STAT+: Why these health tech leaders are making a risky bet, openly backing Trump or Harris
Silicon Valley startup founders and venture capital investors are picking a side in this year’s…
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Opinion: Private equity: health care’s vampire
Private equity firms are sucking the resources out of America’s hospitals and nursing homes, and…
Opinion: Ultra-processed foods: the tobacco of the 21st century?
At the start of the clinic where I see patients with colorectal, stomach, pancreatic, and…
Opinion: Aspirin after a broken bone: health equity in a $5 bottle
There are few things more exciting for researchers than to mount and complete a clinical…
Opinion: Medicine needs fiction, especially now
The American medical system needs fiction because, as Albert Camus supposedly said, “Fiction is the…
Opinion: Removing barriers to split liver transplants will save lives
The liver is one of the few organs that need not be transplanted whole. It…
Opinion: Give pharmaceutical execs the benefit of doubt — but they need to work for it
The polarized debate over drug pricing has generated cartoonish, sometimes colorful caricatures of the biopharmaceutical…
Opinion: When life mirrors research: What a fall on the ice taught me about being Black and in pain
As I hurried to an important meeting about my Ph.D. dissertation one day in 2015,…
Opinion: Phasing out the ‘D-word’
As I roamed the meeting rooms and halls of the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in…
Opinion: Performance-enhancing drugs or placebos? The myth at the heart of anti-doping
With Chinese swimmers getting 200 drug tests over 10 days ahead of the Paris Olympics,…
Opinion: Trump gave patients a ‘right to try.’ It hasn’t helped them
As Donald Trump seeks a second presidential term, front and center among the achievements he’s…
Opinion: Make caregiving a defining issue of the 2024 election
Kamala Harris, the current vice president and now Democratic candidate for president, made a bold…
Dating app Grindr hires Tom Daschle’s firm to lobby on HIV prevention, IVF
WASHINGTON — LGBTQ+ dating app Grindr is tapping into the Washington lobbying world amid legislative…
Opinion: STAT+: Cell donors are essential for new therapies. They need to be taken care of
Cutting-edge FDA-approved therapies made from human cells are now being used to treat cancer, diabetes,…
Opinion: Supreme Court’s nondecision jeopardizes emergency abortion care
By dismissing a case that would have determined whether emergency abortion care is encompassed under…
Opinion: To overcome the overdose crisis, addiction treatment must be integrated into the health care system
The first time I saw Maya (not her real name) huddled under blankets in a…
STAT+: Q&A: The new CEO of biotech’s top trade group on China, vaccines, and Trump
WASHINGTON — BIO’s new CEO John Crowley is making changes. He’s pivoting the biotechnology industry’s…
Opinion: Why aren’t philanthropists stepping up to support nursing education?
Michael Bloomberg’s donation of $1 billion to Johns Hopkins University to support medical education goes…
Opinion: Functional neurological disorder is not an appropriate diagnosis for people with long Covid
Long Covid — the name adopted for cases of prolonged symptoms after an acute bout…
Opinion: Doctors ‘overprescribing’ opioids isn’t the cause of the overdose epidemic — and it never was
A key part of the federal government’s narrative about the epidemic of addiction and overdose…
Opinion: EcoHealth Alliance: Covid’s anti-science mob extracting its pound of flesh
Imagine this post-9/11 scenario: A New York City fire company is forced to shut down…
Opinion: My stalled relay race to get access to ALS drugs in development
One night in November 2018, I fell while crossing a street in Subic Bay, a…
Opinion: Listen: Why is eugenics still alive and well in scientific publishing?
While the bogus science of eugenics — the idea that the human race can be…
Opinion: The rare pediatric disease voucher program creates new treatments. I have new data to prove it
The Food and Drug Administration’s rare pediatric disease priority review voucher program, which has been…
Opinion: Psychiatrists aren’t fulfilling the social contract that subsidized their training
There has been much handwringing about how difficult it is for Americans with mental health…
Opinion: Congress called for an ALS moonshot. The plan for it doesn’t leave Earth
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recently released a congressionally mandated report on…
Upending Purdue Pharma’s settlement does little to help today’s opioid crisis, advocates say
The drug policy world has been left torn by the Supreme Court’s ruling on Thursday…
STAT+: Doctors Without Borders is closing its widely regarded access-to-medicines campaign
In a surprise move, Doctors Without Borders is closing down its access-to-medicines campaign, which has…
Opinion: Getting ahead of a non-alcoholic beverage boom among youths
The non-alcoholic beverage market is booming right now: zero-proof bottle shops and bars are popping…
Opinion: Long Covid feels like a gun to my head
I have spent my career studying infectious diseases that fall under the heading of neglected…
Opinion: I’m a hypochondriac. Here’s how the health care system needs to deal with people like me
A late-night Flomax commercial is sometimes all it takes for me to start spinning in…
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Opinion: Oversight of health AI must be democratic, not done by the big tech companies
AI development is at a flash point; developers from some of the largest, most successful…
Opinion: I’m a hypochondriac. Here’s how the health care system needs to deal with people like me
A late-night Flomax commercial is sometimes all it takes for me to start spinning in…
Opinion: Telling new stories can help people see the value of vaccines
Nearly nine in 10 Americans strongly believe in the overall value of childhood vaccines. Reflecting…
Opinion: To make public housing healthier, electric stoves and ovens should be the standard
The nation’s public-housing system provides homes to hundreds of thousands of low-income families, many of…
Opinion: Empathy should guide responses to reported vaccine injuries
As a co-leader of the team at the National Institutes of Health that developed technologies…
Opinion: Curing rare childhood diseases will falter unless Congress steps up
When our son Peter was diagnosed with an ultra-rare form of muscular dystrophy at the…
Opinion: How faith leaders like me can help address America’s obesity epidemic
Many factors drive America’s obesity epidemic — environment, genetics, eating habits, and more. Solving the…
Opinion: A new initiative will help governors and local leaders fight the next pandemic
No one knows when the next pandemic will sweep across the United States. It could…
Opinion: Outdated Medicare rules prevent some dementia patients from getting the medications they need
Memory loss is the most obvious symptom of Alzheimer’s disease. But for the more than…
Opinion: Mothers in treatment for opioid use disorder shouldn’t also have to fight child protective services
Pregnant people and new mothers who are being treated for opioid addiction often have to…
STAT+: Dark money group runs ads on China biotech bill
You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and…
Opinion: Best time to deliver public health messages? When people are thinking about their health
I was 31 years old when my mother was dying of breast cancer. One day,…
Opinion: A dose of reality on adult vaccinations
The number of children who received their routine vaccinations declined during the pandemic, so public…
Opinion: What nurses really want: sufficient staffing for patient care
Pizza. Coloring books. Goody bags. They could be activities at a 5-year-old’s birthday party. But…
Opinion: When heat threatens, use the wet bulb globe temperature to keep workers safe
A 30-year-old farm worker in North Carolina died last September on a day that was…
Q&A with Jennifer Adair, researcher on a mission to increase global access to gene therapies
BALTIMORE — Gene and cell therapies have transformed a handful of devastating disorders in the…
Opinion: Caring for young caregivers, a hidden population
The intersection of the mental health crisis among young Americans and the growing burden of…
Opinion: H5N1 communication has been strictly for the birds. Didn’t the federal government learn anything from Covid?
When it comes to federal agencies communicating to the public about H5N1 bird flu, it…
Opinion: Treating chronic pain requires much more than medications
There’s a lot of buzz surrounding the new non-addictive pain pill that is up for…