At a "practice of last resort," pediatricians prioritize allaying parents' vaccine concerns without hardline dismissals.

Disability researchers across the country worry about their jobs, and the future of their institutions, as a delay in issuing federal grants drags on.

Congenital syphilis should be preventable. An Arizona case shows how drug shortages and procedural hurdles are fueling a growing public health crisis.

Congenital syphilis should be preventable. An Arizona case shows how drug shortages and procedural hurdles are fueling a growing public health crisis.

Brian Donovan had persuaded high school teachers and education researchers that prejudice might be ended by changing how genetics is taught.

Stanley Plotkin, the 93-year-old "godfather of vaccines," is watching his field’s achievements slip away.

The rejection is the latest instance of Vinay Prasad overruling career FDA scientists to place vaccines under harsher scrutiny.

Experts worry that health officials' use of 'shared decision-making' in new vaccine guidance distorts the concept's meaning and disregards the importance of evidence.

Health care workers brought flowers and wreaths, lit candles, and draped stethoscopes over a wooden cross as a makeshift memorial to nurse Alex Pretti.

The number of recommended childhood shots drops from 17 to 11.

A former vegan chef is trying to execute MAHA's dream of a utopian future based on small-scale, family-owned farms.

Trump repeatedly and forcefully issued direct medical advice during his autism announcement, in ways that went beyond presidential precedent.

A STAT Investigation: To avoid fines for reporting excessive hospital-acquired infections, some facilities are discouraging testing.

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya offered an explanation for the cancellation of mRNA vaccine contracts that didn't align with that of his boss, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Jay Bhattacharya’s tenure as NIH director has seen health disparities research swept up in the Trump administration’s attack on DEI

Jay Bhattacharya’s tenure as NIH director has seen health disparities research swept up in the Trump administration’s attack on DEI

Prasad's departure followed a campaign by a right-wing activist and a controversy over a rare disease drug.

For over an hour, Jeff Vierstra lay still in Columbia University’s ALS clinic, as a doctor poked him ankle-to-throat with an electric needle. Sometimes,

The Senate has passed a $4.5 trillion tax cut bill after last-minute changes to its health care provisions, as Republicans scrambled to get their party on board.

The ACIP, the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel newly empowered by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is just getting started.

Native American deaths are significantly undercounted because of errors in death certificates, a new study claims.

RFK Jr.'s handpicked advisers will discuss two long-approved shots at their next meeting

Vinay Prasad is taking on several big roles at the FDA, solidifying his position as a top adviser to Commissioner Marty Makary.

Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors can stand after the Supreme Court ruled that it does not constitute sex-based discrimination, in a 6-3 decision.

The staff of two world-class CDC laboratories that were slated to be closed by the Trump administration have been informed that their terminations have been canceled.

A federal judge ruled that some of the grant terminations by the National Institutes of Health on DEI grounds are “void and illegal.”

A private equity firm will finance a Harvard University research lab, a possible template for the future as schools nationwide absorb federal funding cuts.

The entanglements and strongly expressed views of the new vaccine panel raises questions of how Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defines conflicts of interest.

To prevent ovarian cancers, fallopian tube removal is on an upsurge — and diagnostic manuals are finally catching up.

Mariam Mohammed says her younger son died when she could not get treatment for him at a U.S.-funded clinic that had temporarily closed. Researchers say that are many thousands of cases like his.

U.S. drug overdose deaths fell 27% in 2024, the lowest since 2019, with fentanyl cases sharply down but methamphetamine up, the CDC reports.

Chinese and Chinese-American researchers are reassessing their futures in the U.S., potentially shifting the balance in global scientific innovation, as well as in the biopharma industry.

After his job was cut, a CDC scientist volunteered to help Milwaukee respond to the lead crisis in its public schools. For now, he's in limbo.

A NIH policy change on funding of foreign scientists is far more sweeping than described in a Thursday announcement

Trump proposed massive cuts to federal health agencies in his 2026 'skinny budget' request.

Fears of landing on a federal list prompts parents, and adults, to cancel autism screening evaluations.

Here are eight possible indicators of how health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may handle U.S. vaccine policy in coming weeks.

FDA vaccine oversight is shifting, with increased scrutiny and mixed messaging sparking concerns among health experts.

STAT spoke with people living through the historic disruptions threatening the future of biomedical research in the U.S. These are their stories

The federal health department is not creating a new registry of Americans with autism, an HHS official said Thursday.

STAT is tracking, day by day, what's happened in the words of science and health during the first months of the Trump administration.

DOGE's funding cuts threaten to undo progress toward curbing HIV, a former top Trump official warned.

The NIH director asserted the agency remains committed to research that advances the health of minorities, despite Trump's anti-DEI orders

The immigrant does not appear on a list of people sent to a prison in El Salvador, and his family and friends have no idea of his whereabouts. He has essentially disappeared.

The National Science Foundation is the latest US agency to be disrupted by Elon Musk’s DOGE.