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No matter what happens on Election Day, the midterms will have sweeping implications for American health care

For this week’s “STATus Report,” I report from arguably the birthplace of American democracy, and my hometown, Boston. What better place is there to be ahead of next week’s midterm elections? In this episode, STAT reporters from our D.C. bureau and across the newsroom discuss what the midterms could mean for vaccine policy, drug policy,…

The reminders to vote in Tuesday’s midterms are ubiquitous. Some health scholars have another reminder: that elections, especially divisive ones, can stress the heart. 

On Wednesday night in Clive, Iowa, a parade of Make America Healthy Again activists and Republican candidates decried Big Agriculture, stressed the rise in chronic disease in America, and called for the Covid-19 vaccine to be removed from the market. 

The middlemen that oversee prescription drug spending for employers and workers will soon have to tell their clients all the different ways they get paid, a significant move that will unlock reams of highly protected data.

The Department of Health and Human Services released a policy that will temporarily allow compounding pharmacies to manufacture some peptide products, increasing access to the experimental wellness therapies embraced by many in the Make America Healthy Again movement

Abdul El-Sayed doesn’t make headlines as the Senate candidate who wrote a book on applying systems science to public health, or who worked to rebuild Detroit’s health system, or who researched the ways social circumstances can impact maternal mortality. 

The Food and Drug Administration published draft guidance on Tuesday that would streamline approvals of some individualized gene therapies, a win for rare disease advocates who have criticized the agency’s approach to these treatments

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