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Health Isabella Cueto

RFK Jr. is crowdsourcing reams of nominees for Trump’s health administration

Morning Rounds Brittany Trang

Escaped monkeys and who to know in the MAHA world

Health Elizabeth Cooney, Isabella Cueto, Usha Lee McFarling, Anil Oza, and Jonathan Wosen

Health and science experts on their hopes and worries for the Trump era

Who to Know Isabella Cueto

STAT Plus: ‘MAHA’ is moving into Trump’s White House. Here’s who RFK Jr. could bring along for the ride

Health Elizabeth Cooney

Limiting sugar in infancy is tied to less diabetes and hypertension in adulthood

First Opinion Tom Frieden

What Trump and RFK Jr.’s ‘Make America Healthy Again’ gets right — and very wrong

Health Isabella Cueto

STAT Plus: Wegovy reduces knee pain in osteoarthritis patients with obesity, study finds

Biotech Allison DeAngelis

STAT Plus: With $115 million, biotech startup Axonis Therapeutics pivots to burgeoning pain field

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Health Elizabeth Cooney

Q&A: Why drafting new rules on ultra-processed foods is so hard

First Opinion Logan Harper

Agricultural subsidies are killing Americans and fueling the climate crisis

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Health Elizabeth Cooney

Dietary guidelines panel stresses fruits and vegetables but stops shy of major changes

Health Elizabeth Cooney

Dietary experts advise skipping guidelines on ultra-processed foods — for now

Health Elizabeth Cooney

STAT Plus: Q&A: FDA chief on why our hearts are less healthy, how obesity drugs impress him, and what worries him

Special Report Elizabeth Cooney

11 experts on why gains in cardiovascular disease are stalling and what we can do about it

Special Report Elizabeth Cooney

Heart disease experts in their own words: ‘This is solvable and this is preventable’

Health Elizabeth Cooney

In children, Covid is tied to higher risk of type 2 diabetes

Biotech Allison DeAngelis

STAT Plus: Chasing CAR-T, biotech finds its next gold rush in autoimmune disease

Health Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: As Eli Lilly, compounders battle over weight loss drugs, patients are caught in the middle

Exclusive Isabella Cueto

With boost from RFK Jr. and Tucker Carlson, two chronic disease entrepreneurs vault into Trump’s orbit

Health Eric Boodman

Sickle cell community scrambles to find safe plan after a drug is pulled from the market

Pharma Matthew Herper, Eric Boodman, Andrew Joseph, Lizzy Lawrence, Adam Feuerstein, and Jason Mast

STAT Plus: What the withdrawal of its sickle cell drug means for Pfizer, patients, and the FDA

Biotech Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: AbbVie Parkinson’s drug helps improve symptoms in late-stage study

Health Lev Facher

Ozempic linked to lower opioid overdose rate in those with diabetes, study shows

Biotech Andrew Joseph

STAT Plus: Celldex drug reduces chronic hive activity, but patient discontinuations raise questions

Biotech Adam Feuerstein

STAT Plus: Risky bet by Biogen and UCB on systemic lupus drug appears to pay off, data show

Exclusive Kate Raphael

Pediatricians’ obesity guidelines rest on shaky evidence about eating disorder risks

Pharma Jonathan Wosen

STAT Plus: FDA approves Roche’s injectable version of blockbuster multiple sclerosis drug

Politics Isabella Cueto and Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: After decades of anti-vaccine rhetoric, RFK Jr. pivots to chronic diseases — and gets Trump on board

Morning Rounds Theresa Gaffney

Is the GLP-1 party running down for Hims, and a study for the weekend