Sarah Todd returned to reporting in January 2025 after being assignment editor at STAT since October 2022. You can reach Sarah on Signal at sarahlizchar.47. Everyone agrees that diet is important to ...

As a research scientist specializing in nutrition and a professor preparing future physicians, I know the uphill battle it is ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he plans to tell American medical schools they must offer nutrition courses to students or risk losing federal funding from the Department of Health and ...

Onyejiaka is a writer, a medical student at the University of Minnesota Medical School and a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. During my third-year neurology rotation, I had ...

“We train physicians to wield the latest surgical tools, but not to guide patients on how to stay out of the operating room in the first place,” Kennedy wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. “We know ...

Medical students in south Alabama are learning about nutrition at a cooking class in hopes they will be able to better talk to patients about what they eat. As you may know, Congress wants to cut ...

Cooper Medical School students work on the Cooper Sprouts Community Garden in 2024. It's an example of a student community service project that focuses on nutrition. (Courtesy of Cooper Medical School ...

Given that about a third of Texans are now obese, State Sen. Lois Kolkhorst said she already knows schools and colleges weren’t really teaching basic nutrition to students. But it was when she asked a ...