{"id":9368,"date":"2025-12-26T23:02:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T23:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/26\/best-of-2025-health-science-biotech\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T23:02:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T23:02:20","slug":"best-of-2025-health-science-biotech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/26\/best-of-2025-health-science-biotech\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of STAT 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Best of STAT 2025<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>What a year! Yes, it was our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/stat-10th-anniversary\/\">10th anniversary<\/a>, but it also brought an unprecedented blizzard of news, and while we weren\u2019t added to a Signal chat on war plans, we did have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/06\/04\/unitedhealth-group-accidentally-emails-confidential-talking-points-to-reporter\/\">giant health insurer email us internal strategy documents<\/a> by mistake. Our coverage featured everything from a piece about a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/10\/16\/baby-kj-crispr-gene-editing-personalized-medicine-at-scale\/\">tuxedo-wearing baby<\/a> who made history to the story of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/11\/07\/james-watson-remembrance-from-dna-pioneer-to-pariah\/\">towering yet controversial scientist<\/a> told by a late (and treasured) colleague of ours.<\/p>\n<p>Since our most popular stories focused on the impact of the Trump administration on health and medicine, we start this overview with our 10-part series \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/american-science-shattered\/\">American Science, Shattered<\/a>.\u201d It was described by one outlet as \u201cthe most comprehensive telling of this year\u2019s carnage\u201d in academia and government-funded research. As for President Trump himself, we looked at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/08\/26\/trump-hand-bruise-chronic-venous-insufficiency\/\">mystery of the bruise on his hand<\/a>, and why a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/11\/14\/trump-mri-neurologist-explains-why-79-year-old-might-undergo-scan\/\">79-year-old man might need an MRI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/12\/26\/best-of-2025-health-science-biotech\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    STAT Staff<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/12\/26\/best-of-2025-health-science-biotech\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best of STAT 2025 What a year! Yes, it was our 10th anniversary, but it also brought an unprecedented blizzard of news, and while we weren\u2019t added to a Signal chat on war plans, we did have a giant health insurer email us internal strategy documents by mistake. Our coverage featured everything from a piece [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2194,2154,2159,2469,2208,1428,2155,2151,2144,2180,858],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-9368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech","category-biotechnology","category-cancer","category-coronavirus","category-drug-development","category-health","category-pharmaceuticals","category-policy","category-politics","category-public-health","category-research","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9368"}],"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=9368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}