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FDA news: STAT coverage of the Food and Drug Administration includes the latest on weight loss drugs, pulse oximeters and medical AI, plus a warning from outgoing FDA commissioner Robert Califf.

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Politics Helen Branswell

STAT Plus: Drug inspectors, AI experts, maternal health workers: Trump’s health agency cuts are far-reaching

Exclusive Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: FDA cuts hit AI division, even as Trump invests in the technology

Politics Lizzy Lawrence and Matthew Herper

Trump administration lays off FDA employees

Matt's Take Matthew Herper

STAT Plus: How Trump’s ‘fear factor’ is already reshaping American science

Health STAT Staff

Are you affected by firings at federal health agencies?

Exclusive Sarah Owermohle, Lizzy Lawrence, Helen Branswell, and Matthew Herper

STAT Plus: Trump administration to fire thousands at health agencies

Biotech Adam Feuerstein

STAT Plus: Biotech is in a dark place

First Opinion Daniel X. Pham

The FDA must remove an unnecessary barrier to the use of clozapine for treatment-resistant schizophrenia

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Health Helen Branswell

As officials prepare for WHO-led flu vaccine meeting, many wonder: Will the U.S. show?

Politics Associated Press

STAT Plus: Judge tells agencies to restore webpages and data removed after Trump’s executive order

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First Opinion Diana M. Zuckerman and John H. Powers III

The FDA’s misguided thinking on antibiotics

Politics Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Experts fear disruptions at FDA as Trump offers buyouts and layoff reports swirl

Exclusive Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Lawmakers ask FDA to review Hims’ Super Bowl ad for ‘misleading’ patients

First Opinion Suzanne B. Robotti

STAT Plus: FDA clinical trial inclusivity guidelines will be back

Health Sarah Todd

Q&A: How gluten-free processed foods put people with celiac disease at risk

First Opinion Emma McKim Mitchell and Christine Phelan Kueter

HPV self-collection tests must be approved for use at home

First Opinion Anushka Bhaskar, Aaron S. Kesselheim, and Daniel Carpenter

STAT Plus: How to protect HHS, FDA, NIH, and other health agencies from political interference

Biotech Jonathan Wosen

STAT Plus: Vertex wins FDA approval for non-opioid pain drug, setting stage for closely watched rollout

Health tech Katie Palmer

STAT Plus: ‘Incredibly irresponsible’: Hims Super Bowl ad downplays risks of compounded drugs

Politics Rachel Cohrs Zhang and Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: RFK Jr.’s step-by-step blueprint to question the safety of vaccines

Politics Lev Facher, Jason Mast, and Angus Chen

STAT Plus: Trump’s restrictions spark chaos across health and science agencies

Politics Matthew Herper and Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: FDA purges material on clinical trial diversity from its site, showing stakes of Trump DEI ban

Politics Associated Press

STAT Plus: Trump administration freezes many health agency reports and posts

First Opinion Jonathan Nez

How Native Americans are working to improve federal dietary guidelines

First Opinion Stuart Pape, Wayne Pines, and Mitch Zeller

STAT Plus: Three former FDA officials: Here’s what Trump and his nominees need to know

Health Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Inside the looming crisis in the infant formula market

First Opinion Jerome Adams

Former surgeon general: Vaccine-preventable diseases are still a major threat

Health tech Katie Palmer

STAT Plus: Online marketing for compounded GLP-1 drugs overstates benefits and underplays risks

First Opinion Steven Phillips

STAT Plus: Trump nominees for health positions should fail the ‘Fauci test’