2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (204+ words) STAT is a media company focused on finding and telling compelling stories about health, medicine, and scientific discovery. We produce daily news, investigative articles, and narrative projects in addition to multimedia features, podcasts, and opinion pieces. We tell our stories…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (293+ words) Platinum-based chemotherapy — in particular cisplatin and carboplatin — are a lifeline for children with certain cancers. These treatments, for instance, transformed the prognosis of hepatoblastoma, a rare cancer of the liver that is the most commonly diagnosed in childhood, from a…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (209+ words) STAT is a media company focused on finding and telling compelling stories about health, medicine, and scientific discovery. We produce daily news, investigative articles, and narrative projects in addition to multimedia features, podcasts, and opinion pieces. We tell our stories…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (227+ words) First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech insiders, health care workers, researchers, and others. To encourage robust, good-faith discussion about issues raised in First Opinion essays, STAT…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (516+ words) Tactical athletes may be the most important professionals you’ve never heard of. They are not famous and they do not play in professional leagues. What sets these EMTs, firefighters, police officers, Marine pilots, Navy SEALs, Army engineers, and astronauts apart…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (340+ words) Knoepfler is a professor of cell biology and human anatomy at UC Davis School of Medicine. Back in June 2025, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then just months into his tenure as health secretary, revealed on a podcast that he had received unproven…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1371+ words) In his reporting on the fallout from federal messaging on vaccines, Boodman interviewed nine pediatricians in six states and spent a day shadowing Aaron Bornstein during a meet-and-greet with a vaccine-hesitant parent. LAKEVILLE, Mass. — She didn’t have any trouble with…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (484+ words) A negative scan after curative-intent treatment is an important clinical milestone, but it is not equivalent to cure. For ~30% of cancer patients, cancer persists below the threshold of detection even after a clear scan.1 Without intervention, that residual disease could…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (278+ words) A New York bar sells a spritz in a Hermès-esque glass purse, while in Baltimore you can get a spritz made with Miller High Life beer. Way to keep it real, guys. Send news tips and your favorite cocktail of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (341+ words) By Abdullah Shihipar and Brandon D.L. Marshall Scientists now are spending an increasing amount of time worrying about keeping the lights on and people employed, which ultimately distracts from time spent doing research. These changes to NIH will certainly discourage young…...