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Medicare Proposes Deep Cut to 340B Hospital Payments
Medicare proposed cutting hospital payments for drugs bought through the 340B discount program to average sales price minus 33.4%, down from the current rate of ASP plus 6%, effective next year. The c
STAT+: Elevance sues government over $115 million tied to Medicare Advantage star ratings
Elevance Health filed suit against the U.S. government, alleging that federal recalculation of its Medicare Advantage star ratings conflicted with a recent court ruling and cost the insurer $115 milli
Sitting for more than 30 minutes at a time linked to higher risk of cancer death
A study of more than 91,000 UK adults tracked for roughly 12 years found that sitting continuously for over 30 minutes at a time was tied to a higher risk of dying from cancer, with risk climbing furt
Protillion Biosciences Hires Hollingsworth as CSO
Protillion Biosciences has named Robert Hollingsworth, most recently the chief scientific officer at Shoreline Therapeutics, as its new chief scientific officer.
Model: June Heatwave Killed ~20,000 in Europe
Indiana University's Christopher Callahan estimates the June 22–28 European heatwave killed approximately 20,390 people — a modeled figure far exceeding the WHO's reported 1,300+ excess deaths, though
WHO Declares Deadly MV Hondius Hantavirus Outbreak Over
The WHO has declared the Andes hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship over after 13 infections and three deaths, with the final exposed contact completing quarantine and testing negativ
Post-quantum gravity: 'wobbly' time becomes testable
A controversial new theory proposes that gravity is fundamentally different from the other forces — not quantum at all — and predicts that time itself flows with random, unpredictable 'wobbles' that l
Synthetic biology may finally be ready to solve life's biggest mystery
Scientists at the University of Missouri have built a 'SpudCell' from just 36 genes — a Wright-brothers-style milestone in creating artificial life from non-living components, though the entity still
Judge Blocks Colorado Price Cap on Amgen's Enbrel
A federal judge blocked Colorado's first-in-the-nation price cap on Amgen's Enbrel, ruling the drugmaker would be "significantly harmed" — handing the pharmaceutical industry a courtroom win over stat
U.S. Judge Blocks Colorado's Price Cap on Amgen Drug
A federal judge blocked Colorado's Prescription Drug Affordability Board from capping the price of a blockbuster Amgen drug, ruling the company would likely suffer significant harm in a win for the ph
STAT+: Halfway into the year, biotech is booming
At the year's midpoint, biotech is surging: the XBI index has gained 30% year-to-date and hit a five-year high, closing in on its pandemic-era peak.
UpDoc Wins First FDA Clearance for Patient-Facing LLM App
Digital health startup UpDoc received what it says is the first FDA clearance for a patient-facing large language model app, designed to help diabetes patients follow doctor-defined treatment plans wi
Experts: Fitness Test Revival Won't Fix Sedentary Kids
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. relaunched the presidential fitness test at a flashy Atlantic City event with WWE's Triple H, but youth physical-activity experts told STAT that the test alone won'
HHS Official's Vaccine Study Critique Rebuffed by CDC Panel
An Emory epidemiologist argues in a STAT opinion piece that CDC's recent 'Public Health Grand Rounds' on vaccine effectiveness featured HHS official Martin Kulldorff pressing a flawed critique of the
Ex-FDA AI Official: Biopharma Misreads Agency Guidance
Tala Fakhouri, who spent two years writing AI policy at the FDA before joining Parexel last summer, says biopharma companies are reading the agency's AI guidance far more conservatively than intended,
STAT+: A year after distressed buyout, what’s become of Bluebird Bio?
A year after acquiring near-bankrupt Bluebird Bio for a pittance and rebranding it as Genetix, CEO David Meek claims the company will dominate sickle cell gene therapy and treat 1,000 patients annuall
Opinion: Teens are turning to chatbots for mental health help. We need rules to keep them safe
A JAMA Pediatrics study reports that the share of young people using AI chatbots for mental health advice rose from roughly 1 in 8 to 1 in 5 in one year, prompting an opinion piece by a Harvard/RAND r
Statins helping people with obesity match those of healthy weight on key metrics, study finds
A Lancet study of nearly 1 million adults across seven high-income countries found that people with obesity aged 40 and over now have cholesterol and blood pressure levels indistinguishable from — and
What is 'SpudCell'? Arguably the greatest bioengineering feat yet
Kate Adamala's team at the University of Minnesota built 'SpudCell,' a synthetic cell assembled from just 36 genes that can replicate—albeit briefly—in what its creators call the most ambitious bioeng
TESS Finds Planetary System Using New Method
NASA's TESS mission identified a planetary system using a novel detection method, and its 8-year data archive may contain thousands of additional candidate exoplanets awaiting examination.
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