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First Opinion Dan Troy

STAT Plus: A California court is setting a dangerous precedent over drug development (or lack thereof) liability

First Opinion Steve Pollock

Dental care is in crisis. But it’s also a moment of opportunity

First Opinion Christina S. Beck

How much personal health information does King Charles owe the public?

Letters to the editor Torie Bosch

What STAT readers think about Aduhelm, CTE and the Super Bowl, and more

First Opinion Regina Benjamin and Jerome Adams

Former U.S. surgeons general: The U.S. should ban menthol cigarettes

First Opinion Adina Wise

Contact sports cause CTE. So why are Americans watching more football than ever?

First Opinion Eric Reinhart

Moving from crisis response to crisis prevention in U.S. mental health systems

First Opinion Mark P. Sendak, Nicholson Price, and Suresh Balu

STAT Plus: AI assurance labs intended to test health care technology have an equity problem

First Opinion Jason Karlawish

STAT Plus: Aduhelm was a mess — and it could happen again

First Opinion Kushal T. Kadakia, Joseph S. Ross, and Vinay K. Rathi

STAT Plus: The Philips CPAP nightmare exposes shortcomings in medical device regulation

First Opinion David C. Grabowski and David G. Stevenson

Why the debate over proposed nursing home staff minimums is particularly unproductive

First Opinion Paula Stephan

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

First Opinion Diana Zuckerman

Medicare has different standards than the FDA. That’s how it should be

First Opinion G. Luke Hartstein and John Torous

STAT Plus: Where do we go from here on digital therapeutics?

First Opinion Shella Keilholz

Why I left the editorial board of the prestigious scientific journal NeuroImage — and helped start something new

First Opinion David Kappos and Andrei Iancu

The Biden administration should not support a WTO petition to strip IP protections from Covid-19 treatments

First Opinion Robert Klitzman

What the pope is missing about commercial surrogacy

First Opinion Uché Blackstock

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

First Opinion Joel B. Zivot

I’m an anesthesiologist. Kenneth Smith’s execution by nitrogen gas was far from ‘textbook’

First Opinion Irene Papanicolas

Which country has the best health care? That’s the wrong question

First Opinion Ben Hoffman

Congress must pass the child tax credit deal to support kids’ health

First Opinion Tina Shah and Devika Bhushan

Other states should follow New Jersey’s lead on prior authorization reform

First Opinion Holly J. Humphrey

Defunding liberal arts is dangerous for health care

First Opinion James Sulzer

After 20 years in rehabilitation research, my young daughter’s traumatic brain injury transformed my mind and my career

First Opinion Amos Grünebaum, Monique De Four Jones, Dawnette Lewis, and Frank A. Chervenak

It’s time to remove skin color from the Apgar Score for newborns

Opinions+ John Whyte

STAT Plus: Some countries are moving to digital prescription drug information for patients. The U.S. shouldn’t follow suit

First Opinion Sneha Dave, Sydney Reed, and Steven Woloshin

The FDA and FTC need to crack down on TikTok and Instagram influencers pitching prescription drugs

First Opinion Christopher M. Worsham and Anupam B. Jena

Clogged arteries: the unseen cost of road-blocking protests

First Opinion Christopher Palatucci

STAT Plus: The necessary roughness of 2023 has set up a very promising 2024 for biotech jobs