Tag: Public health crisis

As the sun rose over Washington, D.C., on a Friday morning, thousands of federal health care workers across public health and science agencies braced...

Trump's Restriction on Health and Science Agencies Triggers ChaosIn a surprising turn of events, chaos has erupted in the health and science community as...

Lessons Learned from Covid-19 and Their Impact on Future PandemicsFive years ago this week, STAT was interviewing nervous infectious disease scientists about a mysterious...

Combating MPOX Misinformation: DRC Vaccine Rollout UpdateDoctors and nurses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are not only battling the mpox virus itself...

The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General announced that he will be seeking advice from independent experts to determine if the current spread of the...

Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, is facing scrutiny over his controversial Covid-19 response as he joins Vice President Kamala Harris as her running...

The Covid-19 pandemic that originated in Wuhan, China in late 2019 has sparked heated debates about its origins. While the zoonosis hypothesis suggests that...

First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and maybe even provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech insiders, health...