{"id":10854,"date":"2026-03-02T23:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T23:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/biotech-news-merck-renal-cell-carcinoma-drug\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T23:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T23:02:20","slug":"biotech-news-merck-renal-cell-carcinoma-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/biotech-news-merck-renal-cell-carcinoma-drug\/","title":{"rendered":"STAT+: A Merck cancer drug to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    STAT+: A Merck cancer drug to watch<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/signup\/readout\/\">Sign up<\/a>\u00a0to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Morning! The impact of President Trump\u2019s \u201cmost-favored nation\u201d drug-pricing push can be hard to decipher, but the policy is starting to look less like a slogan and more like a real pressure point that could mean higher prices abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 93-year-old vaccine legend Stanley Plotkin is watching vaccination rates slip and calling the anti-vaccine turn inside government what he thinks it is: \u201cstupid\u201d and \u201cimmoral.\u201d Also, a pointed warning about at-home ketamine oversight and Novartis reaches a quiet settlement in the Henrietta Lacks case.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/03\/02\/biotech-news-merck-renal-cell-carcinoma-drug\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Continue to STAT+ to read the full story\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Meghana Keshavan<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/03\/02\/biotech-news-merck-renal-cell-carcinoma-drug\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT+: A Merck cancer drug to watch Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today?\u00a0Sign up\u00a0to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Morning! The impact of President Trump\u2019s \u201cmost-favored nation\u201d drug-pricing push can be hard to decipher, but the policy is starting to look less like a slogan and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2194,2154,58,2208,2209,2176,858,2207],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-10854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech","category-biotechnology","category-business","category-drug-development","category-drug-prices","category-pharma","category-research","category-the-readout","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}