02 Feb, 2026

STAT readers on reaching anti-vaxxers

First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech insiders, health care workers, researchers, and others. To encourage robust, good-faith discussion about issues raised in First Opinion essays, STAT publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to them. You can submit a […]

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SAREPTA is resistant to the FDA on elements, the agency chooses the best drug regulator | Stat

Hello everyone, it’s Jason Mast, filling for Ed. Today, I am at the New York office in Pharmalittle, sipping a Bread’s Bakery coffee, which serves the best Babka in Manhattan. (The best babka in the country, for those who wonder, is that of my mother. She does not take orders, but if you are really, […]

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Stat Health News: 988, assistant HHS candidate, “IVF to three parents”

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every day of the week with free morning towers of stat. Register here. As a bicycle novector, statistics on the deaths of pedestrians and cyclists in the fourth article of today have definitively annoyed me. If you drive, pay attention to people on bikes and on foot. […]

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