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With a backlash against vaccines following the Covid-19 pandemic — and the rise of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — there has been an intense focus among some in the United

A pair of federal watchdog reports released Thursday urge Medicare to do more to crack down on nursing homes’ use of antipsychotic drugs and inappropriate schizophrenia diagnoses for residents with dementia.  One

NEW YORK — The Covid-19 pandemic’s early death toll was much higher than the official U.S. count, according to a new study that spotlights dramatic disparities in the uncounted deaths. About 840,000

Women whose menstrual periods end before they reach age 40 face a sharply higher risk of coronary heart disease over their lifetimes, a new study reports, a danger more pressing for Black

The Trump administration has zeroed in on its next target: ending health care fraud. President Trump announced Monday the creation of a task force devoted to ending fraud, waste, and abuse in

Good morning. As I just said to STAT’s Executive Editor Rick Berke, I’ll try any pizza once. But for now, over coffee, let’s read some news.  ‘Scientists that are listening: don’t pay

When they met, it was at a party in Las Vegas, music bumping. Alla Kosova, newly divorced, told her friend to pick out her next husband, and she ushered over a stranger

As U.S. drug use behavior has shifted away from injecting and toward smoking, public health experts have been almost uniform in their reaction. The development, they’ve said, is almost entirely positive: Smoking

The cigarette smoking rate among U.S. adults fell below 10% for the first time in recorded history in 2024. That’s a big deal in itself. Also remarkable is how everyone is finding

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. Some plans to consider for Thursday: Attending STAT’s Breakthrough Summit East. I’m