Elizabeth Cooney

1 week ago | statnews.com | Elizabeth Cooney

Innovation in cancer detection, treatment, and prevention is stirring excitement today, accelerated by advances in artificial intelligence and other technological tools wielded by scientists, physicians, and even patients. Still, serious gaps remain between theory and reality, experts said Tuesday. There’s a gap in access. There’s a gap between clinical guidance and clinical practice.

2 weeks ago | statnews.com | Elizabeth Cooney

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. It’s Liz here again, subbing for Theresa on this first day of May. Happy International Workers Day, Beltane, or Mayday to all who celebrate. Looking ahead, the newest set of Dietary Guidelines for Americans might be coming sooner than their traditional December deadline, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised in Wednesday’s cabinet meeting (around the 1:30 mark).

2 weeks ago | statnews.com | Elizabeth Cooney

The word came down at 9 a.m. Pacific on April 14 that they were done. Marcia Stefanick of Stanford and three other leaders of regional centers that for decades have researched women’s health heard from their study’s national leaders that their funding would end with the fiscal year.

2 weeks ago | statnews.com | Elizabeth Cooney

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. Liz Cooney here taking a turn with the newsletter while Theresa’s out exploring the world. Today is officially the 100th day of the second Trump administration, a tenure marked by so many significant events we need Usha Lee McFarling’s timeline to remind us what we’ve lived through.

3 weeks ago | statnews.com | Elizabeth Cooney

Vasan Ramachandran is baffled. A cardiologist and veteran of the famed Framingham Heart Study, he is struggling to understand why a similar study he brought to life in 10 rural counties across four Southern states is facing elimination. The RURAL Cohort Study, set in motion six years ago, was nearing its recruitment goal of 3,300 people, a sign that it was winning the trust of people in remote areas of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Kentucky.