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Kamala Harris’ health care views were shaped by her mother's cancer research

July 26, 2024
Shyamala Gopalan with her daughters, the young Kamala Harris (far left) and Harris' sister, Maya.
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Kamala Harris' views on health care were shaped by her mother, cancer researcher Shyamala Gopalan

The work of Kamala Harris' late mother, innovative breast cancer researcher Shyamala Gopalan, helped shaped the candidate's views on health and medicine.

By Rohan Rajeev


STAT+ | How Pfizer's grand gene therapy ambitions crumbled

The hemophilia treatment Pfizer reported on this week is a vestige of a much bigger effort to cure rare disease.

By Jason Mast


STAT+ | European regulators say Alzheimer's therapy Leqembi should be rejected

The therapy, Eisai and Biogen's Leqembi, has received regulatory approval in the U.S. and a number of other countries.

By Andrew Joseph



Malachi Hill Massey, 17, center, speaks at a news conference on July 23 at the NAACP headquarters in Springfield, Ill., about his mother, Sonya Massey, who was shot to death by a Sangamon County Sheriff's deputy on July 6 in Springfield after calling 911 for help.
John O'Connor/AP

Opinion: Sonya Massey's death: How to prevent more killings of defenseless Black women

Crisis Intervention Trainings should be mandatory for all police officers, and mental health crisis teams should be funded and deployed for de-escalation.

By Onyeka T. Otugo and Adaira I. Landry


Listen: UnitedHealth's doctor empire, an FDA departure, and Viking's obesity moves

Tara Bannow joins the podcast to talk about a new investigation into UnitedHealth's unrivaled physician empire.

By Elaine Chen, Adam Feuerstein, and Allison DeAngelis


The worst for Dexcom may not be over

Today's biotech news includes Pfizer's dashed hopes for gene therapy, EMA's negative Leqembi ruling, and Roche on the defensive.

By Elaine Chen


Teaching physician Dr. Jeremy Faust and new resident Dr. Anjali Misra outside the Brigham and Woman's Hospital.
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STAT+ | Do medical errors creep up at hospitals when interns arrive? Yes, but the 'July effect' is minimal.

Data show that medical errors go up when inexperienced interns enter teaching hospitals in July, but there's no need to avoid care.

By Helena Getahun-Hawkins — Boston Globe


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