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Some of CDC’s health statistics employees are still in the dark

The National Center for Health Statistics divisions lost about 100 people to RIFs. Here's what estimate about 100 jobs were ...
STAT

NEJM and public health group are launching rival to CDC’s MMWR publication

Two institutions are coming together to create an alternative to the CDC’s vaunted Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ...
The New York Times

How Private Equity Oversees the Ethics of Drug Research

Many drug trials are vetted by companies with ties to the drugmakers, raising concerns about conflicts of interest and patient safety. Credit...Blake Cale Supported by By Walt Bogdanich Carson Kessler ...
Scientific American

CDC Cuts Threaten Public Health Nationwide, Fired Employees Say

A quarter of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff is gone after the Trump administration’s latest reductions ...
STAT

They advised federal health agencies on the ethics and impact of scientific research. They’re no longer wanted

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...
STAT

Science social media star Dr. Noc on the value of edutainment

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. He joined me on the debut episode of the new season of the “First Opinion Podcast” to discuss how he got started, why more experts should engage on ...
STAT

Peter Marks’ ouster is an ominous sign for biotech — and for public health

Welcome to Lab Dish, a new First Opinion column on regenerative medicine from Paul Knoepfler. There are certain leaders who quietly make complex organizations operate well including in the toughest of ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Pulling Back Funding for Research Could Leave HIV Treatment in Worse State: Patrick Sullivan, DVM, PhD

Funding cuts for research intended to make treatment and cures available and accessible for patients with HIV could affect HIV care in the long term. Patrick Sullivan, DVM, PhD, an infectious disease ...
The Washington Post

Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

The writers are all former U.S. surgeons general. As former U.S. surgeons general appointed by every Republican and Democratic president since George H.W. Bush, we have collectively spent decades in ...
STAT

Home hospital programs in ‘terror’ as they grind to halt ahead of government shutdown

Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the ...
STAT

Leucovorin has a place in autism treatment, researcher says, but he tamps down parents’ expectations

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...
STAT

Yes, Amish people do have autism, but we still don’t know how many do

Mitchell is a professor of medicine and vice chair for research in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. During the recent White ...