Trump's second term has ushered in significant changes in vaccine guidance, drug pricing and health care policy. Here's ...

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. Isabella Cueto covers the leading causes of ...

Evidence suggests that at recommended levels, fluoridation is cost-effective and promotes public health. But, like any healthcare intervention, it must be scrutinized and adjusted as new data emerge.

The year 2025 has been one of the most turbulent years in modern U.S. health care. The headlines were explosive, the rhetoric dramatic, and the controversies nonstop. Yet for all the hoopla and ...

Usha Lee McFarling is a former STAT reporter. It’s hard to remember all the earthshaking decisions and events that have transpired with unprecedented speed in the first few months of the Trump ...

A lot of these costs would diminish if people simply exercised more, ate better and lost weight. In fact, per one estimate, ...

In the November election, the U.S. faces two futures. In one, the new president offers the country better prospects, relying on science, solid evidence and the willingness to learn from experience.

Imagine walking into your doctor's office feeling sick – and rather than flipping through pages of your medical history or running tests that take days, your doctor instantly pulls together data from ...

Project 2025, the sweeping right-wing blueprint for a new kind of U.S. presidency, would sabotage science-based policies that address climate change, the environment, abortion, health care access, ...

EVANSVILLE — The Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation (EVSC) held a ceremonial groundbreaking Monday for the Innovation Center for Science and Health, a facility it says will expand learning ...

With rates of suicide and opioid deaths rising in the past decade and children's mental health declared a national emergency, the United States faces an unprecedented mental health crisis. But access ...

Accessing mental health care can be a harrowing ordeal. Even if a patient finds a therapist in their network, their insurance company can overrule that therapist and decide the prescribed treatment ...