Category: health care

Wildfire pollution linked to higher stroke risk Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. Here’s a combination of proper nouns you might not expect: Harry Styles and Haruki Marakami for Runner’s World. It’s quite an existential conversation, shared in segments amid a…

A swine flu case to keep tabs on Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. There’s already plenty of news to keep up with this week, but if you have a chance to rewind to September, consider re-visiting Eric Boodman’s story on post-tubal…

Kansas’ new ID law could have health consequences for trans people Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Happy Friday. If I ever have kids, I want them to be treated at the newly christened Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital in Tennessee. What’s your favorite Dolly song?…

Hepatitis B vaccine rates are dropping Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. There’s nothing like an old-fashioned blizzard to ground you in your present, physical reality. I promise I’ll try to dig my car out faster this time around.  Read the…

ACIP meeting postponed, for reasons that are unclear Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Happy Friday! Read the rest… O. Rose Broderick Go to statnews

Flu updates to start the week Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. If you’re on the East Coast, I hope you’ve been keeping warm and cozy through this winter storm. Send tips and cheap flights to warm locales: [email protected] Read the…

STAT+: Confused by the new food pyramid? So are nutrition experts Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Greetings from sunny San Diego, where winter is an abstract concept. This is Jonathan Wosen, West Coast biotech & life sciences reporter, filling in for Rose.…

Louisiana official is now No. 2 at the CDC Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. The newsletter will be off tomorrow and Friday. I hope you can get some rest this holiday weekend. I’ll see you back here on Monday. Read…

Vaccines aren’t linked to autism, despite CDC website change Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Lots of important CDC news in the last 48 hours. We’ve got you covered below. Read the rest… O. Rose Broderick Go to statnews

The long-term risks of spinal injuries Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Did you know: Yesterday was STAT’s official 10-year anniversary! The site was launched on Nov. 4, 2015. Stories from that first day include: A man who was infected with tapeworm cancer;…

Texas lawsuit targets Tylenol Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Remember Bugaboo Creek Steakhouse? A colleague in the newsroom said the name yesterday, and even though I hadn’t thought about it in decades, the smell instantly came back to me. Also, the talking…

LGBTQ+ clinicians hold the line, plan for future Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Happy STAT Summit week! Excited to see y’all in Boston. Still planning to come but don’t have tickets? Click here. Read the rest… O. Rose Broderick Go to statnews

STAT+: Metal-organic frameworks win chemistry Nobel Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. We are officially one week out from the STAT Summit. I’m excited to see my colleagues IRL, to eat great snacks, and of course, to experience amazing live journalism.…

The NIH’s $50 million autism bet Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. It’s October, which means it’s time to make hot apple cider and watch Over the Garden Wall. Potatoes and Molasses, anyone? Read the rest… O. Rose Broderick Go to statnews

Answering burning questions on MMR vaccines Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. Outside of concerts, have you ever screamed at the top of your lungs with thousands of other people? Attendees at this year’s AAP National Conference let one out the…

Kennedy launches abortion pill review Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. What a wild week to cover disability. On Wednesday, just before dinnertime, I finished my third story in three days in a daze. Not realizing I hadn’t eaten all day and desperate…

BMJ group retracts study on apple cider vinegar for weight loss Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. Scroll down for a(nother) real show of strength from across the STAT newsroom. In the last 24 hours, I think we’ve published more than…

As gun violence persists, CDC research is hamstrung Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. How many pizza rolls is too many pizza rolls to eat on a Sunday? Never mind, don’t worry about it. Here’s the news.  Read the rest… Theresa…

FDA eyes tighter regulations on chatbots for mental health Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. What’s your go-to karaoke song? I’ve always been partial to pop-punk, especially Jimmy Eat World’s “The Middle.” But I’m open to suggestions! The newsroom’s annual karaoke…

More fallout from CDC director’s firing Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. A wild 48 hours at the CDC has me feeling like this meme. The news truly does not stop coming. Let’s get to it. Read the rest… O. Rose Broderick Go…

No more minimum wage for domestic workers, says Labor Department Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Are you a psychiatrist or psychologist seeing patients with or working on research about so-called “AI psychosis” or “ChatGPT psychosis”? I want to talk with you. Read…

Gender-affirming care won’t be covered for federal employees in 2026 Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. The theme of today’s newsletter seems to be: $$$ money $$$ Read the rest… Theresa Gaffney Go to statnews

Early data on over-the-counter birth control Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. Yesterday I saw a press release with the headline “Seabirds only poop while flying” and thought — wow, science is amazing. Anyway, we’ve got three bits of vaccine/virus news to…

Trump eyes involuntary commitment to end homelessness Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Saturday marks the 35th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Some folks in the disability community are spending it at a 60-hour rally pushing back against Medicaid cuts in honor…

For people with diabetes, even a little activity every week is tied to better health Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning! It’s Lev Facher, filling in for Theresa. Let’s get to today’s news. Read the rest… Lev Facher Go to statnews

STAT+: The links between different gun laws and types of gun deaths Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. And just like that, the newsletter is back. I hope you had a restful weekend.  How one elite rehab center is ‘obliterating’ all kinds of…

STAT+: Researchers push back on ‘sloppy’ botched citation in MAHA report Good morning and happy Friday! It’s Lev Facher, STAT’s addiction reporter. Let’s get to today’s news. Why MAHA wants you drinking whole milk Sarah Todd, my STAT colleague and fellow Brooklynite, noticed during a recent coffee run that the usual panoply of milk options…

How incarceration affects mortality — for people both inside and out Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. If you’re based in New York, consider spending tomorrow evening at a free happy hour, on STAT.  Read the rest… Theresa Gaffney Go to…

Anti-LGBTQ+ incidents related to health care have increased Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning! It’s June 3 — a significant day in the fictional “Gilmore Girls” town of Stars Hollow, and just another day of June/late spring/Pride for those of us…

New budget bans Medicaid coverage of trans gender-affirming care Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. It’s Liz again, wondering why May looks and feels like March in Boston. Read the rest… Elizabeth Cooney Go to statnews

The latest news from Harvard Yard  Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. A Trump administration draft budget for HHS was leaked yesterday, and STAT reporters have the details. For NIH, the document proposes a $20 billion cut in 2026 — roughly a…