STAT News
Viewpoint: Died “with measles” vs. died “from measles”: RFK, Jr.’s dangerously subversive word games
The pandemic-era line “died with COVID, not from it” has come back, and this time it’s being used to leave ...
New federal autism committee head has financial ties to leucovorin
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has handed the reins of federal autism research to a doctor with a commercial stake in ...
How can we know if social media bans actually help teens?
Australia’s first-in-the-world social media ban for kids under 16 has so far produced more workarounds than results. That’s exactly why ...
Viewpoint: How to challenge the lucrative health fear-mongering business
Statins are among medicine's cheapest, best-studied and most effective drugs, yet they've become a prime target of online health fear-mongering, ...
Still believe vaccines cause autism? Here’s the overwhelming evidence that you are being misled
Vaccines don't cause autism — and the evidence proving it has existed for decades, as STAT's Matthew Herper lays out ...
The inside story of how Moderna and Merck teamed to develop the world’s first cancer vaccine
Moderna's experimental cancer vaccine cleared a hurdle no cancer vaccine has cleared before. As STAT's Matthew Herper, Jason Mast, and ...
FDA drafts roadmap for regulating generative AI medical devices
The FDA is drafting a first-ever policy roadmap for regulating medical devices powered by generative AI, according to STAT News reporter Mario ...
Viewpoint: The global implications of Trump’s misguided vaccine policy
President Trump signed an executive order on August 10, 2026, that could turn getting your kid vaccinated into a multi-visit ...
Viewpoint: The misguided Trump-RFK, Jr. formula for improving health: promoting nutrition while undermining food safety
I spent nearly a decade leading FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. That role convinced me that food ...
Viewpoint: Doctors can fight health misinformation — if hospitals let them
Health misinformation is a public health problem. According to KFF, more than half of U.S. adults say they get health ...
Viewpoint — Alternative medicine and the placebo effect: Selling a reassuring illusion of health
For many people who can afford it, it is not their doctor, but an acupuncturist or massage therapist who will ...
Viewpoint: Health experts engage MAHA: Shared concerns, differing views on what constitutes evidence
At a national public health meeting in March, I attended a session that brought together public health professionals, physicians, and ...
Grassroots MAHA pushes back against White House plan to back away from anti-vaccine rhetoric
White House officials are steering the Trump administration away from vaccine reform, fearing the political consequences of emphasizing a relatively ...
The intersection of vaccinations and faith: Should the ultra-religious get exemptions from mandatory vaccines shots?
From the perspective of mainstream scientific medicine, the choice between vaccination and potentially fatal diseases seem obvious. So are religious ...
Eerily human-like embryo models are being crafted from stem cells in laboratories, raising ethical concerns
Researchers are racing to engineer highly realistic human embryo models using stem cells in the lab. Some of the newest ...
Make Europe Healthy Again? MAHA movement crosses the Atlantic
... Robert Malone, a medical doctor and prominent adviser to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., spoke for more than 45 minutes ...
Viewpoint: Is the air in America getting cleaner? Who knows, the EPA just junked the 55-year-old metric
Since the passage of the Clean Air Act, signed by Richard Nixon in 1970, the EPA has used a metric ...
Why Texas and its marginalized communities are the epicenter of MAHA’s food and health movement
With its diverse population, a political establishment eager to please the Trump administration, and a cabal of prominent MAHA converts, ...
Viewpoint: RFK Jr.’s FDA fake review of fluoride supplements with already announced plan to ban them is terrible science
Extensively studied over decades, fluoride has been scientifically validated for its effectiveness in reducing dental cavities, particularly in children. It ...
RFK, Jr., other vaccine skeptics claim children get too many shots too soon. Here are the facts
In 1986, a typical child was recommended to receive 11 vaccine doses — seven injections and four oral. Today, that ...
With the Trump administration’s dismantling of the NIH, the Human Genome Project records are poised to be inaccessible
The archival records [at the National Human Genome Research Institute, which is one of the 27 agencies comprising the NIH] … are ...
AI and terrorism: How bioterrorists could easily fake an attack
While I am deeply concerned about the long-term existential threat of AI and synthetic biology to create new or modified ...
Will the U.S. lose a generation of young scientists as research projects are gutted
[Y]oung scientists represents the future of American science: the next innovators, mentors, and developers of lifesaving treatments. These cancellations were framed ...
FDA regulatory maze: China has replaced the U.S. as the global hub for biotech drug development
Five years ago, U.S. pharmaceutical companies didn’t license any new drugs from China. By 2024, one-third of their new compounds were coming ...
Viewpoint: ’He’s wrong’—RFK, Jr. invokes pseudo-science, falsely claims single target antigen vaccines ‘never worked’
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has expressed another unorthodox view on vaccines, with the long-time vaccine critic declaring that ...
The miracle hype about the boundless potential of CRISPR gene editing in medicine is beginning to fade
A strange thing happened weeks before the Food and Drug Administration approved the first treatment made with CRISPR gene editing, an ...
‘Truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary’—CDC’s top vaccine scientist eviscerates RFK, Jr. in forced resignation letter
Peter Marks, the top Food and Drug Administration official who oversaw vaccines, gene therapies, and the blood supply, resigned [March ...
RFK, Jr. claims that the measles vaccine ‘causes deaths every year’. He’s wrong, that’s activist propaganda
Parsing every claim about the measles vaccine that [Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.] has made would take a long time, so ...
