First Opinion

First Opinion Podcast By Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Revisiting Uché Blackstock on leaving academic medicine

First Opinion By William F. Haning, III

Overdose prevention sites can save lives and promote recovery. We must be willing to try them

First Opinion By C.K. Wang

Paying participants isn’t the way to improve clinical trial recruitment

First Opinion By Lauren Beechly

Building resilience and well-being: keys to avoiding the worst of a looming shortage of health care workers

First Opinion By Gerald E. Harmon

I fear Covid-19 is pushing young physicians out of medicine

First Opinion By Asha Collins, Lisa Suennen and Armen R. Kherlopian

Space-bound billionaires can help make the world a healthier place through research

First Opinion By John LaMattina

Even me-too drugs matter when it comes to new medicines

First Opinion By Daniel R. George and Peter Whitehouse

The brain health paradox: Dementia rates have fallen even as drugs have failed

First Opinion By Brook K. Baker

Biden’s global summit Covid-19 targets are woefully inadequate and must be corrected

First Opinion By Richard Maziarz and Sophie Snyder

Proposals to cap Medicare Part B payments will limit outpatient access to CAR-T

First Opinion By Arthur L. Caplan

Do we need vaccine exemption boards?

First Opinion By Alyssa Bilinski and Joshua A. Salomon

Data from routine Covid testing can help schools stay open this year

First Opinion By Aomeng Cui and Amir Hassan

Virtual medical school: Burnout and a path forward

First Opinion By Joseph P. Allen

President Biden: Don’t misuse Bayh-Dole march-in rights

First Opinion By Haider J. Warraich

Start now to prevent the next Purdue Pharma debacle

Opinions+ By Tom Denwood and Scott Kollins

Rewriting the playbook for digital therapeutics

First Opinion By Peter Kolchinsky and Daphne Zohar

Congress is about to legislate a future without new medicines. We have a better plan

First Opinion Podcast By Patrick Skerrett

Listen: An organizer and a physician on how climate change will worsen maternal health inequities

First Opinion By Emily Milligan and Katherine R. McCurdy

Aduhelm backlash threatens to reverse progress in FDA’s reviews of rare and ultra-rare disease drugs

First Opinion By B. Lee Green

Medicine must ‘widen the doors’ to people of color

Opinions+ By Andrea Bastek

Combating the burnout bottleneck among clinical research workers

First Opinion By Ken Yeager

Covid-19 trauma complicates the 9/11 ‘anniversary effect’

First Opinion By Alfred Engelberg

Outdated rule increases Medicare’s costs for generic drugs by $26 billion a year

Opinions+ By Dawn Anderson

Digital clinical trials can personalize patient engagement, accelerate therapy development

First Opinion Podcast By Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A scientist-parent on heading back to school with Delta

First Opinion By Sean Dickson

To lower drug costs, define ‘cost’ to mean net cost after rebates

First Opinion By Annette L. Stanton and Tammie Denyse

‘Reentry’ after cancer treatment offers lessons for emerging from the pandemic

Opinions+ By Monique K. Mansoura

A 10-point plan for sustaining the biopharma industrial base for a more secure nation

First Opinion By Elsa Pearson

Hospital mergers and acquisitions are a bad deal for patients. Why aren’t they being stopped?