Adobe

STAT+ | Eli Lilly to allow more patients to apply for special access to unapproved obesity drug

After a well-connected patient got compassionate use access to the weight loss drug, doctors asked Lilly for similar access. Monday, Lilly agreed to do so.

By Lizzy Lawrence and Elaine Chen

STAT+ | Are AI scribes useful tools in medical education, or a crutch that imperils learning?

Medical educators want future physicians to be well versed in AI scribes, but they worry what offloading the struggle writing clinical notes to AI could do to learning.

By Lauren Chan

Michigan reports first two U.S. deaths in outbreak of cyclospora

Cyclosporiasis is rarely life-threatening. Fatalities here involved 'significant underlying health conditions' worsened by dehydration from diarrhea.

By Associated Press

Adobe

Opinion: I’m a neurologist. I’ve delivered ALS diagnoses. Then I received one myself

“Continued research at every level of understanding ALS is essential,” writes Christopher Campos, a neurologist who has the disease.

By Christopher Campos

STAT+ | Sandoz to pay $478.5 million to settle price-fixing allegations in long-running battle with states

The litigation began a decade ago amid heightened concern over the cost of prescription medicines, including some generics.

By Ed Silverman

STAT+ | Medicare eliminates key pathways used by ‘breakthrough’ devices for extra payments

Medicare will eliminate key payment pathways that allowed medical devices deemed 'breakthroughs' by the FDA to qualify for extra payments.

By Katie Palmer

Adobe

Heart transplant candidates fail if they get too weak. New program tries inpatient prehab 

Radha Gopalan of Banner–University Medical Center Phoenix discusses how in-patient exercise program helped more patients qualify for heart transplantation.

By Elizabeth Cooney

STAT+ | BioNTech names Guido Oelkers its new CEO

With Sahin, a BioNTech cofounder, leaving for a new mRNA company, Oelkers will lead the biotech as it aims to become a global cancer player.

By Andrew Joseph