Pharmaceutical

STAT+: Medicare official insists drug price negotiation will consider value of drugs

STAT+: Medicare official insists drug price negotiation...

Apr 25, 2023

When Medicare starts negotiating drug prices, it will take into account how impo...

Telehealth companies that provide abortion pills grapple with regulatory uncertainty

Telehealth companies that provide abortion pills grappl...

Apr 25, 2023

In the latest edition of STAT's Health Tech newsletter: bad news for Oracle, tel...

STAT+: FDA approves new treatment from Biogen for rare form of ALS

STAT+: FDA approves new treatment from Biogen for rare ...

Apr 25, 2023

The FDA has granted conditional approval to a new treatment for a rare, genetic ...

STAT+: Sens. Bernie Sanders, Bill Cassidy reach deal on PBM, generic reform

STAT+: Sens. Bernie Sanders, Bill Cassidy reach deal on...

Apr 25, 2023

Sens. Bernie Sanders and Bill Cassidy laid out a bipartisan proposal to increase...

With little FDA oversight, melatonin supplements vary widely in actual dosage, study finds

With little FDA oversight, melatonin supplements vary w...

Apr 25, 2023

A study found melatonin gummies that were three times more powerful than adverti...

STAT+: Pharmalittle: Novartis boosts its sales and profit outlook; Biogen trims its drug pipeline

STAT+: Pharmalittle: Novartis boosts its sales and prof...

Apr 25, 2023

Novartis raised its full-year sales and profit projections thanks to a crop of n...

STAT+: Morphic study shows promise — and blockbuster potential — for a pill to treat ulcerative colitis

STAT+: Morphic study shows promise — and blockbuster po...

Apr 25, 2023

An experimental oral medicine to treat ulcerative colitis showed promise — and b...

‘There’s a huge fatphobia problem in the eating disorder world’: Even in treatment, weight stigma fails patients

‘There’s a huge fatphobia problem in the eating disorde...

Apr 25, 2023

Eating disorder specialists disagree about how to best address obesity and weigh...

Opinion: Why involuntary treatment for addiction is a dangerous idea

Opinion: Why involuntary treatment for addiction is a d...

Apr 25, 2023

Involuntary treatment might be worth it if it worked — but evidence strongly sug...

STAT+: Maryland pushes first-of-its-kind bill to promote alternatives to animals in biomedical research

STAT+: Maryland pushes first-of-its-kind bill to promot...

Apr 25, 2023

"We believe the best way to end animal testing is to pump up alternative R&D tes...

STAT+: Pharmalittle: Weight-loss drug makers lobby Congress for Medicare coverage; Europe braces for new pharma legislation

STAT+: Pharmalittle: Weight-loss drug makers lobby Cong...

Apr 25, 2023

Weight-loss drug makers are lobbying Congress to grant them access to Medicare f...

STAT+: Bluebird submits sickle cell gene therapy to FDA for approval

STAT+: Bluebird submits sickle cell gene therapy to FDA...

Apr 25, 2023

Gene therapy developer Bluebio Bio said it has submitted a long-awaited applicat...

STAT+: How a small hospital in Nebraska has thrived through the pandemic

STAT+: How a small hospital in Nebraska has thrived thr...

Apr 25, 2023

Great Plains Health CEO Ivan Mitchell spoke with STAT about how his Nebraska hos...

Opinion: How small vaccine stockpiles can stop outbreaks of infectious disease from becoming big

Opinion: How small vaccine stockpiles can stop outbreak...

Apr 25, 2023

If we can’t get this right for known diseases like Marburg, what hope do we have...

Q&A: Chronicling the failures of the U.S. response to Covid

Q&A: Chronicling the failures of the U.S. response to C...

Apr 25, 2023

A new book on the U.S. response to the Covid-19 pandemic paints a picture of a c...

Opinion: How journalists can cover RFK Jr.’s antivax presidential run responsibly

Opinion: How journalists can cover RFK Jr.’s antivax pr...

Apr 25, 2023

Donald Trump showed us how dangerous it is to dismiss a conspiracy theorist with...