# STAT News

> News

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1324796990](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1324796990)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1324796990`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** BOSTON GLOBE MEDIA PARTNERS, LLC
- **Category:** News
- **Rating:** 3.70 / 5 (21 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.12.2
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-22
- **First published:** 2018-01-23
- **Size:** 71 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-23
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stat-news/id1324796990)
- **Website:** [https://www.statnews.com/about/](https://www.statnews.com/about/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.statnews.com/privacy/](https://www.statnews.com/privacy/)

## Description

STAT delivers fast, deep, and tough-minded journalism about health, medicine, life sciences and the fast-moving business of making medicines. We take you inside academic labs, biotech boardrooms, and political backrooms. We cast a critical eye on scientific discoveries, scrutinize corporate strategies, and chronicle roiling battles for talent, money, and market share. We examine controversies and puncture hype. Follow our reporting and reporters on the go; read exclusive stories or save them for later.

## Rankings

- #266,777 — Overall

## Review summary

Users praise the quality and clarity of STAT News content and find the app UI generally usable. However, recurring problems—premium access not working in-app, missing search and filtering, stability issues, weak integration with the website, and high subscription costs—heavily affect the app’s value and usability. The core sentiment is: great content, but a disappointing and unreliable app experience.

### Pros

- High-quality healthcare news content.
- Clear, easy-to-understand summaries of stories.
- Generally good, user-friendly app UI.
- Strong value as a trusted resource for healthcare news.

### Cons

- STAT+ premium content is not accessible in-app; login issues and redirects to the web.
- No search feature and no filters or date sorting; poor navigation.
- Reliability issues: crashes, white/blank screens, and login flow failures.
- App largely links to the website rather than providing a fully in-app experience; weak integration with STATPlus.
- High subscription cost with limited/app-specific functionality and usability.

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