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Biotech Jason Mast

STAT Plus: FDA rejects Rocket Pharmaceuticals’ gene therapy for ultra-rare condition, another setback for field

Health tech Timmy Broderick

STAT Plus: Blind employee takes VA to court saying new EHR from Oracle is inaccessible

Politics Olivia Goldhill

STAT Plus: Don’t write off MDMA yet: How the FDA got on board with psychedelics

First Opinion Josh Carpenter

To secure the U.S.’s biotech supply chain, pay attention to domestic companies

Health Lev Facher

STAT Plus: Upending Purdue Pharma’s settlement does little to help today’s opioid crisis, advocates say

First Opinion Annette Ansong, Rachel Bond, and Tiffany Powell-Wiley

Medicare’s Part D policy is blocking progress needed to achieve Black health equity

Politics Rachel Cohrs Zhang and Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: Biden and Trump spar over Medicare and abortion in a presidential debate filled with mistakes and falsehoods

Politics Lev Facher

STAT Plus: Pressed on addiction, Trump and Biden talk border security but don’t mention treatment

Politics Rachel Cohrs Zhang, John Wilkerson, and Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: House panel passes bills to expand Medicare obesity drug coverage, cancer screening

Politics Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: Biden’s Supreme Court abortion wins could be short-lived

The Readout LOUD Allison DeAngelis and Brittany Trang

Listen: Medicare coverage for GLP-1 drugs, AI, and health care at the presidential debate

In the Lab Jason Mast

STAT Plus: Trying to outrun her prion disease, researcher creates powerful epigenetic editor in mice

Business Associated Press

Walgreens could shutter hundreds of underperforming stores

D.C. Diagnosis Rachel Cohrs Zhang

STAT Plus: Key health care topics to watch out for at the Biden-Trump debate

Health tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Hospital at home program is waiting on Congress, but this New Jersey hospital isn’t

Health Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: Supreme Court kicks Idaho emergency abortion ban back to lower court

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

Supreme Court rejects the controversial Purdue bankruptcy plan

The Readout Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: Exclusive: European VC Forbion hires Dyne CEO, expands in US

Health tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: Are expensive whole-body MRI scans medically useful? A new clinical trial aims to find out

First Opinion Safina Adatia

To get basic standard addiction treatment, Americans should move to Canada

Health Rachel Cohrs Zhang

STAT Plus: Q&A: Lessons from the HHS secretary who ran Bush’s bird flu response

Health Isabella Cueto and J. Emory Parker

By the numbers: America’s alcohol-related health problems are rising fast

Health tech Nicholas St. Fleur

STAT Plus: Q&A: Defining responsible AI in health care, with CHAI CEO Brian Anderson

In the Lab Angus Chen

STAT Plus: Journal retracts study tied to Micronoma’s effort to create cancer blood test

Health Helen Branswell

CDC advisory panel opts for a go-slow approach on expanding usage of RSV vaccines

Biotech John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: FDA issues long-awaited draft guidance for enrolling more people of color in clinical trials

Health Usha Lee McFarling

National Academies proposes reimagining health care to fix ‘fundamental flaws’ that underlie inequity

Health Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: The Supreme Court appears set to reject Idaho’s near-total abortion ban

Politics Rachel Cohrs Zhang

STAT Plus: House panel proposes new strategy for Medicare to cover weight loss drugs Wegovy, Zepbound