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Biotech Jason Mast

STAT Plus: No more ‘playing God’: How the longevity field is trying to recast its work as serious science

First Opinion Michelle Carnahan

Make 2023 the year of prioritizing women’s health

Health Amanda Seitz — Associated Press

U.S. plans crackdown on nursing homes that sedate patients with unnecessary antipsychotics

Biotech Matthew Herper and Allison DeAngelis

STAT Plus: ‘This is not a cure’: Consensus begins to emerge on new Alzheimer’s drug

Health Kay Lazar — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: The secret to longer, healthier life? Ambitious new trial focuses on ‘super agers’ and seeks thousands of families.

Biotech Jason Mast

STAT Plus: ‘If this works, it changes everything’: Altos Labs founders lay out plan to reverse disease

Health Usha Lee McFarling

Brains of Black Americans age faster, study finds, with racial stressors a likely factor

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Home health care is facing devastating ‘clawbacks’

First Opinion Terry Wilcox

Medicare’s cuts to home health are a step in the wrong direction

First Opinion Toni Gingerelli

Certified nursing assistants do important work. They deserve to be paid a living wage for it

The Readout LOUD Damian Garde, Allison DeAngelis, and Adam Feuerstein

Listen: The anti-aging research boom, the Godfather of biotech, & the future of Biogen

Health Megan Molteni

Zapping the brain with electricity shown to boost older people’s short- and long-term memory

In the Lab Megan Molteni

As billionaires race to fund anti-aging projects, a much-discussed trial goes overlooked

A STAT Investigation Jared Whitlock

Nursing home chain’s tangled corporate structure and bankruptcy threats stymied litigation

In the Lab Megan Molteni

Eggs can survive decades without signs of aging. Now, scientists may know why

Special Report Eric Boodman

In the label ‘adult failure to thrive,’ medicine reveals its own failures

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Covid turned the nation’s eyes to nursing homes. Have we already looked away?

First Opinion David C. Grabowski, Marilyn Rantz, and Jasmine L. Travers

Report: U.S. nursing home care is ineffective, inefficient, inequitable, fragmented, and unsustainable

In the Lab Megan Molteni

STAT Plus: In the blood of marathoning mice, scientists find clues to how exercise benefits the brain

First Opinion Eilon Caspi

Resident-to-resident incidents are a hidden source of harm in nursing homes. They shouldn’t be

Health Elizabeth Cooney

The ‘active grandparent hypothesis’: New research explores how we’ve evolved to move more and live longer

Biotech Megan Molteni

STAT Plus: Anti-aging research foundation stands by ouster of Aubrey de Grey after investigation concludes

A STAT Investigation Megan Molteni and Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Inside the downfall of longevity crusader Aubrey de Grey — and the cult of personality that concealed a pattern of harassment

Biotech Megan Molteni

STAT Plus: Scientist Aubrey de Grey made inappropriate sexual comments to two female entrepreneurs, independent investigation finds

First Opinion Aytan Y. Bellin

My aunt’s ‘Kafkaesque journey’ to get the home care she needs

Biotech Megan Molteni

STAT Plus: SENS Research Foundation removes Aubrey de Grey over concerns he was interfering in sexual harassment investigation

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: An ENT physician & an advocate on the high monetary and social costs of hearing loss

Exclusive Megan Molteni

STAT Plus: Anti-aging foundation’s CEO left amid an investigation of co-founder Aubrey de Grey

Health Alicia Diaz

The decision to pull loved ones out of nursing homes when the pandemic hit was a great alternative — for those who could afford it