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Father’s Day without my dad never gets easier. Although he is on my mind every day, I always find myself thinking about him even more often this time of year. My dad was a giant in every sense of the word. More than anyone else, he shaped the values of the Gates Foundation, and everything […]

Allison DeAngelis is the East Coast biotech and venture capital reporter at STAT, reporting where scientific ideas and money meet. She is also co-host of the weekly biotech podcast, The Readout Loud. You can reach Allison on Signal at AllisonDeAngelis.01. A private equity firm has stepped in to finance a biological research lab at Harvard […]

Andrew Joseph covers health, medicine, and the biopharma industry in Europe. You can reach Andrew on Signal at drewqjoseph.45. Sarepta Therapeutics said Sunday that it was halting shipments of its Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene therapy for patients who can no longer walk, following the death of a second person who received the treatment. Sarepta disclosed […]

WASHINGTON — Hospitals would bear the brunt of federal health care funding cuts in the Republicans’ tax bill, and they’d be hurt hard in states with both predominantly Democratic- and Republican-led governments, according to an analysis by the Urban Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.  Republicans are using federal Medicaid funding cuts to pay […]

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Taxpayers will send an estimated $86 billion to Medicare Advantage insurers this year to pay for supplemental benefits for their members, or 17% of total payments to those plans. But how that money is spent, and how much members actually use those benefits, remains a black hole, according to a new report from a group […]

Europe’s comparatively cautious approach to food additives is the envy of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Make America Healthy Again movement. A Texas bill now before Gov. Greg Abbott aims to help close the gap by slapping warning labels on foods that contain any of 44 additives and dyes. Abbott has not […]

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan congressional report to be released publicly Tuesday alleges that the organizations responsible for recovering donated organs for transplantation use a federal loophole to miscount the number of organs to boost performance ratings and stay certified. The report, shared exclusively with STAT from the offices of Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Chuck Grassley […]

Nearly five years ago, Jay Bhattacharya, then a Stanford professor, was part of a trio that published an open letter calling for less stringent public health protections against the Covid pandemic. They called it the Great Barrington Declaration, and its opposition to vaccine mandates and school closings thrust him into the public eye. He became […]

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. Budget documents released by the Trump administration Friday provide the first clear indication of the priorities of a proposed new agency focused on preventing chronic disease.  The Administration for a Healthy America would absorb multiple federal agencies and existing programs, […]