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Georg Schett had two things: a young patient deathly ill with lupus, and a couple of mouse studies raising the possibility that special T cells could tame the condition. The German physician-scientist

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. A First Opinion essay today argues that “tastiness is not why people overeat.” But

“Betcha can’t eat just one!” This slogan for Lay’s potato chips seemed endearing in mid-20th-century America, before the rise of the obesity epidemic. Looking back from today, it foreshadowed a food industry

At first blush, it might seem like Charleston, W.Va., New York, N.Y., and Janesville, Wis., have little in common.  But those three metros were flagged in a new report as having some

It’s the leading risk factor for the leading cause of death in the United States and around the world: high blood pressure, the prime mover in heart attacks and strokes. High blood

Specific changes in two genes appear to help predict whether patients will lose substantial weight on GLP-1 drugs used to treat obesity — and whether the drugs will cause nausea or vomiting,

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. I’ve got a couple fun programming notes for you. The “First Opinion

A federal judge Tuesday refused to block filling prescriptions for the abortion pill mifepristone by mail across the U.S. — at least for now — in a setback to Louisiana’s effort to

For some advanced cancers, sequencing the tumor genome should be one of the first steps patients and physicians take. But a new study finds that many patients never receive genomic testing and

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. Amid all the tasks that demand to be addressed each day, are you