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The flu vaccine is set to get a makeover

By Helen Branswell, STAT

The World Health Organization recommended that flu vaccine manufacturers swap out a component based on one flu virus with an updated version.

This photo shows exactly why Fentanyl is deadlier than heroin

By ALLISON BOND, STAT

Fentanyl, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is up to 100 times more potent than morphine and many times that of heroin.

Do flu shots still work?

By Helen Branswell, STAT

Are flu shots worth the bother? Influenza vaccine experts to break down what we’ve learned lately about the remedies.

Freeze-dried drug factories could make various medicines, just add water

By Eric Boodman, STAT

This device is called the Freezemobile, and it isn’t your standard household appliance.

The drug industry might finally have an answer for migraines

By Damian Garde, STAT

There are few effective treatments for migraines -- but that could soon change.

UN leaders to put superbugs on world stage

By Helen Branswell, STAT

Heads of state will gather this week to address perhaps the biggest health threat the world faces: the growing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics and superbugs.

Bedless hospitals treat patients and send them home the same day

By Casey Ross, STAT

As treatments get less invasive and recovery times shrink, a new kind of hospital is cropping up — the “bedless hospital.”…

5 lessons from this week’s Clinton-Trump medical record circus

By Sharon Begley, STAT

Here are the five main takeaways from this week’s presidential medical circus.

How the sugar industry artificially sweetened Harvard research

By Melissa Bailey, STAT

A paper recounts how two famous Harvard nutritionists, Dr. Fredrick Stare and Mark Hegsted, who are now deceased, worked closely with a trade group called the Sugar Research Foundation, which was trying to influence public understanding of sugar’s role in…