12+ hour, 19+ min ago  (427+ words) In reality, this announcement, and the steady stream of actions over the past 18 months, mark a quiet rewriting of the vocabulary of American mental health care — a massive rhetorical shift enacted while programs and protections that would actually solve the…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (18+ words) The artificial divide between mental illness and neurodegenerative and other neurological disorders is a scientific and strategic error....

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (415+ words) Last week, President Trump nominated Erica Schwartz to direct the CDC. Until now, the position has mostly been filled on a part-time or interim basis. As a team of STAT reporters led by Helen Branswell reports, the nomination has generated sighs…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago  (175+ words) Good morning. Sometimes it is so hard to drink water. Let’s all try to do that today. Now, the New England Journal of Medicine and the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy will begin publishing “public health alerts” on…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago  (478+ words) Cannabis use rates among people with psychosis have surged in states that have legalized the drug, according to a new study. Medical professionals say the trend — especially when combined with more potent variants of the drug available on the market…...

11+ mon, 3+ day ago  (287+ words) By Kyle Fitzpatrick, Geoffrey Engel, and J. Wesley Boyd The practice of omitting the ninth item on the PHQ-9 because of liability concerns disregards the patient’s humanity and flies in the face of the duty to always treat patients with their…...

11+ mon, 2+ week ago  (577+ words) Todd is STAT’s commercial determinants of health reporter. Here is a short list of things that have made me cry recently: Meanwhile, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said during his Senate confirmation hearing that he’s known people who have…...