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WASHINGTON — Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appointed two new members to the main federal vaccine advisory board, his latest change to a group that has made a series of controversial

SAN FRANCISCO — At an exclusive yacht club packed with hundreds of top hospital and health insurance leaders, Mehmet Oz and other Trump administration health officials took the stage Monday to explain

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. As a symbolic show of resistance to the Trump administration, former NIH leader Jeremy

More people are surviving cancer than ever before, as the five-year survival rate across cancer has reached 70%, according to the American Cancer Society’s new cancer statistics report. To experts, the figure

SAN FRANCISCO — At this swanky investor event in the heart of San Francisco’s financial district, the country’s biggest nonprofit health systems usually talk up their money-making prowess and market share.  But

NEW YORK — A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore nearly $12 million in funding to the American Academy of Pediatrics, including money for rural health care and the early

Where do we stand on cardiovascular health in America? In the first of what the Journal of the American College of Cardiology promises will be annual editions, a new analysis drawn from

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. Is this my East Coast ignorance showing, or is it really possible

The federal government approved $60 billion worth of extra Medicaid funds for hospitals, doctors, nursing homes, and other medical providers in the closing months of 2025 — money that will gradually get

Rather than provide clarity on how to reduce racial bias in pulse oximeter readings, a long-awaited study commissioned by the Food and Drug Administration has muddied the path forward. The results were