Arizona plans to dramatically increase hepatitis C testing and treatment in prisons
WASHINGTON — The Arizona Department of Corrections is promising a federal judge that it will…
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Polio cases derived from new oral vaccine reported for first time
Experts have long understood that a new polio vaccine developed to try to minimize the…
FDA offers radio silence on question of spring Covid boosters, as other countries push ahead
Are you six months out from your Covid-19 bivalent booster and wondering when you’ll be…
EPA announces proposed drinking water limits for six ‘forever chemicals’
The Environmental Protection Agency for the first time on Tuesday proposed enforceable regulations for “forever…
‘Leave the chocolate milk out of this’: School cooks, parents, kids push back on USDA effort to make lunches healthier
WASHINGTON — The feds are coming for your kids’ chocolate milk. At least, so says…
Biden administration requests $20 billion cash infusion to bolster public health
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is calling for a big boost for public health funding…
With a $11 billion price tag, the White House pitches a plan to end hepatitis C
WASHINGTON – The Biden administration is calling on Congress to fund a more than $11…
Science adviser Collins hints at a big White House ask to eliminate hepatitis C
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will request “significant investments” to help eliminate hepatitis C in…
Opinion: Public health layoffs and tech layoffs: a world of difference
Layoffs in the tech sector — think Google, Amazon, Meta, and the like — from…
Rare polio case highlights how hard it will be to keep polio gone once it’s eradicated
An incident that took place at a Dutch polio vaccine production facility late last year…
Eye drops linked to U.S. drug-resistant bacteria outbreak
NEW YORK — U.S. health officials are advising people to stop using over-the-counter eye drops…
A majority of Americans support banning all tobacco products: Survey
WASHINGTON – A majority of Americans support banning all tobacco products, according to a new…
Opinion: How the Biden administration’s Covid preparedness policies could narrow America’s political divide
The White House’s Covid Winter Preparedness Plan is a missed opportunity to narrow the divide…
WHO extends public health emergency over Covid but signals end could come soon
The World Health Organization announced Monday that the Covid-19 pandemic remains a public health emergency,…
After nearly 4 years of deliberation, FDA punts on how to regulate CBD
WASHINGTON — The FDA is giving up on trying to figure out a way to…
FDA pulls Evusheld authorization as coronavirus evolution quashes another therapy
The evolution of the coronavirus has knocked out another treatment. The Food and Drug Administration…
Is WHO ready to end the global health emergency over Covid? Maybe not just yet
Three years ago, the World Health Organization declared that the mushrooming outbreak of a new…
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STAT+: A different kind of ‘RAC’ subsidized hospitals’ labor during the pandemic
Hospitals have bemoaned rising employee expenses throughout the pandemic, as they’ve paid workers more to…
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HHS needs better oversight of research that alters pathogens, government watchdog says
WASHINGTON — The health department’s oversight of research that could enhance dangerous pathogens has vague…
Biden Covid adviser David Kessler to exit as pandemic response winds down
WASHINGTON — David Kessler, the D.C. veteran who guided government dispatches of millions of Covid-19…
STAT+: Loan repayment program seeks to bolster infectious disease field
As part of the $1.7 trillion government spending bill that President Biden signed late last…
Routine vaccinations drop among U.S. kindergartners for the third year in a row
The percentage of U.S. kindergartners who’ve received standard childhood vaccines took a small but notable…
XB what? BQ huh? Do you need to keep up with Omicron’s ever-expanding offspring?
It’s like clockwork now. Every few months, we’re warned that the Omicron variant of the…
What’s standing in the way of wastewater data becoming a more mainstream public health tool
When case counts suggest Covid-19 is in check, the truth is in the toilets. The…
Will America’s public health reckoning ever come?
WASHINGTON — After 9/11, Congress created an entirely new government agency to address the threat of…
Callers keep flooding 988 mental health, suicide line
HYATTSVILLE, Md. — When Jamieson Brill answers a crisis call from a Spanish speaker on…
The pandemic showed the power of viral sequencing. Now the U.K. plans to decode other respiratory bugs
Building on the global boom in viral surveillance during the pandemic, U.K. scientists on Tuesday…
Still fuming over the federal Covid response, Republicans redirect the House coronavirus committee
WASHINGTON — The House’s coronavirus committee will continue in a Republican-controlled chamber — but with…
South Dakota plans major ramp up of hepatitis C treatment in prison
WASHINGTON — The head of South Dakota prisons is pledging to dramatically overhaul how the…
Officials in Nebraska, South Dakota, Oklahoma begin to probe prisons’ hepatitis C treatment efforts
WASHINGTON — Members of Congress, state legislators, regulators, and legal advocates are calling on prisons…
As respiratory diseases rise, EPA tightens air quality standards
The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Friday more aggressive air quality standards for particulate matter,…
A year after a nurse’s loss to suicide, his friends are building out a peer support network
When Michael Odell, an intensive care nurse, died by suicide a year ago this month,…
3 challenges to watch in global health in 2023
For the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, people working in the infectious diseases…
Beijing rebukes new Covid testing requirements for travelers from China
BEIJING — The Chinese government sharply criticized COVID-19 testing requirements imposed on passengers from China…
Covid’s winter surge is poised to exceed summer peak
The number of people in the United States hospitalized with Covid-19 is about to surpass…
Opinion: Better information on sexual orientation and gender identity is needed to improve LGBTQ+ health
Over the past three years, many Americans learned more about epidemiology than they ever knew…
Diabetes in youth is set to skyrocket in coming decades
The number of young people in the U.S. with type 2 diabetes could surge by…
3 things to watch in chronic disease in 2023: obesity drugs, long Covid and health care costs
The very term “chronic disease” might imply that little changes — or improves — over…
U.S. imposes Covid testing requirements on travelers from China
The United States will require all travelers from China to show a negative Covid-19 test…
3 debates about addiction medicine to watch in 2023
The U.S. is experiencing its deadliest drug crisis ever, and there’s no end in sight….
Three years on, the pandemic — and our response — have been jolting. Here’s what even the experts didn’t see coming
People who study infectious diseases and who work in public health have long known a…
Flu activity in the U.S. continues to decline after early surge
Flu activity across the United States continues to decline, though it remains at high levels…
U.S. life expectancy falls for second straight year as drug overdose and Covid deaths take toll
Life expectancy for Americans fell for the second straight year in 2021, largely driven by…
After nine months, an update on NIH’s long Covid research
You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and…
Pandemic response gets a permanent new home at the White House
WASHINGTON — The era of the rotating cast of public health czars at the White House…
Under new rules, methadone clinics can offer more take-home doses. Will they?
Danielle Russell is, as she says, a “poster child” for methadone. For more than a…
Early flu season in U.S. may be peaking early, too
This year’s abnormally early flu season is showing signs it may be peaking in parts…
Getting hepatitis C treatment opens new doors for the incarcerated
WARREN, Maine — For the prisoners who receive it, hepatitis C treatment is more than…
For families, grieving an incarcerated person’s death adds complexity to an already painful process
PLEASANTON, Texas — The only thing worse than caring for a sick loved one in…
Watch: With little more than a typewriter, an Idaho man overturns the entire state’s policy on hepatitis C treatment in prison
BOISE, Idaho — When he took on the state department of corrections, Phil Turney didn’t…