8+ hour, 27+ min ago   (367+ words) By Zubin Master and Scott D. Rhodes Master is associate professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and associate director of Wake Forest University's Center for Bioethics, Health & Society. Rhodes is…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (401+ words) Good morning.As we inch closer to the end of the year, it becomes harder and harder for me to go an entire day without a Little Treat. Today is no different. I hope you're reading this while sipping on…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (240+ words) Good morning. A woman undergoing a four-hour deep brain stimulation procedure played clarinet continuously to help the surgeon "fine tune" the electrodes in her brain. What a pun. "I thought having the vaccines would protect our children," said Erik Dahlberg,…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago   (588+ words) By Daniel Payne and Lizzy Lawrence The Trump administration has struck a deal with EMD Serono to lower drug prices " part of a larger push from the administration to expand coverage and improve affordability for fertility services, officials announced at…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (464+ words) Meghana Keshavan is a biotech correspondent at STAT and co-writer of The Readout newsletter. She joined STAT in 2016. She has written about the life sciences industry for more than a decade. Before that, she worked for news outlets like Thomson…...

7+ mon, 4+ day ago   (653+ words) That's because a nation's future depends on its total fertility rate. Today, America is at 1.66. When the total fertility rate falls below 2.1, the consequences are immediate: shrinking workforces, slower economic growth, and overwhelming strain on social systems. This is not…...