Opinion: Responsibly expanding access to methadone for people with opioid use disorder will save lives
The overdose epidemic continues to ravage communities across the country. In Washington state, where I…
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STAT+: AAM’s Dan Leonard, president of generic drug lobby, ousted
The generic drug industry’s lobbying group, the Association for Accessible Medicines, fired its president Dan…
Opinion: Congress: Close the gap between funding for nutrition research and the toll diet-related disease takes on Americans
You are what you eat. Every year, new scientific discoveries make clear that food is…
Abortion rights groups look to next fights after 2022 wins
CHICAGO — Emboldened by the results of November’s midterms, abortion rights supporters say they are…
Opinion: The U.S. doesn’t need a new ‘essential hospital’ designation
A recent essay in Health Affairs, a prominent health care journal, proposed a useful-sounding idea:…
Opinion: Better lab test standards can ensure precision medicine is truly precise
Cancer is becoming less deadly in America. According to the recently released Annual Report to…
Opinion: Rushing into the World Bank’s Pandemic Fund is a bad idea
The World Bank has rolled out a new Financial Intermediary Fund for Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness,…
Resistance to FDA’s opioid-disposal plan raises concerns about CADCA, a powerful advocacy group
At its surface, it seems like a simple problem with a simple solution. Across the…
STAT+: PhRMA, once invincible in Washington, has lost its edge
WASHINGTON — PhRMA has a reputation in Washington for might, for money, for scorched-earth tactics,…
Opinion: Minimizing administrative harm: a key step to improving health care
Late on a Friday, I sit reviewing some of my patients’ old medical records instead…
Opinion: Deans: Dump that USNWR ‘best medical school’ survey
Yale and Harvard Law Schools recently announced they would no longer participate in U.S. News…
Opinion: The real experts: people living with mental illness
When Ken Duckworth was a child, his family didn’t talk about mental health, especially not…
Opinion: A tripledemic hurricane is making landfall. We need masks, not just tent hospitals
A viral hurricane is making landfall on health care systems battered by three pandemic years….
Opinion: Congress: Confront the superbug crisis and pass PASTEUR
By 2050, drug-resistant infections caused by “superbugs” could kill 10 million people each year around…
Opinion: We know what it’s like to live in fear of polio. We also know how to stop it
Polio, a dangerous and even deadly infectious disease, is a distant memory for many global…
In a Republican-led House, anti-science probes top the agenda
WASHINGTON — The Covid-19 investigations are coming. When Republicans take control of the House of Representatives…
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Opinion: Replace the failure of Medicare Advantage with ‘Medicare Part F’
Medicare Advantage began life as a brilliant idea: a public-private partnership to keep older people…
Opinion: Violence against health care workers is on the rise. They deserve protection
There is no place for violence in civil society. Yet stabbings, shootings, threats and other…
Opinion: Lessons from polio about the need to vaccinate kids against Covid-19
As pediatricians, epidemiologists, and professors of public health — as well as mothers — we…
Opinion: Employing everyday public health efforts to respond to polio’s re-emergence
Ask most Americans to name a victim of polio and they’ll say President Franklin Delano…
California bans flavored tobacco products, including vapes
WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, Californians overwhelmingly voted to ban all flavored tobacco products in the…
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Opinion: Real-time data are needed to monitor health after disasters
Weather-related disasters like the millions of Floridians left without power by Hurricane Ian or the…
Opinion: The Supreme Court needs to uphold protection for Native American children
As an American Indian pediatrician working in my own tribal community, I know how important…
Opinion: Californians: To keep kids healthy, oppose sales of flavored nicotine products
Californians have an opportunity on Tuesday to protect the health of their children by voting…
Health and science are on the ballot this election. Here’s what we’re watching
WASHINGTON — The midterm elections this year are centered on weighty topics: the economy looms…
Opinion: Believers in science must take action when recommendations breach public health
Medical practitioners and public health officials work within boundaries that, when crossed by others, can…
Opinion: How the world can end Covid-19 as a public health threat
The journal Nature published today global consensus recommendations to end Covid-19 as a public health…
Opinion: Respiratory infection surge sounds a wake-up call for pediatric emergency care
“Mommy. Daddy. I can’t breathe.” Waking up to those words is terrifying for any parent….
STAT+: Medicare punts on quality rules for new type of rural hospital
Hospitals that decide to convert to a new type of rural provider won’t have to…
Missouri Senate race shows just how hard it is to campaign on abortion in the heartland
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – If any Senate race should be a referendum on abortion access…
Opinion: Exclude race from medical school admissions and students, patients, and the entire health care system lose out
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Monday in two cases that could eliminate…
With Republicans on the verge of congressional control, science is on the line
WASHINGTON — In this year’s midterms, the future of federal science policy is in Republicans’…
STAT+: Advanced practice clinicians slightly more likely to take industry funding than doctors
A slightly larger share of nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other advanced practice clinicians accept…
Opinion: Hospitals need to make their websites as accessible as their physical spaces
It would be anathema for a health care facility in the U.S. to have a…
Opinion: Allocate opioid settlement dollars to real addiction-ending solutions
The crisis of opioid overdose deaths that sparked the multitude of lawsuits leading to a…
Opinion: Kids with cancer deserve more than a cure
As an oncologist and a leader at a national cancer organization, I’ve watched countless families…
Opinion: After 30 years of 340B, it’s time for data and an honest conversation
The 340B Drug Discount Program turns 30 on Nov. 4. This once-obscure drug access program…
STAT+: Q&A: A health justice lawyer and new MacArthur ‘genius’ on pharma’s patent games
Priti Krishtel has had it with the patent tricks up pharma’s sleeves. The co-executive director…
Opinion: Covid-19 is an inverse equity story, not a racial equity success story
As MacArthur Foundation fellow Jennifer Richeson noted in The Atlantic in 2020, Americans love to…
On the campaign trail, Republicans ramp up anti-science, anti-Covid, often anti-Fauci messaging
WASHINGTON — Even as the pandemic fades from our daily lives, it is at the…
Opinion: Better access to PET scans can help reduce racial inequities in Alzheimer’s disease
While many Americans are familiar with the devastating impact of Alzheimer’s disease, few understand the…
Opinion: Keeping families out of ICUs no longer makes sense as the pandemic eases
On, December 9, 2020, my mom, brother, and I waited in a cold, wintery drizzle…
Opinion: Medical professionals: Make your plan to vote now. Then vote!
The U.S. is less than three weeks from the 2022 midterm elections, which will decide…
STAT+: Inside Michelle McMurry-Heath’s departure from BIO: Firings, internal clashes, and a pivotal job review
WASHINGTON — Only two years ago, Michelle McMurry-Heath was named chief executive of BIO, the…
Opinion: Research funding is broken. Using a lottery approach could fix it
Thirty years ago, Katalin Karikó had what was then an outlandish idea: use messenger RNA…
Tobacco companies shower Black Democrats with campaign cash
WASHINGTON — Tobacco companies generally don’t donate to many Democratic candidates for political office. But…
Opinion: To learn lessons from pandemics, don’t listen to big pharma
Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the leaders of wealthy countries pledged to respond with “global…
Opinion: Ensuring food security and health beyond the Covid-19 public health emergency
Expansions to social safety net programs during Covid-19 have been essential for low-income Americans hit…
STAT+: Despite its threats, PhRMA is still supporting Democrats who voted for Medicare negotiation
Drugmakers’ powerhouse lobby did not exactly make good on its early August threat to hold…
Opinion: UpToDate has a racism problem. Its name is Dr. Stanley Goldfarb
The University of Pennsylvania’s Division of Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension recently made a quiet update to…