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Politics Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: The health care stances of 5 leading candidates to be Harris’ VP

Health tech Matthew Herper

STAT Plus: 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki files proposal to take company private

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

The Readout Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: The debate over how long to use Alzheimer’s drugs

Health Nicholas Florko

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

A STAT Investigation Katherine Eban

Mount Sinai mounted aggressive campaign to stifle debate over revelations about its controversial brain research

First Opinion Radoje Drmanac

STAT Plus: DNA data security requires robust protections, not rhetoric

Health Lev Facher

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

First Opinion Henry Bair

Cost counseling and stewardship need to be part of medical school curricula

Politics Sarah Owermohle and Rachel Cohrs Zhang

STAT Plus: 7 key people who could shape Trump’s health care policy

Pharmalot Bob Herman and Ed Silverman

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

Biotech Elaine Chen and Adam Feuerstein

STAT Plus: Eisai, Biogen make case for long-term use of Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi with new data

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: NIH loses suit over censoring social media comments made by animal rights advocates

Health Lev Facher

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

Biotech Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: Merck shares fall after drop in China HPV vaccine sales

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

The Readout Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: Testing GLP-1s in Alzheimer’s, and is Medicare a good negotiator?

Biotech Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: Older GLP-1 drug may help protect brains of Alzheimer’s patients, early study suggests

First Opinion Paul Hudson

How artificial intelligence can bolster Europe’s competitive edge in biopharma

Health Theresa Gaffney

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

Health tech Katie Palmer

STAT Plus: Health care’s ‘Pepsi challenge’: Doctors’ offices are testing AI tools in head-to-head pilots

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: How to tell if Biden drove a hard bargain in Medicare drug price negotiations

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Dental AI startup raises $30 million, including from Mark Zuckerberg’s dad

In the Lab Alia Sajani

STAT Plus: Parasite engineered to treat brain development disorder in mice shows potential in study

Politics Nicholas Florko and Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: Dating app Grindr hires Tom Daschle’s firm to lobby on HIV prevention, IVF

Morning Rounds Theresa Gaffney

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

In the Lab Associated Press

Blood tests for Alzheimer’s diagnosis were 91% accurate in new study