disease
Biotech raises $42 million to run Huntington’s disease trial
Allison DeAngelis is an East Coast biotechnology and venture reporter at STAT, where science ideas and money collide. She is also co-host of the weekly biotechnology podcast, The Readout Loud. You can reach Allison on Signal at AllisonDeAngelis.01. Gene therapy startup Latus Bio has raised another $42 million to launch its first clinical trials, in […]
Happy 75th Anniversary to the CDC’s Disease Detective Program
The phone rang on the evening of February 28, 2020. “We need you deployed to Seattle. Meet with your team at Roybal tomorrow and additional details will be provided.” For weeks, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had been closely monitoring the spread of the novel coronavirus. Disease detectives from the Epidemic Intelligence Service […]
To fight chronic disease, MAHA could look to Slovenia for tips
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia — In the U.S., the Trump administration, driven by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has elevated the issue of chronic diseases to never-before-seen political salience. Prioritizing these ailments could improve the nation’s health and kick-start its stubborn life expectancy rates, Kennedy preaches. Here in Slovenia, that approach would be old news. For […]
Roche suffers another blow as Indian Supreme Court allows sale of generics of its expensive rare disease drug
In a case billed as profiteering against patients, India’s Supreme Court rejected a petition in which Roche sought to stop a generic drugmaker from selling a cheaper version of an expensive rare disease drug. The move comes after a lower court earlier this month upheld a ruling that it would be in the public interest […]