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President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order directing the federal government to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III substance, marking a major milestone in American drug policy and choosing sides in

The Trump administration is making its most forceful attempt yet at restricting gender-affirming care for transgender youth in the U.S. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed on Thursday two rules

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. If you haven’t seen Alex Hogan’s STATus Report video on the CDC vaccine

Eight years before Steward Health Care’s explosive, highly publicized collapse, the private equity-backed hospital chain sold its properties to a real estate investment trust. A new study adds weight to the widely-held

When HCA Healthcare, one of the largest hospital systems in the U.S., recently told employees it would stop covering blockbuster obesity drugs Zepbound and Wegovy next year, it pointed them to an

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just rolled back decades-old guidance that newborns should be offered the hepatitis B vaccine at birth. The agency adopted the recommendation of its vaccine advisory

Republicans in Congress are making a renewed push before the end of the year to pass major federal restrictions to gender-affirming care for trans minors.  On Wednesday, by a vote of 216

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. Lots of news today, including more details from Sarah Todd on what

No matter how carefully we use the antibiotics we have, drug resistant infections will continue to gain ground, forcing us to develop entirely new classes of antibiotics to defeat them. With the

WASHINGTON — As one of his first acts as Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised a sweeping overhaul of his department — reducing its workforce by 20% and