First Opinion

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Why Long Covid can feel scarier than a gun to the head

First Opinion Syra Madad, Carlos del Rio, Scott J. Becker, and Ewa King

With the threat of H5N1 bird flu, hospitals must stay prepared

First Opinion Deb Tharp

Why the FDA will have a hard time properly regulating cannabis

First Opinion Rachel Hall-Clifford

Long Covid feels like a gun to my head

First Opinion Hal Rosenbluth

I’m a hypochondriac. Here’s how the health care system needs to deal with people like me

First Opinion Julie Yoo

Oversight of health AI must be democratic, not done by the big tech companies

First Opinion Danjuma Adda

I cried tears of loss and rage at the World Hepatitis Summit

Letters to the editor Patrick Skerrett

Readers respond to a plea for rare disease progress, vaccine-related injury, and more

First Opinion Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Robert B. Aderholt

STAT Plus: NIH needs reform and restructuring, key Republican committee chairs say

First Opinion Julie Sweetland

Telling new stories can help people see the value of vaccines

First Opinion Sofia Hamilton and Thomas Kimbrell

Certificate of need laws con rural patients out of health care

First Opinion Elizabeth Schmidt

The fight over medical abortion has worsened pregnancy care

First Opinion Paul von Hippel

What happened to obesity after Chile slew Tony the Tiger?

First Opinion Esther Agbaje and Tonya Curry

To make public housing healthier, electric stoves and ovens should be the standard

First Opinion Ranu Dhillon and Devabhaktuni Srikrishna

Getting farmworkers to use PPE is hard, but it’s the best way to stop an H5N1 bird flu epidemic

First Opinion Vallerie Biancaniello

FDA: Do your job and stop letting companies sell illicit vapes to kids

First Opinion Jake Frenz

The J&J lawsuit should be a wakeup call to the PBM industry — and to companies everywhere

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Paying off people’s medical debt won’t fix our broken health care system

First Opinion Sanket S. Dhruva and Rita F. Redberg

Blood tests for cancer detection aren’t yet ready for prime time

First Opinion Kizzmekia S. Corbett-Helaire

Empathy should guide responses to reported vaccine injuries

First Opinion Joe and Courtney Dion

Curing rare childhood diseases will falter unless Congress steps up

First Opinion W. Franklyn Richardson

How faith leaders like me can help address America’s obesity epidemic

Letters to the editor Patrick Skerrett

Readers respond to mothers in treatment for opioid use disorder, pandemic models, and more

First Opinion Katherine Hempstead

When medical debt relief is not enough: A study showing what doesn’t work may help point to better solutions

First Opinion Jayasree K. Iyer

Obesity drugs pose a big challenge for health care equity

First Opinion Asa Hutchinson and Deval Patrick

A new initiative will help governors and local leaders fight the next pandemic

First Opinion Tom Daschle and Kathleen G. Sebelius

Close a regulatory loophole in the ACA to provide vaccine access for all Americans

First Opinion Eran Bendavid and Chirag Patel

100,000 models show that not much was learned about stopping the Covid-19 pandemic

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Among pregnant people, active treatment for addiction shouldn’t trigger a call to child protective services