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Politics Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: Key House Republican on health care plans exit from Congress

Politics Bob Herman and Casey Ross

STAT Plus: Senate Democrats push for stronger rules around AI in Medicare Advantage

Politics Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: In a showy hearing, Bernie Sanders gets few answers about lower drug prices

The Readout Damian Garde

STAT Plus: Gilead sours on the ‘don’t eat me’ business

D.C. Diagnosis Rachel Cohrs

New pharma CEOs in the hot seat

Exclusive Helen Branswell

STAT Plus: HHS leaves vacant more than half the slots on a key vaccine advisory panel

Business Casey Ross and Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Government warns Medicare Advantage insurers not to deny care based on AI

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: House panel passes key PBM reform for sliver of commercial market

D.C. Diagnosis Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: CDC and social media: The new misinformation war

Health Sarah Owermohle

Supreme Court to weigh whether Covid misinformation is protected speech

Politics Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: The lone Democrat willing to weaken Medicare’s power to negotiate drug prices

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Medical devices with screens aren’t accessible to the blind. Congress has a chance to change that

Politics Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: Senate working group proposes 340B reforms

Health Olivia Goldhill

STAT Plus: Texas Medical Board under pressure to define emergency exception to abortion ban

Politics Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: Biden administration makes opening offers in Medicare drug price negotiations

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Medicare Advantage insurers face slight proposed cut to 2025 payments

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Judge skeptical of arguments against Medicare drug price negotiation

Politics Sarah Owermohle

Congressmen: This Covid hearing ‘could have been an email’

Politics Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: FDA’s Woodcock reflects on more than 30 years at agency — and hints at what’s next

Politics Sarah Owermohle

Can the government ask social media sites to take down Covid misinformation? SCOTUS will weigh in

Politics Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: Supreme Court slates abortion pill case for March

Politics Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: Merck, Johnson & Johnson CEOs agree to testify in Congress on high drug prices, avoiding Bernie Sanders’ subpoena

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Democrats urge government to rein in Medicare Advantage overpayments and denials

Politics Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: Merck CEO refused to testify in Senate because he’s not an expert in drug pricing, Bernie Sanders says

Politics Nicholas Florko

STAT Plus: Zyn scrutiny from Sen. Chuck Schumer prompts an unlikely culture war

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Key Senate panel considers Medicare bonuses for hospitals that prevent drug shortages

The Readout Damian Garde

STAT Plus: Another step toward new drugs for Parkinson’s

The Readout Meghana Keshavan

STAT Plus: Lilly’s gene therapy restores hearing in an 11-year-old, paving way for more treatment

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: FDA OKs — but doesn’t require — a non-cancer-causing chemical for sterilizing devices