STAT Letter from the Editor: The time is now
Pricey Readers,
The information appears unrelenting today, and relating to well being and medication, it’s all of the extra related to our each day lives than ever earlier than — affecting the costs of the medicine we take, the potential of the subsequent medical innovation to vary what we expect is feasible, and, in fact, the path of well being care corporations, different establishments, and the nation itself. I’m right here to inform you STAT covers all of it.
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Readers are flocking to STAT in file numbers. They inform us they’re drawn to our deep, authoritative reporting of the upheaval we’re seeing in well being and medication and the reverberations for every one in every of us.
There are not any summer time doldrums at STAT. We’ve added 45% extra subscribers this summer time than the earlier summer time, and we now have extra subscribers than ever in our close to 10-year historical past.
Simply final evening, we hosted a standing-room-only crowd on the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass., the place Invoice Gates detailed his basis’s plans for its largest present ever directed towards ladies’s well being.
Amongst many different tales, readers in latest weeks have turned to STAT for unique evaluation of Vinay Prasad’s ouster from the FDA; the Trump administration’s pause on NIH grants, after which its reversal; and an experimental therapy that could have prevented the onset of ALS for one man. Amongst our eye-opening tales right this moment is one about an AI device getting used to assist diagnose dementia. We now have way more coming, together with one other investigation into UnitedHealth Group and protection of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his method to being the nation’s high well being high official.
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We’re humbled by the outpouring of assist — even ardour — for STAT amongst our readers. As Megan Ranney, the dean of the Yale Faculty of Public Well being, informed me the opposite day, STAT is one in every of her “favourite information sources for all issues about well being. Grateful to your continued considerate, balanced, high-quality journalism.”
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