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What lingers in ‘The Pitt’ is heartache. What’s missing is outrage
1+ hour, 31+ min ago (1081+ words) By Jennifer W. Tsai In "The Pitt," Robby is the rockstar every emergency doctor wants to be " sharp, fast, instinctive. So it's shocking when the man who moves like lightning through a resus room buckles to the floor, sobbing, gasping. He's…...
I’m a designer. The new food pyramid is outdated and confusing
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (260+ words) The decision to return to a pyramid graphic is itself striking. The U.S. Department of Agriculture moved away from this format more than a decade ago, replacing it with'MyPlate'precisely because the pyramid proved difficult for the public to interpret. Returning to…...
STAT’s most memorable photos of 2025
2+ week, 5+ day ago (98+ words) Crystal Milner is the picture editor for STAT. The California native graduated with a master's degree in journalism from Boston University, where she received the Christopher John Weigl Memorial Award for excellence in visual journalism. While at Boston University, Crystal…...
We wish we’d written that: STAT staffers share their favorite stories of 2025
2+ week, 6+ day ago (179+ words) This year saw upheaval in all corners of health, science, and biotech. While our staff was covering all of the twists and turns, they were also looking with admiration at stellar work from other journalists. Below is our annual list…...
James Watson’s lifelong friend and protégé on his complicated legacy
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (194+ words) James Watson, who won the Nobel Prize for co-discovering the structure of DNA, died last week at the age of 97. He was a scientific giant, but in the final two decades of his life, he falsely stated that women and…...
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (660+ words) Former STAT senior science writer Sharon Begley wrote this remembrance of James Watson before she herself died in 2021. What follows is more like the B side of that record. It is based on interviews with people who knew Watson for…...
The long history of euphemisms around the use of animals in lab research
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (178+ words) By Melanie D.G. Kaplan Kaplan is the author of "Lab Dog: A Beagle and His Human Investigate the Surprising World of Animal Research." We woke in Boston before daybreak as usual, and Hammy " my beagle, who was once a lab dog…...
Why this week underscores the value of STAT’s journalism
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (100+ words) This week, like so many others, has demonstrated why I think STAT is so essential. We've produced 16 stories so far about the reverberations since the White House event on Monday, including: I also want to express our gratitude to all…...
Culinary medicine pioneer David Eisenberg: ‘If you know how to make one stir-fry, you can make 1,000’
5+ mon, 10+ hour ago (1359+ words) To understand how David Eisenberg became one of America's greatest champions of culinary medicine, it helps to know that his childhood is divided into a before and after." Before: He grew up amid neat rows of cream puffs and the…...