A STAT Investigation: To avoid fines for reporting excessive hospital-acquired infections, some facilities are discouraging testing. www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/h...

In a Q&A with STAT, Nobel winner Drew Weissman addressed concerns raised about Covid shots at a recent meeting of federal vaccine advisers. www.statnews.com/2025/09/20/d...

Winner of mRNA Nobel Prize says ACIP member’s claim that Covid vaccines persist is “absolutely impossible” In Q&A, Drew Weissman says vast literature shows Covid shots are safe, refutes claims from Retsef Levi www.statnews.com/2025/09/20/d...

Kennedy says he wants to restore trust in vaccines. His hand-picked ACIP panel raised many doubts, and outside experts were left baffled and frustrated. www.statnews.com/2025/09/19/w...

#Breaking: Federal vaccine panel remade by RFK Jr. votes to maintains insurance coverage for Covid shots www.statnews.com/2025/09/19/a...

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“Over and over again, Covid-19 has shown it can cause severe disease in children, disease that is preventable by a safe and effective vaccine,” writes former CDC Director Rochelle Walensky. www.statnews.com/2025/09/19/c...

A CDC advisory committee has voted to restrict access to the MMRV shot by some low-income children, though separate MMR and varicella shots will still be available. www.statnews.com/2025/09/19/m...

A key government advisory committee voted Friday to postpone a vote on whether to delay infants’ first hepatitis B vaccine www.statnews.com/2025/09/19/c...

Key federal vaccine panel debates delay to newborn hepatitis B shot, risking resurgence www.statnews.com/2025/09/18/c...

The Senate health committee has invited health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to testify before the panel amid allegations of the politicization of the CDC. www.statnews.com/2025/09/18/c...

Experts fear that delaying the hepatitis B shot will lead to more people with chronic liver infections and complications. www.statnews.com/2025/09/18/c...

Federal workers send Congress a letter pleading for help, but their trouble attracting signatures reflects fear of retaliation. www.statnews.com/2025/09/18/f...

Democrats in Congress are proposing legislation that would bar health insurers from buying medical practices through their subsidiaries and require them to separate their insurance and provider businesses. www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/u...

#Breaking: Federal vaccine adviser says former CDC officials can’t be trusted unless they agree to ‘public debate’ www.statnews.com/2025/09/18/c...

Exclusive: HHS abruptly cancels CDC meeting with RFK Jr., anti-vaccine activist as scrutiny mounts www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/r...

Changes coming to childhood vaccine schedule, new details on the CDC director's firing, and rising political influence as Kennedy implements his agenda www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/m...

The Black in Neuro conference was both a victory lap marking the organization’s growth and a sober assessment of the political landscape. www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/b...

The CDC revoked permission for employees with disabilities to work from home. www.statnews.com/2025/09/16/c...

Sara Carter, formerly of Fox News, argues her firsthand reporting experience qualifies her for a leading role combating drug trafficking and the overdose crisis. www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/s...

President Trump, who has said European countries need to pay more for medicines, is in the U.K. this week, as a spat over drug prices boils over. www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/u...

New research could aid efforts to identify biomarkers of CTE before symptoms emerge, so that protective measures can be adopted www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/c...

Sen. Bill Cassidy is probing why RFK Jr. pushed out Susan Monarez, the first CDC director to be confirmed by the Senate. www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/c...

Breaking: Ousted CDC director says Kennedy plans to change pediatric vaccine schedule www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/c...

Amid concern about Americans’ access to vaccines, a major health insurance association said member plans will continue to cover all shots recommended by the ACIP. www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/a...

Republicans' plan to keep the government open doesn't include major health insurance tax credits. www.statnews.com/2025/09/16/c...

New financial disclosures from Surgeon General nominee Casey Means show that she’s made hundreds of thousands of dollars promoting supplements and other health and wellness products. www.statnews.com/2025/09/16/c...

Exclusive: Former officials at the CDC plan to tell the powerful Senate health committee that political forces have overtaken scientific evidence at the agency, threatening Americans’ health, according to written remarks obtained by STAT. www.statnews.com/2025/09/16/c...

Downgrading marijuana to Schedule III would have surprisingly little impact on health or research, experts say. www.statnews.com/2025/09/16/w...

Federal health officials announced the appointment of five new members to the ACIP, a key CDC advisory panel on vaccine issues. www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/k...

Experts joined Congressional staff behind closed doors to discuss Trump's most-favored nation drug pricing plan. www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/t...

"The Pitt" ignores the financial consequences of emergency care. The average ED visit costs $750, and costs can quickly soar. www.statnews.com/2025/09/12/t...

After raising the specter of pesticide harms in its first report, the new MAHA Commission report on children’s health does not mention specific pesticides such as glyphosate. www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/m...

In the war rooms hospitals have stood up to respond to historic Medicaid cuts, leaders are planning substantial financial moves and innovative solutions as they brace for revenue dips. www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/h...

Trump's first-term surgeon general cites misinformation, failed leadership, and lying to Congress as the reasons 'RFK has got to go' in Q&A with STAT. www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/j...

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Amid deadly shootings, CDC has fired experts and closed prevention offices. Expert calls it a 'cruel irony' – gun violence grows as prevention efforts fade www.statnews.com/2025/09/12/g...

"If RFK Jr. doesn’t resign, physicians should join a limited strike" www.statnews.com/2025/09/12/r...

A much-investigated question about autism, dismissed in many studies, is getting a surge of new federal research money. www.statnews.com/2025/09/12/v...

A frenzy of grantmaking in August has the NIH seemingly on pace to spend its entire $47 billion budget by the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30 www.statnews.com/2025/09/12/n...

The FDA will convene experts to discuss challenges around regulating mental health products that use artificial intelligence. www.statnews.com/2025/09/11/f...

A self-guided robotic device has the potential to open airways of critically injured patients faster and more reliably www.statnews.com/2025/09/10/r...

While there has been progress against chronic disease, the U.S. has been backsliding against big killers like heart disease. www.statnews.com/2025/09/10/c...

Critics of newborn hepatitis B shots overlook why the CDC adopted the policy, and how cases dropped 99% after universal vaccination began www.statnews.com/2025/09/11/n...

AI is helping my doctors treat my cancer www.statnews.com/2025/09/10/a...

Misconceptions about nicotine and cancer keep smokers away from less-risky products, and nicotine-infused products are popping up in unexpected areas. www.statnews.com/2025/09/10/n...

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Covid-19 fell out of the top 10 causes of death in the United States in 2024, according to new data released Wednesday. www.statnews.com/2025/09/10/l...

STAT introduces a goal and promises tracker for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again movement — successes, incompletes, fails. www.statnews.com/2025/09/10/r...

“Together, this strategy will translate the work of the Make America Healthy Again movement to policies that make a transformative and lasting impact for Americans and end the childhood chronic disease crisis." www.statnews.com/2025/09/09/r...