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FDA gene therapy office head Kumar steps down
Vijay Kumar, the FDA's acting director overseeing cell and gene therapy reviews, is stepping down from his role amid a year of leadership turnover at the agency's biologics center, according to an int
STAT+: AstraZeneca to pay $34 million to settle kickback charges filed by Texas attorney general
AstraZeneca has agreed to pay $34 million to resolve Texas allegations that the drugmaker used a free network of nurses and insurance support services as kickbacks to boost prescriptions paid for by T
DoE targets 2028 for useful quantum computer
The US Department of Energy's Quantum Genesis initiative is racing to deliver a quantum computer capable of solving open problems in chemistry, materials science, and physics by 2028, backed by a new
5 takeaways from STAT’s investigation into microhospital operator Nutex Health
A STAT investigation finds that Nutex Health went from near-bankruptcy to tripled revenue and nearly twelvefold profit growth by exploiting the No Surprises Act's arbitration process, while patients r
England Resident Doctors End Strike After Pay Deal Vote
Resident doctors in England have voted by 53% to accept the government's pay and jobs offer, ending three years of strike action that had cancelled hundreds of thousands of patient appointments.
COVID Vaccine Timing in Menstrual Cycle Affects
A new study of 1,474 women finds COVID-19 vaccine timing within the menstrual cycle may influence infection risk: those vaccinated during the luteal phase experienced breakthrough infections 35 days e
Stokes Rules Out Ashes Comeback After NZ Defeat
Ben Stokes has definitively ruled out reversing his retirement from international cricket in time for next summer's Ashes, even after England suffered a series defeat to New Zealand.
Collins Pushes $35 Insulin Cap to Private Insurance
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) added two co-sponsors to a bill capping private-market and uninsured insulin at $35, while the head of Switzerland's pharmaceutical trade group warned the U.S. could open
Antarctic Sea Squirt Toxin Killed Melanoma in Mice
University of South Florida researchers returned from a six-week Antarctic expedition with sea squirt samples whose bacterial toxins killed melanoma cells in mice without harming the animals, advancin
Les Mills, fitness brand founder and Olympian, dies at
New Zealand fitness pioneer and four-time Olympian Les Mills has died at 91, leaving behind a global workout empire built from a single Auckland gym he opened with his late wife in 1968.
Remote-controlled cockroach swarm can now breathe underwater
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University have fitted Madagascar hissing cockroaches with 3D-printed diving suits that generate oxygen chemically, letting the remote-controlled insects walk unde
Surgeon: ASPS Youth Gender Surgery Ban Has No Medical
A Harvard plastic surgeon argues in an op-ed that the American Society of Plastic Surgeons' February position statement against gender-affirming surgery for those under 19 lacks scientific justificati
Nutex Health Turns Away Uninsured ER Patients for
Houston-based Nutex Health runs emergency rooms that opt out of Medicare — and therefore aren't bound by the federal law requiring ERs to treat patients regardless of ability to pay — while still coll
Portugal NHS taps Sword Health for nationwide AI
Portugal's National Health Service has signed a deal making Sword Health's AI-supported virtual physical therapy available to the country's entire 10-million-person population, marking one of the firs
Clive Meanwell Bets on AI to Scout Next Big Biotech
Veteran biotech investor Clive Meanwell, fresh off the Metsera obesity-drug bidding war that drove offers from $7.3B to $10B, is now layering AI onto Population Health Partners' problem-first investme
STAT+: Moderna co-founder Kenneth Chien on the future of mRNA — and Moderna
Moderna co-founder Kenneth Chien reflects on the mRNA platform's trajectory, from a pivotal 2013 AstraZeneca partnership that brought billions in funding to the sobering reality that up to 40 planned
Rewilded Storks Nest on Surrey Industrial Estate
Storks born and raised by a Sussex rewilding project have nested at an industrial estate near Guildford, Surrey, marking a milestone in efforts to bring the migrating birds back to the UK for the firs
First Antarctica Dinosaur Bone ID'd After 40 Years in
A fossil collected in 1985 on James Ross Island and forgotten in a British Antarctic Survey drawer for 40 years has been confirmed as the first dinosaur bone from Antarctica — a tail vertebra from a T
STAT+: AI scientist company Edison Scientific tapped by team behind Metsera to create new biotechs
Edison Scientific, spun off from AI scientist nonprofit FutureHouse with $70 million in late 2025, has been tapped by the team behind Metsera to create new biotechs after big pharma firms—including on
Anesthetized Brains Still Decode Language, Predict
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine discovered that the brain can process language, distinguish parts of speech, and predict upcoming words even when patients are fully unconscious under general
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