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STAT+ | Updated: Tracking RFK Jr.’s promises to remake health in America

STAT keeps a promises tracker for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again movement — successes, incompletes, fails. Updated June 2026.

By Isabella Cueto and J. Emory Parker

STAT+ | At hospital finance conference, a call to end the friction that’s keeping costs high

At the Healthcare Financial Management Association conference, there was wide agreement that affordability is a major issue. What to do was far less clear.

By Tara Bannow

STAT+ | Prometheus raises $12 billion in capital for artificial engineers

Today's biotech news includes nonprofit Blood Cancer United acquiring a cancer drug, Lilly and Nvidia investing in Abridge, and more

By Meghana Keshavan

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Opinion: I’ve spent 40 years in research. I have never seen a threat to science like the new grantmaking rule

The federal government is now proposing to fundamentally rewire scientific research review for no good reason.

By David J. Skorton

Opinion: Ebola outbreak response requires engaging with religious traditions and leaders

Trusted religious and traditional leaders need to be engaged immediately as the Ebola outbreak spreads rapidly in the DRC and Uganda.

By Olivia Wilkinson and Katherine Marshall

How a diabetes conference sparked a controversy

Annual ADA convention, normally a staid affair, sees protesters expelled, controversy erupt and apologies issued. STATus Report host Alex Hogan dives in.

By Alex Hogan