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First Opinion Julio La Torre

Real-time vital signs data: a hidden source of value in medical AI

First Opinion Spencer Phillips Hey and Michael S. Wilkes

IRBs fail to assess trials’ scientific merit, putting participants at risk

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Empathy should be the first response to people with vaccine injury, fears

First Opinion Madeline Cohen, Sarah O'Connor, and Nicole Huberfeld

OB-GYN board certification shouldn’t require traveling to Texas, a state hostile to abortion and abortion providers

First Opinion Sara Lorenz Taki and Lipi Roy

Addressing the dual epidemics of hepatitis C and opioid use

First Opinion Tracy R. Vitale and Caroline Dorsen

Why aren’t philanthropists stepping up to support nursing education?

First Opinion Peter Rheinstein

Medicare drug pricing rules will delay access to promising therapies

First Opinion David Tuller, Mady Hornig, and David Putrino

Functional neurological disorder is not an appropriate diagnosis for people with long Covid

Letters to the editor Patrick Skerrett

Letters from readers on schools and bird flu, opioid ‘overprescribing,’ and more

First Opinion Raviv Pryluk and Mike Walsh

Adaptive trial designs will increase clinical trial speed, safety, and effectiveness

First Opinion Eugene Declercq

Unsettling truths about maternal mortality in the U.S.

First Opinion Mario Ramirez

Preparing schools for the H5N1 bird flu they’re likely to face

First Opinion Richard A. "Red" Lawhern

Doctors ‘overprescribing’ opioids isn’t the cause of the overdose epidemic — and it never was

First Opinion Robert Metcalf and Jeffrey Francer

Expand community-based research to make clinical trials more diverse

First Opinion Podcast Rick Berke and Helen Branswell

Listen: Anthony Fauci on presidents, bird flu, and turning down a multimillion-dollar job

Opinions+ Bruce Leuchter

STAT Plus: Private equity and neuroscience: a novel approach to developing new treatments for neurological disorders

First Opinion Nora D. Volkow and Tisha Wiley

Everyone deserves addiction treatment that works — including those in jail

First Opinion Peter Staley

EcoHealth Alliance: Covid’s anti-science mob extracting its pound of flesh

First Opinion Anna Wexler

The ethical implications of Elon Musk’s unorthodox approach to medical science

Letters to the editor Patrick Skerrett

First Opinion readers respond to psychiatry and social contracts, Medicare and weight loss meds, and more

First Opinion Lynn Brielmaier

My stalled relay race to get access to ALS drugs in development

First Opinion Lawrence K. Altman

President Biden needs a full medical evaluation. Voters deserve to know the results

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Why is eugenics still alive and well in scientific publishing?

First Opinion Nick Manetto

STAT Plus: Can the National Institutes of Health navigate multiple storms and rebuild its bipartisan support?

First Opinion Dick Durbin and Lina M. Khan

Senate, FTC cracking down on pharma patent shenanigans

First Opinion Pamela K. Gavin

The rare pediatric disease voucher program creates new treatments. I have new data to prove it

First Opinion Richard G. Frank

Psychiatrists aren’t fulfilling the social contract that subsidized their training

First Opinion Alissa S. Chen

Medicare should wait on approving coverage for new obesity drugs

First Opinion Bernie Zipprich

Congress called for an ALS moonshot. The plan for it doesn’t leave Earth