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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. As a reminder, STAT’s Isabella Cueto and J. Emory Parker are keeping

When I was 5, I traced the fabric of my mother’s gumbezi as sunlight fell across the floor of my grandparents’ home in Mbare, the oldest high-density neighborhood in Harare, Zimbabwe. My

When Steve Jones started driving trucks nearly two decades ago, he fell into a pattern. To help stay awake on the road, he’d drink a 2-liter bottle of Mountain Dew in a

WASHINGTON — As the Trump administration moves ahead on what could be its most wide-reaching vaccine changes yet, the makers of the shots are weighing their options — and privately warning that

WASHINGTON — On Independence Avenue, inside a gray brutalist building regarded by many as this city’s ugliest, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has constructed a monument to his family.  Down the royal-blue-carpeted, brightly

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Disability activist and writer Alice Wong died over the weekend. Read one of her

The scars have been there as long as Emory Hufbauer can remember.  When Hufbauer was a baby, doctors performed an operation that Hufbauer describes generally as one that took away their fertility

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. The Ig Nobel awards just happened, but I’d like to pitch this study —

In October, President Trump revealed that he recently underwent an MRI and said that the results were “perfect.” He was not specific about what type of MRI he received, though later in

There are a few unusual things about the infant botulism outbreak that prompted formula maker ByHeart to recall all of its products across the U.S. this week.  The first is that regulators