Health

The Readout Meghana Keshavan

STAT Plus: Serum Institute of India wants government HPV contract

Health Jonathan Saltzman — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: He’s 19 months old and has one of the world’s rarest diseases. His parents are determined to find a cure.

Health Associated Press

CVS and Walgreens plan to start dispensing abortion pill mifepristone soon

In the Lab Theresa Gaffney

Why do some women experience UTI pain with no clear infection? A mouse study offers clues

Health Helen Branswell

CDC eases isolation guidance for Covid and other respiratory illnesses

The Readout Meghana Keshavan

STAT Plus: Despite good data, Ironwood’s shares plummet 

Health Deborah Balthazar

Q&A: AMA’s chief health equity officer on ridding medicine of racial essentialism

Health Elaine Chen

More than 1 billion people have obesity, including 159 million young people, study estimates

Health Helen Branswell

RSV vaccines may be linked to small increased risk of developing Guillain-Barré syndrome, data suggest

The Readout Damian Garde

STAT Plus: The next act for a biotech rainmaker

Health Helen Branswell

Flu vaccine offering decent levels of protection this winter, new data show

Health Andrew Joseph

Amid measles outbreaks, U.K. launches vaccination ad campaign to boost childhood immunizations

Politics Associated Press

STAT Plus: Biden ‘continues to be fit for duty,’ his doctor says, after president undergoes annual physical

Health Helen Branswell

Chikungunya vaccine approved for select groups by CDC advisory panel

In the Lab Elizabeth Cooney

‘Brain fog’ is one of Covid-19’s most daunting symptoms. A new study measures its impact

Health Helen Branswell

CDC advisory panel says people 65 and older should get a Covid spring booster shot

The Readout Damian Garde

STAT Plus: Beam is trading like it’s 2021

Politics Nicholas Florko

STAT Plus: Why won’t Medicare deliver food to sick seniors, if it could get them healthy?

Health Annalisa Merelli

Cholera vaccine shortage reaches worst point yet, with experts fearing deadly outbreaks

The Readout Meghana Keshavan

STAT Plus: GSK pill works in uncomplicated gonorrhea

First Opinion Allen Goldberg

IVF bans like Alabama’s could cost the lives of children already born

Health Olivia Goldhill

STAT Plus: FDA protocols originally intended to be extra conservative are now heralded as evidence of mifepristone’s risk

In the Lab Adam Piore — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: The quest for psychedelics in the Amazon would push a Harvard botanist to his limits

The Readout Damian Garde

STAT Plus: The FDA isn’t afraid to yank a disappointing drug

The Readout Meghana Keshavan

STAT Plus: What do CEOs owe the world?

Health Elizabeth Cohen

As midwife-assisted home births rise, so too do high-risk births outside hospitals

Health Annalisa Merelli

Embryo loss is integral to IVF. Alabama’s ruling equating embryos with children jeopardizes its practice

Health Helen Branswell

Florida policy set amid measles outbreak alarms vaccination proponents

The Readout Damian Garde

STAT Plus: Novavax’s money is going in the wrong direction