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Health Lev Facher

STAT Plus: Upending Purdue Pharma’s settlement does little to help today’s opioid crisis, advocates say

Exclusive Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Doctors Without Borders is closing its widely regarded access-to-medicines campaign

First Opinion Molly Bowdring, Aaron S.B. Weiner, and Judith Prochaska

Getting ahead of a non-alcoholic beverage boom among youths

First Opinion Rachel Hall-Clifford

Long Covid feels like a gun to my head

First Opinion Hal Rosenbluth

I’m a hypochondriac. Here’s how the health care system needs to deal with people like me

First Opinion Julie Yoo

Oversight of health AI must be democratic, not done by the big tech companies

First Opinion Julie Sweetland

Telling new stories can help people see the value of vaccines

Biotech Meghana Keshavan

STAT Plus: FDA gets pointed input on ‘optimizing’ advisory committee panels

First Opinion Esther Agbaje and Tonya Curry

To make public housing healthier, electric stoves and ovens should be the standard

First Opinion Kizzmekia S. Corbett-Helaire

Empathy should guide responses to reported vaccine injuries

First Opinion Joe and Courtney Dion

Curing rare childhood diseases will falter unless Congress steps up

First Opinion W. Franklyn Richardson

How faith leaders like me can help address America’s obesity epidemic

First Opinion Asa Hutchinson and Deval Patrick

A new initiative will help governors and local leaders fight the next pandemic

First Opinion Carolyn Clevenger

Outdated Medicare rules prevent some dementia patients from getting the medications they need

First Opinion Arthur Robin Williams and Judith Cole

Mothers in treatment for opioid use disorder shouldn’t also have to fight child protective services

D.C. Diagnosis Rachel Cohrs Zhang

STAT Plus: Dark money group runs ads on China biotech bill

First Opinion Hilary Hatch

Best time to deliver public health messages? When people are thinking about their health

First Opinion Antje M. Barreveld and Edin Randall

Treating chronic pain requires much more than medications

First Opinion Phyllis Arthur

A dose of reality on adult vaccinations

First Opinion Karen B. Lasater and K. Jane Muir

What nurses really want: sufficient staffing for patient care

First Opinion Ashley Ward and Jordan Clark

When heat threatens, use the wet bulb globe temperature to keep workers safe

Biotech Jason Mast

STAT Plus: Q&A with Jennifer Adair, researcher on a mission to increase global access to gene therapies

First Opinion Kimia Heydari and Romila Santra

Caring for young caregivers, a hidden population

First Opinion Sara Gorman, Scott C. Ratzan, and Kenneth H. Rabin

H5N1 communication has been strictly for the birds. Didn’t the federal government learn anything from Covid?

First Opinion Kay Redfield Jamison

People like me with bipolar disorder must help shape research and clinical care

First Opinion Jenn Kerfoot

Unseen battles: The harsh realities of veterans’ access to health care

Exclusive John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Takeda is fourth big company to leave BIO since December

First Opinion Sionika Thayagabalu and Dominick Lemas

Medicaid should cover donor breast milk for vulnerable infants

First Opinion Catherine M. Klapperich

Needed for reproductive justice and autonomy: women in design