Obesity is a chronic disease that can significantly affect an individual’s overall health. In this Care Cues, experts discuss ...

My views on shared decision-making have changed. In years past, I embraced, somewhat religiously, the idea that nearly all medical decisions ought to be shared. Who could argue against giving patients ...

When federal health officials announced on Jan. 5 that they were taking six out of 17 vaccines off the childhood immunization schedule, they argued that the move would give parents and caregivers more ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Rather than telling a patient they should get a vaccine, the CDC’s shared clinical decision-making ...

Shared decision making (SDM) is a method of care that is suitable for the care of patients with cancer. It involves a collaborative conversation seeking to respond sensibly to the problematic ...

Shared decision-making in healthcare, in which patients and providers share information and jointly make decisions based on the individual needs of the patient, requires a significant investment, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Vaccine hesitancy is more common among people who seek information from the ...

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech ...

Credit: Getty Images Improving the quality of patients’ health care decisions is feasible with the right educational tools. Something about focusing on hitting a bouncy yellow tennis ball just right ...

Eric Boodman focuses on narrative features, exploring the startling ways that science and medicine affect people’s lives. You can reach Eric on Signal at eboodman.88. But to researchers who’ve spent ...

When federal health officials announced on Jan. 5, 2026, that they were taking six out of 17 vaccines off the childhood immunization schedule, they argued that the move would give parents and ...