Pharmaceutical

With latest tranche, U.K. Biobank has genome sequences ...

Data from half a million people’s whole genome sequences are now available to re...

STAT+: Cigna, Humana in talks to merge into health insu...

Cigna and Humana are in discussions to merge, a potential move that would create...

STAT+: Biden defends Trump-era drug pricing rule on cop...

Biden and Trump are on the same page when it comes to letting insurers not count...

U.S. life expectancy rose in 2022, but it remains below...

U.S. life expectancy rose last year — by more than a year — but still isn't clos...

STAT+: FDA chief scientist to replace Woodcock

The FDA’s chief scientist will replace retiring Janet Woodcock as principal depu...

STAT+: UnitedHealth Group now employs or is affiliated ...

The rapid growth of UnitedHealth’s physician base, including 20,000 doctors in t...

Texas abortion case puts doctors’ agency in treating pr...

At stake in the Texas case is the issue of how much agency doctors have to exerc...

Flagship Pioneering crosses the pond, opens a European ...

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: FDA probes CAR-T therapy for links...

The FDA is investigating whether CAR-T therapy, which uses genetically modified ...

STAT+: Saudi VC loops Novo Nordisk, other biotech VCs i...

Hevolution, a Saudi investment firm focused on aging science, is launching an in...

Opinion: Neuroscience has to grapple with a long legacy...

Neuroscience and its related fields have long discriminated against Black people...

Opinion: Listen: What we take for granted after 30 year...

"If you were going to be depressed any time in history and were interested in ha...

STAT+: Blood cancers may arise from CAR-T cells, but ex...

“I don’t think it changes the risk-benefit calculation for any particular patien...

STAT+: Colon cancer prevention paradox: Higher-risk pat...

Patients at risk for colorectal cancer “are literally being penalized” with high...

Tanden, Becerra, Califf make time for a meeting with to...

A host of major Biden health officials took time for a meeting with tobacco indu...

STAT+: White House official dings Bristol Myers Squibb ...

A White House Domestic Policy Council deputy criticized Bristol Myers Squibb's e...