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WASHINGTON — A single HPV vaccination appears just as effective as two doses at preventing the viral infection that causes cervical cancer, researchers reported Wednesday. HPV, or human papillomavirus, is very common

This story has been updated with discussion at the ACIP meeting and to note that the panel’s planned votes were postponed until Friday. A panel that advises the federal government on vaccination

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. Okay. There is a lot going on. First off: Tracy Beth Høeg will

I travel a lot. Last year, I took dozens of trips for work, visiting family and friends, and vacation. One of my favorite things to do at airport gates, on trains, or

Every year, vaccine manufacturers rely on guidance from the World Health Organization to know what influenza strain to target with their flu shots. But sometimes the strains that end up circulating in

Breanna Cutright was getting her nails painted purple for junior prom when the email arrived on her phone with bad news. Raze, an anti-tobacco program focused on young people across West Virginia,

Six primary care providers at a single Mass General Brigham practice are moving to rival Beth Israel Lahey Health in January, raising to at least 18 the total number of such defections from the

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. As we inch closer to the end of the year, it becomes harder

Demetre Daskalakis likens his former colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to “hostages.”  “They’re sitting there doing their work — they’re creating presentations, they’re analyzing data, they’re doing the

WASHINGTON — A new health care advocacy group, which will represent the shrinking number of independent doctors in America, is launching Wednesday with an ambitious policy agenda. IndeMed, which expects to represent