Public Health

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

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2018 flu patient

Health

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

By Helen Branswell

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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

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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

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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

Children Ebola Beni

Politics

CDC director says he pushed to keep U.S. experts in Ebola zone but was overruled

By Ike Swetlitz

WHO nurses Congo vaccine

Health

With vaccine in hand, Ebola response teams are struggling to track those who need it

By Helen Branswell

Vermont Battles With Deadly Heroin Epidemic

Health

Overdose deaths have fallen for six months. Is it temporary or a sign of a corner turned?

By Andrew Joseph

Health

CDC expresses concern over mysterious surge in polio-like paralysis cases

By Helen Branswell

NEJM Dengue Vaccine

Pharmalot

Controversy over a Sanofi dengue vaccine caused a crisis of confidence in the Philippines

By Ed Silverman

Ebola Congo vaccine

Exclusive

Ebola experts from CDC were pulled from outbreak zone amid security concern

By Helen Branswell

Defense Anthrax

First Opinion

The U.S. biodefense strategy is undermined by policies on health insurance and immigration

By David Beier and Devabhaktuni Srikrishna