Feb 08 Poor women more likely to lose jobs during breast cancer treatment, study finds By Kate Sheridan, STAT The new study also found overall between 20 and 30 percent of women diagnosed with breast cancer will lose their jobs. Continue reading
Feb 04 Trump’s Supreme Court pick is deeply opposed to assisted suicide By Lev Facher, STAT Neil Gorsuch opposes all forms of assisted suicide and ruled twice against the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate but has never ruled on abortion. Continue reading
Jan 29 Mysterious cluster of amnesia cases, possibly tied to opioids, alarms health officials By Andrew Joseph, STAT The patients experienced various memory problems affecting both long- and short-term memory. Continue reading
Jan 27 First human-pig chimeras spark hopes for transplantable organs — and debate By Sharon Begley, STAT These human-pig “chimeras” were not allowed to develop past the fetal stage, but the experiment suggests such creations could eventually be used to grow fully human organs for transplant… Continue reading
Jan 26 Column: America needs to keep the door open to immigrant physicians By Jason J. Han and Neha Vapiwala, STAT Immigrant physicians represent a huge asset U.S. health care. Attracting and training these physicians is a boon for public health. Continue reading
Jan 24 Opioids as a first response to pain? Hospitals are rethinking that policy By Max Blau, STAT With heroin deaths now surpassing gun homicides, hospitals have been retraining staff to minimize prescriptions of narcotic painkillers. Continue reading
Jan 22 A guide to Obama and Trump’s differences on health policy By Dylan Scott, STAT While Trump may play some wild cards in the realms of medicine, science, and public health, you can look for some surprising continuity with Obama’s administration. Continue reading
Jan 21 A ‘civil war’ over painkillers rips apart the medical community By Bob Tedeschi, STAT As doctors and regulators restrict access to opioid treatments, many patients who genuinely need drugs to manage their pain say they are being left behind. Continue reading
Jan 19 EPA pick is unclear about toxic lead levels. So are scientists By Rebecca Robbins, STAT Democrats slammed Scott Pruitt for saying he didn't know the science on toxic lead levels for kids, but in fact there's a robust scientific debate on that. Continue reading
Jan 17 A stealthy superbug appears to be spreading in U.S. hospitals, study finds By Helen Branswell, STAT A new study suggests a dangerous, antibiotic-resistant superbug may be evading disease surveillance. Continue reading