Briefing: A new drug could be the beginning of the end for sleeping sickness
Strategic angle: The goal in the world of global health is to bring an end to this scourge by 2030. A new drug looks as if it could do the job.
Editorial Staff Mar 16
Medicine
Latest Medicine stories from Life.
Briefing: Florida Man Sues Sheriff After Drug Test Decides IBS Meds Are Basically Fentanyl During Traffic Stop
Strategic angle: A Florida man is taking legal action against a sheriff's department after a roadside drug test misidentified his IBS medication as fentanyl.
Editorial Staff Mar 16
Briefing: Plastic bottles transformed into Parkinson's drug using bacteria
Strategic angle: A pioneering method converts waste plastic into a vital medication for Parkinson's disease.
Editorial Staff Mar 16
Briefing: Opinion: Congress must pass legislation to ensure Medicare covers breakthrough medical technologies
Strategic angle: Congress must pass bipartisan legislation to ensure Medicare coverage of breakthrough medical technologies, writes a physician and inventor.
Editorial Staff Mar 16
Israeli strike kills 12 medics in a clinic in southern Lebanon
An overnight Israeli strike resulted in the deaths of a dozen medical staff in southern Lebanon, escalating tensions in the region.
Editorial Staff Mar 15
Briefing: A lab mistake at Cambridge reveals a powerful new way to modify drug molecules
Strategic angle: Cambridge scientists have discovered a light-powered chemical reaction that allows for safer modifications of complex drug molecules.
Editorial Staff Mar 14
Briefing: How STAT would cover ‘The Fugitive’ if its pharma scandal were real
Strategic angle: It's Oscar season, so we're bringing you a special STATus report on how we'd cover the drug scandal in 'The Fugitive' if it were real.
Editorial Staff Mar 13
Briefing: Vaccinating bats could be good for people. But how do you vaccinate a bat?
Strategic angle: In a new study, bats lap up vaccine-laced saline or chow down on vaccine-carrying mosquitoes. Will that have any impact on the flying mammal's immune system?
Editorial Staff Mar 13
Briefing: Bacterial strain breaks decades-old bottleneck in chemotherapy drug manufacturing
Strategic angle: An international team of researchers has achieved a breakthrough in the production of doxorubicin, a vital chemotherapy agent.
Editorial Staff Mar 13
Briefing: Trump's Influence on Drug Prices: A Closer Look
Strategic angle: Exploring the ongoing battle over drug pricing and the contrasting approaches of Trump and Biden.
Editorial Staff Mar 13
Poll: Public Worries About Prescription Drug Costs Reach New High
Most Across Political Parties Want Government to Do More to Regulate Prices
Editorial Staff Mar 13
Briefing: Trump is getting more credit than Biden for efforts to lower drug prices
Strategic angle: Trump is drawing more attention to his efforts to lower drug prices, like TrumpRx.
Editorial Staff Mar 13
Briefing: Failed experiment leads to surprise drug development breakthrough
Strategic angle: Scientists at the University of Cambridge have developed a new way to alter complex drug molecules using light rather than toxic chemicals.
Editorial Staff Mar 12
Briefing: Trump touts cutting drug prices, slams fellow Republican Rep. Massie during stops in Ohio, Kentucky
Strategic angle: Trump emphasizes his commitment to lowering drug prices while criticizing Rep. Massie during campaign stops.
Editorial Staff Mar 11
Briefing: Key Facts About Medicare Drug Price Negotiation
Strategic angle: The federal government negotiates prices for high-cost drugs under Medicare Part B and Part D.
Editorial Staff Mar 11
FDA Approves Leucovorin as First Drug for Rare Genetic Disorder
This approval follows previous claims of its potential use in treating autism symptoms.
Editorial Staff Mar 11
Briefing: Opinion: I’m a medical student. RFK Jr. is right about medical school and preventive care
Strategic angle: In medical school, a student writes, she has learned to react first, focus on prevention later.
Editorial Staff Mar 11
Briefing: Meissa: Multi-modal Medical Agentic Intelligence
Strategic angle: Exploring the advancements in multi-modal large language models for medical applications.
Editorial Staff Mar 11
Briefing: Mining the dark transcriptome: Synthesizing the first potential drug molecules from long noncoding RNA
Strategic angle: A team from University of Toronto Engineering pioneers a new approach to drug discovery by synthesizing long noncoding RNA outside the cell.
Editorial Staff Mar 10
Briefing: GOP Senator Investigates FDA Over Rare Disease Drug Rejections
Strategic angle: Sen. Ron Johnson raises concerns about the FDA's handling of treatments for rare diseases after discussions with Commissioner Marty Makary.
Editorial Staff Mar 10