23 May, 2026
Allison covers what hot startups are getting up to, and who’s financing them. She is also co-host of the weekly biotech podcast, “The Readout Loud.” You can reach Allison on…
WASHINGTON — A group of Senate Democrats is proposing that Medicare cover in-home care, which would create the first new benefit in the program since the Part D retail drug…
The Trump administration has made sweeping changes to vaccine policy over the past year justified by invocations of patients’ “personal autonomy.” In January, Department of Health and Human Services head…
Below is a lightly edited, AI-generated transcript of the “First Opinion Podcast” interview with Shelley Wood and Eric Topol. Be sure to sign up for the weekly “First Opinion Podcast”…
Allison covers what hot startups are getting up to, and who’s financing them. She is also co-host of the weekly biotech podcast, “The Readout Loud.” You can reach Allison on…

Readout Newsletter: Sarepta, Replimune, Soleno, statins

Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Morning. Today, we see fallout from the FDA’s rejection of Replimune’s melanoma drug affecting another biotech, learn how Sarepta’s decision-making has affected a patient population that hasn’t always been in the headlines, and more. As Sarepta […]

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Trans health care, price transparency, mosquito

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. The theme of today’s newsletter seems to be: $$$ money $$$ Specifically: What’s driving health costs up? What’s getting covered by insurance and what isn’t? Who’s doing anything about it? But also, mosquitos. How AI scribes […]

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Wildfire risk, birth control, AAP vaccine recs

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. Yesterday I saw a press release with the headline “Seabirds only poop while flying” and thought — wow, science is amazing. Anyway, we’ve got three bits of vaccine/virus news to start you off this morning, plus […]

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MAHA report, health care CEO net worth

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. What sort of treat will you get yourself on this Monday? I’m thinking latte, pastry, etc. Here comes the week. Inside the leaked MAHA report draft STAT reporters have reviewed a draft of the much-awaited […]

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Draft MAHA report: RFK Jr. tiptoes around pesticides, food lobby

WASHINGTON — A much-awaited game plan for how the Trump administration will make Americans healthier largely steers clear of policy recommendations, instead calling for more research on nutrition, agricultural chemicals, and “potential benefits of select high-quality supplements,” among other topics.  That’s according to a draft version of a new report from the president’s Make America […]

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Novo Nordisk’s obesity drug Wegovy cleared to treat live disease MASH

Novo Nordisk’s obesity drug Wegovy was cleared by U.S. regulators on Friday to treat an increasingly common liver disease, adding to the list of conditions for which the blockbuster therapy is now approved.  The Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval to Wegovy for patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis, or MASH, with moderate to advanced […]

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Cellphones should be allowed in rehab

The fluorescent lights of the detox unit hummed, a sterile counterpoint to the chaos that had been my life just days before. Every fiber of my being screamed for escape, for the familiar oblivion that had become my twisted comfort. My hands trembled, not from withdrawal alone, but from the phantom weight of a smartphone […]

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