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STAT @statnews.com · Sep 9
STAT is 10!

Join us in reflecting on a decade of reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine.

We’re proud that since 2015 we’ve delivered urgent, authoritative, and impactful journalism.

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STAT 10 Year Anniversary
When we named ourselves “STAT’’ 10 years ago, we conceded, “It takes a bit of chutzpah to name a digital-age life-sciences publication after a buzzword
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Expedition Therapeutics, a company scouring China’s booming biotech industry for the most enticing drug candidates, has raised $165 million for its first drug trial.
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Expedition Therapeutics, a biotech company scouring China for drug candidates, raises $165 million
Expedition Therapeutics, a company seeking to scour China’s booming biotech industry for enticing drug candidates, has raised $165 million for its first drug trial.
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STAT @statnews.com · 23h
How to better manage expectations around gene editing drugs for families of children with rare diseases.
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Parents of children with rare diseases ask: How long until our CRISPR miracle?
How to better manage expectations around gene editing drugs for families of children with rare diseases.
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On this week's episode of the @statnews.com First Opinion Podcast, I spoke with Joy Lisi Rankin and Samyukta Mullangi about when cancer patients decline treatment--and the way oncologists should respond #STATOpinionPod www.statnews.com/2025/10/08/b...
When patients refuse cancer treatment
“When I think of patients who refuse treatment, I don't automatically assume they're uninformed. I kind of assume that they're just informed by different facts.”
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THC is known to induce and exacerbate psychosis — and a new study finds that cannabis use has risen in people with the disorder after the drug was legalized.
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More people with psychosis are using cannabis. Medical professionals are worried
THC is known to induce and exacerbate psychosis — and a new study finds that cannabis use has risen in people with the disorder after the drug was legalized.
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“When I think of patients who refuse treatment, I don't automatically assume they're uninformed. I kind of assume that they're just informed by different facts.”
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When patients refuse cancer treatment
“When I think of patients who refuse treatment, I don't automatically assume they're uninformed. I kind of assume that they're just informed by different facts.”
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At the Supreme Court, a majority of justices seemed poised to rule against a Colorado law banning so-called conversion therapy. www.statnews.com/2025/10/07/c...
As Supreme Court weighs conversion therapy, conservative justices question medical authority
At the Supreme Court, a majority of justices seemed poised to rule against a Colorado law banning so-called conversion therapy.
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Peter Marks, the former top vaccine regulator at the FDA, has joined Eli Lilly — a move likely to rile up critics of the revolving door between FDA and industry
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Peter Marks, FDA vaccine regulator ousted by RFK Jr., joins Eli Lilly
Peter Marks, the former top vaccine regulator at the FDA, has joined Eli Lilly — a move likely to rile up critics of the revolving door between FDA and industry
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"What RFK Jr. gets wrong about medical school and nutrition education. Instead of focusing on future doctors like me, expand access to registered dieticians."
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What RFK Jr. gets wrong about medical school and nutrition education
Doctors are not the only way to improve Americans’ access to nutrition education.
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The number of physicians seeking multi-state licensure has ballooned to support the growing field of telehealth
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Fueling telehealth's rise, more doctors are licensed in all 50 states than ever before
The number of physicians seeking multi-state licensure has ballooned to support the growing field of telehealth
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 2d
Looking forward to unpacking These Times with such a great panel on Thursday 🫡

If you 🫵 are in Boston, please come hang out and be part of the conversation!
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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · 3d
My first post as head of KSJ! Our first public event. This Thursday. Cambridge. Science journalism in a time of crisis. It's going to be 🔥. Join me and @katherinejwu.com @aniloza.bsky.social @sarareardon.bsky.social @akuchment.bsky.social @jeremyfaust.bsky.social and @edenmedina.bsky.social
A flyer showing speakers and describing a panel discussion "Confronting Crisis" to be held 10.9.25 from 4:15-6:15 at 101 Rogers Street in Cambridge.
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Parents are flocking to natural and "clean medicine" brands for Tylenol alternatives and more, leaving medical experts worried.
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Parents are flocking to natural and ‘clean medicine’ brands. Medical experts are worried
Parents are flocking to natural and "clean medicine" brands for Tylenol alternatives and more, leaving medical experts worried.
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STAT @statnews.com · 3d
2025 Nobel Prize in medicine goes to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for immune system discoveries. Their research helped explain why the immune system does not attack our own tissues.
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2025 Nobel Prize in medicine goes to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for immune system discoveries
Three scientists who uncovered how our body keeps our immune system in check — enabling it to fight off dangerous invaders while recognizing our own tissues as a friend — won the Nobel Prize in physio...
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“I call on vaccine manufacturers to develop safe monovalent vaccines to replace the combined MMR and ‘break up the MMR shot into three totally separate shots’.”
Acting CDC director calls for MMR vaccine to be broken up into 3 shots www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/t...
Acting CDC director calls for MMR vaccine to be broken up into 3 shots
There's no evidence that breaking up the MMR shot would make the immunization safer or more effective.
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The CDC has accepted advisers' recommendations on Covid vaccinations, though there may still be uncertainty in some states about whether a prescription is needed to access them.
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CDC approves updated Covid-19, chickenpox vaccine recommendations
The CDC has accepted advisers' recommendations on Covid vaccinations, though there may still be uncertainty in some states about whether a prescription is needed to access them.
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The Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in a challenge to a Colorado law banning mental health practitioners from performing conversion therapy
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How this week’s Supreme Court case on conversion therapy could impact the regulation of medicine
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in a challenge to a Colorado law banning mental health practitioners from performing conversion therapy
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Why promising women’s health companies die so often. No matter how innovative, women’s health startups can’t overcome the system. www.statnews.com/2025/10/02/w...
Why promising women's health companies die so often
No matter how innovative, women’s health startups can’t overcome the system.
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The Trump administration is delaying a proposal to crack down on a loophole that allows drugmakers to avoid Medicare price negotiation on some of their products by making minor tweaks.
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Trump administration delays effort to address Medicare drug price negotiation loophole
Trump administration delays effort to address Medicare drug price negotiation loophole.
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Nicole Kleinstreuer, who is leading an NIH effort to reduce the use of animals in research, began thinking about the issue as a toxicologist at the EPA www.statnews.com/2025/10/03/a...
She’s leading NIH’s push to reduce the use of animals in biomedical research
Nicole Kleinstreuer, who is leading an NIH effort to reduce the use of animals in research, began thinking about the issue as a toxicologist at the EPA
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Scientists believe factors like diet and chemical exposure could play a role in a condition largely driven by genetics
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As NIH launches new autism research effort, the focus is on environmental factors
The NIH is making a $50 million bet: Understanding environmental factors will help researchers better understand why some people have autism.
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Amgen said that its cholesterol-lowering shot, Repatha, prevented a composite of heart disease death, heart attack, and the most common type of stroke in a 12,000-patient trial. www.statnews.com/2025/10/02/a...
Amgen says its cholesterol shot prevented heart problems in a broad population
Amgen said its cholesterol-lowering shot, Repatha, prevented a composite of heart disease death, heart attack, and the most common type of stroke in a large study.
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"Yes, Amish people do have autism, but we still don’t know how many do. I research the health of an Amish community. This work is very complicated." www.statnews.com/2025/10/02/a...
Yes, Amish people do have autism, but we still don’t know how many do
President Trump said there is “virtually no autism” among the Amish. A researcher who studies the health of the Amish says it’s complicated.
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Shutting pregnant women out of clinical trials to protect them and their babies has had the opposite effect, experts say.
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Fights over Tylenol, SSRIs highlight the enduring lack of pregnant women in drug trials
Shutting pregnant women out of clinical trials to protect them and their babies has had the opposite effect, experts say.
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Two weeks after vaccine advisers approved new Covid recs, Kennedy still hasn’t given his approval, leaving states unable to order updated shots for low-income kids.
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Low-income children lack access to Covid vaccines because of approval delay
Two weeks after vaccine advisers approved new Covid recs, Kennedy still hasn’t given his approval, leaving states unable to order updated shots for low-income kids.
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Researchers have found that ALS patients have autoimmune responses, a finding with the potential to reshape how scientists think of the devastating and complex neurologic disorder. www.statnews.com/2025/10/01/a...
Autoimmune responses found in ALS, pointing to a new way to view the deadly disease
Researchers have found that ALS patients have autoimmune responses, a finding with the potential to reshape how scientists think of the devastating and complex neurologic disorder.
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Trump's 100% pharma tariffs, which were supposed to start today, have been delayed www.statnews.com/2025/10/01/t...
Trump administration backs off 100% pharma tariffs threatened to start today
The White House is pressing drugmakers to lower their prices and invest in U.S. factories.
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