Pharmaceutical

STAT+: Congress is launching a tobacco harm reduction caucus. Its biggest supporter so far? Philip Morris

STAT+: Congress is launching a tobacco harm reduction c...

Apr 13, 2023

Congress is launching a tobacco harm reduction caucus. Its biggest supporter so ...

STAT+: Medicare advisers endorse reforms to lower drug spending

STAT+: Medicare advisers endorse reforms to lower drug ...

Apr 13, 2023

MedPAC wants Medicare to cap payments for drugs that the FDA greenlit via its ac...

Listen: How the legal battle over abortion could thwart...

Apr 13, 2023

Is pharma facing an existential threat? How do you get CEOs to speak out? And wh...

STAT+: Flawed AI algorithms can cause harm in medicine. A research team has a plan to root out bias

STAT+: Flawed AI algorithms can cause harm in medicine....

Apr 13, 2023

There are a lot of ways that AI can go awry in health and medicine. A team of re...

Scientists, going on a bear hunt, find a potential way to treat deadly blood clots

Scientists, going on a bear hunt, find a potential way ...

Apr 13, 2023

Manuela Thienel and her 38 collaborators — it takes a village to study a bear — ...

Promising new malaria vaccine for kids approved in Ghana

Promising new malaria vaccine for kids approved in Ghana

Apr 13, 2023

Ghana on Thursday became the first country to approve a new malaria vaccine for ...

STAT+: Federal group studying surprise ambulance bills will finally meet — four months late

STAT+: Federal group studying surprise ambulance bills ...

Apr 13, 2023

The federal committee in charge of finding ways to stop surprise billing from gr...

STAT+: Pharmalittle: Appeals court allows access to abortion pill, but with restrictions; FDA official intervened on behalf of Sarepta gene therapy

STAT+: Pharmalittle: Appeals court allows access to abo...

Apr 13, 2023

A U.S. appeals court is allowing continued access to the abortion pill mifeprist...

STAT+: Google will let health care customers test its generative AI model, ramping up rivalry with GPT-4

STAT+: Google will let health care customers test its g...

Apr 13, 2023

Google will let health care customers test its generative AI model, ramping up t...

Abortion drug battle will head to Supreme Court after appeals court decision

Abortion drug battle will head to Supreme Court after a...

Apr 13, 2023

A federal appeals court is allowing continued access to a common abortion medica...

STAT+: Pear Therapeutics dreamt of huge revenues and ‘commercial scale.’ It never came close

STAT+: Pear Therapeutics dreamt of huge revenues and ‘c...

Apr 13, 2023

Pear Therapeutics said it would grow from $4 million in 2021 to a whopping $125 ...

Opinion: ‘Internist’ is a confusing, outdated term. It’s time for a new name

Opinion: ‘Internist’ is a confusing, outdated term. It’...

Apr 13, 2023

"Internist" is a confusing, outdated term. It's time to embrace "internal medici...

STAT+: FDA staff leaned toward rejecting Sarepta gene therapy before top official intervened

STAT+: FDA staff leaned toward rejecting Sarepta gene t...

Apr 13, 2023

Reviewers at the FDA were leaning toward rejecting a closely watched gene therap...

STAT+: Sickle cell gene therapies could be cost-effective even if priced as high as $1.9 million

STAT+: Sickle cell gene therapies could be cost-effecti...

Apr 13, 2023

The pending arrival of the treatments is causing a degree of trepidation, becaus...

A Parkinson’s ‘game changer,’ backed by Michael J. Fox, could lead to new diagnostics and, someday, treatments

A Parkinson’s ‘game changer,’ backed by Michael J. Fox,...

Apr 13, 2023

In an interview, Michael J. Fox spoke about a new discovery that could lead to n...

Opinion: Michael J. Fox: As a Parkinson’s patient, I felt a little left behind by biology’s century — until now

Opinion: Michael J. Fox: As a Parkinson’s patient, I fe...

Apr 13, 2023

Michael J. Fox celebrates the discovery of a biomarker that can detect dysfuncti...