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Freedom Preparatory Academy

First Opinion By Vladimir Kogan and Vinay Prasad

New CDC school opening guidelines fail to ‘follow the science’

Joe Biden -- Covid-19 response

Politics By Nicholas Florko and Lev Facher

Biden to nominate Brooks-LaSure to oversee CMS

Laura Woerner

Health By Elizabeth Cooney

People with type 1 diabetes have a higher risk of dying from Covid-19. Why are they lower on CDC’s vaccine priority list?

FDA through the window pregnant

Pharma By Ed Silverman

After a controversial Alzheimer’s drug review, FDA’s Woodcock rejects proposal to ‘firewall’ agency review staff

New Opioid Approved - Dsuvia

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

FDA warns AcelRx of misleading ads for its pain drug Dsuvia

NIH study sections

First Opinion By Anna Volerman, Vineet Arora, and Valerie Press

The NIH needs to ensure that women are equally represented in grant funding decisions

Immigration Detention - Tacoma, Wash.

First Opinion By Nishant Uppal, Parsa Erfani, and Raquel Sofia Sandoval

ICE must provide Covid-19 vaccines to all detained migrants

The Readout LOUD By Damian Garde, Meg Tirrell, and Adam Feuerstein

Listen: Gene therapy’s safety scare, biotech’s brashest VCs, & the FDA’s uncertain future

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biohazard bin discarded drugs

First Opinion By Kavita Patel, Julie M. Donohue, and Edward H. Shortliffe

Discarded drugs: a wasteful and costly problem that requires whole-of-government approaches

Life expectancy concept

First Opinion By Peter B. Bach

CDC estimated a one-year decline in life expectancy in 2020. Not so — try five days

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2/23 Xavier Becerra

Politics By Lev Facher

Republicans’ surprising Becerra attack: He’s not sympathetic enough to pharma

patient records illo

Health Tech By Alicia Diaz

Federal watchdog raises concerns about increasing telehealth fraud during pandemic

NHS blood test GRAIL

First Opinion By David Carr and H. Gilbert Welch

Editor’s note: This opinion piece is now outdated

Breast Cancer Genes

Health By Elizabeth Cooney

‘A natural experiment’: Pandemic-driven drop in cancer screening may aid research on overdiagnosis

nurse holding money

Politics By Rachel Cohrs

The Biden administration is making nursing schools pay for a government mistake amid Covid-19

Biotech By Megan Thielking

STAT+ Conversations: A conversation on the FDA’s regulation of AI

WOODCOCK Vs SHARFSTEIN

Politics By Nicholas Florko

Woodcock vs. Sharfstein: A head-to-head comparison of Biden’s top choices for FDA commissioner

FDA sign FDA commissioner

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Dueling endorsements emerge for FDA commissioner: Woodcock or Sharfstein?

Alzheimer's neuron network with amyloid plaques

First Opinion By George Vradenburg and Jeffrey Cummings

Collaboration between the FDA and industry is essential to foster innovation in Alzheimer’s treatments

Merck

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

FDA blasts Keytruda data for new breast cancer indication as ‘questionable, immature, and unreliable’

Health Tech By Casey Ross

Explore STAT’s database of FDA-cleared AI tools

Pile of papers blue background sunset rule

First Opinion By James Broughel

HHS’s ‘sunset rule’ will save money and lives

STAT PLUS - Janet Woodcock

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Advocacy groups urge Biden administration not to tap Woodcock as FDA commissioner

liquor store window

First Opinion By Nandita Murukutla and Rebecca Perl

Governments’ alcohol subsidies are harmful to public health

PBM pharmacy pill costs

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

This academic published a manual for using a little-known federal law for lowering drug prices

FDA through the window pregnant

First Opinion By Christi Guerrini, Alex Pearlman, and Patti Zettler

The Biden-Harris FDA should make friends with independent researchers

FDA sign FDA commissioner

First Opinion By Daniel Carpenter and Gregg Gonsalves

The stakes for choosing the right FDA commissioner couldn’t be higher

HIV-infected T-cell

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

FDA approves first monthly injectable to treat HIV infection

Ron Klain

Politics By Nicholas Florko

Biden is set to block dozens of Trump’s last-minute health regulations

Biden Inauguration

Politics By Lev Facher

Biden, in inaugural address, pledges the U.S. ‘can overcome’ Covid-19

Xavier Becerra

Exclusive By Nicholas Florko and Lev Facher

Longtime Becerra aide and two health policy experts to be tapped for key posts

calendar page flipping Covid-19 symptoms sunset rule

First Opinion By Jack Lienke

Azar’s ‘Sunset Rule’ will bring a dangerous new dawn for health regulation

Federal Trade Commission

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Will the FTC get tougher on pharma business practices under the Biden administration?