You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Hello! This is Daniel Payne, making my D.C. Diagnosis debut today — and there’s no shortage of news, even for August in Washington. What’s…
Conflicts of interest on federal government vaccine panels have been declining to “historically low levels” in recent years, according to a new study, whose findings are likely to increase debate over a contentious issue pushed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The rate of conflicts found among members of the Centers…
You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I was reminded recently of why I dig mass transit upon overhearing the train conductor and two middle-aged men engaged in a serious talk…