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Opinion: The Alabama IVF ruling uses faux scientific language to justify a religious position
Imagine having 15 miscarriages. Maybe you can shrug off the first one or two and…
Category: First Opinion
Opinion: How to make after-hours primary care better for doctors — and patients
One of us, Jeffrey M., is on weekend call for our office-based internal medicine practice….
Opinion: How Medicare leaves Puerto Ricans behind
When I accompany my father to his regular cardiologist appointment in Puerto Rico, worry and…
Opinion: New CMS rules will throttle access researchers need to Medicare, Medicaid data
Groundbreaking research more than a decade ago showed that almost one-fifth of people enrolled in…
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Opinion: The complicated connections between weight loss drugs and mental health
Mental illness can cause or worsen obesity, and obesity can cause or worsen mental illness….
Opinion: STAT readers on what human health care can learn from veterinary medicine and more
STAT now publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to First Opinion essays…
Opinion: I’ve reported on the health of every president since Reagan. Here’s what I think about Trump and Biden
When I interviewed Ronald Reagan about his health in 1980, he was 69 and poised…
Opinion: Independent doctors like me are becoming an endangered species
More than 100,000 doctors have left private practice and become employees of hospitals and other corporate entities since…
Opinion: The health care system is ignoring world’s most promising approach to preventing cardiovascular disease
Last week, the Washington Post published an op-ed by former CDC Director Tom Frieden titled,…
Opinion: STAT+: A year in, the U.S. is still not taking advantage of lower-cost biosimilars for Humira
It’s been one year since the launch of the first adalimumab biosimilar for Humira in…
Opinion: STAT+: A California court is setting a dangerous precedent over drug development (or lack thereof) liability
The assault on the development of new lifesaving therapies continues apace. Recently, the First Appellate…
Opinion: Dental care is in crisis. But it’s also a moment of opportunity
While staffing crises at hospitals continue to make headlines, dental care — too often overlooked…
Opinion: How much personal health information does King Charles owe the public?
On Feb. 5, Buckingham Palace shared the news that King Charles had started treatment for…
Opinion: What STAT readers think about Aduhelm, CTE and the Super Bowl, and more
STAT now publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to First Opinion essays…
Opinion: Former U.S. surgeons general: The U.S. should ban menthol cigarettes
As former U.S. surgeons general, we call on the Biden administration to immediately finalize Food…
Opinion: Contact sports cause CTE. So why are Americans watching more football than ever?
In January 2023, minutes after Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field following a tackle, my cellphone was…
Opinion: Moving from crisis response to crisis prevention in U.S. mental health systems
Despite widespread promises of reform after the murder of George Floyd in 2020, in 2023,…
Opinion: AI assurance labs intended to test health care technology have an equity problem
As leaders across federal agencies swiftly advance regulations for AI in health care, one proposal…
Opinion: Aduhelm was a mess — and it could happen again
Last week, Biogen announced it will cease both the study and sale of Aduhelm, its…
Opinion: The Philips CPAP nightmare exposes shortcomings in medical device regulation
Millions of Americans’ bedtime routine includes wearing a mask attached to a respiratory machine that…
Opinion: Why the debate over proposed nursing home staff minimums is particularly unproductive
The Biden administration’s proposed minimum staffing standard is likely the most important nursing home reform…
Opinion: Can Arena Bioworks upend the traditional scientific research model in the U.S.?
I’ve spent a good deal of my career thinking about how we structure and fund…
Opinion: Medicare has different standards than the FDA. That’s how it should be
Who among us is looking forward to getting older in 2024? Not senators (most of…
Opinion: Where do we go from here on digital therapeutics?
South Korea is the only country to officially recognize digital therapeutics as a category. Nevertheless,…
Opinion: Why I left the editorial board of the prestigious scientific journal NeuroImage — and helped start something new
Last spring, I joined a rebellion. The entire editorial board of the prestigious scientific journal…
Opinion: The Biden administration should not support a WTO petition to strip IP protections from Covid-19 treatments
The Biden administration may soon double down on one of its gravest mistakes. In 2022,…
Opinion: What the pope is missing about commercial surrogacy
Over the past few years, I have watched a wonderful young boy I’ll call Chad…
Opinion: The emergency room is where the United States’ social problems come home to roost
From “Legacy” by Uché Blackstock, M.D., published by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group,…
Opinion: I’m an anesthesiologist. Kenneth Smith’s execution by nitrogen gas was far from ‘textbook’
On Thursday evening, the state of Alabama executed Kenneth Eugene Smith by nitrogen gas. Now,…
Opinion: Which country has the best health care? That’s the wrong question
I’ve spent my career studying how different health care systems work. People love to ask…
Opinion: Congress must pass the child tax credit deal to support kids’ health
When I enter, “what is pediatrics?” into an image search engine, I get back dozens…
Opinion: Other states should follow New Jersey’s lead on prior authorization reform
Imagine this scene: You are a cancer patient already navigating fear and uncertainty around your…
Opinion: Defunding liberal arts is dangerous for health care
If you want an argument in favor of teaching the humanities, I suggest you ask…
Opinion: After 20 years in rehabilitation research, my young daughter’s traumatic brain injury transformed my mind and my career
In the spring of 2020, my almost 4-year-old daughter Livie sustained a severe traumatic brain…
Opinion: It’s time to remove skin color from the Apgar Score for newborns
In medicine, inertia can be a strangely powerful force, but Virginia Apgar never succumbed to…
Opinion: STAT+: Some countries are moving to digital prescription drug information for patients. The U.S. shouldn’t follow suit
Getting a new prescription can be overwhelming: medication schedules, foods to eat or avoid, interactions…
Opinion: The FDA and FTC need to crack down on TikTok and Instagram influencers pitching prescription drugs
In June, the Food and Drug Administration issued a warning letter about advertisements for the…
Opinion: Clogged arteries: the unseen cost of road-blocking protests
Recent events in Israel and Gaza have sparked a wave of protests, with some activists…
Opinion: STAT+: The necessary roughness of 2023 has set up a very promising 2024 for biotech jobs
What a week — this year’s might have been the busiest JPM I’ve ever had….
Opinion: A new HHS rule rules takes a far too narrow approach to health care data interoperability
In 2016, the 21st Century Cures Act required that the U.S. make progress toward interoperability,…
Opinion: The decline and fall of elite multispecialty medical groups
The failure of Geisinger Health System, which lost $842 million in 2022 and disappeared into…
Opinion: Cord blood banking sounds like a great idea — until you realize what it costs babies
If her social media accounts are any indication, model, cookbook author, television personality, and entrepreneur…
Opinion: BMI as a barrier to orthopedic surgery doesn’t make sense for patient health
I am getting bent out of shape over surgeons telling patients they cannot get a…
Opinion: What STAT readers think about JPM’s locked lactation room, covering weight loss drugs, and more
STAT now publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to First Opinion essays…
Opinion: The nursing staffing crisis has hit one role particularly hard: the nurse manager
Though the Covid-19 pandemic brought heightened attention to nurses overall, a unique nursing role has…
Opinion: Pumping milk at JPM was a nightmare. It’s part of a bigger problem in the industry
Since having a baby 10 months ago, I’ve learned many things. Chief among them: Pumping…
Opinion: How to ensure the NIH’s decision to recognize people with disabilities as a health disparity population makes a difference
My daughter Katie was born with severe disabilities. She went on to develop profound autism,…
Opinion: Preventing health care violence in the ER requires moving from safety to security
A slight man falls off his barstool. Now he’s an ER patient, slurring insults and…
Opinion: Sen. Maggie Hassan on what Congress must do next to fight the opioid crisis
Few public health challenges have been more daunting and persistent than the opioid crisis, which…
Opinion: Americans are obsessed with health and fitness tracking. It’s time for a data diet
Turn on your TV or open a web browser this January, and you’ll be bombarded…