Health and Nutrition
Mass. lawmaker Auchincloss favors boosting U.S. biotech over targeting China
Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) has some advice for fellow lawmakers: unapologetically support the biotech industry.
Trans women no longer to be placed on female-only wards under new NHS England guidance
Rules mean single-sex wards, toilets and changing rooms will now be used by people based on their biological sexTrans women will no longer be placed on female-only wards under new…
An autism diagnosis, but where’s the treatment? | Letters
Rebecca Hope Duncan says she has not received any help after being assessed as autistic, in response to Prof Peter Fonagy’s review of mental health, ADHD and autism services. Plus…
Social freedom shapes whose version of reality you adopt, new research suggests
Does living somewhere with lots of social freedom change whose worldview you share? New research suggests it does, mostly by pulling people’s minds away from contacts who don’t su…
STAT+: Former FDA commissioners Califf, Gottlieb, Sharpless lay into current HHS leadership
Former FDA commissioners Rob Califf (Obama and Biden administrations), Scott Gottlieb, and Ned Sharpless (both from the first Trump administration) criticized the officials who ra…
STAT+: Verastem’s KRAS inhibitor shows promise in pancreatic cancer
Verastem Oncology reports encouraging early results for its KRAS G12D inhibitor, which it’s studying in more than 200 patients with advanced solid tumors like metastatic pancreati…
After a melanoma diagnosis, mRNA cancer vaccine delivered a patient hope — and a path forward
A schoolteacher diagnosed with melanoma provides an inside look at what it was like to be treated with a cancer vaccine developed by Merck and Moderna.
Top health civil servant urged to play no role in clampdown on ADHD clinics
Four MPs raise conflict of interest concerns over Samantha Jones’s past links to a big provider of ADHD assessmentsA senior civil servant should play no part in ministers’ crackdo…
‘He’d take boys down to the chicken shed’: survivors share harrowing allegations of rape in Canberra youth detention
Exclusive: Four men outline similar encounters at the hands of guard Brett ‘Chicken’ Dennis. Scores of former detainees say the ACT should have done more to protect themWarning: T…
Puberty may mark a turning point for sex differences in the brain’s emotion and memory centers
Brain scans of more than 1,600 young people suggest that the fine-grained tissue structure of the amygdala, hippocampus, and other deep brain regions is similar in boys and girls …
STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about former FDA head calling DOGE a ‘disaster,’ an AstraZeneca AI deal, and more
Three former FDA chiefs lit into the Trump administration, criticizing the now former FDA officials who oversaw a massive staff exodus
STAT+: ‘AI sandboxes’ are all the rage. Advocates scramble to control their future
In this edition of STAT's Health Tech newsletter: The groups vying to shape regulations that'd govern state AI sandboxes, and more.
Psychologists identify three distinct profiles of support for free speech
Advocating for unrestricted freedom of speech is not always driven by democratic ideals. A new psychological study finds that the broadest support for free expression is closely t…
Sedimentary rocks: why pét nat and cloudy wines are on the rise
There’s something refreshing about unfiltered or unfined wines. We filter through a selection …Centuries ago, Geoffrey Chaucer observed that “ther is no newe gyse that it nas old”…
Kenya reports second Ebola case
Kenya reports a second Ebola case. Meanwhile, the situation in Congo is still quite dire. Authorities have confirmed more than 4,000 deaths and 9,000 cases as officials have strug…
My autumn of comfort TV and comfort food
From batch-cooked dal and chicken barley to sticky toffee pudding, these are the cosy dishes that make October evenings at home feel special• Sign up here for our weekly food news…
Man killed by tiger at Yorkshire zoo had bouts of psychosis, inquest hears
Family express concerns about William Chapman’s contact with mental health services before his deathA man who was killed by a tiger at a South Yorkshire zoo had bouts of psychosis…
STAT+: On Wall Street, there’s trouble stirring for biotech
On Wall Street, the real trouble for biotech, and the reason for investor angst, lies below the surface.
The hidden costs of fracking: boom in Argentina linked to trail of sickness
Families in Vaca Muerta, the centre of Patagonia’s shale operation, report cancers, miscarriages and pollutionIn Allen, a small town in Argentine Patagonia, many people living on …
Psilocybin appears to strengthen this optical illusion, but LSD microdoses do not
A small pilot study found that a high dose of psilocybin strengthened an illusion in which a striped pattern looks fainter inside a bold ring. Low doses of LSD did not do the same…
Opinion: My daughter’s death changed how I understood the nursing shortage
Health systems invest in training, but lose early-career nurses within a few years.
Opinion: MyChart said I could opt out of sharing my health data. Figuring out how was maddening
Want to opt out of sharing your personal health data? You may need a notary, writes Alex Rosenblat.
Forty percent of high school students report binge eating in new CDC survey
About 40% of high school students reported binge-eating in the past month in a new CDC survey, highlighting how widespread this form of disordered eating is among young people.
Rachel Roddy’s recipe for spaghetti with Marmite | A kitchen in Rome
An umami-packed dish for when you need a flavour hit in a hurryHere is a simple, practical recipe that I trust will be useful to many who don’t have the time for lengthy kitchen p…