Briefing: FDA and NIH announce more initiatives to reduce animal testing in drug development
Strategic angle: The HHS has made reducing animal testing a priority over the past year.
Editorial Staff Mar 18
Medicine
Latest Medicine stories from Life.
Briefing: Opinion: I was a surgeon. The hardest part of leaving medicine was believing that I could
Strategic angle: Leaving her career as a surgeon, Frances Mei Hardin writes, “was the beginning of a life I actually wanted.”
Editorial Staff Mar 18
Briefing: Drug use report: Sharp drop of MDMA in European wastewaters; cocaine and ketamine rise
Strategic angle: A new study reveals significant changes in illicit drug use across Europe, highlighting a decrease in MDMA and increases in ketamine and cocaine.
Editorial Staff Mar 18
Briefing: Targeted alpha therapy: One compound holds promise for unified cancer care
Strategic angle: ORNL is a leader in developing advanced radiotherapies and providing essential radioisotopes.
Editorial Staff Mar 18
Briefing: Trump's Drug Pricing Moves and GSK Asthma Drug Insights
Strategic angle: The White House intensifies pressure on Congress for drug pricing legislation.
Editorial Staff Mar 17
Briefing: High-resolution electron microscopy sheds light on the cellular responses to stress
Strategic angle: An international team led by researchers from the University Medical Center Göttingen has used advanced electron microscopy technologies to capture key cellular mechanisms of stress resistance.
Editorial Staff Mar 16
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
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