Medical Research

Elaine Chen covers biotech, co-writes The Readout newsletter , and co-hosts STAT’s weekly biotech podcast, The Readout Loud . You can reach Elaine on...

Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her...

The April announcement of National Institutes of Health director Jay Bhattacharya’s appointment and his public profile at Stanford University, where h...

The introduction of the GLP-1 class of medications for weight loss has, to date, been one of the rockiest rollouts of a major medical advance in the U...

One of the most important lessons from the Covid-19 experience is that absolutes in scientific discourse are the exception. Science evolves as both co...

Casey Ross covers the use of artificial intelligence in medicine and its underlying questions of safety, fairness, and privacy. John Wilkerson is a Wa...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WN...

Ed Silverman, a senior writer and Pharmalot columnist at STAT, has been covering the pharmaceutical industry for nearly three decades. He is also the...

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The Food and Drug Administration will soon require prescription opioid manufacturers to include stronger language on the medications’ labels warning t...