Pharmaceutical

After outcry, UnitedHealthcare softens prior authorizat...

An insurer backs off from new barriers to colonoscopies, but imposes new incenti...

Black men were likely underdiagnosed with lung problems...

Algorithms that adjust for race raise the threshold for diagnosing a problem in ...

Listen: Fake medical devices, real cancer drugs, & curi...

Why are fake medical devices more lucrative than real ones? Is Ozempic a neurolo...

Nuance’s mysterious pricing, speedier digital health ev...

In the latest edition of STAT's Health Tech newsletter: Nuance's mysterious pric...

Insurance alone didn’t guarantee adherence to Ozempic, ...

A study of thousands of people who were prescribed GLP-based drugs like Ozempic ...

U.S. births in 2022 didn’t return to pre-pandemic levels

U.S. births were flat last year, as the nation saw fewer babies born than it did...

Medicare holds firm on Alzheimer’s drug coverage policy

Despite pressure from Congress and advocates, CMS isn’t changing its coverage pl...

STAT+: Pharmalittle: Coherus undercuts AbbVie with disc...

Coherus BioSciences plans to sell a Humira biosimilar at a steep discount and wi...

STAT+: Tempus launches an AI ‘assistant’ for thousands ...

Tempus, a company that combines DNA sequencing for cancer with artificial intell...

STAT+: Coherus works with Mark Cuban to sell biosimilar...

In a bold move, Coherus BioSciences plans to sell a Humira biosimilar at a steep...

STAT+: Debt ceiling deal could mean cancer, disease res...

Researchers and health care advocates are warning that the debt ceiling deal wou...

STAT+: Republicans want to crack down on pricey health ...

Republicans are selling a provision of the debt ceiling deal as a way to limit h...

Opinion: The DEA needs to officially allow telehealth p...

Now is the time for advocates to demand the DEA enshrine telehealth care.

Biden plans to pick Mandy Cohen to lead CDC

President Biden plans to tap longtime federal and state health official Mandy Co...

STAT+: Pharmalittle: Medicare holds firm on Alzheimer’s...

Despite pressure from Congress and advocates, Medicare is not changing its cover...

STAT+: Novartis drug reduces breast cancer recurrence, ...

Kisqali, a breast cancer pill made by Novartis, reduced the risk of recurrence o...