Hacker News
- Those who'd had Covid-19 less likely than vaxxed to be infected in Delta wave https://www.statnews.com/2022/01/19/those-who-recovered-from-covid-19-were-less-likely-than-vaccinated-to-get-infected-during-delta-wave/ 11 comments
- Strong new evidence suggests a virus triggers multiple sclerosis https://www.statnews.com/2022/01/13/strong-new-evidence-suggests-virus-triggers-multiple-sclerosis/ 3 comments
- Google is exploring a health record tool for patients https://www.statnews.com/2021/04/09/google-health-records-app-care-studio/ 66 comments
- A skeptic’s take on Neuralink and other consumer neurotech https://www.statnews.com/2021/04/07/consumer-neurotech-skeptic/ 158 comments
- Can a molecule that makes mice smarter heal a human brain? https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/28/memory-isrib-peter-walter/ 53 comments
- Draft legislation authored by Senate Finance Chair Ron Wyden and ranking member Mike Crapo includes several measures to regulate how pharmacy benefit managers are paid by health plans to negotiate with drugmakers. https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/13/pharmacy-benefit-managers-pbms-senate-regulation/ 4 comments politics
- White House, facing pressure from activists, to accelerate rollout of monkeypox treatments and vaccines https://www.statnews.com/2022/08/18/white-house-to-accelerate-monkeypox-vaccine-rollout/ 9 comments politics
- Placebo response reveals unconscious bias among white patients toward female, Black physicians https://www.statnews.com/2022/06/28/placebo-response-bias-against-female-black-physicians/ 128 comments science
- Memory transfer between snails challenges view of how brain remembers https://www.statnews.com/2018/05/14/memory-transfer-between-snails-challenges-standard-theory/?utm_content=buffer79bbb&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=twitter_organic 10 comments science
- Shots for rural Black communities going to wealthy white Floridians https://www.statnews.com/2021/03/04/covid19-vaccines-for-rural-black-communities-going-to-wealthy-white-floridians/ 44 comments politics
- Moderna says its vaccine is less effective against one coronavirus variant https://www.statnews.com/2021/01/25/moderna-vaccine-less-effective-variant/ 4 comments worldnews
- New trial data shows a combo of injectable naltrexone and oral bupropion can help treat meth addiction. https://www.statnews.com/2021/01/13/drugs-treat-methamphetamine-addiction-trial/ 5 comments science
- Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech is strongly effective, data show https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/09/covid-19-vaccine-from-pfizer-and-biontech-is-strongly-effective-early-data-from-large-trial-indicate/ 34 comments politics
- Amid pandemic, U.S. has seen 300,000 ‘excess deaths,’ with highest rates among people of color https://www.statnews.com/2020/10/20/cdc-data-excess-deaths-covid-19/ 1881 comments science
- Pharma is showering Congress with cash, even as drug makers race to fight the coronavirus https://www.statnews.com/feature/prescription-politics/prescription-politics/ 5 comments politics
- Synthetic biology companies receive $250 million from NIH to add millions of Covid-19 tests per day https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/31/nih-shark-tank-covid-19-testing-ginkgo-mammoth/ 5 comments science
- Experts envision two scenarios if the new coronavirus isn’t contained https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/04/two-scenarios-if-new-coronavirus-isnt-contained/ 3 comments worldnews
- Study documents first case of coronavirus was spread by a person showing no symptoms https://www.statnews.com/2020/01/30/first-documented-case-of-coronavirus-spread-by-person-showing-no-symptoms/ 16 comments worldnews
- He Jiankui's attempt to protect against HIV shortens lives, study shows https://www.statnews.com/2019/06/03/crispr-babies-scientist-pushed-too-quickly/ 3 comments science
- Study pulls back curtain on Coca-Cola's contracts with researchers it funds https://www.statnews.com/2019/05/07/coca-cola-research-funding-contracts/ 63 comments science
- Trump proposal to shift Part B drugs to Part D would hurt most beneficiaries, analysis says https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2019/01/15/trump-medicare-beneficiaries-drug-prices/ 4 comments politics
- Martin Shkreli’s drug company is losing money, documents show https://www.statnews.com/2018/07/17/martin-shkreli-vyera-turing-performance/ 3 comments wallstreetbets
- Potential CRISPR damage has been 'seriously underestimated,' study finds https://www.statnews.com/2018/07/16/crispr-potential-dna-damage-underestimated/ 18 comments worldnews
- For cancer patients, Trump's drug pricing proposal falls short https://www.statnews.com/2018/05/22/cancer-patients-trump-drug-pricing-proposal/?utm_source=stat+newsletters&utm_campaign=c4642da9bd-mr&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8cab1d7961-c4642da9bd-150140365 4 comments politics
- Kentucky could become the first state to tax opioid prescriptions https://www.statnews.com/2018/03/02/kentucky-prescription-opioids-tax/ 16 comments politics
- Medicaid work requirements are bad for patients and physicians https://www.statnews.com/2018/02/22/medicaid-work-requirements-patients/ 6 comments politics
- No forbidden words at FDA, agency says after report of CDC policy https://www.statnews.com/2017/12/16/forbidden-words-fda-cdc/?utm_content=buffer51958&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=facebook_organic 8 comments politics
- Human Mini-Brains Growing Inside Rat Bodies Are Starting to Integrate https://www.statnews.com/2017/11/06/human-brain-organoids-ethics/ 364 comments science
- Scientists Integrate Human Neural Tissue into Mice Brains https://www.statnews.com/2017/11/06/human-brain-organoids-ethics/ 11 comments science
- Trump says opioid emergency will be declared next week https://www.statnews.com/2017/10/16/trump-says-opioid-emergency-will-declared-next-week/ 7 comments politics
- California looks to roll back penalties for HIV transmission https://www.statnews.com/2017/02/13/california-hiv-transmission-criminal-penalties/ 8 comments nottheonion
- Trump revives policy eliminating funding for foreign groups that provide abortion services https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/23/trump-abortions-mexico-city-policy/ 610 comments worldnews
- Fake news invades science and science journalism as well as politics https://www.statnews.com/2016/12/30/fake-news-science/ 5 comments science
- Trump is considering a radical to lead FDA. That’s dangerous for public health https://www.statnews.com/2016/12/12/donald-trump-fda-oneill/ 4 comments politics
- Trump win could boost push to define fertilized eggs as people https://www.statnews.com/2016/12/09/trump-price-fetal-personhood/ 3 comments politics
- A more accurate new way to visualize and understand DNA https://www.statnews.com/2016/03/31/dna-shape-double-helix-dekker/ 2 comments science
- For the first time in years, more clinical trials are succeeding https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2016/06/13/clinical-trials-drug-development/?source=science20.com 22 comments science
- Sexual transmission of Zika seen between gay men for first time https://www.statnews.com/2016/04/14/zika-men-sexual-transmission/ 4 comments worldnews
- Outbreak of syphilis declared in Las Vegas http://www.statnews.com/2016/03/01/syphilis-las-vegas/ 15 comments nottheonion
- Superbug resistant to last-resort antibiotics turns up in Europe http://www.statnews.com/2015/12/03/superbug-antibiotics-europe/ 21 comments worldnews