The latest health news
You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox. It’s official: Medicare …
Read More
There’s a lot we don’t yet know about the data behind Pfizer and BioNTech’s renewed push to change their two-shot Covid vaccination series to a three-shot regimen. But as various …
Read More
In his first budget, President Biden set aggressive health goals. “Let’s end cancer as we know it,” he said to rousing applause in a speech to Congress. “It’s within our …
Read More
WASHINGTON — Gus Perna, the four-star Army general responsible for coordinating the U.S. coronavirus vaccine response, is set to retire this summer, according to four current and former Health and …
Read More
STAT’s tool allows users to visualize individual drug companies’ corporate PAC spending, mapped geographically based on each company’s U.S. headquarters, as listed on its website. WASHINGTON — Seventy-two senators and …
Read More
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Tuesday set a new goal for the ongoing U.S. Covid-19 vaccination campaign: giving at least one shot to 70% of the adult population by …
Read More
Does President Biden really care about drug prices? Is Sputnik V falling out of orbit? And why’s it so hard to find pipette tips? We cover all that and more …
Read More
People who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 no longer need to wear masks while outside in uncrowded areas or in small groups, federal health officials said Tuesday as part of …
Read More
What does a Democratic Senate portend for the drug industry? Is software eating health care? And can Covid-19 vaccines withstand viral mutations? We discuss all that and more on this …
Read More