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First Opinion Arghavan Salles

The apparent poisoning of schoolgirls is just one part of Iran’s health crisis

First Opinion Mehdi Shishehbor

There’s a surprisingly easy way to avoid a huge number of major amputations

First Opinion Dorit R. Reiss and Arthur L. Caplan

A judge’s infuriating ruling on vaccination puts Mississippi’s children at risk

Opinions+ Ben Green

STAT Plus: At-home clinical trials are the future

First Opinion Sarah E. Wakeman

Why involuntary treatment for addiction is a dangerous idea

First Opinion Seth Berkley

How small vaccine stockpiles can stop outbreaks of infectious disease from becoming big

First Opinion Leah Russin

How journalists can cover RFK Jr.’s antivax presidential run responsibly

First Opinion David N. Bernstein

I’m a medical resident. I want to pause the drive to unionize hospital trainees

First Opinion Minali Nigam

I’m a medical resident. Here’s why I think my hospital should unionize

First Opinion Ellen J. MacKenzie and Joanne Rosen

Judicial overreach is an immediate hazard to already precarious public health

First Opinion S. Scott Graham

STAT Plus: Generative AI’s three possibly insurmountable challenges for health care

First Opinion Sallie Permar and Karen Acker

RSV vaccine approval should be a top priority for the FDA

First Opinion Matthew Wellington and Lance Price

The window is closing to stop deadly drug-resistant fungi like Candida auris

First Opinion John Torous

What the recent failures of Mindstrong and Pear tell us about the future of digital mental health

First Opinion Rachel Fleishman

Rural hospitals are closing labor and delivery services. Babies’ lives are in jeopardy

First Opinion Jonathan JK Stoltman and Mishka Terplan

OTC naloxone is a baby step toward making the life-saving medication accessible

Opinions+ Peter G. Lurie and Beth Ellikidis

STAT Plus: Where are the guidelines for the production of animals with intentional genomic alterations?

First Opinion Guadalupe Hayes-Mota

I’m a biopharma supply chain specialist — and even I can’t find the Adderall I’m prescribed

First Opinion Ryan D. Mire

‘Internist’ is a confusing, outdated term. It’s time for a new name

First Opinion Michael J. Fox

Michael J. Fox: As a Parkinson’s patient, I felt a little left behind by biology’s century — until now

First Opinion Thomas R. Insel

We need a way to tell useful mental health tech from digital snake oil

First Opinion Cartier Esham and John Murphy

The mifepristone debacle is just the latest blow in an ongoing assault on the FDA’s authority

First Opinion Ashley Ward

Current heat warning systems are woefully inadequate in an age of climate change

First Opinion Deborah Ondrasik

Why genetic testing should always be offered to children with neurodevelopmental differences

First Opinion Alex R. Rosenblat

I declined to share my medical data with advertisers at my doctor’s office. One company claimed otherwise

First Opinion Michael Specter

In a world of synthetic biology, publishing virus DNA sequences may mean perishing

First Opinion Chris Dodd

How the U.S. health care system is like a Jackson Pollock painting

First Opinion Tracey Lindeman

Millions of people take birth control to treat endometriosis — but it doesn’t work

First Opinion Sally Mahmoud-Werthmann

Emergency rooms need clear guidelines about how to handle law enforcement