January 21, 2025
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STAT+ | Inside the looming crisis in the infant formula market

Abbott, a top preterm infant formula maker, threatens to exit amid litigation. FDA, CDC, NIH see no evidence formula causes deadly disease NEC.

By Lizzy Lawrence


Trump’s initial orders reverse Biden on health care costs, protections from discrimination

Trump's executive orders took aim at Biden's priorities, from drug pricing to gender discrimination.

By Sarah Owermohle, John Wilkerson, Rachel Cohrs Zhang, and Lizzy Lawrence


Opinion: Three former FDA officials: Here’s what Trump and his nominees need to know

As former senior FDA officials, we hope that the new Trump leadership will retain three key characteristics of the world-leading agency.

By Stuart Pape, Wayne Pines, and Mitch Zeller



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Opinion: World Health Organization responds to a critical First Opinion

Ashish Jha’s recent First Opinion essay “includes numerous inaccuracies, omissions, and misrepresentations,” a WHO leader writes.

By Maria D. Van Kerkhove


STAT+ | Germany’s ITM, a stalwart in radiopharmaceuticals, gets ready to take its own shots

The German company, a supplier of raw materials to Novartis and others, is awaiting trial results on a handful of its own cancer therapies.

By Allison DeAngelis


STAT+ | Sanofi is warned by the FDA over ‘significant’ problems at a key manufacturing plant

The Sanofi quality control unit at the plant failed to ensure that active ingredients made there complied with good manufacturing practices.

By Ed Silverman


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Opinion: Final sale: my eight-year struggle to return recalled breast implants

After a voluntary double mastectomy to lower cancer risk, I learned that my breast implants put me at risk of lymphoma — and no one would remove them.

By Oceana Callum


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