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STAT+: States anxiously wait to find out if cancer tracking and prevention funding from CDC will be renewed

State cancer registries are facing the prospect of funding cuts as CDC decisions near.

Opinion: STAT+: PhRMA CEO: ‘Most-favored nation’ policy isn’t the way to lower drug prices

Policymakers will need to address the true drivers of high drug prices here at home, while simultaneously pressing our allies to contribute more abroad, writes PhRMA’s Steve Ubl.

Opinion: Will Congress’ Medicaid reforms really kill people?

In the debate over Medicaid reform, one dubious claim keeps getting tossed around. But the evidence for it is weak.

Opinion: Private sector, philanthropy can’t replace Trump administration science cuts

Weak plans that propose alternatives to NIH funding are giving false hope to researchers.

Baxter’s Novum recall can impact infusion pump market sales

According to GlobalData, the infusion pump market was worth $1.74 billion in 2024 and is expected to reach $2.2 billion in 2034 with a CAGR of 2.

As an NHS GP, I can now prescribe weight-loss jabs – but a quick fix for obesity is not what we need | Helen Salisbury

Few patients will be eligible for the drugs.

Abbott introduces lab-based blood test to help evaluate concussion

The test measures two biomarkers in the blood UCH-L1 and GFAP, and has the potential to offer results in 18 minutes.

Patients dying of sepsis because medics too slow to spot it, warns NHS watchdog

Recognition remains an ‘urgent safety risk’ and relatives’ concerns are too often ignored, says Health Services Safety Investigations BodySepsis is causing thousands of deaths a year, a charity

Equivalent of one child in every British classroom now born via IVF, data shows

Proportion of women giving birth after fertility treatment up by more than a third in a decade, figures revealThe proportion of women giving birth after fertility treatment in the UK has increased by

Grand Jury Indicts Russian Scientist on Smuggling Charges

Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard researcher, was detained in February after failing to declare scientific samples she was carrying into the country.

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