STAT
MAY 14, 2025
WASHINGTON — In hours of combative congressional hearings Wednesday, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. swung between defending sweeping changes at his agency and backtracking on aspects of a reorganization he nevertheless said would be “painful.” He repeatedly cast doubts on reports about negative impacts of the changes, often calling them a “canard.
STAT
MAY 13, 2025
Leading trade organizations representing the makers of cell and gene therapies are calling for a 10-year international moratorium on the use of CRISPR and other DNA-editing tools to create genetically modified children, according to a draft of the declaration provided to STAT. The move — coming more than seven years after Chinese researcher He Jiankui announced the birth of the world’s first CRISPR babies — is intended to send a clear signal to the global scientific co
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STAT
MAY 13, 2025
For a recent therapy session, Andria Donaghy’s insurance plan paid her psychiatric nurse practitioner only $11 on a $125 service. “To even put that on paper is insulting,” she said. “These people give their lives [to help others] and that’s what you pay them?
STAT
MAY 12, 2025
The now 13-year-long legal saga over who invented CRISPR took yet another unexpected turn on Monday, in a ruling that could not only change U.S. ownership of patent rights to the groundbreaking gene-editing technology but more broadly redefine how the law determines when an invention has been made. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit sided with the University of California and the University of Vienna in their bid to revive a fight over foundational CRISPR-Cas9 patents that t
STAT
MAY 8, 2025
Philanthropist Bill Gates announced Thursday that he will wind down his massive charity in 20 years, doubling spending over that time to accelerate the work it hopes to achieve. Gates made the announcement on the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Gates Foundation, the third-largest player in international philanthropy. He said the foundation would spend $200 billion between now and 2045, when its operations will wind down.
STAT
MAY 8, 2025
As a primary care physician serving Medicaid patients, I recently witnessed a preventable hospitalization that perfectly illustrates America’s health care dysfunction. My homebound patient with heart failure needed a routine lab test to adjust their medication. While commercially insured patients can access electronic lab orders, my patient’s Medicaid plan contracted exclusively with a laboratory requiring physical forms by mail.
STAT
MAY 7, 2025
A federal judge has sided with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over a decision last year to remove two Eli Lilly drugs — the Zepbound weight loss medicine and the Mounjaro diabetes treatment — from a shortages list kept by the agency. The move means that patients will no longer have access to cheaper versions from compounding pharmacies.
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