Biden's top health advisers say he’s already preparing an unprecedented, mid-pandemic transition of power that aims to reboot the federal government’s Covid-19 response. 

How @DGlaucomflecken, the alter ego of ophthalmologist Will Flanary, became an internet sensation.

The Trump administration invited the leading Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers to a celebratory “Vaccine Summit” on Tuesday. Neither plans to attend.

SCOOP: The Trump administration quietly spent $10 billion from a fund Congress created to help health care providers with Covid-19 costs, and used it on Operation Warp Speed contracts instead.

Biden's top health advisers say he’s already preparing an unprecedented, mid-pandemic transition of power that aims to reboot the federal government’s Covid-19 response. 

Johnson & Johnson expanded global access to tuberculosis drug this week amid novelist and YouTube star John Green joining an advocacy campaign.

Martin Shkreli, the infamous "pharma bro" who was sentenced to prison for securities fraud, was released from prison and transferred to a federal halfway house.

The state of Massachusetts alleges that Purdue, the Sackler family, and company executives misled prescribers and patients as they aimed to blanket the country with prescriptions for their addictive...

Biogen's newly approved Alzheimer's drug, called Aduhelm, is the first to attack what some believe is an underlying cause of the disease.

It felt like an interrogation, as if she were being accused of doing something wrong, of causing the loss of a pregnancy she hadn’t even known about when she arrived at urgent care. She wished she...

A STAT investigation found that Black residents leave or are terminated from training programs at far higher rates than white residents.

The state agreed to set aside vaccines for local distribution, but the events were planned on short notice, with few resources to help spread the word, and no way to reserve appointments for people...

A new study suggests the messenger RNA vaccines produced by Moderna and the Pfizer-BioNTech partnership appeared to be 90% effective in preventing Covid-19 infection in a real-world setting.

If medical professionals don't gather safely at meetings and annual conferences, how can other professionals, not to mention the general public, be expected to do that?

For many young people, colon cancer was never on their radar. But since the 1990s, even as colorectal cancer rates have declined for people 50 and older, they have more than doubled among American...

AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine study has been put on hold due to a suspected adverse reaction in participant in the U.K.

President-elect Joe Biden has turned to three prominent physicians to lead his coronavirus task force who have signaled that they will approach the pandemic far differently than the Trump administr...

As President Trump worked on his immigration ban, Hillary Clinton attended a fundraiser supporting two top cancer researchers — both immigrants.

Federal prosecutors reportedly plan to charge Teva Pharmaceuticals of conspiring with other manufacturers of fixing prices for generic drugs.

CDC researchers are suggesting the cumulative time a person spent around others with Covid-19, instead of just the consecutive time spent around an infected person, could also be a factor in transm...

Fully vaccinated Americans can spend time indoors and unmasked with each other — and with people at low risk for serious Covid-19 complications, according to new CDC guidance.

He died by suicide. In an unusual step, his wife sued his pain doctors — a rare legal challenge to physicians over their decisions to reduce patients’ opioid doses.

Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine led patients to produce antibodies that can neutralize the novel coronavirus that causes the disease, while causing minor side effects in many patients.

The announcement from Trump’s medical team that the president is on dexamethasone is sure to increase speculation about the severity of the president’s illness.

Novavax says its Covid-19 vaccine is 90% effective, but far less so against one variant.

Reopening some states is "like having a peeing section in the swimming pool," as one public health official put it. The coronavirus "doesn’t stay where you started.”

President-elect Joe Biden has turned to three prominent physicians to lead his coronavirus task force who have signaled that they will approach the pandemic far differently than the Trump administr...

Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson said Thursday it has applied to the FDA for an emergency use authorization for its one-dose Covid-19 vaccine, setting in motion a process that is all but sure...

A JAMA podcast — whose host, a white editor and physician, questioned whether racism even exists in medicine — is surfacing complaints that JAMA and other elite medical journals have routinely...

An Arizona ER doctor has emerged as a vocal leader speaking out on behalf of health care workers and against politicians who aren’t working harder to contain Covid-19.

As Covid-19 cases begin again to spike throughout the United States, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said she has begun experiencing a “recurring” feeling of “impending doom.”

"Black women deserve to be heard — and treated with dignity and respect — throughout pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period," said Vice President Kamala Harris. @VP

While U.S. medical schools have talked for years about their efforts to enroll more students of color, the new data underscore how little progress has been made.

Based on the newly published data, the WHO issued new treatment guidelines calling for steroids to become the standard of care for patients hospitalized with Covid-19.

Cherokee Nation is suing drug companies and retailers, alleging they didn’t do enough to stop prescription painkillers from flooding the tribal community.

Gilead's antiviral medicine remdesivir failed to speed the improvement of patients with Covid-19 or prevent them from dying, according to results from a long-awaited clinical trial conducted in China.

The prospect of contending with a prolonged outbreak phase — and adjusting again to a constantly evolving roster of restrictions — has brought back another feature of pandemic living: anger.

A number of vaccine experts are concerned the U.S. may be sleepwalking into a policy of recommending annual Covid-19 vaccine boosters — without having generated the evidence to show they are actually...

Exclusive: The Biden administration is preparing a sweeping initiative to develop a next generation of Covid-19 immunizations that would thwart future coronavirus variants and dramatically reduce...

A member of Biden’s Covid-19 task force is advocating for federal scientists, not political appointees, to take on the daily work of informing the public about the pandemic.

Children are more likely to suffer from pandemic-associated symptoms than from infection-associated symptoms. School policies should reflect this reality.

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An investigational antiviral pill reduced the chances that patients newly diagnosed with Covid-19 would be hospitalized by about 50%.

Children taken to the emergency room for mental health concerns are more likely to be stuck there for extended stays than they were a decade ago.

Two new reports, the result of an 18-month congressional investigation, detail the internal strategies Celgene and Teva used to repeatedly hike the price of two blockbuster drugs.

The DNA chaos that CRISPR unleashes has been “seriously underestimated,” said geneticist Allan Bradley of England's Wellcome Sanger Center, who led the new study. “This should be a wake-up call.”

Despite all of the sacrifices children made to protect adults last year, many adults have not stepped up for children in return by taking the simple steps needed to keep kids safe.

The White House is expected to announce a new policy, based on guidance from the CDC, that would urge Americans to wear cloth masks in an effort to prevent coronavirus spread, according to a federal...

As decision-makers at organizations decide on their Covid-19 vaccination policy, they should be careful to not let this passion lead the organization to run afoul of the law.

The WHO announced Wednesday that it would broadly roll out a much-need malaria vaccine, saying pilot testing had shown that it was safe and could be effectively deployed in remote and rural settings.

U.S. government scientists helped invent remdesivir, and HHS has a legal and moral duty to ensure access to it in the U.S. and around the world. It has the policy tool it needs to do that.

New York State reported Thursday that it has detected a case of vaccine-derived polio in a person in Rockland County, north of New York City, the first such recorded case in the United States since...

Trump has said he doesn’t wear a mask because “everyone gets tested before they see me.” His positive Covid-19 test reveals the limits of Covid-19 strategies that depend on testing but eschew more...

What "Beans" taught her parents about pediatric cancer, the need for research, and patient advocacy.

John Green, a novelist and popular YouTuber, is once again leveraging his star power in the global fight to end tuberculosis.

From the glory days of print magazines to 2020’s Twitter-crazed news cycles, Sharon Begley won more awards and accolades than could fit in an obituary. The accomplishments she was prouder of were...

Two scientists have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry for the development of a method for rewriting the code of life.

New York state health authorities revealed they had detected additional polioviruses in wastewater sampled in two counties north of New York City, findings that signal continued spread of the viruses...

Breakthrough infections are causing a lot of anxiety about whether the Covid-19 vaccines hold up against the hyper-transmissible Delta variant. So STAT asked infectious disease expert @celinegounder,...

A mutation found in fast-spreading coronavirus variants does not negate the Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech, a new study indicates.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is launching a fresh round of questioning on states’ limits to abortion rights.

Because of a family history of colorectal cancer, STAT's @SciFleur had his first colonoscopy just days before turning 30 — and documented every step. Watch his story:

Here's a rundown of the members of President-elect Biden's Covid-19 task force.

FDA, under pressure, plans ‘sprint’ to accelerate review of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for full approval.

Biden also announced that he will elevate his science adviser to a cabinet-level post, marking the first time in history that the OSTP head has served alongside the heads of federal agencies. 

A small study found that exercising in cold weather burns more calories than exercising in warmer temps. But does that mean you'll lose weight with more vigorous winter workouts?

A member of Biden’s Covid-19 task force is advocating for federal scientists, not political appointees, to take on the daily work of informing the public about the pandemic.

For the past decade, evidence has suggested that Gardasil, the HPV vaccine, could stem an epidemic of throat cancer. The FDA has now approved its use for that purpose.