Opinion: Most-read First Opinion essays of 2022

The 22nd year of the 21st century, like most years before it, had its share of turbulence, offering opinion/perspective authors a wealth of topics to write about. STAT published nearly 500 First Opinion essays in 2022, written by more than 700 authors from the biopharmaceutical industry, health care, academia, government, and private life in the United States and beyond.

It’s no surprise that, as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to evolve from an all-hands-on-deck crisis to something that may be more manageable, many essays focused on this modern scourge and responses to it. But First Opinion authors also tackled other issues, like drug pricing, the dearth of funding for nutrition research, fixing the bias in health care-related artificial intelligence applications, personalizing the “death note” in medical records, and much, much more.

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