Caregivers brace for pay cuts, and maybe homelessness
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STAT+: HHS presses ahead with effort to curb antidepressant use
WASHINGTON — Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pressing forward with his effort to help Americans stop taking psychiatric drugs, a medical practice known as deprescribing. Earlier this month, dozens of
STAT+: Tau in the spotlight at Alzheimer’s conference
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Nominee for key federal health role has a history of questioning vaccines
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s pick to oversee preparedness and response to public health emergencies and disasters has questioned the use of the hepatitis B vaccine in infants and raised the disproven
FDA quietly pushes back deadline on electric shock ban
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New York boys club has a time-tested recipe to protect members’ mental health
NEW YORK — A couple of years ago, a reporter approached the Boys’ Club of New York looking to interview some of its middle-schoolers for a story about the mental health crisis in
STAT+: How a Boston doctor built a following as a ‘loud and unafraid’ voice in the Trump era
Jeremy Faust cuts through a hallway of Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital on his way to see a patient who is struggling to breathe. It’s the start of his evening shift, and the emergency
Outbreak of diarrhea-causing parasite grows to more than 1,000 cases
NEW YORK — Nearly 1,000 people in Michigan have been diagnosed with a parasitic infection that can cause weeks of watery diarrhea, making it the largest such outbreak in state history and
STAT+: FDA finalists under review
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Who’s going to run the FDA?
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