A new $50 million NIH initiative to find the causes of autism faces questions about transparency and independence.

A company like 23andMe can answer a lot of questions for an adoptee. But those answers come with a high cost to privacy.

Despite his compelling personal story of recovery from addiction, RFK Jr. has said much less about the U.S. drug crisis than ...

Though behavioral health conditions do not discriminate between Democrats and Republicans, the Medicaid cuts may be ...

For more than a half-century, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has relied on outside experts to guide the ...

Daniel Payne reports on how the health industry and Washington influence and impact each other. He joined STAT in 2025 after ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken the extraordinary step of firing the expert panel that advises the CDC.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Wednesday the eight new members that will sit on the panel of experts that ...

The playbooks are designed to create a roadmap and offer guidance for more than 80% of U.S. health care organizations and ...

STAT viewed a draft of legislation to link U.S. drug prices to those in other countries that two people familiar with the ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has reversed the firings of hundreds of staffers at the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Europe’s comparatively cautious approach to food additives is the envy of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Make ...