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Letters to the editor Patrick Skerrett

What readers have to say about long Covid, FDA and diversity, and more

First Opinion Josh Carpenter

To secure the U.S.’s biotech supply chain, pay attention to domestic companies

First Opinion Annette Ansong, Rachel Bond, and Tiffany Powell-Wiley

Medicare’s Part D policy is blocking progress needed to achieve Black health equity

First Opinion Safina Adatia

To get basic standard addiction treatment, Americans should move to Canada

Rebecca Soskin Hicks and Amelia Burke-Garcia

Eating rocks: The case for early integration of medical ethics into AI product development

First Opinion Bill Gassen

STAT Plus: AI and rural health care: A paradigm shift in America’s heartland

First Opinion Tamei Elliott and Maria Vassileva

FDA: Don’t rush publishing your diversity guidance plan. Take your time and do it right

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Rep. Diana DeGette on why reproductive freedom must be protected

First Opinion Anand Kumar

STAT Plus: CNN debate moderators could provide the cognitive tests that Biden and Trump have been avoiding

First Opinion Marisha Burden and Luci K. Leykum

Tackling administrative harm can yield better decisions for better care

Opinions+ Ashu Singhal and Sajith Wickramasekara

STAT Plus: Could billions of dollars in AI funding lead to the same number of new drugs?

First Opinion Andrew D. Forsyth, Mallory O. Johnson, and Jae M. Sevelius

Turning a ‘no’ vote into progress: How to advance MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD

First Opinion Diana DeGette

Two years since Dobbs, reproductive freedom must be protected from assault

First Opinion Roshni Koli and Christine Yu Moutier

To reduce suicide, primary care and mental health clinicians need to work together. Congress can help that happen

First Opinion Mark H. Smith

The FDA needs to embrace phage therapy to help fight antimicrobial resistance

First Opinion Patrick Skerrett

Readers respond to essays on long Covid, hypochondria, and more

First Opinion Saurabh Gombar

‘Patients like mine’ technologies must rest on solid evidence

First Opinion Zoe Adams and Asher Levinthal

Medical experts must step up if health justice is to enter the courtroom

First Opinion Molly Bowdring, Aaron S.B. Weiner, and Judith Prochaska

Getting ahead of a non-alcoholic beverage boom among youths

First Opinion Dan Samorodnitsky, Kevin Bird, Jedidiah Carlson, James Lingford, Jon Phillips, Rebecca Sear, and Cathryn Townsend

Journals that published Richard Lynn’s racist ‘research’ articles should retract them

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Why Long Covid can feel scarier than a gun to the head

First Opinion Cheryl R. Clark

It’s been 60 years since Freedom Summer, yet the fight for affordable, compassionate, and equitable health care is still going on

First Opinion Syra Madad, Carlos del Rio, Scott J. Becker, and Ewa King

With the threat of H5N1 bird flu, hospitals must stay prepared

First Opinion Deb Tharp

Why the FDA will have a hard time properly regulating cannabis

First Opinion Rachel Hall-Clifford

Long Covid feels like a gun to my head

First Opinion Hal Rosenbluth

I’m a hypochondriac. Here’s how the health care system needs to deal with people like me

First Opinion Julie Yoo

Oversight of health AI must be democratic, not done by the big tech companies

First Opinion Danjuma Adda

I cried tears of loss and rage at the World Hepatitis Summit

Letters to the editor Patrick Skerrett

Readers respond to a plea for rare disease progress, vaccine-related injury, and more