Nicholas Florko is the Washington Correspondent for STAT, a media company focused on health and medicine news. With a keen interest in policy and regulation, Nicholas covers a wide range of topics including the cannabis industry, FDA challenges, pharmaceutical and biotech issues, and the intersection of politics and healthcare.
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By: Nicholas Florko
By Nicholas Florko March 28, 2024 W ASHINGTON — There's a fight brewing over the future of decaf coffee.
By: Nicholas Florko
By Nicholas Florko April 16, 2024 W ASHINGTON – In the last decade, Americans have been sickened by salmonella from cucumbers, listeria from Mexican-style cheese, and E. coli from romaine lettuce.
By: Helen Branswell, Megan Molteni, Rachel Cohrs Zhang, Nicholas Florko
W ASHINGTON — Testing conducted by the Food and Drug Administration on pasteurized commercially purchased milk has found genetic evidence of the H5N1 bird flu virus, the agency confirmed Tuesday.
By Nicholas Florko April 24, 2024 W ASHINGTON – Chocolate milk in schools is here to stay.
By: Nicholas Florko
Advocates of a federal ban on menthol cigarettes have spent years trying everything to sway policymakers — now, it seems, they may just have to sit around and wait.
Lobbying registrations tied to tobacco companies jumped over 10% from 2023 to 2024, and lobbyists are busy pushing and opposing laws in statehouses.
By: Nicholas Florko
Two New York University professors collaborated directly with executives of the vaping company Juul without disclosing those relationships to journals or Congress.
By: Nicholas Florko
“D oes it trouble you to answer that question?” one of New York's highest paid attorneys asked Cliff Douglas, then a 36-year-old activist who had
By: Nicholas Florko, Rachel Cohrs Zhang, Lizzy Lawrence
With an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu spreading among dairy cattle, experts say the longtime fractured nature of the U.S. food regulation system could hamper the federal response.
By: Nicholas Florko
The interstate trade in raw milk is illegal, because of the risk of serious illness. But in many places, raw milk is being transported across state lines and openly sold.
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