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Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. With so much snow this winter, I gave up on biking to

Salutations from San Diego. This is Jonathan Wosen, West Coast biotech & life sciences reporter. We’ve got an outstanding lineup for you today, featuring a look at the tricky choice facing federal

Her son had been sick for four months when Blanca Morales started asking about a transplant. It had started with a case of strep throat from Mundo’s first-grade class — routine enough,

President Trump’s Medicare director said Thursday his team is considering a policy that would automatically enroll Medicare beneficiaries into Medicare Advantage plans, a controversial idea that was touted in the conservative Project

Good morning and happy Friday. I’m off today, but I’ll talk to you next week.  Highlights from yesterday’s summit For me, the top moment from yesterday’s event may have been the seconds-long

The 2026 farm bill now working its way through Congress contains a number of provisions at odds with the Make America Healthy Again movement, particularly when it comes to pesticides and factory

A U.S. district judge in Oregon said he will vacate a declaration made late last year by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that asserted gender-affirming care for young trans people does

Chris Klomp, a top official at the federal health department, offered a reality check on President Trump’s drug discount platform, TrumpRx, while speaking at a STAT event on Thursday.  Even as Trump

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