First Opinion

First Opinion Ava Dzurenda

The local news crisis is also a public health crisis

First Opinion Paul Friedrichs

Dropping the flu vaccine requirement puts U.S. military readiness at risk

First Opinion Will Walters and Richard Hughes IV

Kennedy’s new silence on vaccines is political — and it won’t last

First Opinion Eric J. Chow, Ariella Perry Dale, and Matthew Donahue

The CDC’s ‘disease detective’ program turns 75

First Opinion Scott E. Solomon

NASA’s plans for living in space should prioritize immunology and infectious disease

First Opinion Podcast Torie Bosch

Behind every miracle drug is a story

Opinions+ Lawrence K. Altman

STAT Plus: I’m an expert on presidential health. The 25th Amendment is not an option for removing Trump

First Opinion Holland Haynie

The U.S. health care system is built around looking backward

First Opinion Anand Kumar and Neil Pliskin

What happens when a chief executive loses executive functions?

First Opinion Ross Ellenhorn and Dimitri Mugianis

The contradiction at the heart of Republicans’ embrace of psychedelics

First Opinion Penelope Gatlin

Measles outbreak means my immunocompromised son can’t leave the house without extreme safety measures

First Opinion Riley J. Steiner

Politicians are using low teen birth rates to further restrict access to birth control, abortion

First Opinion Podcast Torie Bosch

The podcast bringing together MAHA and public health for hard conversations

First Opinion David Higgins

Don’t believe headlines saying that vaccine skepticism is widespread

First Opinion Andrea Downing

Health care is not ready for the new era of AI-enabled cyberattacks

First Opinion Marc Augustin

Voice-first chatbots will exacerbate AI’s mental health threat

First Opinion Freddy Abnousi and Celina Yong

The medical AI revolution requires rethinking health care’s architecture

First Opinion Uché Blackstock

Medical schools must continue to teach students about structural barriers to care

First Opinion Podcast Torie Bosch

Hosting the ‘intellectual wrestling match’ between MAHA, public health

First Opinion Nathan Grant

My brother can’t access a just-approved breakthrough drug for his rare disease

First Opinion Denise Asafu-Adjei

Erectile dysfunction is more than a sexual issue

Lab Dish Paul Knoepfler

STAT Plus: Landmines await Vinay Prasad’s successor at the FDA

First Opinion Torie Bosch

Sports betting is creating a twofold public health crisis for some young men

Letters to the editor Torie Bosch

What STAT readers think about nutrition education in med school

First Opinion Monica L. Wang

What public health can learn from the MAHA movement

First Opinion Aaron Everitt

I’m a MAHA activist. I went into the public health lion’s den — and it changed how I think

First Opinion Chirantan Chatterjee and Guy Vernet

The Pasteur Institute of Iran illustrates important truths about global public health

First Opinion David S. Ludwig

Tastiness is not why people overeat

First Opinion Kyle P. Edmonds

As a palliative care physician, I’m nervous about the Medicare infusion of $100 million for ‘functional or lifestyle medicine’