17+ min ago  (301+ words) Georg Schett had two things: a young patient deathly ill with lupus, and a couple of mouse studies raising the possibility that special T cells could tame the condition. The rest of the story is the rare scientific fairy tale:…...

6+ hour, 48+ min ago  (259+ words) By Kyle P. Edmonds Edmonds is a palliative care physician and educator based in San Diego. I'm a palliative care physician. I spend my days managing pain, breathlessness, nausea, and the existential weight of serious illness. My field should be cheering…...

2+ hour, 19+ min ago  (149+ words) Meghana Keshavan is a biotech correspondent at STAT and co-writer of The Readout newsletter. She joined STAT in 2016. She has written about the life sciences industry for more than a decade. Before that, she worked for news outlets like Thomson…...

6+ hour, 48+ min ago  (508+ words) By David S. Ludwig "Betcha can't eat just one!" This slogan for Lay's potato chips seemed endearing in mid-20th-century America, before the rise of the obesity epidemic. Looking back from today, it foreshadowed a food industry that, critics contend, engineers irresistible…...

6+ hour, 43+ min ago  (242+ words) Allison De Angelis is a biotech reporter at STAT, covering biopharma startups and venture capital. She is also co-host of the weekly biotech podcast, The Readout Loud. Prior to joining STAT, Allison covered the drug industry at Business Insider and…...

6+ hour, 48+ min ago  (149+ words) Bob Herman is the author of Health Care Inc. , an award-winning weekly newsletter about the business of health and medicine. President Trump and his health leaders have repeatedly directed their ire toward health insurance companies, painting them as fat cats…...

11+ hour, 17+ min ago  (200+ words) Tara Bannow is a hospitals and insurance reporter at STAT. She came to STAT in 2022 from Modern Healthcare magazine, where she was a senior reporter covering hospital finance. There, she wrote about subjects like unscrupulous medical debt collection and private…...

18+ hour, 18+ min ago  (917+ words) It's the leading risk factor for the leading cause of death in the United States and around the world: high blood pressure, the prime mover in heart attacks and strokes. High blood pressure is treatable, but despite having access to…...

19+ hour, 8+ min ago  (141+ words) John Wilkerson, a Washington correspondent, is the author of D. C. Diagnosis, a twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine. WASHINGTON " An influential progressive think tank is proposing that Democrats assert more federal government control over hospitals and…...

19+ hour, 28+ min ago  (286+ words) Megan Molteni is a science writer for STAT, covering genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. Prior to joining STAT in 2021, she was a staff writer at WIRED. Her feature on the collision of aerosol science and Covid-19 public healthy policy…...