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Strategic angle: This intervention improves patient safety, clinician well-being, and hospital finances simultaneously — a rare alignment of incentives in health care.
Strategic angle: Officials allege widespread fraud in home-based care, but evidence remains unprovided.
Strategic angle: Kresladi has shown positive results in a small trial of nine patients.
Strategic angle: Panel aims to lower costs and enhance care quality with expert advice.
Strategic angle: This analysis highlights the health care affordability challenges facing LGBT adults, a growing population that faces health related disparities.
A preliminary readout from a study could vindicate Allogene Therapeutics' stubborn belief in its off-the-shelf CAR-T treatment.
Strategic angle: In today's Readout Newsletter, Denali and Corcept win FDA approvals, Sarepta eyes a rebound, and Allogene progresses with an off-the-shelf CAR-T.
Strategic angle: In this week's STATus Report, influential health communicators discuss the mental health impacts of social media.
Strategic angle: GOP moves to resolve the fight over ICE's funding could prompt more changes to health care
Strategic angle: In today's Morning Rounds newsletter: White House misses the deadline to nominate a new CDC director, California furthers its crackdown on ultra-processed foods, and more.
Strategic angle: More people use chatbots for health advice, a health AI startup raises $125 million, and all about deepfaked medical images.
A significant decision by the FDA following previous rejections of rare disease treatments.
A recent poll indicates that adults are increasingly relying on AI for health advice, paralleling the use of social media, driven by healthcare costs and access.
Strategic angle: Endometriosis is not just a gynecological disease.
Strategic angle: The recent explosion of perimenopause attention tells women that they are controlled by their hormones.
Strategic angle: The search for a new CDC director continues past the statutory deadline, raising concerns about public health leadership.
Strategic angle: A California bill would allow 'not ultraprocessed' labels on foods, even as scientists debate definitions and courts question the legality of similar laws.
Strategic angle: Bhattacharya faced tough staff questions on job cuts and fallout from the shooting attack on the agency.
Strategic angle: A new MRI method measures cardiac oxygen use in three minutes without catheters or radiation, offering a simpler way to study heart failure and metabolism.
Strategic angle: In this edition of STAT's AI Prognosis: A chat with Qualified Health co-founder and CEO, Justin Norden, as the company raises $125 million.