Theresa Gaffney is the lead Morning Rounds writer and reports on health care, new research, and public policy, with a particular interest in mental health, gender-affirming care, and LGBTQ+ patient ...

The CDC is growing the reach of its online germ database to allow labs to search for protein signatures of bacteria and compare them to rare pathogens in the CDC database. The online bacterial ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. For nearly four decades, researchers have leaned heavily on a unique ...

Theresa Gaffney is the lead Morning Rounds writer and reports on health care, new research, and public policy, with a particular interest in mental health, gender-affirming care, and LGBTQ+ patient ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was modernizing a public health surveillance system used by 25 health jurisdictions nationwide to track diseases like hepatitis and tuberculosis when the ...

Because Trump had harshly criticized public health officials during his campaign, STAT anticipated there might be changes to federal health websites. As rumors began swirling near the end of January ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. As part of the sweeping layoffs that rocked the Department of Health ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC’s, web page on the “Policy for Inclusion of Women and Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Research” is gone. References to unconscious bias on the ...

Amid the disturbing news about public health in the United States, there may be some good news about sexually transmitted infections. On Sept. 24, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...