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First Opinion Klaudia Jaźwińska

Implant recipients shouldn’t be left in the dark when a device maker cuts off support

First Opinion Philip Krause and Luciana L. Borio

Will low-dose vaccination stretch the monkeypox vaccine supply, or backfire?

First Opinion Hans Gutbrod

Addressing institutional trauma in health care: the case for a structured ethical framework

First Opinion Maimah Karmo

Triple-negative breast cancer highlights the need to act against health inequities

First Opinion Martha Rebour and Purvi Parikh

The U.S. must fully fund global polio eradication efforts

First Opinion Jim Crotty

The next generation of illicit drugs? Think ‘synthetic’

First Opinion Standish Fleming

The outsized effect of ‘modest’ price controls on pharmaceutical innovation

First Opinion Ken Frazier

Addressing social drivers of health is a big opportunity for tech entrepreneurs

First Opinion Dana P. Goldman, Edith A. Perez and Carlos del Rio

Lack of diversity in clinical trials costs billions of dollars. Incentives can spur innovation

First Opinion Lawrence O. Gostin, Kevin A. Klock and Sam F. Halabi

Inching closer to an essential global pandemic treaty

First Opinion Joan Bregstein

Paxlovid rebound happens, though why and to whom are still a mystery

First Opinion Victor Wang

Hospitals, health systems play critical roles in the real-world data movement

First Opinion David Blumenthal

Keeping climate provisions in the budget reconciliation act is a key step toward protecting Americans’ health

First Opinion Ron Peck

Fast science can be good science, even more so when lives are at stake

First Opinion Stephen Bohan

Americans deserve better than ‘destination hallway’ in emergency departments and hospital wards

First Opinion Kenneth E. Thorpe

WTO: Don’t make a bad situation worse by granting intellectual property waivers for Covid-19 therapeutics and diagnostics

First Opinion David Reese and Kári Stefánsson

A better understanding of human diversity is needed to equitably advance precision medicine

First Opinion Quita Highsmith

I learned up close and personal about the necessity of improving diversity in clinical trials

Opinions+ Sajith Wickramasekara

How to close biopharma’s data science and engineering skills gap

First Opinion Pratap Khedkar

The future of health care is here. When will it be everywhere?

First Opinion Irene Shapiro

The Morris ALS Principles: A model for empowering all disease communities

First Opinion Kip Sullivan, Ana Malinow and Kay Tillow

Value-based payment has produced little value. It needs a time-out

First Opinion Christine Bechtel, Lois Frankel and Jennifer Sweeney

Clinician-administrator relationships are ‘on life support.’ Here’s how to heal them

First Opinion Kira Sampson, Carlise Sorenson and Kate Adamala

The FDA needs to get ready to evaluate synthetic cells, the next generation of therapeutics

First Opinion Reuben Guttman and Liza Vertinsky

Demanding more impact from impact litigation: lessons to be learned from multi-state opioid settlements

First Opinion Jeeshan Chowdhury

Working with Indigenous allies is the ethical way to develop psychedelic-based pharmaceuticals

First Opinion Thomas B. Cueni and Richard Hatchett

Poorer nations need assurances of dedicated vaccine supplies before the next pandemic

First Opinion Katherine A. Gergen-Barnett and Russell S. Phillips

Deal between Amazon and One Medical has massive implications for the future of primary care

First Opinion Craig Garthwaite

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