Opinion: Autism: awareness, acceptance, and the places in between
In its efforts to rebrand April, currently designated as Autism Awareness Month, the Autism Society…
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Opinion: Corporate versus public control of science and technology: Forging a framework for the 21st Century
“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity.” Louis Pasteur said that in 1876….
Opinion: Building back better requires strengthening primary care
As the pandemic enters its second year, the health care workers who care for patients…
Opinion: Caregivers are missing from the long Covid conversation
Media reports describe the inarguable, if inconvenient, circumstances that follow us into the second year…
Opinion: What cancer survivorship can teach us about Covid-19
Take it from this cancer survivor: We need to start focusing on Covid-19 survivorship now….
The new leader of 500 Women Scientists on finding community and supporting women of color in STEMM
In the spring of 2019, Lauren Edwards was a graduate student studying neuroscience at Emory…
Opinion: A monument to our monumental suffering can help America heal from this pandemic
In the 56 weeks since the first case of Covid-19 was reported in the United…
Opinion: A monument to our monumental suffering can help America heal from this pandemic
In the 56 weeks since the first case of Covid-19 was reported in the United…
Opinion: The U.S. needs a National Vaccine Day
Vaccines don’t save lives. Vaccinations do. That is an essential lesson we have learned from…
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Opinion: Decentralized clinical trials: Collaboration is needed to drive their adoption and impact
Despite groundbreaking advances in basic and clinical science and technology, clinical trial methods have not…
Opinion: Governments’ alcohol subsidies are harmful to public health
Each January, millions of people around the world make resolutions to cut back on the…
Opinion: The stakes for choosing the right FDA commissioner couldn’t be higher
An independent, credible, science-led Food and Drug Administration has long been vital to America’s public,…
Some Trump staffers face a slightly different revolving door
A version of this story first appeared in D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s weekly newsletter about the…
Major health companies and trade groups suspend campaign contributions after Capitol riot
WASHINGTON — Following last week’s riot here, several major health care corporations are re-evaluating their…
Opinion: Stop sidelining science. Bring back federal scientific advisory committees
In a move touted as “improving the utility of federal advisory committees,” President Trump signed…
Opinion: Along with vaccine rollouts, the U.S. needs a National Hi-Fi Mask Initiative
Though the first Covid-19 vaccines are now being given to health care workers, other frontline…
Opinion: Doctors on social media are being cyberbullied and sexually harassed. It’s time to change that
As women in medicine who use social media to advocate for public health and social…
STAT+: Federal judge places restraining order on Trump’s latest drug pricing rule
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday issued a temporary restraining order preventing one of…
STAT+: PhRMA took in a record $527 million in 2019, new records show
PhRMA, the pharmaceutical industry trade group, took in nearly $527 million in revenue last year,…
STAT+: Biden’s HHS pick, Becerra, has taken in more campaign cash from health groups than any other industry
WASHINGTON — Xavier Becerra, President-elect Biden’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human…
Opinion: Proposed British guidelines reject useless chronic fatigue syndrome treatments
For years, the prevailing “wisdom” about people diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome was they were…
Opinion: Health care conferences should embrace patients as collaborators
Health care conferences like the North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference are as much professional events…
STAT Plus: AAMC, the medical school trade association, gave $500,000 to dark-money group in 2018
WASHINGTON — The dark-money group Citizens for Truth in Drug Pricing, which has run several…
STAT Plus: In unusual arrangement, deputy HHS secretary’s wife has been lobbying the agency on behalf of health care companies
WASHINGTON — Emily Hargan, who is married to Department of Health and Human Services Deputy…
STAT Plus: Many drug companies working on Covid-19 vaccines and treatments are lobbying harder than usual
WASHINGTON — Pharmaceutical companies racing to develop coronavirus treatments and vaccines have upped their lobbying…
‘An obligation’: Doctors and other health workers increasingly see protesting racial injustice as part of the job
Amid the dual crises of a global pandemic and a reckoning with systemic racial injustice,…
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STAT Plus: PhRMA’s top communicator, a fierce defender of the industry, leaves for ExxonMobil
The top spokesperson for the drug industry’s main lobbying group in Washington is taking a…
Biotech’s new chief lobbyist says she’s a social justice advocate. Will the industry walk the walk?
WASHINGTON — Michelle McMurry-Heath doesn’t talk about biotech the way her peers do. Where other…
General Motors, 3M, and pharma companies beef up lobbying firepower amid coronavirus pandemic
WASHINGTON — General Motors and 3M, two major corporations that have feuded publicly with President…
STAT Plus: Congress’s coronavirus stimulus package contains plenty of unrelated wins for the health industry
WASHINGTON — A $1 trillion stimulus proposal unveiled Thursday evening by Senate Majority Leader Mitch…
Opinion: When surgery becomes ‘women’s work’: the devaluation of gynecologic specialties
For much of the 20th century, the work of medicine in the U.S. was performed…
Opinion: The U.S. needs a nationwide registry for traumatic brain injury
The congressional Brain Injury Task Force, co-chaired by Reps. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-N.J.) and Don…
PhRMA closes its D.C. headquarters after visitor tests positive for coronavirus
WASHINGTON — The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the Washington lobbying arm for the…
The coronavirus could help pharma reset its reputation in Washington
WASHINGTON — The coronavirus outbreak could be the pharmaceutical industry’s ticket to saving its reputation…
‘Reject Big Pharma’: Anti-vaccine activists co-opt a populist slogan to try to repeal a state immunization law
The advertisements plastered across city bus stops and flooding television airwaves across Maine make a…
Opinion: The FDA in the 2020s: move forward, don’t stand still
Federal regulatory agencies can’t stand still. They must evolve with industries they regulate. No agency…
Opinion: Why we need mandatory labeling of GMO products
The conversation around genetic engineering and food is undermined by a lack of information that…
Opinion: Paying gestational carriers should be legal in all states
Every year, hundreds of thousands of babies are born in the U.S. using assisted reproductive…
Opinion: To maximize progress in global health, invest more in community health workers
Anna Mzeru’s day shifts as a nurse in a clinic in the Bagamoyo region of…
STAT Plus: Employers shoulder plenty of drug costs, but haven’t lobbied much to lower them — until now
WASHINGTON — Companies like Pepsi, Walmart, and Jack in the Box foot the bill for…
Opinion: ‘Small’ tactics to counter Big Pharma’s influence on medication overload
Money talks in Washington, D.C., and no sector of the economy speaks more loudly than…
It’s the insulin, stupid: How drug pricing’s simplest case study became a top issue for 2020 Democrats
WATERLOO, Iowa — Presidential candidates can’t stop talking about insulin. At a campaign stop here…
Want to know how contentious drug pricing is in Washington? Check the receipts
WASHINGTON — Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Merck and the 31 other major drug makers that…
Congress calls JUUL, four other vape companies to testify about youth vaping
WASHINGTON — Five leading e-cigarette companies will be dragged before Congress early next month, according…
Opinion: Medicare policy on antirejection drugs imperils kidney transplants
For people with failing kidneys — and there are thousands of them in the United…
Opinion: A new biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry commitment to patients and the public
We,the undersigned leaders in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, academia, and life science investors, recognize…
Conservative group with pharma ties makes clear there are drug pricing reforms they can support
WASHINGTON — The conservative American Action Network launched a $4 million advertising campaign Tuesday to…
Opinion: CRISPR babies scientist He Jiankui should not be villainized — or headed to prison
When I saw the news that He Jiankui and colleagues had been sentenced to three…
This mental health advocate wants to make addiction and behavioral health a 2020 election issue
WASHINGTON — A top mental health and addiction treatment advocate here wants behavioral health on…
Opinion: Antibiotic resistance nearly killed me. That’s why I’m raising awareness of it
There are many reasons why people write about the looming threat of antibiotic resistance. Academics…