Public Health
The World Health Organization’s director-general said he was “genuinely concerned” that the Ebola…
Get the health information and medications you need every weekday with STAT’s free…
New data released Thursday suggests the prevalence of drinking during pregnancy has increased…
In an unusual move, the nonprofit organization Blood Cancer United announced Thursday that…
During the first five years of life, more than half of the calories…
You’re reading the web version of DC Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about health…
Health Updates
One of the most widely cited stories about Yellowstone’s wolves is facing new scrutiny. A new peer-reviewed analysis Earth ecology…
Parrots are famous for their ability to imitate human speech, but do they use names the same way we do?…
For many Americans, middle age is even more difficult than it was for previous generations. People born in the 1960s…
The new test provides a much more complete picture of your DNA than current standard diagnostics and more often leads…
Researchers at Amsterdam UMC, in collaboration with other hospitals, have successfully completed the first-ever Phase 3 study of in vivo…