WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to speed the reclassification of marijuana from a Schedule I drug, a significant change that would not federally legalize ...

Echoing President Donald Trump’s call to accelerate medical innovation, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary announced that the agency will no longer block companies from ...

The FDA now accepts RWE for device submissions without needing identifiable patient data, facilitating the use of large, de-identified databases. This change addresses previous limitations that ...

Researchers found a chasm between the health reasons for which the public seeks out cannabis and what gold-standard science actually shows about its effectiveness. By Jan Hoffman To treat their pain, ...

Minnesota’s Paid Family Medical Leave program, set to fully launch Jan. 1, will open applications Wednesday to those who welcomed a child in 2025. Gov. Tim Walz visited one of the small businesses ...

ST. PAUL — Minnesota’s Paid Family Medical Leave program, set to fully launch Jan. 1, will open applications on Wednesday, Dec. 3, to those who welcomed a child in 2025. Gov. Tim Walz visited one of ...

1 Center for Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital (Affiliated People’s Hospital), Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou, ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Maryland is one of 38 US states, along with three territories and the District of Columbia, that have legalized cannabis for medical purposes. This legal sea change has generated increasing interest ...

A new study out of Canada says teenagers who use marijuana are more likely to seek physical and mental medical attention than their counterparts. Published in the JAMA Network Open journal on Oct. 28, ...