Science, Medicine, & Education

This week’s debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is the first of three the candidates will engage in before the November election. As in years past, each debate will be broadly aimed at one of three single subject areas—domestic policy, the economy and foreign policy. For the last several election cycles, a consortium of

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid criticized the U.S. government on Thursday for not doing enough to end female genital mutilation (FGM) around the world or to spread awareness of the practice within the U.S. “We as a federal government have done very little” to bring an end to the practice, Reid said during a press

RespectAbility, a non-partisan Jewish advocacy group for people with disabilities, sent questionnaires to candidates about issues affecting the disabled community.  Here are the answers provided by Hillary Clinton. QUESTION 1: Do you have a clear and transparent process for making decisions on disability issues? For example, how do you know/learn about disability issues and make decisions

PHILADELPHIA — Hillary Clinton, campaigning Monday at Temple University, told college students — many of whom are drowning in debt — that she’s the candidate to address their needs. “No one will work harder to make your life better,” Clinton said, promising to give young people a say in White House decision-making. Clinton told the

HOUSTON – Vice President Joe Biden says he plans to dedicate his career after politics to cancer research – and to do so for “as long as I’m alive” – but ruled out serving in Hillary Clinton’s administration should she win the White House this fall. In a wide-ranging interview with STAT, Biden said he

Donald Trump said in an interview with Dr. Mehmet Oz that aired Thursday that he’s against requiring a prescription for birth control, calling it too tough of an ask for some women. “I think what we have in birth control is … when you have to get a prescription, that’s a pretty tough something to

BALTIMORE — The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has received a $300 million gift from businessman and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg — coinciding with the institution’s 100th anniversary— to be used to launch an initiative it says will transform the way the country approaches public health issues. It is the largest

As Hillary Clinton’s longtime physician, Lisa Bardack has stayed out of the public spotlight. She hasn’t given interviews. Her colleagues have declined to talk about her relationship with the Democratic presidential candidate. Asked by STAT if she had something nice to say about Bardack, her mother, a rabbi, hung up the phone. Bardack, in other