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Health Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: A child’s insatiable appetite is linked to a single genetic mutation

Health Isabella Cueto

Revenge of the gaslit patients: Now, as scientists, they’re tackling Ehlers-Danlos syndromes

Health Isabella Cueto

Getting ahead of ‘tsunami’ of chronic disease will require data and creativity, experts say

Biotech Damian Garde

STAT Plus: Prometheus’ inflammatory bowel drug succeeds in two mid-stage trials

First Opinion Sanjula Jain

Deferral of primary care signals a troubled future for Americans’ health

Health Brittany Trang

One-third of U.S. labs have stopped using race-based equations to diagnose kidney disease

Health Isabella Cueto

STAT Plus: Following your gut: How scientists are getting closer to linking the microbiome and chronic diseases

Health Isabella Cueto

Borrowing CAR-T tool from cancer therapy, lupus patients go into remission

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Health JoNel Aleccia — Associated Press

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

Health Isabella Cueto

As respiratory diseases rise, EPA tightens air quality standards

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First Opinion Robert Gabbay

To effectively combat diabetes, policymakers must treat obesity like other diseases

Health Katherine Harmon Courage

Racism leads to troubled sleep — and it’s putting Black Americans’ heart health at risk

Living With Isabella Cueto

Lessons from a thriving physical therapist to a younger self just learning about multiple sclerosis

First Opinion Aaron J. Kowalski

The global diabetes crisis few are talking about

Health Usha Lee McFarling

A doctor’s humbling journey treating long Covid: ‘The second we think we know what we are doing, we fall flat on our face’

Health Isabella Cueto

Medicare is using one of its biggest hammers to try to fix the dialysis system: how providers are paid

First Opinion Dariush Mozaffarian and David B. Waters

‘Food is medicine’ interventions should be the main course at White House nutrition conference

Health Isabella Cueto

There’s nothing simple about chronic conditions. A complexity researcher has some ideas to improve care

Health Isabella Cueto

‘A golden age’: Long neglected in medicine, rare kidney diseases see a surge in research

Health Tech Katie Palmer

STAT Plus: Patients seeking novel weight loss drugs find a ‘wild west’ of online prescribers

In the Lab Isabella Cueto

Acne bacteria, study suggests, thrive when skin oil turns infection-fighting cells into accomplices

Health Isabella Cueto

It’s not just heat stroke. Extreme temperatures pose special risk to people with chronic illness (and that’s a lot of us)

The Readout LOUD Damian Garde and Adam Feuerstein

Listen: CRISPR for the heart, biotech’s recovery, & what it means to be a ‘hot girl’

Health Isabella Cueto

From social media to pink billboards, it’s suddenly ‘hot’ to discuss gut diseases

First Opinion Adam Hayden

People with serious illness can teach us a lot about living with Covid-19

First Opinion Liz Helms

Policymakers are taking the wrong approach to health care reform

First Opinion Robyn Norton and Katie Dain

Noncommunicable diseases among women: a ‘slow motion disaster’

First Opinion Hugh Waters and Marlon Graf

Chronic diseases are taxing our health care system and our economy