Hello and welcome to Health Affairs This Week. I'm your host, Jeff Beyers. We're recording on 08/21/2025. Health Affairs has a lot of virtual events coming up in the next couple of weeks. So just ...

Dr. Sarah Boyd, an infectious disease specialist with Saint Luke's Health System, told KCUR that federal cuts to mRNA research and development could cause a setback in pandemic preparedness. Last week ...

Allison DeAngelis is the East Coast biotech and venture capital reporter at STAT, reporting where scientific ideas and money meet. She is also co-host of the weekly biotech podcast, The Readout Loud.

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay Bhattacharya claims the federal government recently canceled millions of dollars’ worth of mRNA research contracts because the general public does not ...

Therapies involving mRNA, a key to Covid vaccines, hold great potential in treating several diseases, but some lawmakers want to ban them and the government is cutting funding. By Kate Zernike To ...

The United States may be losing its edge in mRNA technology­­. The technology, which powered life-saving COVID-19 vaccines and is now rocketing new cancer therapeutics forward, will soon undergo a ...

This month, the Department of Health and Human Services terminated almost $500 million in mRNA vaccine development grants and contracts. While HHS has said that these cuts won’t affect mRNA cancer ...