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STAT explores the latest research in global health, including the development of new vaccines and treatments for diseases, the impact of climate change on health and the challenges of providing health care in low-resource settings. You’ll also find coverage of the latest policy developments in global health, such as the funding of global health programs, the efforts to improve access to health care and the response to global health crises.

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First Opinion Leonard Rubenstein

Why Gaza health care facilities and workers have suffered so much violence

First Opinion Gary Darmstadt

How kangaroo mother care can help millions of babies each year

Health Andrew Joseph

Major biomedical research funder Wellcome Trust names Røttingen as its new CEO

The Readout Meghana Keshavan

STAT Plus: Want a biotech buyout? Target cancer

Health Elaine Chen

Stroke deaths, despite advances in prevention, are set to near 10 million globally by 2050

Health Annalisa Merelli

WHO recommends second malaria vaccine, hoping to address supply issues

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: J&J agrees not to enforce patents on a key tuberculosis drug in dozens of poor countries

First Opinion Kristina Bohdanova, Marina Weiss and Samantha Weckesser

Lessons from Ukraine on protecting mental health during conflict

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First Opinion Arjun Sharma

STAT Plus: PEPFAR, one of the greatest public health inventions of our time, is at risk

Health Helen Branswell

Group behind ProMED fires three top moderators amid strike

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Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: South Africa was forced into ‘one-sided’ deals with Covid-19 vaccine suppliers, contracts reveal

Health Theresa Gaffney

Three lessons from Covid that could help global leaders prevent the next pandemic

Health Helen Branswell

ProMED issues ultimatum to striking moderators, as questions about site’s future persist

Health Helen Branswell

ProMED sees offers of support, but its future remains unclear

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: ViiV Healthcare and Doctors Without Borders tussle over contract terms for an HIV drug

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: South Africa ordered to disclose contracts with Pfizer, J&J, and other Covid-19 vaccine suppliers

In the Lab Andrew Joseph

Bird flu researchers turn to Finland’s mink farms, tracking a virus with pandemic potential

Health Simar Bajaj and Abdullahi Tsanni

Meet the scientists trying to stop the next global pandemic from starting in Africa

First Opinion Abdullahi Tsanni

I saw firsthand in Nigeria that drugs alone can’t win the war against tuberculosis

Health Helen Branswell

ProMED, an early warning system on disease outbreaks, appears near collapse

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Vertex faces renewed calls to widen access to its cystic fibrosis medicines in poor countries

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: South Africa faces court hearing over opaque Covid-19 vaccine contracts

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: European regulator will review study data from contract research organization due to ‘serious concerns’

Health Karen Pennar

From rapid cooling body bags to ‘prescriptions’ for AC, doctors prepare for a future of extreme heat

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Colombian government explores compulsory licensing for an HIV drug

Pharmalot Abdullahi Tsanni, Jason Mast and Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: J&J expands global access to TB drug as popular novelist joins advocacy campaign

First Opinion Jayasree K. Iyer

Sickle cell cures are coming. African children can’t be left behind

Health Helen Branswell

Takeda withdraws application for dengue vaccine from FDA

Health Jason Mast

Gates Foundation to fund trial of long-awaited new tuberculosis vaccine candidate