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First Opinion Rachel King and Peter L. Saltonstall

STAT Plus: The IRA needs changes to better support patients with rare diseases

First Opinion Baruch Fischhoff, Steven Woloshin, Tamar Krishnamurti and Barry Dewitt

Patients might finally receive practical information with prescriptions — if the FDA doesn’t blow it

First Opinion Mical Raz and Naftali Kaminski

Doctors in the U.S. can learn a lot about advocacy and activism from their Israeli counterparts

First Opinion Paul Hudson

STAT Plus: Sanofi CEO Paul Hudson: The right way to bring AI into pharma

First Opinion Mariana Socal

How the drug price negotiation program could affect Medicare Part D beneficiaries

First Opinion Michelle Simpson Tuegel

How health care systems can protect patients from sexual assault by providers

First Opinion Peter B. Bach

What a viral study criticizing cancer screening gets very, very wrong

First Opinion Arti K. Rai

STAT Plus: What does ‘bona fide competition’ actually mean in the biologics market?

First Opinion Danielle Meinert

I cured my ARFID with psilocybin. I shouldn’t have needed to self-treat it

First Opinion Akila Muthukumar Valliammai, Leigh Simmons and Karen Sepucha

The question list is a simple way to help patients prepare for appointments

First Opinion Lily Fitzgerald

STAT Plus: Looking for a climate job? Consider biotech

First Opinion Andrea Ippolito

STAT Plus: Why isn’t there any enforcement of the ACA mandate to support breastfeeding?

First Opinion Irasema Garza and Guadalupe Pacheco

It’s long past time for a more comprehensive Covid treatment approach

First Opinion Sharmila B. Mehta

How learning the truth about chaos theory has helped me as an inpatient child psychologist

First Opinion Joseph J. Fins

STAT Plus: Every senator should fill out a legislative advance directive

First Opinion Arya Rao and Shira Hornstein

How the twin crises of climate change and poor public housing are harming people’s health

First Opinion Simone Bernstein and Jessica Gold

STAT Plus: Psychiatrists like us cannot keep up with their inboxes

First Opinion Tom Mueller

Surfing, camping, and deciding when to stop: Australia’s human-centric approach to dialysis

First Opinion Jenna Wiens, Rada Mihalcea and Brahmajee K. Nallamothu

STAT Plus: Current large language models will not fix health care. Here’s what could

First Opinion Brian Stein and Bala Hota

How to save the U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals rankings

First Opinion Dana Singiser

A roadmap for making over-the-counter birth control affordable

First Opinion Andrea Maderal

I’m a doctor who specializes in treating leprosy. Here’s what I want you to know

First Opinion Dallas Ducar and Cathy Campbell

How to take care of trans patients in hospice

First Opinion Ira Byock

The hospice industry needs major reforms. It should start with apologies

First Opinion James B. Rebitzer and Robert S. Rebitzer

What the hospital-at-home movement tells us about igniting innovation in health care

First Opinion Morgan S. Levy, Vineet Arora and Arghavan Salles

Medicine robs physicians of their fertility. Here’s how to fix it

First Opinion Liz Beatty

The definition of clinical trial diversity must include disabled people

First Opinion Deepti Babu

Medicare beneficiaries deserve access to genetic counselors

First Opinion Ashley Ward

Why it’s so difficult to count the number of heat-related deaths