Gideon Gil

Climate change is exacerbating health disparities around the world, says Seed Global Health founder Vanessa Kerry

The dispute with Lander set off a revolution that in 1999 would prompt MIT to publicly acknowledge it had discriminated against women on its faculty.

Substandard asparaginase, a drug to fight childhood leukemia, has been shipped to more than 90 countries, overwhelmingly from companies in India.

A man with muscular dystrophy who was first in line to receive an experimental CRISPR therapy tailor made to treat the cause of his rare form of the disease has died.

Hear a researcher from the 2022 STAT Madness winning team discuss their work, its potential impact, and what’s next in their field.

The procedure aims to restore proprioception, the ability to sense where our limbs are in space and how fast and forcefully they’re moving.

If the first week of proceedings in the Elizabeth Holmes trial drew the battle lines, they also made clear it’ll be a very long process.

The first recipient of the Sharon Begley-STAT Science Reporting Fellowship is Isabella Cueto, a Cuban American journalist who has worked as a reporter in Florida, South Carolina, and California.

STAT’s Gideon Gil sits down with Dr. Allison Bond of the University of California, San Francisco, to discuss Covid-19 long-haulers.

While it remains fairly unusual for hospital chiefs across the country to work as directors for publicly traded companies, the practice is now routine in Boston.

Research on Covid-19 dominates the bracket for this year’s #STATMadness, our annual competition in which readers choose the most important biomedical advance or discovery to emerge from U.S. labs in the past year.

Surgeons are inventing a new way to perform arm amputations that might allow patients to move their prosthetic hands more like real ones.

When STAT began its legal fight to unseal the OxyContin files in 2016, most people didn’t understand Purdue’s and the Sacklers’ role in the opioid crisis.

The finalists were selected from a record 160 entries submitted by universities, medical schools, and research centers across the United States.

The deposition is believed to be the only time a member of the Sackler family has been questioned under oath about the illegal marketing of OxyContin.

It was just the occasional wiggle, but it told doctors the prosthetic foot had seamlessly become part of Jim’s body. STAT has been following this groundbreaking experiment for 15 months. Here’s what we saw.

Laura Deming went to MIT at age 14 and launched a venture capital fund that invests in anti-aging companies at 17. The fund’s mission, she said, “is that everyone in the world can live as long as they want.”

President Trump urged spending more on health care, in a tweet, even as his administration's budget proposal called for broad cuts health programs.

Instead of scientific “Aha!” moments, here are 2016’s head-scratchers. Did you know some scientists spend their days tickling rats?