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STAT explores issues related to young life scientists, from burnout and mental health concerns to racial inequities in medical schools. Here you will find stories on reform, innovation and excellence in higher education.

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First Opinion Tricia Pendergrast and Jared E. Boyce

Free tuition won’t fix medicine’s diversity problem without admissions reform

Letters to the editor Torie Bosch

STAT readers on what human health care can learn from veterinary medicine and more

First Opinion Paula Stephan

Can Arena Bioworks upend the traditional scientific research model in the U.S.?

First Opinion Uché Blackstock

The emergency room is where the United States’ social problems come home to roost

First Opinion Holly J. Humphrey

Defunding liberal arts is dangerous for health care

Health Usha Lee McFarling

As she drives research on structural racism in health care, Rachel Hardeman faces a painful reckoning

In the Lab Jonathan Wosen

NIH panel calls for fewer, better-paid postdocs in bid to halt loss of scientists to industry

First Opinion Romila Santra

U.S. medical schools aren’t teaching future doctors about 7.4 million of their patients

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First Opinion Abraham Nussbaum and Renee Y. Hsia

Let’s leverage graduate medical education to increase Medicaid re-enrollment

Business Brittany Trang

Emergency medicine is grappling with a surprising problem: The prospect of too many physicians

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First Opinion John Whyte and Ranil Herath

How health care organizations can set up chief medical officers for success

In the Lab Jonathan Wosen

Exodus of life scientists from academia reaches historic levels, new data show

First Opinion Amelia Mercado and J. Wesley Boyd

How medical schools are failing students who need mental health care

First Opinion Tochi Iroku-Malize, Sandy Chung, Verda Hicks, Omar T. Atiq, Ira P. Monka, and Petros Levounis

Policymakers must take action on the physician shortage

In the Lab Jonathan Wosen

STAT Plus: Graduate students accuse University of California of wage theft, just months after strike was settled

In the Lab Jonathan Wosen

STAT Plus: Departing Stanford president retracts two widely cited papers, against lead author’s wishes

Off the Charts Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

Affirmative action improved public health — and carried a high personal cost for Black physicians

Special Report Usha Lee McFarling

Asian American doctors, overrepresented in medicine, are largely left out of leadership

In the Lab Jonathan Wosen and Annalisa Merelli

Critics and defenders weigh in on Stanford president’s resignation after research investigation

In the Lab Jonathan Wosen

Stanford president to resign after investigation finds he failed to ‘decisively and forthrightly’ correct research

Health Abdullahi Tsanni

What the end of affirmative action means to a fourth-year medical student

Politics Usha Lee McFarling

STAT Plus: After affirmative action ruling, medical education leaders see silver lining in court endorsement of ‘holistic review’

Politics Usha Lee McFarling

STAT Plus: Medical leaders decry Supreme Court decision on affirmative action

Politics Usha Lee McFarling

STAT Plus: Supreme Court strikes down use of affirmative action, a blow to efforts to diversify medical schools

Special Report Jonathan Wosen

Academia’s postdoc system is teetering, imperiling efforts to diversify life sciences