First Opinion

First Opinion Podcast Torie Bosch

ADHD is this scientist’s ‘superpower’

Opinions+ Caleb Appleton

STAT Plus: Is this the beginning of the AI-in-drug-discovery era, or the beginning of the end?

First Opinion Ashten Duncan, Khuzeman Abbasi, and Sana Augustine

STAT Plus: The invisible wasteland of health care data

First Opinion Jared Perkins and Chris Whaley

STAT Plus: Congress’ critical opportunity to reshape health care

First Opinion Fengting Yan, Binay Shah, and Siddhartha Yadav

A new moonshot initiative to fight cervical cancer in the Indo-Pacific region is missing something

First Opinion Podcast Alissa Ambrose

A conversation on healing ‘spiritual injury’

First Opinion Alexa B. Kimball

The disappearance of empathetic touch in medicine

First Opinion David Balto

STAT Plus: Don’t expect Novo-Catalent merger investigation to fizzle out under the new Trump administration

First Opinion Vishal Khetpal

RFK Jr. and MAHA should champion a Marshall Plan for obesity

First Opinion Tom Price

An immigration fix to address the health care workforce crisis

Torie Bosch

STAT readers on the politics of biomedical innovation and supplements

First Opinion Janet Freeman-Daily

Why cancer advocates like me are leaving X

First Opinion Caitlin Gilmet

I’m a vaccine activist — and I’m optimistic about the future right now

First Opinion Arthur L. Caplan

STAT Plus: Don’t expect RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz to get much done on prevention and wellness

First Opinion Rena Barrow

It took years for my Black son to be diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. Then it happened to my family again

First Opinion Jonathan Birch

The term ‘vegetative state’ has no place in modern medicine

First Opinion Podcast Torie Bosch

Paying a visit to ‘Mom & Dad’s Nipple Factory’

First Opinion Scott Gottlieb

The FDA’s risky action on compounding weight loss drugs

First Opinion Jonathan M. Berman

STAT Plus: RFK Jr. says he isn’t an anti-vaxxer. He’s wrong

First Opinion Consuelo Senior

New guidance endangers the rights of people with disabilities

First Opinion Walter G. Johnson

STAT Plus: Congress must act now to protect the future of diagnostic tests

First Opinion Robert M. Califf, Haider J. Warraich, and Jim Jones

FDA commissioner: We need action and higher-quality research on ultra-processed foods

First Opinion Emily Weinstein and Sara Konrath

Tech and social media bans alone cannot fix teen mental health

First Opinion Robert Klitzman

How chaplains can help the fractured U.S. health care system

First Opinion Amber Nigam

How I addressed racial bias in my company’s AI algorithm

First Opinion Podcast Torie Bosch

Getting creative with health care in a new Trump administration

First Opinion Jeff Karp

How ADHD wired me for scientific discovery

First Opinion Janika Schmitt and Jacob Swett

Invest in ‘triple rapid’ tests to fight mpox, H5N1 bird flu, and beyond

First Opinion S. Bryn Austin and Amanda Raffoul

A new Trump administration will further loosen already-lax rules on supplements