Rick Berke, co-founder and executive editor of STAT News, writes about the health care news site’s progress.
Berke writes:
Readers are flocking to STAT in record numbers. They tell us they are drawn to our deep, authoritative reporting of the upheaval we’re seeing in health and medicine and the reverberations for each and every one of us.
There are no summer doldrums at STAT. We’ve added 45% more subscribers this summer than the previous summer, and we now have more subscribers than ever in our near 10-year history.
Just last night, we hosted a standing-room-only crowd at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass., where Bill Gates detailed his foundation’s plans for its largest gift ever directed toward women’s health.
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