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Decades after the Vietnam War, hematologist-oncologist Mikkael Sekeres began seeing veterans in his clinic with myelodysplastic syndromes, a group of blood cancers known as MDS. Many of the vets had been exposed

The leading medical school accreditation body in the U.S. has removed language from its standards that had required schools it validates to teach about health inequities.  The action comes as initiatives to

WASHINGTON — A motivational coach, a venture capitalist who worked with health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s son, and a number of health care executives whose firms span value-based care, mental health,

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Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. So you know how Theresa said yesterday that the White House had to nominate

There is no end in sight for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s leadership limbo, with the Trump administration confirming on Wednesday it would not be nominating a new director by

A new California bill continues the state’s efforts to crack down on ultra-processed foods, proposing a front-of-package seal that manufacturers could place on their products to show that they are not ultra-processed.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff gathered Wednesday for what many hoped would be an announcement of the Trump administration’s choice for a new leader of the beleaguered agency.  But instead,

Hearts need oxygen. Heart attacks are the most dramatic example of this hunger, when blocked coronary arteries starve muscles of the oxygen they need to keep beating. Less sudden is heart failure,

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. Today’s the deadline for the White House to nominate a CDC director,