patel

Health Tech By Casey Ross

Google taps FDA’s former digital health chief for global strategy role

cytokine storm cell signalling

Health By Jason Mast

FDA rejects antidepressant seen as possible Covid-19 treatment

Benjamins

Biotech By Allison DeAngelis

Apollo acquires minority stake in Sofinnova, extending private equity dealmaking in life sciences

By STAT

The need for speed and safety: A primer on the FDA’s drug approval pathways

Bribery

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Greece plans to go to court to seek compensation from Novartis over a bribery scandal

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Pharmalittle: FDA OKs new type of diabetes drug from Lilly; Early-stage biotechs are juicy targets for M&A surge

Biotech By Damian Garde

Seagen CEO resigns after arrest on domestic assault charges

All Coverage

HIV Virus

Health By Helen Branswell

Patient Zero in AIDS crisis was misidentified, study says, rewriting early history of virus

Cold sneeze

In the Lab By Carl Zimmer

Scientists think the common cold may at last be beatable

advertisement

Paleovirology

In the Lab By Shayla Love

Genetic fossil-hunters dig through HIV’s long history for clues to new treatments

Maureen Dowd - Zika

First Opinion By Maureen Dowd

A week of living anxiously: Maureen Dowd in a Zika hot zone

Health By Associated Press

Guantanamo Bay contractor has been infected with Zika, Navy says

GOP 2016 Convention

Health By Sheila Kaplan

Norovirus outbreak confirmed among Republican convention staffers

Zika Virus pregnancy

Health By Helen Branswell

Antibiotic may help limit Zika’s damage, new study suggests

Peter Piot

Special Report By Helen Branswell

History credits this man with discovering Ebola on his own. History is wrong

DNA In Space

In the Lab By Associated Press

First virus-hunter in space will test DNA-decoding device

Norovirus

Quick Take By Ike Swetlitz

A serious stomach bug: Norovirus costs billions of dollars of lost productivity

Mosquito Billboard

Health By Andrew Joseph

Billboards in Brazil have been rigged to lure and kill Zika-carrying mosquitoes

Zika pregnancy

Health By Andrew Joseph

Does getting Zika raise a woman’s risk of birth defects in future pregnancies?

Mimivirus

In the Lab By Carl Zimmer

Inside the secret defense systems of giant viruses

Dr. Sherif Zaki

In the Lab By Helen Branswell

A disease detective hunts pathogens with a photographic memory — and a genius mind

Jamaica video Zika

Quick Take By Melissa Bailey

Jamaica releases reggae music video to fight Zika

INDIA DENGUE

Health By Helen Branswell

How Hawaii’s dengue outbreak could foreshadow Zika’s spread in the US

Andre Penner/AP

Health By Helen Branswell

CDC expands Zika travel advisory for pregnant women to more countries

Martin Mejia/AP

Health By Associated Press

Worry over Zika virus leads El Salvador to urge two-year delay in pregnancies

Chest X-ray pneumonia

In the Lab By Eric Boodman

Bacteria or virus? New diagnostic tool could curb antibiotic overuse

ZIKA VIRUS mosquitos

Health By Helen Branswell

Zika virus could spread to parts of Texas, Florida, experts warn

Felipe Dana/AP

Health By Helen Branswell

Everything you need to know about Zika virus

Camel

In the Lab By Helen Branswell

Camel vaccine against MERS could slow camel-to-human infections

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Prisons can lock up savings by treating inmates with hepatitis C