Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the practice of health care and the business and policy challenges to realizing tech’s promise. He’s also the co-author of the free, twice weekly STAT Health Tech newsletter. You can […]

Andrew Joseph covers health, medicine, and the biopharma industry in Europe. You can reach Andrew on Signal at drewqjoseph.45. WASHINGTON — The United States and United Kingdom announced a high-level agreement Monday under which the U.K. is expected to pay more for medicines. In exchange for agreeing to increase payments going forward, the U.K. will […]

The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine regulator asserted in an email to staff sent Friday that the Covid-19 vaccine caused at least 10 deaths in children and called for changes to the way the agency regulates vaccines. But experts told STAT they are skeptical of the memo’s “extraordinary” claim because it was not presented […]

“Silence = Death.” That was the mantra of determined AIDS activists who quickly concluded the U.S. government was not doing enough to combat the then-emergent AIDS epidemic, which first hit the headlines in 1981. There was a distinct lack of federally coordinated action on AIDS for several key years right at the beginning of the […]

A new report suggests that the number of children vaccinated against measles globally — which declined during the Covid-19 pandemic — is nearly back to pre-pandemic levels. But the number of cases of the highly infectious disease surpassed the pre-Covid tally in 2024, according to the World Health Organization. The annual measles assessment, published Friday in […]

WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, the Trump administration celebrated drug price cuts it had secured through a Democrat-created program — despite Republicans’ longstanding antipathy toward the policy. The Inflation Reduction Act, a 2022 law supported solely by Democrats and signed into law by then-President Biden, allowed the Trump administration to secure lower prices on 15 drugs […]

You’re reading the web edition of STAT’s AI Prognosis newsletter, our subscriber-exclusive guide to artificial intelligence in health care and medicine. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Wednesday.  Happy Thanksgiving! This year, I’m grateful for all the cool things I get to do — including this newsletter.  And while you’re scrolling on the […]

Hello there and happy Tuesday from STAT’s London outpost, with Andrew Joseph here filling in for Mr. Pharmalot for the day. While it feels like things are slowing down stateside ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, this place is busy diving full speed into Christmas already. We just hope you can enjoy whatever you’re celebrating whenever […]

Bob Herman covers health insurance, government programs, hospitals, physicians, and other providers — reporting on how money influences those businesses and shapes what we all pay for care. He is also the author of the Health Care Inc. newsletter. You can reach Bob on Signal at bobjherman.09. Hospitals scored a win in Medicare’s final outpatient […]