1+ hour, 55+ min ago  (128+ words) By Riley J. Steiner As a public health behavioral scientist who has spent my career researching adolescent access to sexual and reproductive health care, I felt a startling sense of whiplash upon hearing these panicked reactions. When I was at the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (481+ words) A First Opinion essay today argues that "tastiness is not why people overeat." But I may beg to differ " and so may a friend of mine who recently gave me a stuffed scolding after I convinced her to order pad…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (182+ words) STAT is a media company focused on finding and telling compelling stories about health, medicine, and scientific discovery. We produce daily news, investigative articles, and narrative projects in addition to multimedia features, podcasts, and opinion pieces. We tell our stories…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (200+ words) Good morning. Amid all'the tasks that demand to be addressed each day, are you having trouble finding your sense of wonder and awe re: the moon mission? I am too. Reading this and this yesterday helped me access it.' That…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (300+ words) Don't take Tylenol. Don't take it." The president and his health leaders also pledged to increase access to leucovorin, a little-known drug for cancer treatment with modest evidence of effectiveness in a subset of people with autism. Early data shows,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (434+ words) When you're vulnerable in a hospital bed " confused, frightened, surrounded by machines " it might seem obvious you're not in charge. A doctor speaks, a patient listens. But Alexis de Tocqueville, writing in the 1830s about a new country, not about its…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (963+ words) Every parent dreams of a healthy future for their child. For me, that dream vanished when, at 4 weeks old, my son Wheeler was diagnosed with CLN3 juvenile batten disease, a rare genetic disease that will steal his vision, memory, mobility, and…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (839+ words) Good morning. Sorry to keep talking about the weather, but I got outside in mid-thirties weather yesterday and I felt more alive than I have'in weeks. Is it time for the first fake spring yet?' In case you missed it,…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (709+ words) Good morning. I couldn't help but smile at the kicker in this Lizzy Lawrence story from yesterday. Now, today's news. In October, hours before HHS announced the first recipients of the Commissioner's National Priority Vouchers, Trump administration officials vetoed one…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1071+ words) WASHINGTON " The patient lying before David Hill was in labor, but it was the first time in her pregnancy she had seen a doctor. It was too late. A stillbirth was inevitable. Hill, a pediatrician practicing at the time in…...