Medicine
Cancer rates rising more quickly among younger people, international study finds
Researchers, who looked at UK, US and Dutch data, say lifestyle choices are costing thousands of lives a yearCases of seven types of cancer have risen sharply among younger people…
Judith Lucy announces breast cancer diagnosis: ‘I’m in shock, but I’m OK’
Comedian reveals cancer in a joke-packed video, saying she will undergo a double mastectomy and ‘I’ll be keeping you abreast of everything, Australia’Comedian and actor Judith Luc…
Pennsylvania faces largest measles outbreak in decades as case count rises to 1,000
Neighboring states are also reporting hundreds of cases, with over 3,800 recorded across the countryPennsylvania has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, state health official…
STAT+: Judges skewer HHS arguments in hearing over Medicare Advantage audits lawsuit
Federal judges pushed back against the government's arguments in a Medicare Advantage case.
STAT+: Nobel-winning optogenetics research has led to experimental treatments for blindness and Alzheimer’s
Optogenetics is now the foundational way through which we are able to understand how the brain works
STAT+: New Trump regulations would clean up health care pricing disclosures
The Trump administration is continuing its effort to bring more transparency to the cost of health care.
Medicine shortages will result if drug prices are driven too low | Letter
Amanda Cole says the government needs to weigh the cost of medicines against the damage that a shortage can cause to the NHS and patientsWithout decisive government action, the re…
STAT+: Prices, prices, prices
Why is health insurance so expensive? Read the latest stort in STAT's "Out of Pocket, Out of Reach" series to find out.
STAT+: Utah plows ahead with more health AI pilots for prescriptions, women’s health
Utah plans to allow an AI product to evaluate patients and write new drug prescriptions without prior human review.
Women suffer more pain than men across the whole body, major global study finds
Researchers looked at pain around the world and across the human lifespan, finding steepest rise happens before age 55Women report suffering more pain than men, a major new global…
STAT+: Lilly’s Jaypirca approved as first-line CLL therapy
Eli Lilly’s Jaypirca has won FDA approval for previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia and small lymphocytic lymphoma.
STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a Vaxcyte pneumococcal shot, increasing pharma M&A, and more
Vaxcyte said its pneumococcal vaccine hit the primary endpoints in a Phase 3 clinical trial, setting up a competition with Pfizer and Merck
STAT+: Vaxcyte claims success in bid to beat Pfizer and Merck in lucrative vaccine market
Vaxcyte said its experimental pneumococcal vaccine hit the primary endpoints in a Phase 3 clinical trial, setting up the biotech to compete with Pfizer and Merck.
Could we one day vaccinate against every cancer?
What science says so far about which cancers can be beat by vaccines — and which will require more creative approaches.
2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded for brain research tool called optogenetics
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel are the joint recipients of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion chann…
Shortages of crucial HIV medicines due to aid cuts are a ‘warning’, say experts
More than half of organisations providing HIV care surveyed by International Planned Parenthood Federation said they had run out of stock at some point during past 12 monthsAid cu…
Republicans and Democrats find a unifying target: Pharmacy benefit managers
Republicans and Democrats, both patients and politicians, seem united in their disdain for the healthcare companies known as pharmacy benefit managers. Tennessee and Arkansas are …
From floating saunas to clinical trials: How heat might help mental health
While scientists have a decent understanding of how sauna and other forms of heat exposure exercises our cardiovascular system, they know relatively little about its impact on men…
Opinion: Energy drinks’ new college sports partnerships make them more dangerous than ever
“In the absence of population-based evidence, the energy drink cabal is having an easy time of it,” writes Kent Sepkowitz.
Hospital and pharmaceutical prices are smothering America’s businesses
Workers and employers are drowning in their health insurance premiums. The reason for that deluge: the health care industry’s high and inscrutable prices.
STAT+: Divergent trial results on cancer vaccines have the field grappling with hard questions
A melanoma vaccine succeeded in a late-stage clinical trial. The question now is whether other cancer vaccines will work — and whether mRNA is up to the task.
Opinion: Will Claude ever win a Nobel Prize for medicine?
“Are we entering a world in which some (or all) Nobels will be awarded to Claude, ChatGPT, or their AI successors, rather than human scientists?” asks Jeffrey Flier.
STAT+: Are stem cells the next peptides? These advocates think RFK Jr. could make it happen
Peptides gained legitimacy at the FDA after being embraced by MAHA. Advocates hope stem cell treatments will follow the same path.
What does marathon training do to your body? A reporter becomes the test subject
Before running the New York City Marathon, NPR's Elissa Nadworny gets a bone scan, blood work and a treadmill test to settle a question from Mom: Is this bad for my body?