Researchers have shut pregnant women out of gold-standard clinical trials in order to protect them and their babies. But the practice has had the opposite effect. Instead, women have to wade through a chaotic data landscape, and many may choose to suffer through untreated illnesses. Besides sowing confusion, the lack of data makes it easier…
This is Camila. She’s trying to figure out how cancer spreads across the body. David here is trying to cure H.I.V. And Rachael, she’s trying to find new treatments for childhood brain cancer. Or at least they were. “The Trump administration has so far terminated more than $1 billion in grants for the National Institutes…
You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I was reminded recently of why I dig mass transit upon overhearing the train conductor and two middle-aged men engaged in a serious talk…
You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays. RFK Jr. found a bench at the FDA engraved with the message: “The devil has got hold of the food supply of this country.”…