Health

Health Andrew Joseph

STAT Plus: Loan repayment program seeks to bolster infectious disease field

Health Andrew Joseph

Routine vaccinations drop among U.S. kindergartners for the third year in a row

Health Helen Branswell

XB what? BQ huh? Do you need to keep up with Omicron’s ever-expanding offspring?

Health Elizabeth Cooney

For most mild infections, long Covid symptoms clear after a year, large study finds

Health Brittany Trang

What’s standing in the way of wastewater data becoming a more mainstream public health tool

Politics Rachel Cohrs

Will America’s public health reckoning ever come?

Health Lauren Gravitz

Scientists are finding increasing evidence for a link between air pollution and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s

Biotech Jason Mast

STAT Plus: Still hoping for looser FDA rules, Regeneron says it will test durable antibody for Covid

Health Amanda Seitz — Associated Press

Callers keep flooding 988 mental health, suicide line

Health Andrew Joseph

The pandemic showed the power of viral sequencing. Now the U.K. plans to decode other respiratory bugs

Health Helen Branswell

With attention to mpox fading, health officials fear infections will go undetected and unreported

Health Nicholas Florko

South Dakota plans major ramp-up of hepatitis C treatment in prison

Health JoNel Aleccia — Associated Press

Pediatricians recommend weight-loss drugs and surgery for children with obesity

Health Isabella Cueto

‘I want people to see us’: A writer gives voice to long Covid and mothering from bed

Health Eric Boodman

‘It’s taken longer than I thought’: A former FDA commissioner on the loosened restrictions on abortion pills

Health Nicholas Florko

Officials in Nebraska, South Dakota, Oklahoma begin to probe prisons’ hepatitis C treatment efforts

Biotech Adam Feuerstein

STAT Plus: FDA approves Alzheimer’s drug shown to moderately slow cognitive decline in early stages of the disease

Health Isabella Cueto

As respiratory diseases rise, EPA tightens air quality standards

Health Andrew Joseph

A year after a nurse’s loss to suicide, his friends are building out a peer support network

Biotech Jason Mast

STAT Plus: As FDA considers new Alzheimer’s drug, a case study details safety concerns

Health Helen Branswell

Senior WHO official faults China for undercounting Covid deaths

Health Adam Beam — Associated Press

California’s dark history of forced sterilizations comes into focus as it seeks victims to pay reparations

Health Helen Branswell

3 challenges to watch in global health in 2023

Health Isabella Cueto and Lacey Lyons

‘Why am I having to explain this?’: Seven stories of barriers to reproductive care for those with disabilities

Health Matthew Perrone — Associated Press

FDA finalizes rule expanding availability of abortion pills

Health Ken Moritsugu — Associated Press

Beijing rebukes new Covid testing requirements for travelers from China

Health Usha Lee McFarling

Paying research participants — a lot — may be a key to increasing diversity in studies

Health Andrew Joseph

Covid’s winter surge is poised to exceed summer peak

Health Elaine Chen

Diabetes in youth is set to skyrocket in coming decades