Health

Morning Rounds Theresa Gaffney

Morning Rounds: The ‘very risky business’ of buying weight loss drugs online

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Medicare scrambles to keep prescription drug plan premiums stable ahead of elections

Health Lev Facher

STAT Plus: Politics is holding back the best tool for treating meth addiction

Health tech Katie Palmer

STAT Plus: Weight loss drugs without a prescription? Study warns it’s a ‘very risky business’

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: UnitedHealth and HCA clash over hospital chain’s rates in ‘battle of the giants’

Morning Rounds Theresa Gaffney

Morning Rounds: Inside the making of the first malaria vaccine

Special Report Andrew Joseph

4 takeaways from STAT’s story on the development of malaria vaccines

Special Report Andrew Joseph

Behind the malaria vaccines: A 40-year quest against one of humanity’s biggest killers

Morning Rounds Theresa Gaffney

Morning Rounds: Grindr gets into health care lobbying

Health Rohan Rajeev

Vision loss and high cholesterol identified as risk factors for dementia

Health Nicholas Florko

What I learned about ultra-processed foods from stuffing my face at the world’s leading food technology event

Health Lev Facher

Biden administration should push for addiction medication in recovery houses, groups say

Pharmalot Bob Herman and Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Wells Fargo faces class action lawsuit over workers’ high drug costs

Health Lev Facher

Substance use stayed at high levels in 2023, while vaping increased and smoking fell

Health Helen Branswell

CDC will offer seasonal flu shots to farmworkers to lower bird flu risk

D.C. Diagnosis Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: Picking apart health care lobbying, from Grindr to Lipton Tea

Health Theresa Gaffney

There’s more data for trans people with HIV than any other disease — but it’s still flawed

Morning Rounds Theresa Gaffney

Morning Rounds: Would a bird flu vaccine for cows work?

Health Elizabeth Cooney

New cardiovascular risk model could greatly decrease use of statins and increase heart attacks, study warns

Biotech Matthew Herper

STAT Plus: In a big step for liquid biopsy, FDA approves a blood screening test for colorectal cancer

Health Helen Branswell

Could cow vaccines help halt the spread of bird flu in U.S. herds? Experts are divided

Health Helen Branswell

Bird flu snapshot: Upstart manufacturers in low- and middle-income countries to start early vaccine work

Morning Rounds Brittany Trang

Morning Rounds: Three new bird flu cases in humans brings total to 13 in U.S.

Health Angus Chen

Breast cancer study reveals a paradox of mastectomy

Health Helen Branswell

Hospitals, labs, and health departments try to cope with blood culture bottle shortage

Health Usha Lee McFarling

VA disputes claim that removing race from lung tests would greatly alter disability payments

Health Isabella Cueto

Q&A: Trans adults face ‘shocking’ risk of cirrhosis, especially alcohol-driven

Health Megan Molteni

Bird flu that infected 6 Colorado poultry workers is closely related to the virus in cows

Exclusive Timmy Broderick

STAT Plus: Wastewater surveillance group funded by Google founder, Bloomberg sheds dozens of testing sites