STAT

STAT, also known as Stat News, is a news platform focused on health topics that was launched on November 4, 2015, by John W. Henry, who also owns the Boston Globe. The site is produced by Boston Globe Media and is located in the Boston Globe's building. Rick Berke serves as the executive editor and has a background with both the New York Times and Politico. Kelsey Sutton from Politico described STAT as Henry's "most ambitious standalone site to date." By February 2016, the team comprised 45 employees.

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Former FDA head Robert Califf says RFK Jr.’s vaccine rhetoric is ‘doing harm’ to Americans

17 hours ago | statnews.com | Lizzy Lawrence

SAN FRANCISCO — Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf said Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s hesitance to endorse vaccines is harming the American public. “Fundamental vaccination saves millions of lives every year already, and he’s busy eroding public confidence in it,” Califf said at STAT’s Breakthrough Summit East conference on Wednesday.
GOP embraces MAHA at RFK Jr.’s first House hearing, but raises dissents from dental health to food dye reform

18 hours ago | statnews.com | Lev Facher |Daniel Payne

WASHINGTON — Republicans on Capitol Hill delivered different versions of a similar message to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a Wednesday budget hearing: We love the Make America Healthy Again agenda …. but. Throughout the hearing, GOP lawmakers lauded President Trump’s agenda and Kennedy’s actions in his first months as health secretary.
Drug overdose deaths fell sharply in 2024, as fentanyl cases dropped but meth spiked

21 hours ago | statnews.com | Lev Facher

Drug deaths plummeted in 2024, according to new federal data. An estimated 80,391 people died of a drug overdose in the U.S. last year, marking the lowest total since 2019. The sum represents a roughly 27% decrease from 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The new data reflect a trend that began in late 2023, when overdose deaths finally began to drop after years of steady increase.
Why new wellness-branded energy drinks have health experts worried

2 days ago | statnews.com | Sarah Todd

The energy drink cans are the colors of a tropical beach sunset — aqua and tangerine and neon pink — so they really pop when lined up for fridge organizing shots on TikTok. They’re sugar-free but come in summery dessert flavors like Sherbet Swirl. On social media, the drinks are brandished by members of an official collegiate ambassadors program, gymnasts and cheerleaders whose dewy complexions suggest they’ve never had a hangover or slept through their alarm after a late-night study session.
Investment firm RA Capital lays off incubator staff amid industry instability, push into China

2 days ago | statnews.com | Allison DeAngelis

Biotech investment firm RA Capital has laid off staff at its internal startup incubator, STAT has learned, highlighting the instability among VCs as the biotech industry struggles to right itself. The cuts hit RA Ventures, or Raven, an incubator that creates and supports biotech startups. The Raven team has launched several biotechs over the years, including Aliada Therapeutics and Mariana Oncology, both of which were acquired last year.
Why Casey Means could be the right pick for surgeon general

2 days ago | statnews.com | Marc Siegel

I don’t know Casey Means at all, but I have met and interviewed the previous two surgeon generals, Vivek Murthy and Jerome Adams, on several occasions. I found both doctors to be well suited to be the U.S. surgeon general of their times. The role of surgeon general is to oversee the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps but also to function as a main communicator of health information to the American public.
Appeals court reopens the question of who owns patents for groundbreaking CRISPR discovery

2 days ago | statnews.com | Megan Molteni

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.
Our biggest burning questions on Trump’s order to bring down drug prices

2 days ago | statnews.com | Daniel Payne |Ed Silverman

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s executive order to lower drug prices through sweeping, cross-agency action left leaders in the pharmaceutical industry scrambling Monday to make sense of what may be ahead — and how to respond. The announcement was long on messaging, but short on details. That may explain why share prices for many pharmaceutical and biotech companies dropped in the hours before the announcement, but gained ground after investors took stock of Trump’s moves.
'Astonishing.' Partner of Theranos' Elizabeth Holmes launches startup

2 days ago | statnews.com | Casey Ross |Jonathan Wosen

She is serving an 11-year prison sentence for misleading investors and is barred from participating in federal health programs for 90 years. But Elizabeth Holmes’ dream of a diagnostic testing revolution is once again the talk of health care. The emergence of Haemanthus, a company formed by Holmes’ partner, Billy Evans, triggered a mix of shock, anger, and rueful skepticism on Monday, as one of health care’s most infamous frauds morphed into a new form, with fresh capital behind it.
OpenAI leaps into health care with AI benchmark to evaluate models

2 days ago | statnews.com | Brittany Trang

OpenAI on Monday released a large set of data for evaluating how well large language models answer questions related to health care. Experts lauded the open-source data and detailed evaluation rubrics, calling them “unprecedented” in scale and breadth. The project, HealthBench, marks OpenAI’s first foray into health care applications of AI, outside of external partnerships.