Dec 21 Demand surges for clinicians serving transgender youth — and for earlier treatment By Usha Lee McFarling, STAT Researchers leading the first NIH grant for research on transgender youth hope that data will show the benefit of earlier intervention. Continue reading
Dec 18 With latest Zika research, our picture of the virus gets cloudier By Helen Branswell, STAT Two new reports this week not only failed to arrive at a consensus about the virus, they may have sown even more confusion. Continue reading
Dec 15 College students almost engineer controversial gene drive By Ike Swetlitz, STAT It’s a technology that could fundamentally alter entire populations, so how did a group of college students almost create a gene drive?… Continue reading
Dec 11 In a land of thundering reindeer, suicide stalks the indigenous Sami By Melody Schreiber, STAT Suicide is a growing problem among the indigenous Sami of Sweden. Many work as reindeer herders, and feel acute anxiety about the effects of climate change. Continue reading
Dec 10 Trump win could boost movement to confer ‘personhood’ on fertilized eggs By Rebecca Robbins, STAT The push to confer full “personhood” on every fertilized human egg has been rejected in state after state, but activists are cautiously hopeful that their cause could soon get a boost. Continue reading
Dec 06 Watch 9:16 Major health bill would fund medical research, hasten FDA approvals By PBS News Hour In Congress, lawmakers are close to passing a major bill that would increase funding for the FDA, the NIH and the effort to fight opioid abuse. The measure would also introduce more flexible standards for drug approvals, reducing the need… Continue watching
Dec 06 Who wins and loses with the 21st Century Cures Act? By Sheila Kaplan, STAT More than 1,300 lobbyists roamed the halls of Congress on the 21st Century Cures Act, and disclosure reports show most of them were working for pharmaceutical companies. Continue reading
Dec 04 Birth control emerges as rallying cry against Trump’s pick for health secretary By Rebecca Robbins, STAT Reproductive rights activists opposed to Donald Trump’s nominee for health secretary have hit upon a potent rallying cry: the cost of birth control. Continue reading
Nov 30 Needle exchanges, despite strong resistance in the past, are working By Andrew Joseph, STAT New data released by federal health officials Tuesday further demonstrated the value of needle exchanges, suggesting they had contributed to a major reduction in new HIV infections among people who inject drugs. Continue reading
Nov 26 Researchers aim for first human eye transplant within the decade By Erin Hare, STAT Scientists have strived for successful eye transplants for centuries -- but never has a whole-eye transplant been successfully done in a living person. Continue reading