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Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes booked a 2022 flight to Mexico without a scheduled return trip, prompting prosecutors to warn she poses a flight risk while appealing her conviction for defrauding investors. → Read More
Some argue that it’s not the job of biopharmaceutical leaders to weigh in on policy matters outside of their wheelhouse. But that ecosystem won’t function properly if our democracy doesn’t. → Read More
Dinesh Thakur and Prashant Reddy talk about why they wrote "The Truth Pill: The Myth of Drug Regulation in India," and what its regulators and prosecutors need to to do clean up the country's pharmaceutical industry. → Read More
If you like reading opinion/perspective essays, check out the most-read First Opinion essays from 2022. → Read More
This week on the "First Opinion Podcast," NAMI's Ken Duckworth talks about the valuable lessons that can be learned from people with lived experiences of mental illness. → Read More
In a special event as part of STAT's Open Doors initiative, the "First Opinion Podcast" went live this week with returning guest Jay Baruch talking about the surprising effect of thinking about retiring from emergency medicine. → Read More
This week on the "First Opinion Podcast," @ChomiloMD counters the narrative that narrowing death rates between white Americans and Americans of color represents a racial equity success story by looking at the big picture. → Read More
This week on the "First Opinion Podcast," an addiction prevention specialist talks about states potentially misdirecting money they receive from national opioid settlements. → Read More
This week on the "First Opinion Podcast," Terry Wilcox, co-founder of @PatientsRising, talks about the value of home health care and how it is being threatened by a Medicare proposal. → Read More
In this week's First Opinion Podcast, nutrition policy expert @marionnestle talks about the FDA's new food labels, and the problem with "food products." → Read More
This week on the First Opinion Podcast, law professor @LawrenceGostin explores how rulings by the Supreme Court on cases now on its docket could likely affect public health — and not in a good way. → Read More
This week on the "First Opinion Podcast," two wheelchair users, Paul Amadeus Lane and Jim Meade, talk about why Medicare needs to rethink its policies for covering the cost of advanced wheelchairs. → Read More
The Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will have many trickle-down effects. Some will change how clinical trials are conducted. → Read More
The surprise reappearance of polio in New York state is worrisome for many reasons. This week on the "First Opinion Podcast," two physicians talk about why it's back and what to do about it. → Read More
This week's "First Opinion Podcast" episode explores the challenges of managing chronic pain. The gold standard is interdisciplinary management with exercise, mindfulness, hypnosis, and even opioids when needed. → Read More
Nurses are the backbone of hospitals and health care systems. More must be done says @janemuir__ to keep them in staff positions and promote them into leadership roles. → Read More
Turbulent times offer an abundance of topics for authors seeking to right wrongs, offer direction, and sometimes just to tell a story. STAT published nearly 600 First Opinion essays this year. These were the most widely read. → Read More
Chelsea Clinton joined the "First Opinion Podcast" to talk about fracking, public health, and other issues. Here are excerpts from it. → Read More
STAT asked a range of people to share their answers to this question: What was the moment last year you realized we were in real trouble? → Read More
Warraich details his first experience with the American health care system after training in Pakistan, and how he came to see its flaws. → Read More