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  1. FDA approves first gene therapy for a fatal neuron disease in children

    The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a gene therapy for metachromatic leukodystrophy, a devastating genetic disorder that eats away at affected children’s neurons.
  2. Medicare couldn’t cover Wegovy for weight loss. But now that it’s also a heart drug, the door is open

    Novo Nordisk’s newly won permission to market the heart benefits of its obesity drug Wegovy could provide a backdoor way to expand access to the drug for people on Medicare, experts told STAT.
  3. Hemophilia gene therapies arrived after 40 years of struggle. Where are the patients?

    As a boy growing up with hemophilia A, Noah Frederick reserved the end of his annual checkups to talk about new technologies. His doctor walked through various experimental approaches for the bleeding disorder and, invariably, gene therapy. It was coming, he always said, in your
  4. UnitedHealth is on a buying spree of outpatient surgery centers

    UnitedHealth Group quietly acquired dozens of outpatient facilities in 2023, with a particular focus on surgery centers, according to a STAT review of company financial filings.
  5. Biden calls for election wake-up call on abortion rights — but new upheavals are fast approaching

    President Biden started his sprawling national address Thursday night with a warning to Republicans: Women have rebuked attempted abortion limits in past elections, and they will do it again.
  6. Nursing home owners can hide nearly two-thirds of their profits, new study shows

    A new study shows that some nursing homes are shunting the majority of their profits off of their own books and into less-visible corners of their owners’ pockets. By: @brittanytrang
  7. Biden to propose expanding Medicare drug price negotiation in State of the Union

    President Biden wants to more than double the size of Medicare’s new drug price negotiation program and will preview the plan in his State of the Union address, the White House announced Wednesday.
  8. Republicans consider a new attack on Biden ‘march-in’ plan for lower drug prices

    Republicans in Congress might try to use a technical maneuver to block the Biden administration from using so-called march-in rights to seize pharmaceutical patents and lower drug prices.
  9. How the U.S. is sabotaging its best tools to prevent deaths in the opioid epidemic

    The opioid overdose epidemic has burned through the U.S. for nearly 30 years. Yet for all that time, the country has had tools that are highly effective at preventing overdose deaths: methadone and buprenorphine .
  10. Explaining Change Healthcare and the gravity of its cyberattack

    The cyberattack on Change Healthcare has fractured the country’s health care payment infrastructure. But it also exposed how complicated and vital these electronic pipes are.
  11. What does America’s crackdown on Chinese firms mean for the U.S. biotech sector?

    The federal government increasingly is scrutinizing Chinese businesses and their interactions with American companies, including in the biotech sector. Chinese biotechnology companies, the thinking goes, could threaten national security by giving the Chinese government access to
  12. Change Healthcare cyber attack outage could persist for weeks, UnitedHealth Group executive suggests

    The outage caused by the Change Healthcare cyberattack could last weeks, a top UnitedHealth executive suggested in a Tuesday conference call with hospital cybersecurity officers, according to a recording obtained by STAT.
  13. SCOOP by me for @statnews : #UnitedHealth is planning for the Change Healthcare cyberattack outage to last several weeks, per comments from UHG president This comes after more than a week of messages saying the outage will "last at least through the day,
  14. A ‘renaissance in neuroscience’ could deliver a fresh crop of psychiatric medicines

    The drug industry has renewed its interest in neuroscience with new treatments in the works for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression.
  15. Meet the contenders for the STAT Madness 2024 crown. Voting begins March 1

    The 64 contestants whose discoveries and innovations have been selected for the 2024 edition of STAT Madness come from 50 institutions across the U.S. The teams include a Nobel laureate (Jennifer Doudna) and biotech big shots (Robert Langer and David Liu), but also up-and-comers.
  16. The 2024 #STATUSList is here! Introducing the ultimate list of 50 leaders shaping the future of health and life sciences. View the list:
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  18. UnitedHealth cyberattack impedes pharmacies’ and hospitals’ ability to process insurance claims

    Hospitals, pharmacies, and other health care providers are getting stuck in an insurance processing logjam after UnitedHealth Group disclosed a cyberattack within a recently acquired subsidiary that serves as a central hub for payments across the industry.
  19. Embryo loss is integral to IVF. Alabama’s ruling equating embryos with children jeopardizes its practice

    An embryo is one of the earliest stages of development of a multicellular organism. But according to the Supreme Court of Alabama, it is a person, too — an unborn child, entitled to the same legal protections as any minor.
  20. Presidential age debate obscures a simple fact: Some cognitive skills improve as we get older

    When a psychology professor in Michigan looked through his data on interpersonal conflict a decade ago, he discovered something unexpected. The study , which examined differences across cultures and age groups, seemed to show Americans got wiser as they got older. Richard Nisbett

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