Cancer vaccines gain momentum, after years of disappointing results statnews.com/2024/04/10/can… via STAT Angus Rohan Chen

Founding editor-in-chief Thomas Lin looks back at a decade of Quanta Magazine journalism and forward to what’s next for the magazine. quantamagazine.org/my-fantastic-v…

NCI is poised to play a leading role in a push to 'end cancer as we know it,' though the agency is facing a shrinking budget & brain drain. But new director Kimryn Rathmell's talk at #AACR24 projected optimism. My latest for STAT
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'An upbeat kid with a bright smile, Logan seemed like he was never in doubt that he’d get better.''
Angus Rohan Chen writes about how w hen a cancer drug fails, oncologists often fly blind -- but a precision technique might light the way statnews.com/2024/04/11/ped… via STAT

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Did you say 486%? Why one company thinks such a price hike for its drug is justified statnews.com/pharmalot/2024… via STAT pharmalot

For #LivingWith , I spoke to Tiffany ⁷ about the years before she got a lupus diagnosis, and how she’s been able to build an international online patient community since: statnews.com/2024/04/09/lup…

Nvelop, a new gene editing startup from David Liu and Keith Joung, came out of stealth today. We reported on their funding and work last year

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A provocative STAT op-ed: The time has come for over-the-counter antidepressants. statnews.com/2024/04/08/tim…

Patient with transplanted pig kidney had a ‘tense’ rejection episode before leaving the hospital statnews.com/2024/04/08/xen… via STAT Megan Molteni

Study also finds FDA is now turning accelerated approvals into full approvals based on less stringent evidence. Findings also published in JAMA. Thanks to John LaMattina, Reshma Ramachandran, and the study's senior author, Eddie Cliff, for comments on the results.

Reporting from #AACR24 for STAT here in San Diego, I have two stories that just went up. The first is about a study finding that about half of cancer drugs given accelerated approval don’t improve survival or quality of life
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BREAKING: Positive trial results set up obesity drug Wegovy for use against heart failure statnews.com/2024/04/06/weg… via STAT Elaine Chen #ACC24 American College of Cardiology

Congratulations to Casey Ross Bob Herman for being named finalists by IRE and NICAR (Investigative Reporters and Editors) for what judges called a 'tremendous effort (that) exposed an opaque profit-driven strategy that puts American lives at risk.''
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Cochlear implants have successfully improved hearing loss for decades, but few people who qualify actually get it. Timmy Broderick's debut story for STAT: trib.al/SUqBk5Y

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Teladoc CEO Jason Gorevic to step down immediately.
Mario Aguilar offers some important context to make sense of the surprise move

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For anyone who knows Nicholas St. Fleur, this Q & A with an evolutionary biologist combines two of his passions: What ‘de-extinction’ of woolly mammoths can teach ushttps://www.statnews.com/2024/04/04/de-extinction-woolly-mammoths-biologist-beth-shapiro/ via STAT

Why very few people who are eligible for a cochlear implant actually get one, Timmy Broderick reports. Access to the technology — the go-to treatment for children born congenitally deaf — is particularly worse for Black and Asian people.
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