6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (335+ words) James is a pulmonary and critical care physician specializing in sarcoidosis. When one of my patients was first diagnosed with sarcoidosis, her specialist gave her two options: take steroids or join a clinical trial. She opted for the trial, hoping…...

4+ mon, 6+ day ago  (423+ words) Good morning. Scroll down for the sixth installment of American Science, Shattered, brought to you by yours truly. Thanks for reading, and make sure to catch up with the previous stories if you haven't already. We're cruising toward the end…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (768+ words) Meet Raymond and Alan, two people diagnosed with transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis (ATTR-CM), a rare and underdiagnosed cause of heart failure. 1 Both led active, healthy lives before experiencing seemingly unrelated symptoms " carpal tunnel syndrome, atrial fibrillation, shortness of breath " leading to…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago  (418+ words) With thousands of illegal e-cigarettes for sale in the U. S. , both the Trump and Biden administrations have vowed to crack down on the illicit fruit- and candy-flavored vapes that hold particular appeal to minors. But a new government report suggests law…...

23+ hour, 26+ min ago  (140+ words) Good morning health tech readers! Super interested in the list of companies that have been accepted into Medicare's ACCESS model, the'technology-enabled chronic care experiment.' For Ben Sasse, Revolution Medicines' pancreatic cancer trial felt like his best, only option Access granted:…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (172+ words) Every day, more than 40 million people ask Chat GPT about health care, according to Open AI. They're asking questions about diet, exercise, insurance " and in some cases, serious symptoms that would typically get discussed on a 911 call or in a…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago  (249+ words) Mast, who has reported extensively on rare diseases for four years, spoke with Debra and Hawken Miller more than six times over the last eight months and interviewed more than a dozen other advocates, researchers, executives, and former FDA officials…...

7+ mon, 5+ day ago  (431+ words) Marijuana's active ingredient was linked to higher rates of chromosomal abnormality in early embryos, according to new research, potentially providing new insight into the link between cannabis use and female fertility." Both studies' results "pointed in the same direction," said…...

16+ hour, 57+ min ago  (702+ words) Ed Silverman is a senior writer and Pharmalot columnist at STAT, and has covered the pharmaceutical industry for three decades. Prior to joining STAT at its founding in 2015, he worked at The Wall Street Journal, The Star-Ledger of New Jersey,…...

15+ hour, 40+ min ago  (141+ words) Elaine Chen is a national biotech reporter at STAT. She co-writes The Readout newsletter and co-hosts The Readout Loud podcast. Previously, she previously covered cardiovascular and metabolic diseases for STAT. Prior to joining in 2022, she was at Bloomberg News, where…...