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Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. An exciting post-Labor Day announcement: While STAT’s Lev Facher is away on a

When the Food and Drug Administration approved a new pancreatic cancer drug called Rasonque last month, researchers and patient advocates celebrated. Kelsey Solano felt a pit in her stomach.  “Only because the

CLEVELAND — At a GetGo gas station close to a highway entrance in suburban Ohio, a brightly lit sign alerts customers to four new flavors of Vuse Pro vapes, now available in

Three months later, the story is not over. On Sept. 1  the American Diabetes Association issued top-line findings from an internal panel charged with reviewing the June 5 expulsion of five members

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Maybe I just read too much science fiction, but xenotransplantation has got to be

Thirteen medications across 30 different prescriptions. Five clinicians. Two hospitals.  In the four months before killing her three children and attempting to kill herself, Lindsay Clancy desperately sought help for her deteriorating

When doctors think about sticking an organ from another animal into a person, one of their many questions is about what might happen after they take that organ out. Would the patient

Tactical athletes may be the most important professionals you’ve never heard of.  They are not famous and they do not play in professional leagues. What sets these EMTs, firefighters, police officers, Marine

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Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. Did anyone participate in Tesla Tallow Tuesday yesterday? And if so, how