'It's beyond unethical': Opaque conflicts of interest permeate prescription drug benefits

Employers across the country pay consulting firms to handle a straightforward task with their prescription drug coverage: Get the best deals possible, and make sure the industry's middlemen aren't ripping them off with unfair contracts. But a largely hidden flow of money between major consulting conglomerates and PBMs compromises that relationship, a STAT investigation shows. Read more.

By Bob Herman

Caroline Yang for STAT

Scientists successfully unfroze rat organs and transplanted them — a 'historic' step that could someday transform transplant medicine

It's the first time scientists have shown it's possible to successfully and repeatedly transplant a life-sustaining mammalian organ after it has been rewarmed from an icy metabolic arrest. Outside experts unequivocally called the results a seminal milestone for the field of organ preservation. Read more.

By Marion Renault

Molly Ferguson for STAT

'Falling through the cracks': Why ADHD is under-diagnosed among Asian Americans

Medical knowledge of ADHD has advanced rapidly over the past decade, taking it from a label applied to unruly schoolboys and often used as shorthand for misbehavior, to a condition recognized as a neurodevelopmental disorder with clear biological underpinnings. Amid that sea change, though, people of color have all too often been left behind. Read more.

By Olivia Goldhill

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