Public Health

2018-19 flu vaccine
Health

Flu shots this winter providing moderate levels of protection, CDC data show

By Helen Branswell

Bird flu the coop
Health

What happened to bird flu? How a major threat to human health faded from view

By Helen Branswell

Congo Ebola - Bunia
Health

Top WHO official sees progress in grueling fight against Ebola outbreak

By Helen Branswell

Flu imprint in childhood
Health

Flu science points to another culprit when vaccines fail — us

By Helen Branswell

WHO nurses Congo vaccine
Health

A spot of good news in an Ebola crisis: Vaccine supplies are expected to last

By Helen Branswell

First Opinion

Drones delivering medical supplies and more can help save American lives

By Robert Graboyes and Darcy Nikol Bryan

Ebola DRC
First Opinion

Health workers and security forces must collaborate, not collide

By Nicholas Thomson, Louis Lillywhite, and Auke van Dijk

Climate Change
First Opinion

Climate change is affecting health now. Our leaders must take action

By Richard Carmona and David Satcher

Purdue Pharmaceuticals
Health

Purdue appeals order to unseal OxyContin records to Kentucky Supreme Court

By Andrew Joseph

2018 flu patient
Health

Up to 7 million have had flu this season, CDC says

By Helen Branswell

Child on U.S. Border Patrol bus
First Opinion

The real border crisis: medical neglect of migrants in detention centers

By Chanelle Diaz

Ebola vaccination team
Health

WHO’s Tedros: Experimental Ebola vaccine in the DRC has saved countless lives

By Helen Branswell

Atomic Light
In the Lab

What will 2019 bring for science and medicine? We asked the experts

By STAT staff

Ebola shake-down exercise - Dulles
Politics

In last-ditch move, lawmakers push to renew pandemic preparedness bill before end of year

By Ike Swetlitz

Enterovirus D-68
First Opinion

A dispatch from the front lines of a ‘mystery’ disease: acute flaccid myelitis

By Roberta L. DeBiasi, Elizabeth M. Wells, and Jessica Carpenter

Truvada/PReP
First Opinion

Why aren’t gay teens taking a daily PrEP pill to prevent HIV?

By Kathryn Macapagal

High school football championship
First Opinion

A week of football injuries, from youth to the pros, shows the damage the sport can inflict

By Kathleen Bachynski, Lisa Kearns, and Arthur Caplan

HIV prevention pill Truvada
Pharmalot

Panel recommends everyone at high risk of getting HIV be offered a prevention pill

By Ed Silverman

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus - in Congo
Health

WHO director-general: Violence in DRC is allowing Ebola to spread

By Helen Branswell

Congo Ebola Isolation
Health

Ebola response suffers another setback, as WHO evacuates some staff after attack

By Helen Branswell

Beni Ebola medical treatment
Health

A pivotal day in world’s response to Ebola nears: the launch of a clinical trial

By Helen Branswell

Smoking
First Opinion

People with serious mental illness tend to die prematurely. We can fix that

By Shekhar Saxena and Ralph Aquila

Gonorrhea
Health

Experimental treatment appears effective against gonorrhea in small study

By Helen Branswell

Electrocardiogram readout
Health

Low income explains poorer survival after a heart attack more than race, study finds

By Elizabeth Cooney

SARS chickens
In the Lab

With machine learning, researchers get new clues in the hunt for the source of mysterious viruses

By Andrew Joseph

Dengvaxia - Sanofi Pasteur
Health

FDA says it will consider approval of first dengue vaccine, despite controversy

By Helen Branswell

Live kidney donor
First Opinion

States are protecting living organ donors. Congress should follow suit

By LaVarne A. Burton

Congo Ebola - information leaflet
Health

At a dangerous point in the Ebola outbreak, residents increase cooperation with containment efforts

By Helen Branswell

Generic Influenza
Health

FDA approves a fast-acting flu drug that is taken in a single dose

By Helen Branswell

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