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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...

STAT+: Liver disease MASH is next target for obesity dr...

Drugmakers are eyeing GLP-1 drugs, with their high levels of weight loss, as a p...

Opinion: A new Louisiana capital-punishment bill would ...

The movement to embrace state execution by means of nitrogen has a troubling new...

Psychological science professor receives prestigious CA...

The National Science Foundation awarded Grant Shields, assistant professor of ps...

Wearable sticker turns hand movements into communication

WASHINGTON — Imagine wearing a thin flexible sticker that can turn your hand or ...

The anti-aging effect of vitamin D and vitamin D recept...

“Our study demonstrated that the VitD/VDR [vitamin D/vitamin D receptor] pathway...

You may be breathing in more tiny nanoparticles from yo...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Cooking on your gas stove can emit more nano-sized partic...

White House includes two Tufts-related initiatives in c...

Two Tufts-related initiatives have been included in the White House’s new round ...

Exposure to secondhand smoke during chemotherapy makes ...

People who are diagnosed with head and neck cancer often receive a standard type...

Bariatric surgery provides long-term blood glucose cont...

BATON ROUGE – People with type 2 diabetes who underwent bariatric surgery achiev...

Sniffing our way to better health

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Imagine if we could inhale scents that delay the onset of ca...