A syphilis drug shortage, Sanofi's diabetes drug approval, and more biotech news from The Readout
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Pfizer hasn't complied with a request to donate emergency penicillin to state health agencies as a backstop to prevent congenital syphilis
State Medicaid crackdowns strain home care, WHO leader on Ebola outbreak, and more health news
Medicaid cuts and fraud crackdown trickle down to states, threatening people with disabilities.
AI for children requires “randomized controlled trials measuring real developmental outcomes, not engagement metrics,” writes Dua Hassan.
Congenital syphilis should be preventable. An Arizona case shows how drug shortages and procedural hurdles are fueling a growing public health crisis.
Jesse Gabriel "has passed more food policy in three years than most legislators enact in their entire careers," says one supporter.
“In South Asian households, a child's disability triggers a specific kind of family crisis,” writes child and adolescent psychiatrist Ritu Goel.
The FDA has approved a drug that was previously caught in a dispute between career staff and the political appointee head of the CDER.
The director-general of the World Health Organization is profoundly worried about the Ebola outbreak in the DRC, he told STAT in an interview.
Opinion: ‘I’m pretty much all in’: An interview with a woman starting medical residency at almost 73
"There are some physicians that work to 100”: Dawn Zuidgeest-Craft on becoming a medical doctor in her 70s.
Trump administration revisits policy to plug Medicare drug price negotiation loophole.
From new hires to departures, promotions and transfers, here are the latest comings and goings in the pharmaceutical industry.
Nonprofit Blood Cancer United acquires cancer drug, Lilly and Nvidia invest in Abridge, and more biotech news
The nonprofit Blood Cancer United is buying the remaining supplies of a discontinued investigational cancer drug, Luvelta
Kennedy's "publicly" "available" "calendar," drinking during pregnancy, and more health news from Morning Rounds
“American science is too valuable to be turned into a political football,” writes David J. Skorton, president of the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Hospital execs agree that affordability is a major issue. What to do about it is less clear.
“Failing to engage religious and traditional leaders in meaningful ways was a grave misstep in previous Ebola outbreaks,” researchers write.
Many in the diabetes research community expressed shock and disbelief that their colleagues were threatened with arrest for passing out paper copies of an editorial.
STAT is tracking goals and promises of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his Make America Healthy Again movement — successes, incompletes, and fails.
Can any of the new obesity medications in development stand out from the pack? Which company just broke records with its IPO? And will the Food and Drug Administration allow…
None of STAT's requests for Kennedy's schedule have been completed, and some haven't even been acknowledged.
A new CDC report underscores that drinking during pregnancy, while generally thought of as a thing of the past, is still a matter of concern.
In this edition of STAT Health Tech: HHS watchdog on denials by health insurers, lawmakers target AI denials, and Talkspace's new chatbot offering.