The full results of Alnylam’s pivotal HELIOS-B trial are coming next week. Andrew Joseph, Adam Feuerstein ✡️, and I explain how good the topline results look so far, what doctors want to see in the full data, and stock implications: statnews.com/2024/08/20/aln…

Announcing a new #STATVirtual event with Word In Black! Join us for a special editorial showcase that takes you behind our May report titled 'Black voices, Black bodies: Life in the age of Ozempic.' Learn more and register: trib.al/FvJWR19

alternate universe where redwall was written ten years later and becomes a global phenomenon instead of harry potter, with multiple movies, tv shows, theme parks serving candied chestnuts and strawberry cordial, wildly popular mmorpg where you get to fight as various animals, etc

Survival rates for cardiac arrest outside a hospital have remained stuck at 10% for decades. Read how scientists are now trying to improve those odds: trib.al/A9hTkaX

A recent study showed that team expansion in science can hamper the career prospects of Ph.D. graduates. Jonathan Wosen, Ph.D. spoke with KU's Donna Ginther. trib.al/lFBZ8Fs

seriously, you have not seen a good suit until you see Nicholas St. Fleur's suits (🤞 pls let this summon the twitter menswear guy to critique Nick's past suit choices)

Health care has become a gold mine for hackers. Experts say that gaps in health care cybersecurity laws have made our medical data more vulnerable. ⁠Read: trib.al/h3wYLNB

"I’m not going to stay as a direct care worker for $15 an hour if I don’t feel like I know what I'm doing...when I could go down the road to Sam’s Club and stock shelves or something for the same amount...and not have that heavy responsibility." jsonline.com/story/news/inv…

"It was thought he had a bacterial infection, or had been infected with a tick-borne disease, until a blood test showed he was “strongly positive” for West Nile virus. "Fauci, 83, told STAT he has never been so ill." via Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 STAT statnews.com/2024/08/24/fau…

This state calls itself the ‘most pro-life.’ But moms there keep dying. washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/08…

Scientific American is the oldest continuous publication in the U.S. and it's our birthday! We're 179 years old. This gif shows the evolution of our logo at Scientific American

Take the money, they said. We'll look after the business side while you look after your patients. But nearly a decade after UnitedHealth's Optum took over ProHealth in Middletown, CT, doctors have major regrets. Don't miss the latest installment of the STAT investigation:

This is the biggest career honor in science/health journalism and at STAT we could not be more proud of Usha McFarling. She follows in the footsteps of two other beloved colleagues: Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 and the late Sharon Begley

Exciting news! We're hosting an exclusive preview of the 2024 #STATSummit in a “Behind the Scenes” webinar for the first time. Join Matthew Herper, Katherine MacPhail, and Nicholas St. Fleur to learn about our flagship event before anyone else: trib.al/l8nHb7p

Excited to be back in Boston for the next couple weeks. Anyone else in #healthAI going to the #HIMSSAI forum? Let me know if you want to set up a meeting! Looking forward to hearing about people's views on the field. ✉️ [email protected] #HIMSSAIF

A STAT Investigation: Embedded Bias This is a new series revealing how race-based clinical algorithms pervade medicine and why it's so difficult to change them. Part 1: trib.al/CvCNRoZ👇🧵

NEW this morning: The future of the Pap smear is here and it could make cervical cancer screening way easier axios.com/2024/09/05/les…

All living former CDC directors since 1977 join together in STAT today. Making the CDC infectious disease-only is "like allowing our military to protect us from only some types of attack...or allowing doctors to treat only some diseases." statnews.com/2024/09/05/cdc…

my first STAT story as part of my fellowship! on Zihao Ou's work using a common food dye to make mice transparent

Personal news: I'm joining the policy team as STAT's FDA reporter. I'll still cover the regulation of medical devices, but will also be focused on the agency as a whole. Excited to meet more folks in the space! Send tips to [email protected] statnews.com/2024-stat-inte…