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IOPC criticises Norfolk Police for locksmith advice
The IOPC has criticised Norfolk Police after 101 call handlers advised the parents of Hobie Harrison—a 30-year-old with schizophrenia—to contact a locksmith when they requested a welfare check, a day
MAHA Movement Embraces Industry at Washington Summit
The Make America Healthy Again movement, originally built on distrust of corporate health care influence, hosted industry leaders including major insurers and pharma companies at its Washington summit
‘Godzilla’ of weight-loss drugs could provide other important health benefits
Retatrutide, an experimental obesity drug that mimics three gut hormones, produced average body weight loss of up to 18.8% alongside blood sugar and cardiometabolic improvements in a 2,047-person phas
Lawmakers Urge Trump to Rethink Imported Meds Rule
Congressional lawmakers are pushing the Trump administration to scrap a federal rule set to take effect next month that would impose new customs requirements on prescription medicines mailed from Cana
Eric Cantor Tapped as PhRMA's New CEO
Former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor will lead PhRMA as the drug industry faces mounting bipartisan pressure on pricing and the Trump administration's push to codify voluntary price-lowering deals
Beam Therapeutics Sues Ex-Scientist Over IP Theft
Beam Therapeutics has sued a former scientist, a Shanghai-based biotech she allegedly founded using stolen trade secrets, and a U.S. VC-backed startup she helped create, alleging she accessed confiden
Feathered dinosaur evolved flight independently of birds
A near-complete feathered dinosaur fossil found in China and donated to Hebei GEO University in 2023 has been identified as a new species whose flight-related adaptations evolved independently of thos
Anthropic Pushes Into Health Care Amid Regulatory Flux
Anthropic, despite publicly warning about AI's potential for catastrophe, is expanding aggressively into health care during a period of regulatory flux, according to STAT's Health Tech newsletter.
STAT+: UniQure’s gene therapy continues to slow Huntington’s progression after four years
UniQure's one-time gene therapy AMT-130 slowed Huntington's disease progression by 44% versus an external control four years after brain implantation, but the benefit waned from a prior analysis and t
Trustworthy science journalism is more essential than ever
New Scientist marks its upcoming 70th anniversary with an editorial arguing that trustworthy science journalism is more essential than ever, as the planet breaches climate limits, AI rewrites how audi
Starship Engine Failure Imperils NASA Moon Mission
SpaceX's Starship completed an unprecedented orbital test flight and splashed down safely, though an engine failure during the mission could impact NASA's lunar mission plans per Reuters.
Maui Wildfire Survivors Still Carry Heavy Metals, Study Finds
After three years tracking Maui wildfire survivors, Dr. Martina L. Kamaka says heavy metals remain elevated in their bodies, suggesting the health fallout from wildfire smoke outlasts the smoke itself
Opinion: Massive SNAP cuts could mean more children are separated from their families
The largest SNAP cuts in U.S. history have already pushed at least 1.5 million children off food assistance, and child welfare advocates warn the policy could funnel more impoverished families into th
Sociologist: Vaccine Hesitancy Is Logical, Not Irrational
Sociologist Jennifer Reich, who has spent two decades studying vaccine-hesitant parents, argues their decisions are a logical response to cultural pressures demanding perfect parenting and individual
Opinion: Child health is the national security crisis we keep ignoring
Three prominent medical and military leaders argue in a joint op-ed that America's declining child health is the shared root cause of military recruitment failures, workforce shortages, and rising hea
Health Policy Stakes in November Midterms
STAT+ interviews nearly a dozen health industry leaders and lobbyists to map how November's midterm elections could reshape federal debates over Medicaid funding, drug pricing, and research funding —
RFK Jr. Pushes to Open Patient Health Data to Researchers
The MAHA Institute held a Monday event where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called for breaking "industry gatekeeper" control over health data, pushing to aggregate patient records from state exchanges, EHRs,
Guardian Podcast Examines Cleaning Product Health Risks
A Guardian podcast features journalist Rebecca Seal discussing the potential health impacts of chemicals in household cleaning products, whose use has surged since the pandemic alongside social-media-
Scientists identify new tick-borne virus ALTNV in China
Researchers in China have identified a previously unknown tick-borne virus, ALTNV, that causes flu-like illness and may explain thousands of unexplained febrile cases previously attributed to other in
Risk from toxic metals can persist months after wildfires, Maui study finds
A University of Hawaiʻi study of 1,400 Maui adults found substantially elevated levels of toxic metals — including antimony nearly 40 times U.S. biomonitoring norms — in their urine up to 18 months af
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