The 'abortion queen' wants patients to have 'skin in the game.' Is that restricting access?

Former employees worried that a clinic run by Diane Derzis (above) that ostensibly exists to ensure abortion access had a guiding principle that might be hampering it. Read more.

By Eric Boodman

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Treating Rural America: The new country doctors

The second installment of STAT's rural health documentary series explores why tailored residency programs are so effective at training rural doctors and how barriers prevent rural medical education from growing. Read more.

By Hyacinth Empinado

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To protect chickens from bird flu, researchers try to CRISPR in immunity

In this case, it was neither the chicken nor the egg that came first. Rather, it started with some specially engineered cells in a lab. The chicken cells had had their genomes edited, not to correct a faulty mutation, but in an effort to blunt the bird flu virus. Read more.

By Andrew Joseph

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