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It’s getting harder to dodge “You Can See Everything” spoilers, but you know what I’ll never dodge? STAT’s award-winning journalism.

Speaking of, today’s newsletter features two stories from the illustrious Tara Bannow, who explains why CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz called a New York disability services program “a plague to the state.”

Health insurance costs are climbing even more quickly for people who get workplace coverage, according to the gold-standard survey from the nonprofit KFF.

The amount that workers pay in premiums for a family health insurance plan jumped 9% in 2026, to $7,471 on average, according to KFF’s ...

For the popular diabetes and obesity medications known as GLP-1s, addiction medicine is one of many possible promising next acts.

Eli Lilly is investigating a new drug, brenipatide, and testing it in alcohol use disorder. A new company called Baseline Therapeutics is

The disease didn’t have a name in our house. It had descriptions: the way her hands shook or she lost her words midsentence. The way she could be fully present at breakfast then somewhere unreachable by dinner.

And it had a history. My grandmother had died at 29 of what we believed was something similar, my mother had been symptomatic before I was old enough to form...