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Breaking News Elaine Chen

Eli Lilly’s obesity pill approved by FDA, setting up fierce competition with Novo Nordisk

AI Prognosis Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: Insilico Medicine CEO on how best to use AI in drug development

Politics Anil Oza

STAT Plus: NIH director’s invocation of Vannevar Bush’s legacy to promote Trump science policies sparks pushback

Health O. Rose Broderick

STAT Plus: Can a psychedelic ‘coach’ make ketamine therapy even more effective?

First Opinion Diego Schaps

Medicare is restricting care for 1 million Americans based on a faulty assumption. Congress must intervene

First Opinion Kevin A. Sabet

Medical marijuana should not be recommended for PTSD, anxiety, or depression

Health Annalisa Merelli

Why an ovary syndrome may get a new name: Men seem to have PCOS, too

Biotech Adam Feuerstein

STAT Plus: The biotech scorecard for the second quarter: 23 stock-moving events to watch

Health tech Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: HHS changes the U.S. health IT office’s name, and its purview

Biotech Jason Mast

STAT Plus: Baby KJ scientists hit speed bump in quest to scale custom gene editor

Politics Associated Press

Supreme Court rules against Colorado ban on ‘conversion therapy’ for LGBTQ kids

Health Tech Newsletter Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: OpenEvidence inks deal with major health system

Health tech Aaron Pressman — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: Whoop, maker of health and fitness tracking wristbands, valued at $10 billion after latest fundraising

Biotech Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: Biogen to acquire immunology biotech Apellis for $5.6 billion

Pharma Andrew Joseph

STAT Plus: Eli Lilly to buy Centessa Pharmaceuticals, maker of a narcolepsy drug, in $6.3B deal

First Opinion Charles J. Lockwood, Robert C. Gallo, and Sten H. Vermund

How the next CDC director can win back America’s trust

Exclusive John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: HSA companies struck it big in Trump’s tax bill. They’re lobbying for more

Biotech Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: Over-the-top psychedelic promos could undermine the field’s drug development efforts

Biotech Brian Yang

STAT Plus: Biotech VCs move upstream in China’s scientific pipelines as competition grows fiercer

Health tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Jimini Health raises funding for AI chatbot targeting complex mental health care

First Opinion Alexandra Sifferlin

America needs more clinics of last resort for patients who can’t get answers

Biotech Marin Wolf — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: Pharma giant Takeda to lay off nearly 250 workers in latest job cutting

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Doctors Without Borders calls Gilead ‘unconscionable’ for refusing to sell HIV prevention drug to the organization

Health O. Rose Broderick

STAT Plus: Why this Stanford psychiatrist thinks diet can influence serious mental health disorders

Health tech Jonathan Saltzman — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: Early signs of Alzheimer’s often go undetected. These researchers want to change that

Health Elizabeth Cooney

Lead still raises risk of heart disease, years after exposure, study warns

Opinions+ Neeraj Sood

STAT Plus: Washington is on the verge of true PBM reform

A STAT Examination Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Health care jobs growth is stagnating at the biggest for-profit firms

First Opinion Marc Lipsitch and Yonatan Grad

Remembering public health pioneer Barry Bloom: a scientist, a mentor, a mensch