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I noticed that Pfizer made some changes to their DEI page today: www.statnews.com/2025/02/27/p...

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A child has died in Texas from #measles, which is a vaccine preventable disease. Yet neither the HHS Secretary, nor his department, nor the #CDC has publicly urged parents of unvaccinated children to get their kids vaccinated. The silence is stunning. www.statnews.com/2025/02/27/t...

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In today's edition of AI Prognosis we: -Address the question of whether health care's adoption of AI scribes is entirely vibes-based -Have an exclusive Q&A with co-founder of an AI deep research tool made specifically for scientists who just raised a $22M Series A -Recommend a 🔥 Song of the Week

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The CDC will no longer process transgender identity data in order to comply with Trump’s executive order, an agency rep told me today. This has immediate implications for the YRBS — the only nationally-representative source of data on trans youth — and more. www.statnews.com/2025/02/25/c...

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Vaccine safety researchers know you have to follow the science, regardless of whether it exonerates or implicates a vaccine in a suspected side effect. They also know their work may be weaponized & misconstrued by people trying to undermine vaccine confidence. www.statnews.com/2025/02/24/p...

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NEW: Patients in trials of Lilly's next-gen obesity drug tell me they think they're losing too much weight. One started skipping doses, another is making himself eat caloric foods. This is part of what some see as a risky race for more weight loss www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/t...

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I'm looking to talk with VA employees who may be directed to alter gender-related fields in medical records. Signal: palmer.01. Please boost! #journorequest #veterans

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New disclosures show Dr. Oz is worth up to ~$300 million. He's pledged to sell insurance, hospital, and pharma stocks + step down from supplement company if confirmed as CMS administrator. www.statnews.com/2025/02/19/d... via @statnews.com

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Trump framed his funding freeze as targeting “big bureaucracy” and its “fraud and waste and abuse.” But the truth is much more complicated. Read the latest from Eric to learn about real people affected, including an 86-year-old in WV who lost her ride to dialysis: www.statnews.com/2025/02/18/i...

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The Trump-DOGE layoffs are rippling across federal health agencies, hitting medical regulators, AI experts, and people trying to improve Medicare and Medicaid. Stellar work from STAT's team on a holiday weekend. www.statnews.com/2025/02/17/t...

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If you are one of the #CDC #HHS #FDA #NIH employees who have learned today that your employment is being abruptly ended, we want to hear from you. @altcdc.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/f...

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A federal judge in Baltimore today temporarily blocked two Trump orders that target trans youth. There's also a hearing tomorrow in the suit Washington/Oregon/Minnesota filed against Trump over his healthcare order. More from my colleagues: wapo.st/4gLu7FM

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From Sweetgreen's new "seed oil-free" menu to RFK Jr., the movement to ditch canola, corn, & other vegetable oils has taken off. Read my story on the forces behind the backlash, who's profiting from it, and Americans' broken trust in government and industry: www.statnews.com/2025/02/12/a...

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Breaking: Halt on Trump administration’s cuts to NIH research payments expanded nationwide, not just in certain states. My latest for @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/02/11/j...

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this morning: NIH funding cuts, a Super Bowl ad, & a letter to the Supreme Court www.statnews.com/2025/02/10/h...

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One week later, how are institutions responding to the gender-affirming care EO? I asked an expert about the hospitals that have suspended care, the fact that we haven't heard from professional medical associations, and what might come next: www.statnews.com/2025/02/05/a...

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RFK Jr. talks about vaccine science as if the alleged links between vaccines and autism haven't been disproven. @matthewherper.bsky.social walks you through the science Kennedy won't cite. www.statnews.com/2025/02/03/v...

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

NYU-Langone is cancelling appointments for gender-affirming care for young trans people, parents say. The cancellations come after Trump's order directing institutions that receive federal funding to end gender-affirming care for patients under 19. hellgatenyc.com/nyu-langone-...

submitted 30 days ago • 34 comments

Several databases at the #CDC have gone offline today. We know of some — Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, AtlasPlus. There are undoubtedly more. If you are a researcher & use these databases, please share with @statnews.com how this will affect your work. www.statnews.com/2025/01/25/t...

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BREAKING: Vital, nationally-representative data has been removed from the CDC website. "Everyone I know in public health and science more broadly is freaking out right now,” @albeccia.bsky.social told me. Read: www.statnews.com/2025/01/31/c...

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We will be live blogging day 2 of RFK Jr.'s Senate hearings today, highlighting the most important moments and adding context. Follow along starting at 10a ET: www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/r...

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Morning Rounds is the best place to can get the full download each morning of whatever chaos happened in health and science the day before. It's also the place you can learn about mice with two dads: www.statnews.com/2025/01/29/h...

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Eight years ago, Carsen Beckwith, 27, who identifies as nonbinary, began taking testosterone, which they describe as “lifesaving.” Beckwith said they are much healthier today than they were in college, when they contemplated suicide. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

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There is a lot going on right now, but I found the results from this study timely: www.statnews.com/2025/01/29/9...

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During the campaign, Trump promised to end gender-affirming care for trans children. Today, he put his plan into action. Important note: "Children," under the order, includes 18-year-olds. New story from @hencarnell.bsky.social and I on today's anti-trans EO: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 33 days ago • 8 comments

Exclusive: Private emails show RFK Jr. making false claims about Covid-19 shots, linking vaccines to autism, at height of pandemic. www.statnews.com/2025/01/28/k...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump has just released a national under 18 trans care ban executive order. I am working through specifically how it tries to do this, and will live tweet here section by section as I read through it. It is not yet on the website, but has been released via press release.

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New: Here's what we know about today's Medicaid chaos (yes, that's FIVE bylines). www.statnews.com/2025/01/28/f...

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“I mean, it’s only been how many days now, five?” scientist Naomi Lee told me on Friday. I teamed up with Angus Chen and @usha.bsky.social for this @statnews.com piece on how researchers are reeling as the Trump administration cuts funding and ends DEI programs www.statnews.com/2025/01/27/t...

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Trying to clear up some of the chaos: #NIH's acting director attempts to clarify for anxious staff what they can and cannot do during the new administration's "communications pause," @owermohle.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2025/01/27/n...

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Chaos across science, plus: Redlining, cancer, heart disease, & more this morning www.statnews.com/2025/01/27/h...

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Dr. Eithan Haim was accused of leaking sensitive data of children who recieved gender-affmriming care at Texas Children's Hospital and giving it to Christopher Rufo, despite the fact that they were not under his care. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

submitted 37 days ago • 4 comments

Hi all. I cover the FDA for STAT. As the new admin begins, I want to encourage you all to reach out to me if you ever want to talk about anything FDA-related — especially if you work or used to work at the agency. My email is [email protected] and my Signal username is lizzylaw.53

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

covered 3 new studies in MR today: on trans youth who move out of state for medical care, on how pregnant people with MS disproportionately experience mental health problems, and on who is still taking baby aspirin daily against the latest guidance: www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/h...

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a really thorough and digestible explanation from Megan on what the science actually says about sex and gender: www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/t...

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If your work has been impacted by the Trump administration's freeze on scientific meetings/comms or its executive actions targeting DEI programs, STAT wants to know more: www.statnews.com/2025/01/22/t...

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

there's confusion as fed agencies cancel scientific meetings, including NIH study sections some pause on activities is expected, experts said, but many are on edge w/o knowing how long it will last w/ @pompanolab.bsky.social & @annikabarber.bsky.social 🧪🔬 www.statnews.com/2025/01/22/t...

submitted 39 days ago • 5 comments

WHO responds to criticism, cancer therapy’s new "gold rush," birth control disparities, and more in today's Morning Rounds: www.statnews.com/2025/01/22/h...

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NEW: Trump's EO recognizing “only two sexes” won't invalidate existing passports issued to trans and nonbinary people that have their preferred gender or X marker But to renew, "they have to use their God-given sex, which was decided at birth," the White House told me www.notus.org/whitehouse/t...

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Lawsuits against two major preterm infant formula makers say formula increases risk of NEC, a deadly bowel disease. But there's no clear evidence formula is linked to NEC and worse, the lawsuits could prompt a "catastrophic" market exit. Inside the looming crisis: www.statnews.com/2025/01/21/n...

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A great rundown from STAT's DC team on what action Trump took yesterday re: health policy. Including peeling back multiple gender and sex discrimination protections: www.statnews.com/2025/01/20/t...

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3 years ago, I interviewed a group of teen girls about their experience playing high school baseball. I asked their perspective on anti-trans sports bills — which supports say protect girls like them. One answer: "Trans women should be able to play women’s sports because they are women."

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BREAKING: House votes to ban trans girls from women’s sports in federally funded schools. This is the first federal anti-trans law brought to a vote in a newly GOP-controlled Congress. This bill would change Title IX and revoke federal funding for schools that allow trans girls in women’s sports.

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

this profile, by @usha.bsky.social is well worth your while Kafui Dzirasa is trying to understand the electrical basis for mental health disorders while creating a more equitable research environment than the one he came up in 🧪🔬 #medsky @blackinneuro.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/01/13/k...

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NEW: I spoke with Jonathan Kanter, the Biden administration's top DOJ antitrust official who just left the agency. He's very worried about health care's consolidation and said antitrust needs to consider breaking up big health care conglomerates. www.statnews.com/2025/01/10/a...

submitted 51 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: "Things will get worse before they get better" and "We're not giving up." Reactions to today's data showing medical school enrollments dropped steeply for Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous applicants. With @uressien.bsky.social @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/01/09/m...

submitted 52 days ago • 4 comments

If people continue to be infected with #H5N1 #birdflu, some will die. One has: the person in Louisiana who was infected by poultry and/or wild birds in a backyard flock. Developing story. www.statnews.com/2025/01/06/b...

submitted 55 days ago • 8 comments

As policymakers around the world debate whether minors should have access to transition-related medications, a study published Monday in the nation’s premier pediatric medical journal found that the drugs are rarely prescribed to youths. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

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