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Obamacare Enrollment Plunges 3M After Subsidy Expire
Obamacare enrollment has plunged roughly 3 million people (about 13%) nationally since enhanced federal subsidies expired, with the steepest losses concentrated in Ohio, Oklahoma, Arizona, South Carol
Opinion: Medicine thinks Gen Z is too soft. It’s wrong
A health care executive argues that medicine's 'Gen Z is too soft' narrative misdiagnoses the real problem: a workforce being ground down by broken workflows, with an 86,000-physician shortfall loomin
Georgia entrepreneur Amy Bielawski has never been able to afford
A STAT+ profile spotlights Amy Bielawski, a 61-year-old Tucker, Ga. entrepreneur who has gone most of her life without health insurance while running her own entertainment company for 32 years.
Small Businesses Ditch Health Insurance as Costs Soar
America's small businesses are abandoning employer-sponsored health insurance at an unprecedented pace as premiums soar, eroding the backbone of the U.S. employer-based coverage system that still insu
STAT+: This whistleblower took on a health insurance giant and a political machine. She’s not stopping there
Chris Deacon, the New Jersey health-plan official who investigators say drove a $100 million settlement against Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield over alleged healthcare fraud, watched officials tout the
Air pollution linked to DNA changes in sperm, research shows
A study of more than 2,000 men in Salt Lake City found that exposure to common air pollutants — particularly ozone and nitrogen dioxide — was associated with epigenetic changes in sperm DNA that could
STAT+: Vertex acquires Crinetics Pharmaceuticals for $10 billion as biotech M&A booms
Vertex Pharmaceuticals announced a $10 billion deal to acquire Crinetics Pharmaceuticals, gaining its commercial acromegaly drug Palsonify and a late-stage pipeline candidate for congenital adrenal hy
Bee Tongue Movements Reveal 'Wanting' vs 'Liking'
A Macquarie University study found bumblebees extend their tongues in patterns that separate the motivation to seek food from the pleasure of eating — the strongest behavioral evidence yet that insect
Turkey cave artefacts hint Neanderthal-human exchange
Archaeological excavations at Üçağızlı II cave in Turkey reveal that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens maintained remarkably consistent stone-tool technology and both collected ornamental Columbella rusti
Northwestern Chemists Solve 30-Year Rye Pollen Mystery
Northwestern University chemists confirmed the 3D structures of secalosides A and B — two rye pollen molecules whose tumor-slowing activity in animals had stumped researchers for nearly 30 years — by
Brain Health Monitoring Goes Proactive With New Biomarkers
A new wave of tools — from Alzheimer's blood tests and genetic panels to heart-rate-variability tracking on smartwatches — promises to monitor brain health proactively, though experts caution most are
Yale Study: Online GLP-1 Prescriptions Lack Oversight
A Yale researcher published a secret shopper study in JAMA examining nearly 50 telehealth sites that prescribe GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, finding the process is extraordinarily fast and easy — and low o
Human brains grew via neutral evolution, not selection
A new analysis of 87 hominin skulls found that human brain enlargement over the past 2 million years was driven by neutral evolution and periodic release of constraints rather than natural selection f
STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a Novartis acquisition, Republicans backing clinical trial diversity, and more
Novartis is paying $1.1 billion upfront to acquire London-based Myricx Bio and its novel antibody-drug conjugate pipeline. House Republicans separately pushed an FDA funding bill directing the agency
ApoB Test Prevents More Heart Attacks Than LDL: Study
A Northwestern Medicine study published in JAMA found that guiding cholesterol-lowering treatment with apoB blood tests prevents more heart attacks and strokes than standard LDL testing, while remaini
The science behind beetroot juice's trending benefits
Beetroot juice has moved from niche athletic supplement to mainstream wellness trend, with peer-reviewed research supporting real benefits for endurance and blood pressure—and a few headline-grabbing
Opinion: Stopping doctors from ordering unnecessary diagnostic tests requires a structural fix
An opinion piece argues structural changes to how tests are ordered — not physician education — are the proven fix for unnecessary medical testing, citing a 46-hospital Michigan study that cut inappro
Adams: FDA Should Allow Supervised Peptide Compounding
Former U.S. Surgeon General Jerome M. Adams is urging the FDA to create a clinician-supervised pathway for selected peptides rather than rely on either unrestricted gray markets or a blanket crackdown
Amodei Walks Back 'Century in Decade' AI-Biotech Claim
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly tempered his once-bold prediction that AI could compress a century of biotech progress into a decade, telling STAT+ the payoff may take much longer than he envision
GOP Pushes FDA to Shield Clinical Trial Diversity
Republican lawmakers are pressing the FDA to preserve clinical trial diversity requirements, arguing they are a scientific necessity distinct from the DEI policies the Trump administration is scrubbin
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