Grassroots MAHA pushes back against White House plan to back away from anti-vaccine rhetoric

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?

The intersection of vaccinations and faith: Should the ultra-religious get exemptions from mandatory vaccines shots?

Cory Anderson | STAT News |
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

Eerily human-like embryo models are being crafted from stem cells in laboratories, raising ethical concerns

Paul Knoepfler | STAT News |
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

Make Europe Healthy Again? MAHA movement crosses the Atlantic

Gabriela Galvin | STAT News |
... 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

Viewpoint: Is the air in America getting cleaner?  Who knows, the EPA just junked the 55-year-old metric

Michelle Williams | STAT News |
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

Why Texas and its marginalized communities are the epicenter of MAHA’s food and health movement

Isabella Cueto | STAT News |
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

Viewpoint: RFK Jr.’s FDA fake review of fluoride supplements with already announced plan to ban them is terrible science

Peter Pitts | STAT News |
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

RFK, Jr., other vaccine skeptics claim children get too many shots too soon. Here are the facts

Jake Scott | STAT News |
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

With the Trump administration’s dismantling of the NIH, the Human Genome Project records are poised to be inaccessible

Zachary Utz | STAT News |
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

AI and terrorism: How bioterrorists could easily fake an attack

Jay Varma | STAT News |
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

Will the U.S. lose a generation of young scientists as research projects are gutted

Daphna Shohamy | STAT News |
[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

FDA regulatory maze: China has replaced the U.S. as the global hub for biotech drug development

Scott Gottlieb | STAT News |
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’

Viewpoint: ’He’s wrong’—RFK, Jr. invokes pseudo-science, falsely claims single target antigen vaccines ‘never worked’

Helen Branswell | STAT News |
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

The miracle hype about the boundless potential of CRISPR gene editing in medicine is beginning to fade

Jason Mast | STAT News |
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

‘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

RFK, Jr. claims that the measles vaccine ‘causes deaths every year’. He’s wrong, that’s activist propaganda

Matthew Herper | STAT News |
Parsing every claim about the measles vaccine that [Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.] has made would take a long time, so ...
Viewpoint: In his latest dangerous health action, RFK. Jr. blocks CDC from informing patients about the health benefits of vaccines and instead hyping rare side-effects

Viewpoint: In his latest dangerous health action, RFK. Jr. blocks CDC from informing patients about the health benefits of vaccines and instead hyping rare side-effects

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to halt ...