Bob Herman covers health insurance, government programs, hospitals, physicians, and other providers — reporting on how money influences those businesses and shapes what we all pay for care. He is also ...

The White House is asking Congress to cut $5 billion from the National Institutes of Health and downsize the number of ...

To encourage robust, good-faith discussion about issues raised in First Opinion essays, STAT publishes selected Letters to ...

The panel had become a flashpoint as RFK Jr.'s health department worked to limit the number of recommended childhood shots.

A cancer drug candidate that, rightly or wrongly, became a flashpoint at FDA, fails on a second try at approval.

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 ...

The Justice Department's actions on illegal vapes pales next to the scale of the problem, anti-smoking advocates say.

In my most honest of moments, what I want from the medical community is the chance to trust it again,” a MAHA advocate writes ...

CAR-T therapy is toting up more remissions in autoimmune disease, and generating a flood of experimentation and investment.

John Wilkerson is a Washington correspondent for STAT who writes about the politics of health care. He is also the author of the twice-weekly D.C. Diagnosis newsletter. Zac Jiwa, a federal Medicare ...

The Trump administration this week acknowledged it made a significant error in figures it used to help justify a fraud ...

At a national public health meeting in March, I attended a session that brought together public health professionals, ...