A MAHA Summit, minus the radical transparency
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What Kennedy’s saturated fat guidelines would mean for American health
Christopher Gardner is exuberant in his distress. Wearing a black sweatshirt emblazoned with the word “SCIENCE” in all caps one recent afternoon, the Stanford nutrition scientist threw his arms over his head
STAT+: How two top FDA officials are quietly upending vaccine regulations
WASHINGTON — Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he does not want to take vaccines away from Americans. But at a closed-door meeting of Food and Drug Administration vaccine scientists
Opinion: Kids have a right to vaccinations. Let’s bring in the lawyers
We are doctors who trained continents apart: one of us in Sweden (Peterson) and one in India (Pai). As we worked during the 1980s and ’90s in those disparate countries, neither of
Covid-era rules for addiction medication, Ritalin are extended again
The Trump administration appears poised to extend a temporary, Covid-era rule allowing health providers to prescribe certain controlled substances, like ADHD medications and treatments for opioid addiction, via telemedicine. Under the current
STAT+: At ‘hush-hush’ MAHA summit, RFK Jr. and deputies to mix with biotech leaders
WASHINGTON — Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and many top deputies are scheduled to speak alongside industry executives and health activists at a daylong MAHA event on Wednesday that has not
In an unconventional process, FDA reverses a decades-old warning for hormone therapy
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STAT+: A lot could be different by the next Liver Meeting
This is the final online version of this year’s AASLD in 30 Seconds, an e-mail newsletter from the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases’s Liver Meeting. As we wrap up
FDA reverses decades-old warning on hormone therapy products for menopause
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is reversing a 2003 decision that put a stringent warning on hormone therapy products for menopausal women, saying that the treatments offer heart, brain, and
Canada loses measles elimination status — as does the entire Americas region
Canada has formally lost its measles elimination status, the country’s public health agency announced Monday, meaning all of the Americas have lost that status as well. The decision, which was widely expected,