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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

For most of Mary Woolley’s career, science and politics have existed harmoniously. On only a few occasions have they become misaligned, said Woolley, who has served as president and CEO of the research advocacy group Research!America since 1990. Those occasions include a movement to slash the budget of the National Institutes of Health in the […]

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 […]

Japanese regulators just quietly gave researchers there a historic OK to generate human embryos from stem cells in the lab — no ovaries or testes needed. Scientists in Japan and around the world are quickly working toward making viable human eggs and sperm from stem cells, a process called in vitro gametogenesis, or IVG. Those […]

Abridge is partnering with payer-provider Highmark Health to develop an artificial intelligence tool that would facilitate in-visit insurance approvals, the companies announced on Tuesday. Abridge, which sells ambient AI scribes that listen to patient visits and write doctors’ notes, has heavily marketed its new coding and billing tools this year in its $250 million and […]