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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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In an about-face, the White House is weighing a proposal to extend the Affordable Care Act enhanced subsidies that Democrats have been clamoring for since last year.
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Trump weighs plan to extend extra ACA subsidies for two years
With backlash growing to surging health insurance costs, Trump is floating a temporary extension of extra ACA subsidies.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
In an about-face, the White House is weighing a proposal to extend the Affordable Care Act enhanced subsidies that Democrats have been clamoring for since last year.
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STAT will be on the ground at #ASH25. Join us Dec. 5 in Orlando for STAT@ASH: Standing on Medicine’s Threshold — an evening of conversation with leading voices in hematology and biotech. www.statnews.com/event/stat-a...
STAT@ASH: Standing on Medicine's Threshold
We’re on the ground at the 67th American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting — join us live.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
STAT will be on the ground at #ASH25. Join us Dec. 5 in Orlando for STAT@ASH: Standing on Medicine’s Threshold — an evening of conversation with leading voices in hematology and biotech. www.statnews.com/event/stat-a...
The Capitol Hill battle over hemp products underscores the concerns about the increasingly wild market and the widespread medical uses. www.statnews.com/2025/11/24/h...
‘Hemp loophole’ closure pits patient access against a runaway marijuana industry
The Capitol Hill battle over hemp products underscores the concerns about the increasingly wild market and the widespread medical uses.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The Capitol Hill battle over hemp products underscores the concerns about the increasingly wild market and the widespread medical uses. www.statnews.com/2025/11/24/h...
Federally funded Healthy Start infant-mortality prevention program provides a sense of stability while itself facing instability.
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To keep babies healthy, a New Orleans case manager delivers stability in the face of federal uncertainty
Federally funded Healthy Start infant-mortality prevention program provides a sense of stability while itself facing instability.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Federally funded Healthy Start infant-mortality prevention program provides a sense of stability while itself facing instability.
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HHS re-released its controversial report on gender dysphoria in children, and this time it named the previously anonymous authors and published a handful of peer review comments after the initial study had been faulted for a lack of transparency. www.statnews.com/2025/11/19/h...
HHS names authors and releases peer review comments for gender dysphoria report
The new report reveals that many of the authors and reviewers have been outspoken critics of gender-affirming care and belong to anti-LGBTQ+ groups
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November 24, 2025 at 3:10 AM
HHS re-released its controversial report on gender dysphoria in children, and this time it named the previously anonymous authors and published a handful of peer review comments after the initial study had been faulted for a lack of transparency. www.statnews.com/2025/11/19/h...
Trump administration officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention laid out 16 strategic initiatives this week, many of them bolstering health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s priorities www.statnews.com/2025/11/20/c...
Trump administration lists 16 new CDC initiatives, from hepatitis B testing to bolstering workforce
The list offers a view into the administrations plans for the CDC, an agency battered by job cuts and resignations.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Trump administration officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention laid out 16 strategic initiatives this week, many of them bolstering health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s priorities www.statnews.com/2025/11/20/c...
CDC moves to end telework for employees, including those with medical needs. It’s the latest twist in an ongoing ordeal for federal workers with disabilities. www.statnews.com/2025/11/21/c...
CDC moves to end telework for employees, including those with medical needs
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ended full-time telework agreements for reasonable accommodations, employees say.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
CDC moves to end telework for employees, including those with medical needs. It’s the latest twist in an ongoing ordeal for federal workers with disabilities. www.statnews.com/2025/11/21/c...
Patient advocacy groups have urged the South African government to issue a compulsory license for a groundbreaking HIV prevention treatment after the Trump administration refused to include South Africa in a new program to distribute the drug to poor countries. www.statnews.com/pharmalot/20...
South Africa is urged by advocates to issue a compulsory license for Gilead's HIV prevention drug
Patient advocacy groups urged the South African government to issue a compulsory license for a groundbreaking HIV prevention treatment.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Patient advocacy groups have urged the South African government to issue a compulsory license for a groundbreaking HIV prevention treatment after the Trump administration refused to include South Africa in a new program to distribute the drug to poor countries. www.statnews.com/pharmalot/20...
Top officials like Vinay Prasad and George Tidmarsh voted on the drug, a major break from the FDA's typical practice.
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FDA review staff was excluded from voting on whether to approve first priority voucher drug
Top officials like Vinay Prasad and George Tidmarsh voted on the drug, a major break from the FDA's typical practice.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Top officials like Vinay Prasad and George Tidmarsh voted on the drug, a major break from the FDA's typical practice.
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RFK Jr. broke another promise to Sen. Bill Cassidy this week.
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Cassidy and other Republicans have little to say about change to CDC’s position on vaccines and autism
RFK Jr. broke another promise to Sen. Bill Cassidy this week.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
RFK Jr. broke another promise to Sen. Bill Cassidy this week.
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The proliferation of online testosterone sites is a sign of the health care system’s lack of regard for male sexual hormones and their role in health.
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Why men are flocking to dubious online clinics for testosterone therapy
The proliferation of online testosterone sites is a sign of the health care system’s lack of regard for male sexual hormones and their role in health
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November 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The proliferation of online testosterone sites is a sign of the health care system’s lack of regard for male sexual hormones and their role in health.
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Paradromics received regulatory approval to test its BCI device in a small clinical trial to assess its safety and efficacy. www.statnews.com/2025/11/20/f...
FDA approves Paradromics’ brain-computer interface trial for speech restoration
Paradromics received regulatory approval to test its BCI device in a small clinical trial to assess its safety and efficacy.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Paradromics received regulatory approval to test its BCI device in a small clinical trial to assess its safety and efficacy. www.statnews.com/2025/11/20/f...
The latest STATUS Report: Inside RFK Jr.’s first nine months leading HHS
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Inside RFK Jr.'s first nine months leading HHS
In this week's STATus Report video, an inside look at RFK Jr.'s first nine months atop HHS, from his management style and work habits to his D.C. lifestyle.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The latest STATUS Report: Inside RFK Jr.’s first nine months leading HHS
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The CDC publicly reversed its stance that vaccines do not cause autism, over the objections of career staff and counter to years of scientific evidence.
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Under RFK Jr., federal health agency reverses course on stance that vaccines don’t cause autism
A CDC website now promotes the debunked idea of a link between vaccines and autism.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The CDC publicly reversed its stance that vaccines do not cause autism, over the objections of career staff and counter to years of scientific evidence.
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There are early indications that this flu season could be a bad one. Experts see reason to be anxious.
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Is a bad flu season on the way? Experts see reason to be anxious
There are early indications that this flu season could be a bad one.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
There are early indications that this flu season could be a bad one. Experts see reason to be anxious.
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The new report reveals that many of the authors and reviewers have been outspoken critics of gender-affirming care and belong to anti-LGBTQ+ groups www.statnews.com/2025/11/19/h...
HHS names authors and releases peer-review comments for gender dysphoria report
The new report reveals that many of the authors and reviewers have been outspoken critics of gender-affirming care and belong to anti-LGBTQ+ groups
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November 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The new report reveals that many of the authors and reviewers have been outspoken critics of gender-affirming care and belong to anti-LGBTQ+ groups www.statnews.com/2025/11/19/h...
Every physician needs to have a basic level of AI literacy now. That might require some sort of licensing exam.
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Every doctor needs a basic level of AI literacy
Every physician needs to have a basic level of AI literacy now. That might require some sort of licensing exam.
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November 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Every physician needs to have a basic level of AI literacy now. That might require some sort of licensing exam.
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Smoking marijuana can lead to markedly lower short-term alcohol use, according to a first-of-its-kind study. www.statnews.com/2025/11/19/c...
‘California sober’? Cannabis may help limit alcohol consumption, study shows
The first randomized controlled trial of the "California sober" approach suggests marijuana may indeed lessen alcohol consumption.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Smoking marijuana can lead to markedly lower short-term alcohol use, according to a first-of-its-kind study. www.statnews.com/2025/11/19/c...
Can GLP-1 drugs treat Alzheimer’s? Novo Nordisk will soon announce key results www.statnews.com/2025/11/19/n...
Can GLP-1 drugs treat Alzheimer’s? Novo Nordisk will soon announce key results
Novo Nordisk will soon announce the results of perhaps the most ambitious studies yet of its GLP-1 drug: whether it can help slow Alzheimer's.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Can GLP-1 drugs treat Alzheimer’s? Novo Nordisk will soon announce key results www.statnews.com/2025/11/19/n...
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.
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RFK Jr.’s warnings on thimerosal in vaccines threaten to instill doubt overseas, experts fear
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.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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.
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A wave of lawsuits with novel strategies show that the search for Covid vengeance — and jury awards — has gained force under Trump and Kennedy.
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With vaccine skeptics in charge, Covid-era lawsuits are nowhere near over
A wave of lawsuits with novel strategies show that the search for Covid vengeance — and jury awards — has gained force under Trump and Kennedy.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
A wave of lawsuits with novel strategies show that the search for Covid vengeance — and jury awards — has gained force under Trump and Kennedy.
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Moderna's stock priced has plummeted ~90% from it's highs during Covid. Its flagship mRNA technology being basically "under attack from Washington" certainly doesn't help. But there are other factors at play as well. @jasonmast.bsky.social and STAT's Damian Garde explain @statnews.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Moderna's stock priced has plummeted ~90% from it's highs during Covid. Its flagship mRNA technology being basically "under attack from Washington" certainly doesn't help. But there are other factors at play as well. @jasonmast.bsky.social and STAT's Damian Garde explain @statnews.com
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RFK Jr. has said he does not want to take vaccines away from Americans. But at a closed-door meeting of vaccine scientists in September, a top official at the FDA suggested doing just that. Here's how Vinay Prasad and Tracy Beth Høeg are reshaping vaccine regulation:
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How two top FDA officials are quietly upending vaccine regulations
Vinay Prasad and Tracy Beth Høeg mix skepticism with new ways to define risk in pursuing sweeping changes to vaccine policy at the FDA.
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November 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
RFK Jr. has said he does not want to take vaccines away from Americans. But at a closed-door meeting of vaccine scientists in September, a top official at the FDA suggested doing just that. Here's how Vinay Prasad and Tracy Beth Høeg are reshaping vaccine regulation:
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Few in the health care industry thought RFK Jr., who sued vaccine companies and trafficked in conspiracy theories, could reach the apex of the U.S. health care system.
Yet here he is.
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Yet here he is.
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How RFK Jr., America's celebrity health secretary, is steamrolling science
RFK Jr. is plowing ahead with sweeping changes to U.S. health care that have thrilled supporters, purged opponents, and horrified critics.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Few in the health care industry thought RFK Jr., who sued vaccine companies and trafficked in conspiracy theories, could reach the apex of the U.S. health care system.
Yet here he is.
How Kennedy emerged as a singular force in the Trump administration: www.statnews.com/2025/11/18/r...
Yet here he is.
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Between long, often overnight shifts, limited food options, and employers indifferent to employees' health, truckers face unique health challenges and a typical life expectancy of 61.
It doesn't have to be this way, a new digital health program insists.
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It doesn't have to be this way, a new digital health program insists.
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Many truck drivers don't live past 61. Could digital health help?
Many truck drivers don't live past 61. Could digital health help?
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November 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Between long, often overnight shifts, limited food options, and employers indifferent to employees' health, truckers face unique health challenges and a typical life expectancy of 61.
It doesn't have to be this way, a new digital health program insists.
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It doesn't have to be this way, a new digital health program insists.
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