Health

Politics Lev Facher and Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: JD Vance’s rhetoric, and record, on the opioid epidemic

Health Elizabeth Cooney

Vaccination slashes risk of long Covid, says large study tracing cases through Delta and Omicron variants

In the Lab Angus Chen

Bone marrow donors needn’t be perfect match, study says, paving way for more equitable access

Business Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Elevance tumbles as health insurer warns Medicaid members are using more care

Health Elaine Chen

As GLP-1 sales surge, insulin users fear Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly will move on without them

Health Timmy Broderick

Long Covid is more prevalent among Americans with disabilities, new CDC data show

Exclusive Nicholas Florko

STAT Plus: Applesauce lead contamination could not have been prevented, top FDA official suggests

Business Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: UnitedHealth CEO concedes company was ‘over-optimistic’ about Change cyberattack recovery

Health Andrew Joseph

USDA maintains bird flu can be eliminated from dairy cows, even as doubts mount among experts

Health Annalisa Merelli

Addressing the “postpartum cliff” may be as simple as sending a few text messages

The Readout Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: Roche looks to have a competitive GLP-1 drug

Health Eric Boodman

Despite bird flu anxiety in the dairy barn, a yearly tradition carries on at an Iowa county fair

Health Angus Chen

Q&A: Why more info can lead some women to prefer delaying first mammogram

The Readout Meghana Keshavan

STAT Plus: What are the odds we get an heir to Paxlovid?

Health Helen Branswell

Bird flu snapshot: As the number of infected dairy herds mount, so too does pessimism about driving H5N1 out of cows

The Readout Meghana Keshavan

STAT Plus: Element Biosciences raises another massive round

Health Isabella Cueto

Alcohol is driving a half-dozen types of cancer in the U.S., study finds

The Readout Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: Can you get satiety with GLP-1s without the nausea?

Health Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: Elmo and his friends are helping little kids (and grown-ups) with their ‘big feelings’ amid a mental health crisis

Health Nicholas Florko

Medicaid is paying millions for salty, fat-laden ‘medically tailored’ cheeseburgers and sandwiches

Health Isabella Cueto

Researchers identify ‘molecular switch’ in lupus that could stymie harmful immune response

The Readout Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: uniQure shares soar on Huntington’s data

Health Annalisa Merelli

Free medical school tuition unlikely to have a major impact on the U.S. health care system

The Readout Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: Lilly’s obesity drug looks more potent than Novo’s in observational study

First Opinion Nora D. Volkow and Tisha Wiley

Everyone deserves addiction treatment that works — including those in jail

The Readout Meghana Keshavan

STAT Plus: The biotech news you missed this week

Health Megan Molteni

Bird flu snapshot: Live H5N1 virus grown from raw milk samples as Delaware moves to legalize its sale

Health Rohan Rajeev

STAT Plus: GLP-1s associated with lower risk of 10 obesity-related cancers, study shows

Health Nicholas St. Fleur

Constructing an atlas of human biology in space: Q&A with Christopher Mason