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Lilly grants one person compassionate use of
Eli Lilly and the FDA allowed a single individual to receive the pharma company's experimental obesity drug retatrutide through the agency's compassionate use program, an extraordinary pre-approval ac
OpenEvidence adds FDA-cleared heart disease AI
OpenEvidence is set to integrate an FDA-cleared AI tool that detects heart disease from EKGs, developed by researcher Pierre Elias, a 2020 STAT Wunderkind now commercializing his academic work.
Minicircle sells unapproved klotho gene therapy
Austin-based Minicircle is preparing to sell an injectable klotho gene therapy at offshore clinics in Honduras, the Bahamas, and Panama within six months — sidestepping FDA approval and rigorous clini
STAT+: Cadence raises $100 million to automate chronic disease care with regulated AI
Digital health company Cadence raised $100 million led by Spark Capital at a $1.23 billion valuation, betting on AI automation to scale chronic disease management even as its remote-monitoring billing
STAT+: Gene-editing startup launches with $230 million and a Chinese licensing deal
Serapha Bio launched Tuesday with $230 million in total funding and a Chinese licensing deal to develop a one-and-done gene-editing treatment for Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency, a rare liver and lung
Opinion: Ending birthright citizenship could be a public health disaster
An opinion piece in STAT argues the Supreme Court's pending decision in Trump v. Barbara — which could end birthright citizenship — would deny health coverage to nearly 9% of U.S. births and weaken de
EchoNext AI Gets FDA Clearance to Detect Heart Disease
An AI model called EchoNext, which detects structural heart disease from EKG images, has received FDA clearance and is heading to the clinician search engine OpenEvidence, marking a novel distribution
Lilly gave experimental obesity drug to 79-year-old
Eli Lilly and the FDA allowed a 79-year-old man to access the experimental obesity drug retatrutide through the compassionate use program, with anonymous sources telling STAT the recipient was likely
Sridhar: Five Minutes of Daily Exercise Isn't Enough
Devi Sridhar pushes back against coverage of a Lancet study suggesting just five minutes of daily exercise suffices, arguing the study modeled rather than tested activity increases and that movement t
Eli Lilly to Build Biotech 'App Store' with $7.3B
Eli Lilly plans to deploy its $7.3 billion cash reserve to fund an "App Store" for biotech scientists, following a 2025 data center launch running 1,016 Blackwell chips and AI drug-discovery collabora
A thousand years old and 20 storeys high: tracking down Taiwan’s tallest trees
Researchers in Taiwan have identified the island's tallest tree, a roughly 1,000-year-old Taiwania cryptomerioides nicknamed 'Heaven Sword of the Da'an River' that towers 84.1 metres — higher than a t
GAE Procedure Helps Knee Pain Patients Avoid Surgery
University of Colorado Anschutz researchers report that genicular artery embolization (GAE), a minimally invasive outpatient procedure, is helping chronic knee pain patients avoid total knee replaceme
Review: Exercise, Protein Guidelines Set Too Low for Aging
A new review in Frontiers in Nutrition argues that current public health guidelines for exercise and protein are aimed at preventing deficiency rather than optimizing long-term health, and that most p
NHS Approves First Drug to Delay Type 1 Diabetes
The NHS in England and Wales has approved teplizumab, the first immunotherapy drug to delay the onset of type 1 diabetes by roughly three years, with around 820 patients per year expected to benefit o
Pfizer's Sigvotatug Vedotin Fails Lung Cancer Trial
Pfizer's experimental lung cancer drug sigvotatug vedotin, acquired in the $43 billion Seagen deal, failed a clinical trial meant to position it as a replacement for the widely used chemotherapy docet
Alzheimer's patient regains speech after psilocybin
An 83-year-old woman with decade-long severe Alzheimer's began initiating conversations and regained bladder control and mobility after receiving a high dose of psilocybin, prompting both calls for cl
How menopause radically changes the brain – and what happens after
New research reveals menopause triggers a dramatic 'bioenergetic crisis' in the brain, but two leading scientists disagree on whether it literally cannibalizes its own white matter for fuel — a debate
STAT+: FDA to launch pilot program to speed up early-stage clinical trials
The FDA announced a pilot program to accelerate early-stage clinical trials, aiming to shave 6-12 months off development timelines and reverse what officials describe as U.S. losses to China in clinic
‘Fusogenic’ neurosurgery let paralysed pigs walk again – are we next?
A Russian team restored walking ability in pigs with completely severed spinal cords using a polyethylene glycol and chitosan 'fusogen,' with all three treated animals walking unsteadily within 60 day
Brain Has No Single 'Adult' Age — Some Networks Peak
Neuroscience has no single age for brain adulthood — different networks mature at different times, with some white matter tracts not reaching full development until the 40s, undermining the long-popul
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