Opinion: Measles almost killed me. Now I’m a doctor — and I’m scared of what’s happening
Jewel Mullen was in kindergarten in 1961 when she almost died from measles. Now a physician, measles’ return frightens her.
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STAT+: Trump boast on drug pricing policy overstated state-level interest in federal program
President Trump and his aides boasted that every U.S. state wanted to participate in a drug pricing initiative through Medicaid. Several states said they weren't sure yet.
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STAT+: Momentum is building for a big change to how doctors get paid
Congress is considering linking doctor payment rates to medical inflation under the proposed Patients First Act.
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STAT+: How a young doctor rose from rural New Mexico to FDA commissioner nominee
What to know about Dr. Heidi Overton, Trump's pick to run the FDA, including her medical background and career trajectory.
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White House plan to increase control of NIH grants appears ‘dead’
A planned EO that would have greatly enhanced White House influence over grants at the NIH is “looking dead,” a source said.
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STAT+: What a vote on Grail’s cancer detection test could mean for the company, patients, and regulators
Shares in Grail, the company developing a blood test for cancer, surged Monday after the FDA posted documents ahead of an advisory committee meeting.
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STAT+: Flagship gets a Pentagon contract
Biotech investment firm Flagship Pioneering has been awarded a contract by the Department of Defense to advance countermeasure technologies against biological threats.
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STAT+: AI doomerism: Here’s how to make sense of it
In this edition of STAT's AI Prognosis newsletter: Brittany Trang offers a few stories to make sense of the AI doom/slowdown talk, and more.
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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a closing loophole for importing meds, European competitiveness, and more
As of next month, a loophole that allows Americans to personally import their medications by mail is closing
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The latest in the legal saga for youth gender-affirming care in the U.S.
The chilling effect of the Trump administration's dogged offensive against transgender health care has been swift, with dozens of hospitals across the U.S. ending care, even if they haven't been…
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STAT+: A private equity-owned hospital chain is becoming a nonprofit. Is it just a bailout for investors?
Other private equity-owned hospital chains have collapsed in recent years, so the stakes are high for Quorum.
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Opinion: Mentally ill women deserve more support to have children
“The maternal mental health needs of women like me have been badly underprioritized in American society,” writes Meg LeDuc.
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STAT+: Drugmakers, biotech VCs show ‘reinvigorated’ interest in osteoporosis treatments
Medicines for osteoporosis are grabbing the attention of the pharma industry, which has been incentivized by a long-awaited regulatory change.
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STAT+: UnitedHealth, CVS push back on Medicare plan to curb remote patient monitoring
Some health insurers push back on a Medicare proposal that would disrupt how doctors can bill for remotely monitoring patients' health.
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STAT+: HHS issues new initiatives to reduce animal testing in drug development
For the second time this year, HHS announced new strategies to speed the away from animals in medical testing.
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STAT+: Did the Trump administration just cut Novo a huge financial win?
The White House's GENEROUS plan was designed to make drugs more affordable for Medicaid users. There's one glaring potential exception.
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STAT+: Novo may be getting a better deal than expected with Medicare’s Bridge program
Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk were already benefitting a great deal from the Trump administration's pilot program covering obesity drugs for seniors at a price of $245 a month. It…
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STAT+: Epic’s mortality model, and Omada’s future products
In this edition of STAT Health Tech: What Epic's mortality prediction algorithm tells us about AI in geriatrics, Omada's expansion plans, and more.
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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about pharma seeking to protect China deals, a Roche obesity drug, and more
Western pharmaceutical companies are urging the Trump administration to allow them to keep doing deals with Chinese companies for drug candidates
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New federal autism committee head has financial ties to leucovorin
RFK Jr. has installed John Gaitanis, a pediatric neurologist, as the new chair of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, which helps the federal government decide how to allocate roughly $2 billion…
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