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WHO recommends second malaria vaccine, hoping to addres...

Just two years after the WHO’s historic recommendation of the first malaria vacc...

STAT+: Verily lands $38 million deal with CDC for waste...

Alphabet’s life sciences company Verily has scored its first CDC contract, a hig...

The stability of $0 premiums in Medicare Advantage

Medicare Advantage plans really didn’t ratchet up their premiums for 2024, despi...

STAT+: Court strikes down Trump-era rule that allowed h...

A U.S. judge has struck down a Trump administration rule that allowed health ins...

STAT+: Former FDA official lays out how to keep patient...

Former FDA official Madris Kinard built a database to help patients, doctors, an...

Here’s what’s moving the needle in biotech stocks, in t...

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: Court allows Medicare drug price n...

A federal judge allowed the new Medicare drug price negotiation program to proce...

CDC proposes new antibiotics policy aimed at reducing STIs

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is proposing a new policy aimed a...

STAT+: Syndax’s leukemia drug succeeds in pivotal study

Syndax Pharmaceuticals’ treatment for a genetically defined form of advanced leu...

STAT+: Mirum’s Chenodal succeeds in late-stage trial fo...

Mirum Pharmaceuticals reported that a recently acquired drug for cerebrotendinou...

2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine: Karikó, Weissman awarded ...

Two pioneers of mRNA research — the technology that helped the world tame the vi...

STAT+: The biotech scorecard for the fourth quarter: 16...

Here is STAT’s biotech scorecard, our regular ledger of stock-moving biotech eve...

Genomic analysis reveals ancient cancer lineages in clams

Credit: Pacific Northwest Research Institute Journal Nature Cancer DOI 10.1038/s...

‘Impossible’ millimeter wave sensor has wide potential

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have developed a proof-of-co...

Study reveals high accuracy of MR-guided radiotherapy f...

A new study, led by radiation oncology physicists at Miami Cancer Institute, par...

Gene expression signatures of human senescent corneal a...

“[…] our results from the RNA-Seq experiments show that senescent ocular surface...