To treat obesity in children, task force favors behavioral therapy over drugs like Wegovy
A national advisory organization has come down on the side of behavioral interventions, not obesity…
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What’s the evidence for the Surgeon General’s proposed social media warning?
United States Surgeon General Vivek Murthy wants to add a warning label on social media….
New Merck pneumococcal vaccine wins FDA approval
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved Merck’s new pneumococcal vaccine for adults 18…
Vaping is just as good as Chantix at helping people quit cigarettes, new study finds
WASHINGTON – E-cigarettes were about as effective at helping people quit smoking as the gold-standard…
Bird flu snapshot: A critic of the U.S. response speaks out, and USDA tries to ‘corner the virus’
Bird flu snapshot: This is the first in a series of regular updates on H5N1…
Inside Anthony Fauci’s ‘On Call’: 9 health and science takeaways from the memoir of America’s most famous doctor
Anthony Fauci spent 40 years in the top echelons of government. It was no accident….
Ambitious federal study failed to curb opioid deaths, NIH announces
In 2019, amid an ever-worsening drug crisis, the federal government launched a research study with…
Opinion: I cried tears of loss and rage at the World Hepatitis Summit
At this year’s World Hepatitis Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, the World Hepatitis Alliance presented me…
In dribs and drabs, USDA reports suggest containing bird flu outbreak in dairy cows will be challenging
The U.S. Department of Agriculture released two reports Thursday that lay out what has been…
Global health leader critiques ‘ineptitude’ of U.S. response to bird flu outbreak among cows
LONDON — Seth Berkley, a longtime and widely respected global health leader, said Thursday that…
Opinion: What happened to obesity after Chile slew Tony the Tiger?
“In Sweeping War on Obesity, Chile slays Tony the Tiger.” So read the headline of…
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…
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Opinion: Getting farmworkers to use PPE is hard, but it’s the best way to stop an H5N1 bird flu epidemic
Although a third U.S. dairy worker has been confirmed to be infected with the H5N1…
Michigan stands out for its aggressive bird flu response. Will other states follow its lead?
For weeks now, as the H5N1 bird flu has been spreading into dairy cattle herds…
Melinda French Gates, going solo, aims to influence reproductive rights in the U.S.
Last week, Melinda French Gates officially left the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with a…
Lab experiment shows exactly how heat waves can put hearts into ‘oxygen debt’
When temperatures soar, so do heart attacks. Now, a lab experiment explains just how temperatures…
Millions fewer people may need statins, a new study suggests. But guidelines have yet to agree
It’s a familiar scene for patients during a routine primary care visit. The doctor scans…
Smoke exposure from California’s wildfires linked to 52,000 early deaths, study says
When large swaths of the East Coast were shrouded in wildfire smoke last summer, scientists…
‘Concern is real’ about long Covid’s impact on Americans and disability claims, report says
The Covid pandemic has been called a “mass-disabling event” since early on — the kind…
Finland to offer bird flu vaccine to select groups of people, a possible global first
LONDON — Finland is preparing to offer vaccines to people at risk of exposure to…
These are the bird flu questions that influenza and animal scientists desperately want answered
Ten weeks after government scientists discovered that H5N1 bird flu was sickening dairy cattle in…
Anthony Fauci, facing GOP accusers, says debate on Covid origins has been ‘seriously distorted’
WASHINGTON — Anthony Fauci, the former top U.S. infectious disease official and a longtime foil…
Drug treatment that insists on abstinence? Federal agencies are just saying no
For as long as the federal government has worked to support substance use treatment, it…
NIH documents show how $1.6 billion long Covid initiative has failed so far to meet its goals
More than three years ago, the National Institutes of Health launched a $1 billion-plus initiative…
A third U.S. farm worker infected with bird flu is the first to experience respiratory symptoms
A third human case of H5 bird flu tied to the ongoing U.S. outbreak in…
What the rescheduling of marijuana might — and might not — mean for scientific research
WASHINGTON — After years of inertia, the field of research into the health effects of…
New obesity drugs are seemingly everywhere. Black Americans feel left out
STAT teamed up with Word In Black, a network of 10 Black news publishers, to…
Black voices, Black bodies: Life in the age of Ozempic
STAT teamed up with Word In Black, a network of 10 Black news publishers, to…
At Las Vegas conference, methadone clinics blast idea of doctors prescribing directly
LAS VEGAS — Mark Parrino, the longtime leader of the U.S. methadone clinic industry, kicked…
STAT+: ASCO preview: a promising solid tumor CAR-T, an AI patient navigator, and improving palliative care
Thousands of cancer researchers and clinicians are flocking to Chicago for the American Society of…
New evidence supports fear that drinking raw milk containing bird flu viruses may be dangerous
A new study published Friday provides more evidence of the potential danger of drinking unpasteurized,…
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Reversing progress, stroke rates are rising, especially in working-age adults
Stroke prevalence has been climbing over the past decade, reversing a steady decline among all…
Fresh scrutiny of post-Covid spending reignites yearslong tension over emergency stockpiles
WASHINGTON — For four years, Democrats and Republicans have routinely clashed over funding to curb…
Wastewater testing specifically for bird flu virus will scale up nationally in coming weeks
Less than a month ago, researchers reported for the first time the ability to scan…
When should we start making H5N1 vaccine, and who will make that decision? In short, it’s complicated
If the H5N1 bird flu virus ever acquires the ability to transmit easily to and…
CDC asks states and cities to keep flu surveillance at peak levels because of bird flu threat
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asked local and state health officials Tuesday to…
Move over, wastewater. Store-bought milk could be another way to track the bird flu outbreak in cows
Scientists from the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center have managed to…
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: H5N1 doesn’t have to be a repeat of Covid-19’s ‘public health versus the economy’
The Biden administration announced new programs on May 10 to incentivize dairy farmers and workers…
STAT+: To bolster global health, Wellcome Trust’s new CEO thinks Big Tech should get involved
LONDON — The key groups involved in addressing global health problems often include governments, foundations,…
Amid backlash to harm reduction, addiction experts warn against reprising ‘war on drugs’
SAN FRANCISCO — Amid what feels like an ever-worsening drug crisis here, locals and politicians…
Drug overdose deaths fell for first time in five years, though still exceeded 100,000
U.S. drug deaths decreased slightly in 2023, according to new data, the first decrease in…
My rendezvous with the raw milk black market: quick, easy, and unchecked by the FDA
WASHINGTON — It’s Friday May 10, and I’m on my way to what feels like…
What we know about extreme heat’s health impacts after the hottest summer on record
Last summer’s heat waves demonstrated all the ways that extreme heat takes a toll on…
USDA, FDA turf battles hamper responses to outbreaks like H5N1 bird flu
WASHINGTON — On a bright June day in 2018, one of the nation’s top regulators…
Melinda French Gates resigns as Gates Foundation co-chair
Melinda French Gates will step down as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the…
After decades fighting Big Tobacco, Cliff Douglas now leads a foundation funded by his former adversaries
“Does it trouble you to answer that question?” one of New York’s highest paid attorneys…
CDC launching wastewater dashboard to track bird flu virus spread
Reluctance among dairy farmers to report H5N1 bird flu outbreaks within their herds or allow…
Federal officials will fund farms’ protective measures to contain H5N1 bird flu
WASHINGTON — The federal government will provide livestock farms as much as $28,000 apiece to…
Farmers resist push for workers to wear protective gear against bird flu virus
WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended this week that dairy and…