Health

D.C. Diagnosis Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: The health care issues to watch in tonight’s presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump

Politics Nicholas Florko

STAT Plus: Key lawmakers are wary of giving FDA more cash to crack down on e-cigs

Morning Rounds Theresa Gaffney

Morning Rounds: Apple Watch takes on sleep apnea and tonight’s presidential debate

Biotech Timmy Broderick

STAT Plus: Q&A: Atsena Therapeutics’ gene therapy for inherited blindness shows promise

A STAT Investigation Usha Lee McFarling

Embedded Bias: A race-free algorithm is merely the start for a safety net hospital confronting an onslaught of kidney disease

Health tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Apple pushes into sleep apnea detection but health care integration remains unclear

Health Lev Facher

STAT Plus: Biden administration finalizes rules to ensure insurers pay for mental health care 

Health Isabella Cueto and Alia Sajani

Medicine struggles to define chronic Lyme. Long Covid has only made it harder

Health Timmy Broderick

How Paralympic athletes are helping science learn more about neuropathic pain

A STAT Investigation Usha Lee McFarling

Embedded Bias: She was told she might have cancer: How medicine pathologizes Black patients’ normal test results

Health Helen Branswell

5 burning questions about Missouri’s mysterious H5 bird flu case

Health Helen Branswell

Missouri resident who had no contact with animals tests positive for bird flu

Morning Rounds Timmy Broderick

Transparent mice and using ZIP codes to predict heart risk

A STAT Investigation Katie Palmer

Embedded Bias: Upending a longstanding paradigm, cardiologists embrace ZIP codes, not race, to predict heart risk

Health Lizzy Lawrence

Youth vaping continues its tumble from a Juul-fueled high

Morning Rounds Theresa Gaffney

STAT Plus: The battle over race in kidney function equations

Health Elaine Chen and Allison DeAngelis

STAT Plus: Can amylin drugs best Wegovy and Zepbound? Companies bet on next big obesity target

A STAT Investigation Usha Lee McFarling and Katie Palmer

Embedded Bias: Inside the bruising battle to purge race from a kidney disease calculator

Health Timmy Broderick

Depression: How brain scans helped predict long-term treatment outcomes

Morning Rounds Theresa Gaffney

Birth control vending machines, seasonal shots, and the “Snoo”

Health Anika Nayak

Birth control has become harder to get. New York has some creative solutions

Health Helen Branswell

Trying to time your vaccines just right? There are no easy answers, but here are some factors to consider

A STAT Investigation Usha Lee McFarling and Katie Palmer

Embedded bias: How race became ubiquitous in medical decision-making tools

Morning Rounds Theresa Gaffney

A STAT Investigation: Embedded Bias

Health J. Emory Parker and Katie Palmer

Explore the clinical tools that use race to steer care

A STAT Investigation Katie Palmer and Usha Lee McFarling

Embedded Bias: Doctors use problematic race-based algorithms to guide care every day. Why are they so hard to change?

Video Hyacinth Empinado

Why clinicians are reconsidering race-based algorithms

Health Associated Press

FDA clears updated Covid shots from Novavax, adding a 3rd fall vaccine option

Morning Rounds Brittany Trang

Monica from ‘Friends’, RFK Jr., and how many ‘r’s are in ‘strawberry’