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Insurance Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: Medicare couldn’t cover Wegovy for weight loss. But now that it’s also a heart drug, the door is open

Health tech Casey Ross

STAT Plus: Q&A: Amid AI frenzy in medicine, a federal regulator’s quest to create safeguards

Adam's Take Adam Feuerstein

STAT Plus: Argenx readies another blockbuster opportunity with its antibody drug

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: BIO severs ties with WuXi in the face of U.S. government concerns over China

Health Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: RaDonda Vaught, former Vanderbilt nurse who accidentally killed patient, says hospital issues contributed, too

Biotech Matthew Herper and Jason Mast

STAT Plus: Small studies offer hope CAR-T can fight an aggressive brain cancer

Health Angus Chen

STAT Plus: In large trial, Guardant Health’s blood test detects colon cancer, but less reliably at earliest or precancerous stages

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Pharma loses a key battle over a state law concerning 340B pharmacies

The Readout Damian Garde

STAT Plus: Geron’s resurgence might have been short-lived

First Opinion Benjamin Chartock

STAT Plus: Good health care price transparency rules are at risk if Congress doesn’t act

Health tech Mohana Ravindranath

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

Biotech Jason Mast

STAT Plus: Hemophilia gene therapies arrived after 40 years of struggle. Where are the patients?

Hospitals Katie Palmer and Casey Ross

STAT Plus: Hospitals struggle to validate AI-generated clinical summaries. ‘It’s a bit chaotic’

Health Annalisa Merelli

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

Politics John Wilkerson and Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: Here’s what you might have missed in Biden’s budget proposal

Hospitals Jon Chesto — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: For-profit health system’s Mass. hospitals teetering on the brink of financial disaster

Health Nicholas Florko

Delta 8 THC use reported by 11% of high school seniors

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Researchers create talking throat patch for people with voice disorders

The Readout Damian Garde

STAT Plus: When did Wall Street sour on Lilly’s Alzheimer’s drug?

First Opinion Paul Law

No parent who has seen the children I’ve treated for measles would refuse a vaccine

The War on Recovery Lev Facher

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

Biotech Adam Feuerstein

STAT Plus: First medicine developed to treat MASH expected to be approved soon

The War on Recovery Lev Facher

STAT Plus: New methadone rules are about to take effect. Here are 6 ways treatment could shift

Biotech Adam Feuerstein

STAT Plus: Acadia’s Nuplazid fails as treatment for schizophrenia in Phase 3 study

Health Theresa Gaffney

Experts say leaked messages present false link between gender-affirming care and cancer

Health tech Andrew Joseph

STAT Plus: U.K. researchers warn about biases in medical devices, health care algorithms

The Readout Meghana Keshavan

STAT Plus: Preventing the weaponization of AI-designed proteins

Exclusive Bob Herman

STAT Plus: UnitedHealth is on a buying spree of outpatient surgery centers

Health Saima May Sidik

Amid the battle over abortion rights, a failure to agree on how to define abortion