STAT+ | Trump has ‘shaken the hell’ out of the 80-year research pact between the government and universities. What now?

After a year of grant cancellations, DEI bans, layoffs, and increased politicization of science, what comes next? Part 1 of 'American Science, Shattered.'

By Megan Molteni, Anil Oza, and J. Emory Parker

STAT+ | FDA to lower number of trials required for approval of drugs, other medical products

FDA is moving to require one clinical study, not the standard two, for medical products before consideration for approval, commissioner says.

By Lizzy Lawrence

STAT+ | Vinay Prasad, FDA’s vaccine regulator, waves off criticism in closed-door remarks

Vinay Prasad pushes back on criticism of his vaccine policy changes, morale issues at the FDA, and his role in recent drug-approval turbulence.

By Damian Garde and Lizzy Lawrence

Brittney Dockery, pictured in front of her home, left scientific research amid federal funding uncertainty.

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Working with monkeys was this lab tech’s dream job. Now she’s staffing an IT help desk

Part 2 of STAT's 'American Science, Shattered' series looks at a lab tech who left research, becoming part of a troubling national trend

By Jonathan Wosen

STAT+ | Tracy Beth Høeg, Makary aide who investigated Covid vaccines, to lead FDA drug center

Høeg will be the fifth person to lead the center this year, and her appointment comes after Richard Pazdur’s abrupt retirement.

By Lizzy Lawrence and Chelsea Cirruzzo

Top Senate health leader calls CDC vaccine panel ‘totally discredited’

Sen. Bill Cassidy says the ACIP vaccine advisory panel, stacked with members picked by RFK Jr., should promote vaccine safety, not endanger children.

By Chelsea Cirruzzo

Breanna Cutright, 18, was an ambassador for the anti-tobacco smoking program Raze until its funding was cut: “Why does no one see how important this is?”

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What West Virginia teens lost when CDC cuts ended their fight against Big Tobacco

CDC closure of the Office on Smoking and Health hit a teenaged activist hard. Her story is told in Part 3 of the STAT series "American Science, Shattered."