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Today's health news includes an exit interview with the CDC's Mandy Cohen, the average BMI in the US declined in 2023, and ...

Novo Holdings can proceed with its planned $16.5 billion acquisition of Catalent after U.S. regulators declined to challenge ...

With the drug industry’s waning interest in gene therapy, a family tries a staple of philanthropy: honorary naming.

In an interview, outgoing CDC Director Mandy Cohen defended the agency’s wide focus in the face of GOP criticism that it has ...

Health care did not play a big role in the election that’s sending President Trump back to the White House and giving ...

The new administration wants “a break” from infectious disease research to focus on chronic disease. That’s impossible, ...

State officials failed to discipline Steward for regulatory violations, check its expansion plans and cost-cutting, or ...

The 340B program has become a flash point in the growing debate over the cost of prescription drugs in the U.S.

After public health labs in California failed to confirm a positive result, a sample was sent to the CDC, which Thursday said ...

In this week’s letters to the editor, STAT readers weigh in on the health care system, pediatrics, and mental-health apps.

"Patients will die as a result of this decision," said Gayle Pledger of the Right to Breathe advocacy campaign.