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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

Whole milk is ready for its comeback in America’s schools — but surprising language tucked into a new bill clears the path for nondairy milk options, too.  The Whole Milk for Healthy

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Tuesday adopted its vaccine advisory committee’s recommendation to end the decades-old policy that every newborn be offered a hepatitis B shot, despite an outcry from health

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Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Thanks to everyone who emailed to call out my error in yesterday’s issue: Gonorrhea

In his teens and early 20s, Tyler Adolfo showed an ability to communicate effectively. A local newspaper in Massachusetts published a front-page story about his success in a speech contest. He won