Pharmaceutical

STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a Vertex pain ...

People who have severe pain but want to avoid the risk of opioid addiction are c...

STAT+: Vertex’s closely watched pain relief drug succee...

Results announced Tuesday by Vertex bring the biopharma giant a step closer to l...

STAT+: Cour Pharmaceuticals, a biotech taking aim at au...

Cour Pharmaceuticals, which announced a $105 million Series A round Tuesday, is ...

STAT+: Ultima Genomics launching high-end DNA sequencer...

Upstart sequencing company Ultima Genomics told STAT it will soon launch a line ...

Opinion: The emergency room is where the United States’...

The emergency room is where the United States’ social problems come home to roost.

STAT+: Can Wegovy treat depression as well as obesity? ...

The memory and focus problems common to depression, researchers hope, may be all...

STAT+: FDA’s Woodcock reflects on more than 30 years at...

It’s the end of an era for the FDA’s longtime drug chief, Janet Woodcock. But sh...

STAT+: Sophisticated phishing and deepfakes: How genera...

Security experts caution that health care systems are particularly at risk as ha...

Can the government ask social media sites to take down ...

SCOTUS will consider whether the government’s requests for sites to moderate Cov...

Supreme Court slates abortion pill case for March

The Supreme Court will hear arguments about access to the abortion medication mi...

Opinion: I’m an anesthesiologist. Kenneth Smith’s execu...

Alabama says that Kenneth Smith's execution was "textbook." What textbook are th...

Scientists document first-ever transmitted Alzheimer’s ...

Scientists document the first-ever transmitted Alzheimer’s cases, tied to a no-l...

STAT+: European regulators tout their accomplishments a...

European antitrust regulators want you to know that fighting crime in the pharma...

23andMe breach targeted Chinese, Jewish populations

A new lawsuit accuses 23andMe of failing to protect the privacy of customers who...

Moderna leads the development of mRNA vaccines in infec...

The rapid sequencing of the SARS-CoV-2 and the subsequent development of mRNA va...

Pfizer and Astellas seek updated EMA approval for Padce...

Results from a Phase III trial indicated that adding MSD’s blockbuster drug boos...