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First Opinion Patrick Skerrett

Readers respond to essays on long Covid, hypochondria, and more

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: The CEO of Kaiser’s new health network shares why he’s making a bet on a tiny North Carolina hospital system

Health tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: Federal judge rules in favor of hospital lobby in privacy lawsuit

Health Timmy Broderick

Supreme Court outlawed segregation of disabled people 25 years ago. But change has come slowly

Health tech Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: Change Healthcare to begin notifying patients that cyberattack compromised their private info

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Why Long Covid can feel scarier than a gun to the head

First Opinion Hal Rosenbluth

I’m a hypochondriac. Here’s how the health care system needs to deal with people like me

Biotech Meghana Keshavan

STAT Plus: FDA gets pointed input on ‘optimizing’ advisory committee panels

Exclusive John Wilkerson

NIH wanted to make cancer research more diverse. The effort turned out to be a costly failure

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Paying off people’s medical debt won’t fix our broken health care system

Special Report Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: How a device maker inundated pain patients with unwanted batteries and surprise bills

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: 5 takeaways from STAT’s look at unwanted supplies and surprise bills from device maker Zynex Medical

Business Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: Elevance PBM’s president out as customers complain of prescription chaos

Health Angus Chen

Palliative care for cancer patients is found to be as effective given virtually as in person

Pharma Adam Feuerstein, Matthew Herper, and Angus Chen

STAT Plus: ASCO Daily Recap: Safety data for Novartis myelofibrosis candidate, survival data for Pfizer drug

Health Angus Chen

How can hospitals boost cancer screening rates? Researchers report that an AI helped

Health Associated Press

Woman is back on dialysis after doctors remove transplanted pig kidney

Health tech Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: Health insurers boast to investors about using AI, but they’d rather not talk about it

Special Report Anissa Durham

New obesity drugs are seemingly everywhere. Black Americans feel left out

Special Report Anissa Durham

Black voices, Black bodies: Life in the age of Ozempic

A STAT Investigation Eric Boodman

The doctor would treat her sickle cell pain crisis — if she promised not to get an abortion

Insurance Bob Herman and Casey Ross

UnitedHealth argues algorithm lawsuit should be dismissed because patients didn’t spend years appealing denials

Don't Miss Rick Berke

A letter from the executive editor: Investigation reveals how doctors have pressured sickle cell patients into sterilizations

A STAT Investigation Eric Boodman

How doctors are pressuring sickle cell patients into unwanted sterilizations

Health Annalisa Merelli

STAT Plus: Health care leaders plot how to expand diversity in clinical trials

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Software glitch caused Tandem insulin pumps to prematurely shut down, FDA warns

First Opinion Podcast Torie Bosch

Why rehabilitation engineers need to listen to patients and their families

Health tech Timmy Broderick

STAT Plus: After private equity firms gobbled up wheelchair makers, users pay the price in long repair times

The Readout Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: FDA wants to hear your thoughts on advisory committees