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2026-08-11 19:24:47 UTC

Biotech startups in the U.S., France, and China are racing to bring new gene therapies for deafness by targeting different genetic mutations. https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/11/skylark-bio-gjb2-otoferlin-gene-therapies-for-deafness/

2026-08-03 17:40:45 UTC

Exclusive: Doctors are asking how to get retatrutide for their patients, after Eli Lilly gave one man early access. https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/03/eli-lilly-retatrutide-mystery-patient-doctors-seek-same-access-their-patients/

2026-07-23 17:54:42 UTC

U.S. health officials are investigating a new outbreak of a diarrhea-causing parasite https://www.statnews.com/2026/07/23/cyclospora-second-outbreak-reported-fda-cites-72-new-cases/

2026-06-15 17:57:39 UTC

Covid vaccination was also tied to a nearly 24% reduction in all-cause cardiac events in a large study, surprising researchers. https://www.statnews.com/2026/06/15/covid-vaccination-cardiovascular-protection-jama-study/

2026-05-26 19:30:46 UTC

STAT is seeking an ambitious and intellectually curious reporter to cover one of the defining issues in medicine, science, and public health today: declining trust in science. https://www.statnews.com/careers/stat-reporter-trust-in-science/

2026-03-23 20:16:08 UTC

A new paper shows that women, particularly those early in their careers, have been disproportionately affected by NIH grant terminations. https://www.statnews.com/2026/03/23/nih-cuts-who-lost-funding-women-blacks-young-researchers/

2026-02-13 16:33:27 UTC

American doctors are ignoring vaccine guidance from the U.S. government and making the AAP the most visible opposition to the MAHA vaccine agenda. https://www.statnews.com/2026/02/13/american-academy-pediatrics-becomes-maha-vaccine-foil/

2026-02-10 17:49:09 UTC

The OHSU board of directors unanimously passed a resolution authorizing negotiations with the NIH that could end all experiments on monkeys and shift the federally funded Oregon National Primate Research Center into a sanctuary. https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2026/02/09/monkeys-animals-ohsu-primates-nih-sanctuary/

2026-02-06 19:02:45 UTC

China criticized the United States on Friday for withdrawing from the World Health Organization, saying countries should not place domestic politics ahead of international law.
https://www.statnews.com/2026/02/06/china-criticizes-us-withdrawal-from-who/

2026-01-17 18:58:39 UTC

Acetaminophen use during pregnancy is not likely to raise the risk of having a child with autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability, according to a new study. https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/16/tylenol-autism-lancet-study-finds-no-acetaminophen-link/

2026-01-07 18:53:21 UTC

The MAHA movement claims wins — fewer processed foods and seed oils, more beef and dairy products — as Kennedy discards 421 pages of scientific recommendations.
https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/07/dietary-guidelines-revised-more-protein-less-sugar-highly-processed-foods/

2026-01-06 00:02:43 UTC

Federal appeals court judges upheld a lower court’s ruling preventing the NIH from cutting billions of dollars in support for research overhead
https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/05/federal-appeals-court-upholds-blocking-nih-indirect-cost-cuts/

2025-12-18 16:28:14 UTC

Federal research agencies are pulling back from fostering public discussions about science after the hollowing out of government communications offices. https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/trump-nih-cuts-nhgri-special-report-american-science-shattered/

2025-12-17 20:00:54 UTC

“A large part of what we loved about the United States is no longer there”: Amid talk of a brain drain, some scientists leave the U.S. behind. https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/17/research-cuts-fuel-scientific-brain-drain-american-science-shattered/

2025-12-14 21:35:52 UTC

Explore the first seven parts of American Science, Shattered
A multipart series on how the Trump administration has disrupted labs, upended lives, and delayed discoveries.
https://www.statnews.com/american-science-shattered/

2025-12-12 18:44:06 UTC

The federal government has sent a record $16 billion to health insurers that sell Medicare drug plans, a flashing red sign that prescription drug spending is blowing up far beyond what government officials and insurance experts had expected.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/12/medicare-part-d-costs-soar-insurers-get-16-billion-reconciliation-payment/

2025-12-12 15:44:40 UTC

FDA approves new drug to treat gonorrhea, which is notorious for developing resistance to medicines
https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/11/fda-approves-new-gonorrhea-antibiotic-blujepa-from-gsk/

2025-12-11 19:34:40 UTC

Senators on Thursday failed to pass legislation aimed at controlling health insurance costs for people with Affordable Care Act plans after dueling partisan bills were voted down mostly along party lines.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/11/aca-subsidy-extension-senate-rejects-proposals-as-deadline-nears/

2025-12-05 19:26:37 UTC

His lab was humming with discovery. After one year under Trump, it’s almost silent. John Quackenbush, computational biology pioneer, ‘knew biomedical research was in the crosshairs’
https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/research-cut-impacts-john-quackebush-profile-american-science-shattered-series/

2025-12-03 15:10:14 UTC

Former CDC official Demetre Daskalakis is taking his skills back to New York, where they were honed in HIV clinics and the city health department
https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/03/former-cdc-official-public-health-failing-demetre-daskalakis-interview/

2025-12-01 16:17:14 UTC

The United States and United Kingdom announced a high-level agreement Monday under which the U.K. is expected to pay more for medicines.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/01/uk-us-pharma-deal-payments/

2025-11-29 15:42:10 UTC

The U.S. government’s failure to acknowledge World AIDS Day takes us back to a troubling time. The federal government had recognized this awareness day every year since its inception in 1988. https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/29/world-aids-day-us-government-acknowledgment/

2025-11-19 16:01:25 UTC

Health secretary RFK Jr. wants other countries to ban the use of the preservative thimerosal in vaccines, despite research showing it is a safe ingredient.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/19/rfk-jr-warning-thimerosal-vaccine-preservative-raises-concern/

2025-11-12 20:42:42 UTC

The Trump administration appears poised to extend a temporary, Covid-era rule allowing health providers to prescribe certain controlled substances, like ADHD medications and treatments for opioid addiction, via telemedicine. https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/11/covid-era-rules-for-addiction-medication-ritalin-are-extended-again/

2025-11-10 19:26:32 UTC

Fate of ACA subsidies still clouded after deal to reopen the government
https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/government-shutdown-health-insurance-price-hikes-loom-despite-deal/

2025-11-02 19:13:05 UTC

Dr. Oz posted that several states had spent large amounts on Medicaid coverage for undocumented immigrants. Some states are pushing back. https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/01/dr-oz-cms-medicaid-undocumented-immigrants-states/

2025-10-22 17:43:33 UTC

Two institutions are coming together to create an alternative to the CDC’s vaunted Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/cdc-mmwr-alternative-new-report-announced-by-nejm-cidrap/

2025-10-15 22:35:23 UTC

#Breaking: Medicare payments to doctors paused as government shutdown drags on https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/15/cms-pauses-medicare-payments-to-doctors-government-shutdown/

2025-10-11 20:11:52 UTC

Almost the entire staff of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, known as the “voice of the CDC,” has been laid off, former publication editor-in-chief Charlotte Kent told STAT Saturday.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/cdc-morbidity-and-mortality-weekly-report-staff-fired/

2025-09-25 16:45:10 UTC

As the U.S. dials back mRNA research, the U.K. tries to seize an opportunity
https://www.statnews.com/2025/09/25/mrna-vaccines-united-kingdom-invests-as-united-states-cuts-back/

2025-09-17 15:00:25 UTC

Breaking: Ousted CDC director says Kennedy plans to change pediatric vaccine schedule https://www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/cdc-monarez-senate-testimony-kennedy-vaccine-risks-2/

2025-09-16 21:46:39 UTC

Republicans' plan to keep the government open doesn't include major health insurance tax credits. https://www.statnews.com/2025/09/16/congress-republican-stopgap-funding-bill-aca-enhanced-tax-credits/

2025-09-04 19:07:53 UTC

A Senate hearing offered no sign that health secretary RFK Jr. intends to slow down his effort to upend U.S. health agencies. Here are some takeaways.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/09/04/hhs-secretary-kennedy-testimony-takeaway/

2025-08-26 01:43:01 UTC

The Department of Health and Human Services is terminating a National Institutes of Health grant program that supports students from marginalized backgrounds in the biomedical sciences.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/08/25/nih-minority-biomedical-research-support-program/

2025-08-18 16:35:06 UTC

Culinary medicine pioneer David Eisenberg reflects on 25 years of teaching Americans and physicians to cook as a way of fighting chronic disease.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/08/18/culinary-medicine-david-eisenberg-teaching-kitchens-food-as-medicine/

2025-08-07 14:31:23 UTC

Companies in a burgeoning field of mRNA therapeutics express shock at HHS's deep cuts to research funding.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/08/07/kennedy-mrna-vaccines-canceled-experts-cassidy-reaction/

2025-08-01 19:11:37 UTC

Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million increase to the budget of the National Institutes of Health https://www.statnews.com/2025/07/31/nih-budget-senate-committee-replaces-trump-cuts-with-400-million-increase/

2025-07-30 23:32:29 UTC

It’s really unfair to say, ‘Oh, well, we haven’t seen a reduction in obesity. So we should get rid of SNAP-Ed.’”
Budget cuts knock down a ‘pillar of public health,’ ending nutrition education https://www.statnews.com/2025/07/30/budget-cuts-end-snap-public-health-education-program-for-food-stamp-beneficiaries/

2025-01-23 14:32:47 UTC

The order defies decades of research into how human bodies grow and develop https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/trump-executive-order-only-two-sexes-not-supported-by-science/

2024-12-30 17:18:29 UTC

Health equity leaders say inaction on the issue is endangering the lives of Black people https://buff.ly/4a5KkUz

2024-12-11 17:04:29 UTC

Opinion: Don’t overlook Wall Street’s role in health insurance greed https://www.statnews.com/2024/12/11/wall-street-unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-brian-thompson/

2024-11-26 15:20:43 UTC

MAHA supporters share a disturbing sense that the health care system and its regulators don’t have people’s best interests at heart https://buff.ly/41aofSx

2024-11-16 18:55:13 UTC

A bureaucratic maneuver could help RFK Jr. upend decades of settled policy on vaccines. https://buff.ly/3YR9Mbd

2024-09-24 18:56:25 UTC

Extreme heat and worsening storms can keep people away from blood banks
https://www.statnews.com/2024/09/24/rachel-levine-hhs-blood-shortage-climate-change/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic

2024-09-20 14:34:42 UTC

How I fought Big Pharma on insulin prices — and won
https://www.statnews.com/2024/09/20/patient-advocacy-big-pharma-t1international-diabetes-insulin-price/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic

2024-09-16 19:08:03 UTC

Every year, hundreds of studies use an outdated, inhumane test on mice to try to find new antidepressants. Why is it still allowed?
https://www.statnews.com/2024/09/16/forced-swim-test-tail-suspension-test-antidepressant-research-nih/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic

2024-09-16 15:48:18 UTC

"The world is watching the response to the spread of the virus in dairy cattle."
https://www.statnews.com/2024/09/16/h5n1-spread-cow-herds-us-response-who-pandemic-preparedness/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic

2024-09-06 23:29:19 UTC

#BreakingNews - Missouri resident who had no contact with animals tests positive for bird flu
https://www.statnews.com/2024/09/06/missouri-h5-bird-flu-case-no-animal-contacts/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic

2024-08-02 15:38:39 UTC

Health officials have warned hospitals there could be a critical shortage of blood culture bottles. What does that mean for patients?
https://www.statnews.com/2024/08/02/blood-culture-bottles-shortage/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic