The sealed deposition of Dr. Richard Sackler, whose family controls Purdue Pharma, shows that he endorsed a decision to conceal OxyContin's strength from doctors.

As the virus that causes Covid-19 spreads worldwide, this dashboard offers a snapshot of confirmed cases by geographic location. Click a country name to get a more detailed geographic breakdown at...

The new coronavirus tests, which rely on blood, not a nasal or throat swab, could help pinpoint people who’ve recovered from undetected cases of #Covid19 and might be immune. 

Trump said he would invoke the Defense Production Act, a law that gives the federal government sweeping power to ramp up manufacturing capacity during a national crisis, as a response to the #coron...

“I would say Epic and other developers have used the environment to their advantage,” said Michael Pencina, a bioinformatics professor at Duke. “Our naivete has enabled this kind of behavior."

Rep. Beth Liston, a state lawmaker in Ohio, supports Covid-19 vaccines. But polarized politics led her to refuse campaign contributions from the pharmaceutical companies that make them.

A debate around biosimilars — and a split in the advocacy community — could have serious repercussions for Washington's efforts to lower prescription drug prices.

Hospitals, drug makers, and other lobbying groups buy policy analyses and use the findings as ammunition in health care policy battles — often confounding lawmakers and other researchers, too.

STAT, a leading health and medicine publication, is looking for an energetic, versatile, and hard-charging reporter to join our Washington D.C. bureau.

Mike Kim would like you to know that he does not know of any member of Congress with Alzheimer’s. And if he did, he wouldn’t tell you.

A back-and-forth at the CDC underscores the agency's struggles to communicate vital information about Covid-19 and the federal pandemic response to the American public.

The federal government has burned through more than $1 billion to study long Covid, and there's basically nothing to show for it.

Biden has tasked dozens of scientists, administrators, and policymakers with helping rein in the raging pandemic. Here are 10 to watch.

When it comes to staffing the health care agencies empowered to oversee efforts to bring down prices, Trump has turned regularly to the drug industry.

Scientists are engineering viruses like measles and polio to attack cancer. But the field may need to rethink how it measures progress to take off.

Northern California’s health care prices are soaring faster than anywhere else — and while Sutter Health’s stronghold is a big part of it, there’s more to the story.

President Trump used a glitzy Rose Garden address to try to convince seniors he’d lowered drug prices. But the news he was touting was modest at best.

Since President Trump came to office, not a single pharmaceutical company CEO has been asked to testify by Congress.

The Affordable Care Act is still the law. But signing up for Obamacare is very different this year. Here, a guide to the changes President Trump has made.

The last government shutdown shed light on just how far-flung are the consequences of congressional inaction, especially for health companies and public health workers.

Uber, Lyft, and a long list of other technology companies that power the so-called gig economy rallied behind ACA under Obama. Under Trump, they went quiet.

Lawmakers, the president, and his appointees have all talked about bringing down drug prices. But the real power may lie across the Potomac.

Empowered by their role fighting Covid, nurses are planning a march on Washington, and pushing lawmakers and Biden to improve their pay and enact new workplace protections.

Follow along today as STAT's @HelenBranswell and @matthewherper live blog the FDA advisory committee meeting on Moderna's Covid vaccine booster.

A devastating diagnosis. A fight against time. And an "epic" journey that galvanized a new movement for ALS patients.