Pharmaceutical

STAT+: FTC says pharmacy benefit managers are stonewall...

A much-anticipated FTC inquiry into pharmaceutical industry middlemen has been s...

STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about Congress punts...

BioMarin Pharmaceutical received a subpoena from the U.S. Department of Justice ...

GSK pill works in uncomplicated gonorrhea

Gonorrhea is on the rise, and growing increasingly resistant to antibiotics. Gep...

STAT+: Viking Therapeutics obesity drug hits target in ...

An obesity drug from Viking Therapeutics succeeded in a Phase 2 study, helping p...

STAT+: Experts say scale of Change cyberattack shows ri...

The scale of the Change Healthcare cyberattack shows the risk of centralized cla...

STAT+: FDA protocols originally intended to be extra co...

Decisions made by the FDA more than 20 years ago have come under heightened scru...

Opinion: IVF bans like Alabama’s could cost the lives o...

In the wake of the Alabama court ruling, debates about “personhood” must remembe...

Opinion: Palliative psychiatry offers a new path for so...

Palliative psychiatry is a compassionate approach that acknowledges the limits o...

STAT+: MD Anderson tried — and failed — to resolve rese...

Whose idea was it? New documents reveal deep divide in a dispute involving Padma...

STAT+: Congress ditches site-neutral hospital pay policy

Congress has decided not to pass a site-neutral hospital pay policy along with a...

STAT+: Private equity firm offers $5.8 billion buyout o...

Private equity firm New Mountain Capital has offered to purchase R1 RCM for $13....

STAT+: The quest for psychedelics in the Amazon would p...

Decades ago, Harvard botanist Richard Evans Schultes braved malaria and worse to...

STAT+: Congress punts on PBM reform efforts

Congress has abandoned its attempt to reform how PBMs operate in an upcoming pac...

The FDA isn’t afraid to yank a disappointing drug

The FDA is rescinding its approval of a blood cancer treatment from the Swedish ...

STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about state moves on...

Oregon officials have suspended a portion of a contentious state law designed to...

STAT+: Obesity treatment from Boehringer Ingelheim, Zea...

A drug in development as a weight loss treatment succeeded in a Phase 2 study in...