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Tara Bannow covers hospitals, providers, and insurers. You can reach Tara on Signal at tarabannow.70. If you’ve followed health insurance earnings over the past few weeks, you might be experiencing some whiplash. Four of the biggest players — top names like UnitedHealth Group and Elevance — lowered their profit expectations for the year, while two […]
First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech insiders, health care workers, researchers, and others. To encourage robust, good-faith discussion about issues raised in First Opinion essays, STAT publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to them. You can submit a […]
A patient advocacy group is suing the Trump administration for failing to disclose details of a recent settlement with Gilead Sciences over the patent rights to a pair of HIV prevention pills. The deal, which was reached last January, capped several years of litigation that began when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention argued […]
Adam Feuerstein is a senior writer and biotech columnist, reporting on the crossroads of drug development, business, Wall Street, and biotechnology. He is also a co-host of the weekly biotech podcast The Readout Loud and author of the newsletter Adam’s Biotech Scorecard. You can reach Adam on Signal at stataf.54. This week’s show is focused […]
Vinay Prasad had a problem. Several, actually. His staff at the Food and Drug Administration kept leaking to the press. He was under attack by President Trump’s allies after moving to pull a gene therapy off the market. Democrats were not happy with his Covid vaccine restrictions, and anti-vaccine advocates were lambasting him for approving […]
Angus Chen covers all issues broadly related to cancer including drugs, policy, science, and equity. He joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at NPR and NPR affiliate stations. His work has been recognized by national Edward R. Murrow awards, the June L. Biedler prize for cancer journalism, and more. You can reach […]
Stirring speeches filled the tall, fluorescent room on Monday morning as members of the disability community and federal officials celebrated the 35th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. They spoke at length about how the landmark law birthed critical protections and technologies that have helped disabled people flourish, but many communities […]
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 discuss how Duchenne patients and their families are responding to the shelving of Sarepta Therapeutics’ gene therapy, see an FDA panel made up largely of SSRI skeptics lambast their use in […]
Tara Bannow covers hospitals, providers, and insurers. You can reach Tara on Signal at tarabannow.70. Two major investor-owned hospital chains upped their 2025 revenue and profit forecasts this week, in stark contrast to health insurers, who’ve been doing the opposite. HCA Healthcare and Tenet Healthcare, for-profit chains that collectively own 240 hospitals, both said their […]
President Trump is threatening to withhold funds from supervised drug consumption sites and potentially pursue criminal penalties against them, offering his clearest stance yet against the philosophy of harm reduction and marking a significant escalation of his rhetoric on substance use and addiction. The new position, announced in a Thursday executive order, pledged to end […]
