ABOUT us
Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine
mission
our mission
At STAT, our mission is to deliver trusted, tough-minded journalism on the business of making medicines, health tech, science, public health, hospitals, and insurance.
With an award-winning newsroom, STAT gives you indispensable insights and exclusive stories on the technologies, personalities, power brokers, and political forces driving massive changes in the life science industry — and a revolution in human health. These are the stories that matter to us all.
“STAT is doing vital, amazing, first-class work that’s more important now than ever.”
– JBH, registered nurse
coverage
what we cover
Biotech & pharma
Keep a finger on the pulse of the discoveries, personalities, and deals driving drug development, startup funding, and boardroom shakeups.
Policy
Get the inside intelligence on how politics and policy are influencing health care and medicine straight from our team in Washington.
Health tech
From the latest on AI to wearables, get exclusive analysis of the personalities and technologies disrupting health care.
Health & science
Learn about the latest scientific and medical advances, from gene editing to pig-to-human transplants, and the researchers behind the discoveries.
Business of health care
Read in-depth coverage about the economic forces driving the practice of medicine and the hospitals and insurers determining the care patients receive.
awards
our AWARDS
STAT has been recognized with many of the top honors in health care, science, investigative, and business journalism over the past 10 years.
These include the George Polk Awards, the National Magazine Awards, and the Gerald Loeb Awards. STAT reporters have twice been named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.
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offering
what we do
News
Follow along and engage with coverage on fast-moving developments about health, medicine, and the life sciences writ large.
Opinion
Read provocative and insightful perspectives on biotechnology, medicine, and the life sciences.
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And More
Explore health care’s breakthroughs with STAT Reports, tune into The Readout LOUD and First Opinion Podcast, and engage with our community.
anniversary
STAT’s 10-year anniversary
This year, we mark a decade of reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine
Join us in reflecting on a decade of health, medicine, and scientific discovery — a decade of STAT.
our story
our story
STAT was launched in 2015 by John Henry, the owner of the Boston Globe, and is part of Boston Globe Media.
Its mission was to cover not only the life sciences in Boston and Cambridge, the U.S. epicenter of this industry, but across the country, and beyond.
That remains its mission today.
Why call it STAT? Stat is an abbreviation of the Latin word “statim,” meaning “immediately,” and is common parlance in medicine. It also reflects the ethos of our publication — providing essential news and analysis quickly, and smartly.
For more on STAT’s beginnings, here’s a column by co-founder John Henry, here’s more on the STAT name, and click here for NPR’s coverage of STAT’s first day.