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STAT Plus: After private equity firms gobbled up wheelchair makers, users pay the price in long repair times

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STAT Plus: FDA wants to hear your thoughts on advisory committees 

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STAT Plus: Philips will pay $1.1 billion to resolve U.S. lawsuits over breathing machines that expel debris

Health Grace Rubenstein

Mental health crisis centers and EmPATH units: offering care that busy ERs can’t

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The grim reality of relocating to get access to gender-affirming care

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She was too sick for a traditional transplant. So she received a pig kidney and a heart pump

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STAT Plus: Telehealth startups see an opportunity in long-ignored, complex chronic diseases

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STAT Plus: VP Harris announces final rules mandating minimum standards for nursing home staffing

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STAT Plus: Hospital price transparency rules are seeding a new crop of health tech startups

First Opinion Pam Kohl and Bill Kiser

Congress: Protect patients and enact the Nuclear Medicine Clarification Act

Health Deborah Balthazar

High physician empathy could offer patients with lower back pain lasting benefits, study shows

Living With Isabella Cueto

After years of just ‘running, running,’ a crisis led to a lupus diagnosis. Now she connects others 

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Medicaid redetermination cost community health centers an average of $600K each

Health Sarah Owermohle

Your dog is probably on Prozac. Experts say that says more about the American mental health crisis than pets

First Opinion Edward Abrahams and Christopher J. Wells

Personalized medicine: We’re not there yet

Health tech Timmy Broderick

STAT Plus: Why very few people who are eligible for a cochlear implant actually get one

First Opinion David Velasquez

I saw the promise of diversity efforts in health care. A moment later I saw its critical gaps

Health Annalisa Merelli

New HHS guidance requires consent for pelvic, breast, and other sensitive examinations

Biotech Andrew Joseph

STAT Plus: Critics say U.K. decision on ALS drug could have ‘chilling effect’ on access to new genetic medicines

Health tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: Washington wants to avert another Change Healthcare-like fiasco. Here’s what could be coming

First Opinion Katherine O'Malley

Primary care physicians should be at the heart of treating Alzheimer’s

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STAT Plus: Patient advocates clash over wisdom of ‘approving drugs faster and faster’

The Readout Meghana Keshavan

STAT Plus: EU adviser says Illumina merger was not problematic

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STAT Plus: Getting CRISPR treatments to patients remains a major challenge. Could lab-developed tests help?

The War on Recovery Lev Facher

STAT Plus: Q&A: Mark Parrino says it’s time to ‘completely re-examine’ methadone treatment for opioid addiction

Health Isabella Cueto

STAT Plus: Inside a push to create an NIH office for post-infection chronic illness

Health tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: AI health care companies say they’ll keep humans in the loop. But what does that actually mean?

Health Annalisa Merelli

After Amylyx ALS trial failure, patients share disappointment and fear — but some hope

The War on Recovery Lev Facher

Rigid rules at methadone clinics are jeopardizing patients’ path to recovery from opioid addiction