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Health Tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Medical device companies now need to prove to FDA they’re protected against cyberattacks

Companies can no longer sell medical devices connected to the internet without first showing the FDA a solid cybersecurity plan.

Health Helen Branswell

Focus Covid booster campaigns on high-risk people, WHO’s vaccine experts recommend

Business Casey Ross

STAT Plus: Oscar Health names former Aetna executive as new CEO

Special Report Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: As AI promises to revolutionize medical note-taking, concerns mount about accuracy and harm

Special Report Lev Facher

STAT Plus: How the drug industry uses fear of fentanyl to extract more profit from naloxone

Opinion

First Opinion Nora D. Volkow

Pregnant people with substance use disorders need treatment, not criminalization

People with active substance use disorders during and after pregnancy need support, not barriers to treatment or criminalization.

First Opinion

Death by missing data: Uncollected racial and ethnic pandemic data will drive inequities for decades to come

First Opinion

Specialized centers can help realign the U.S.’s moral compass for sickle cell disease

Video

The Obesity Revolution Hyacinth Empinado

Watch: The strange history of BMI, the body mass index

Despite the ubiquity of the body mass index, or BMI, in medicine, many argue that it is a flawed tool, with a strange history.

Pharma

STAT Plus: Watch: How do the new obesity drugs work?

Health

Watch: Fentanyl test strips help prevent overdoses, why are they still controversial?

All Coverage

Health Geoff Mulvihill — Associated Press

FDA approves over-the-counter Narcan. Here’s what it means

Health Benedict Carey

STAT Plus: A half century after Prozac, a new generation of depression drugs is bringing hope to a long-stagnant field

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Health Lev Facher

Newly available test strips can detect lethal ‘tranq’ in drug supply

Health Elaine Chen

Study suggests diabetes screening should be guided by age, not weight

Health Helen Branswell

Directly observed therapy for TB treatment, via video, gets CDC nod

Health Helen Branswell

Tuberculosis cases nearly back to pre-pandemic levels, data show

Health Ambar Castillo

‘It’s a universal experience’: Doctor who treats Boston’s homeless population on why community is vital to health

Politics Usha Lee McFarling

STAT Plus: Former surgeon general Jerome Adams tries to outrun the shadow of the president he served

Health Helen Branswell

Marburg fever outbreak in Equatorial Guinea widens, WHO reports

Health Lauran Neergaard — Associated Press

Biden administration plans revamp of organ transplant system

Health Isabella Cueto and Theresa Gaffney

Social media is part of a ‘self-perpetuating cycle of risk’ for eating disorders and negative body image, per study

Health Usha Lee McFarling

Carrying the torch of his slain brother, a Chicago ER doctor struggles against the violence around him

Health Jonathan Wosen

Stanford scientist who broke genome sequencing record on what faster diagnoses mean for patients

Health Helen Branswell

Tanzania reports a Marburg outbreak, Africa’s second this year

Health Angus Chen

Study finds same small rise in breast cancer risk in many forms of hormonal birth control

Health Matthew Herper

Steroid drug reduces death rate in severe pneumonia, study shows

Health Lev Facher

Have you had difficulty getting access to medications for opioid addiction?

Politics Helen Branswell, Rachel Cohrs and Damian Garde

STAT Plus: 8 burning questions Bernie Sanders and other senators should ask Moderna’s Stéphane Bancel

Health Lev Facher

Methadone doses haven’t kept up in the age of fentanyl. A new rule aims to help

Health Nicholas Florko

STAT Plus: Arizona plans to dramatically increase hepatitis C testing and treatment in prisons

Health Tara Copp — Associated Press

Higher cancer rates found in military pilots, ground crews

First Opinion Christian Rose, Adaira I. Landry and Kaitlin M. Bowers

Will there be any emergency doctors to see you in the future?

The Obesity Revolution Isabella Cueto and Theresa Gaffney

‘That scares me’: New childhood obesity guidelines still face a long road to consensus

Politics Damian Garde

STAT Plus: ‘A safe place to fail’: ARPA-H chief on building a culture of risk-taking in science