Is there any circumstance when a 486% percent increase for a medicine might be justified? pharmalot examines one company's claim that it is statnews.com/pharmalot/2024… via STAT

NCI director expresses optimism about next era of cancer research, despite shrinking budget and brain drain statnews.com/2024/04/10/nat… via STAT

Promising data from two early-stage clinical trials presented at #AACR24 hint at the direction cancer vaccines may take — using them to prevent or lower the risk of relapse after surgery, notes Angus Rohan Chen statnews.com/2024/04/10/can… via STAT

If the findings hold up, biological aging could be a useful and practical way to flag to physicians that a patient is at higher risk of early-onset cancer, information that could guide more intensive screening and prevention strategies statnews.com/2024/04/07/can… via STAT

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

About half of cancer drugs given accelerated approval don’t show improved survival or quality of life in subsequent confirmatory trials statnews.com/2024/04/07/can… via STAT

As in the human world, oftentimes an antidepressant for your pet is easier and more affordable than the hundreds to thousands of dollars that training classes or boutique behaviorist practices that vets also recommend can cost statnews.com/2024/04/05/dog… via STAT

The study by WHO scientists suggests the number of late-stage cancers, the endpoint in Grail's trials of its cancer liquid biopsy, is insufficient to show the Galleri test benefits patients. statnews.com/2024/04/07/gra… via STAT

Large trial challenges common practice of prescribing beta blockers after heart attack statnews.com/2024/04/07/bet… via STAT

Virologist Ron Fouchier takes little solace from the fact that current versions of the H5N1 bird flu seem to infect people less frequently, and to cause mostly mild illness when they do. Read Helen Branswell 🇨🇦's Q&A with him here: statnews.com/2024/04/05/bir… via STAT

After five weeks and a quarter-million votes, the winner of 2024 #STATMadness is ... Baylor! Congrats to all 64 teams, and thanks for making this such a fun competition celebrating your tremendous research statnews.com/2024/04/05/sta… via STAT

Boehringer Ingelheim layoffs are a sign of dysfunctional Humira biosimilar market statnews.com/2024/04/04/boe… via STAT

What ‘de-extinction’ of woolly mammoths can teach us: a Q&A with evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro statnews.com/2024/04/04/de-… via STAT

Saying it lacks firm scientific foundation, geneticists and experts in addiction and device regulation called on the FDA to reverse itself and take a DNA test that predicts opioid addiction off the market statnews.com/2024/04/04/fda… via STAT

Amylyx to pull ALS drug from market, cut 70% of staff statnews.com/2024/04/04/amy… via STAT

Florida accounts for 8% of U.S. abortions. With a forthcoming ban, where will patients go? statnews.com/2024/04/03/flo… via STAT

'A sign of the times': CMS added two digits to the Medicare claims processing system for hospital and doctor office charges so that it can accommodate prices up to a penny shy of $100 million. statnews.com/2024/04/02/med… via STAT

After severe side effects in a trial participant, Verve shifts focus to backup 'in vivo' gene editor for heart disease packaged in an LNP identical to the one used by Intellia statnews.com/2024/04/02/ver… via STAT

This AI company scans penis pictures for STIs. Its unproven tech is in an FDA gray zone statnews.com/2024/04/02/heh… via STAT

Biden administration sticks with slight cuts to 2025 Medicare Advantage payments despite insurers' lobbying for an increase statnews.com/2024/04/01/joe… via STAT