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STAT Plus: FDA aims to expand use of leucovorin as RFK Jr. touts it as autism treatment

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STAT Plus: Hospitals get dinged for reporting too many infections. In some cases, the solution is not to test

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STAT Plus: FDA aims to expand use of leucovorin as RFK Jr. touts it as autism treatment

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Health tech September 22, 2025

STAT Plus: As medical AI use grows, industry payments to providers remain opaque

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STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a TrumpRx website proposal, a Pfizer weight loss deal, and much more

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STAT Plus: Pfizer to buy obesity-focused Metsera in $4.9 billion deal

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STAT Plus: MBX hormone replacement shows efficacy in mid-stage study

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I’m a surgeon. My society waded into gun regulation — and chose politics over science

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Author of reviews of gender affirming care decries ‘egregious misuse’ of the findings to justify bans

Pharmalot September 22, 2025

STAT Plus: Most doctors believe interactions with pharma erode public trust, analysis finds

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Pro sports leagues should do away with injury reports

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Winner of mRNA Nobel Prize says ACIP member’s claim that Covid vaccines persist is ‘absolutely impossible’

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STAT Plus: In a chaotic meeting, RFK Jr.’s handpicked advisers begin altering the childhood vaccine schedule

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STAT Plus: FDA approves ultra-rare disease drug that became a symbol of uncertainty over regulatory standards

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STAT Plus: Doctors are more tied to pharma as trust erodes

Biotech September 19, 2025

STAT Plus: Federal vaccine panel remade by RFK Jr. votes to maintain insurance coverage for Covid shots

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STAT Plus: CDC reverses telework pause that sparked complaints over its impact on workers with disabilities

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STAT Plus: Up and down the ladder: The latest comings and goings

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STAT Plus: Biotech M&A’s quiet roll

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STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about CVS coverage of an HIV drug, an EMA boost for Merck, and more

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Trump’s health and the medicalization of American politics

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I’m a surgeon. My society waded into gun regulation — and chose politics over science

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Pro sports leagues should do away with injury reports

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STAT Plus: Why pharma companies are suddenly pausing investment in the U.K.

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Sterilization, mysterious pain, and dismissive doctors: Why women turn to reversal surgery — and sometimes to RFK Jr.

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STAT Plus: As reports of ‘AI psychosis’ spread, clinicians scramble to understand how chatbots can spark delusions

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STAT Plus: Donavon Decker knew a gene therapy experiment wouldn’t help him. To help others, he still said yes

STAT Plus: Dropping hepatitis B shots for newborns would ignore history and endanger children, scientists warn

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STAT Plus: As Sarepta Therapeutics fights for Duchenne therapy, a group of patients gets left behind

STAT Plus: Roche to buy 89bio in deal worth up to $3.5B, picking up MASH drug

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STAT Plus: Roche to buy 89bio in deal worth up to $3.5B, picking up MASH drug

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STAT Plus: Arsenal Bio lays off 50% of its staff

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STAT Plus: Amid industry headwinds, Biogen breaks ground on new headquarters

STAT Plus: CDC recommends new Gilead HIV prevention drug, prompting advocates to push CVS for coverage

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STAT Plus: CDC recommends new Gilead HIV prevention drug, prompting advocates to push CVS for coverage

Pharma September 18, 2025

STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about dueling data from Lilly and Novo, a Roche deal, and much more

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STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about FDA letters targeting drug ads, a U.S. investment by GSK, and more

Key federal vaccine panel tables vote on delaying newborn hepatitis B shot

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Key federal vaccine panel tables vote on delaying newborn hepatitis B shot

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Federal advisory committee restricts access to MMRV shot for some low-income children

Health September 18, 2025

STAT Plus: Trump administration to close Miami organ donation group it calls ‘failing’

STAT Plus: Trump administration’s new global health aid strategy focuses on bilateral deals with countries

Politics September 18, 2025

STAT Plus: Trump administration’s new global health aid strategy focuses on bilateral deals with countries

Politics September 18, 2025

STAT Plus: Cassidy invites RFK Jr. to testify before Senate health panel

Politics September 18, 2025

STAT Plus: NIH outlines new system for awarding research grants to foreign scientists

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STAT Plus: Deconstructing RFK Jr.’s explanation for the cancellation of mRNA vaccine contracts

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STAT Plus: FDA takes on GLP-1 compounding boom with warnings about misleading marketing

Health tech September 19, 2025

STAT Plus: FDA takes on GLP-1 compounding boom with warnings about misleading marketing

Health tech September 11, 2025

STAT Plus: FDA will convene an advisory committee to tackle AI mental health device regulation

Health tech September 9, 2025

STAT Plus: Apple introduces smartwatch feature designed to detect high blood pressure

STAT Plus: Despite fear of retaliation, hundreds of federal workers urge Congress to protect medicine and science

In the Lab September 18, 2025

STAT Plus: Despite fear of retaliation, hundreds of federal workers urge Congress to protect medicine and science

In the Lab September 17, 2025

Amid a crackdown on DEI, a group of Black neuroscientists celebrates its growth

In the Lab September 12, 2025

STAT Plus: HHS to have Rensselaer investigate question of autism-vaccine link

STAT Plus: Hospitals nab $4 billion in extra Medicaid funds, before Republican cuts take effect

Hospitals July 25, 2025

STAT Plus: Hospitals nab $4 billion in extra Medicaid funds, before Republican cuts take effect

Hospitals June 16, 2025

STAT Plus: Senate GOP proposes steeper cuts to Medicaid funding in tax cut bill

Hospitals June 14, 2025

STAT Plus: Hospitals would be hit hardest by Medicaid cuts in GOP tax bill, report finds

STAT Plus: Here’s who will be hit with higher premiums if ACA enhanced subsidies expire

Insurance September 18, 2025

STAT Plus: Here’s who will be hit with higher premiums if ACA enhanced subsidies expire

Insurance September 17, 2025

STAT Plus: Major health insurer group says members will continue to cover vaccines, a step that may ease anxiety over access

Insurance September 9, 2025

STAT Plus: CMS delays rule requiring Medicare Advantage insurers to remind members of unused benefits

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