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Health tech / AI reporter @ STAT News AAAS MMF '21 PFAS PhD/water nerd Buckeye/believer/sad indie rock concertgoer Signal: btrang.01

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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 22/09/2026
For all my fellow Ohioans out there (and those looking on but thankfully not subject to the onslaught of political ads in the mail and on YouTube.) From Ohio native @sarah-todd.bsky.social: www.statnews.com/2026/09/22/o... 🩺 #health #healthcare #medicine #ohio #governor #acton #ramaswamy
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Ohio governor’s race is a battle over Covid, health costs, and trust in science
The race between Amy Acton and Vivek Ramaswamy could be the election’s most direct test of where the heartland stands on health care and the pandemic.
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 16/09/2026
Exciting news: You can now sign up for AI Prognosis, even if you’re not a STAT+ subscriber! Non-subscribers will receive a truncated version of the newsletter, but will still get health and biotech AI news you can use in your inbox every Wednesday. Sign up here: 🖥️🩺
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Sign up for AI Prognosis — a STAT+ newsletter from Brittany Trang
Brittany Trang's subscriber-exclusive weekly newsletter unpacks the intersection of AI, health, and medicine.
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STAT @statnews.com · 16/09/2026
Scientists have made mice with half a brain, then filled them with human organoids — possibly opening new avenues for research but also raising ethical issues. www.statnews.com/2026/09/16/h...
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Scientists made mice with half a brain. Then they filled them with human organoids
Scientists have made mice with half a brain, then filled them with human organoids — possibly opening new avenues for research but also raising ethical issues.
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 15/09/2026
New documents reveal how rough the Medicare AI approvals pilot has been. One vendor didn't know Medicare Part A from Part B. Another warned CMS that choosing not to delay the launch meant it would launch with an unfinished product. And provider feedback shows how patients have suffered. More: 🖥️🩺
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Medicare's AI prior authorization pilot was rushed and full of problems, new documents reveal
The rushed launch of a Medicare pilot to use AI for prior authorization led to delayed care in some instances, new documents reveal.
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Jonathan Wosen @jonathanwosen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A @statnews.com exclusive from me: Marc Tessier-Lavigne, who resigned as Stanford president in 2023 after a misconduct investigation, has posted more than 3,000 words and released emails to refute claims he published fraudulent results and orchestrated a cover-up. www.statnews.com/2026/08/27/m...
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Former Stanford president releases emails to rebut fraud and cover-up allegations in new book
Marc Tessier-Lavigne released new details from his research and travel in an attempt to refute allegations in a new book that he published fraudulent results.
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STAT @statnews.com · 17/08/2026
STAT's @brittanytrang.com is headed to Epic headquarters, where it's welcoming thousands of customers for its annual meeting amid executive departures and antitrust interest from the FTC. Reach out to her if you're there.
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 14/08/2026
Breaking: Three sources confirmed to @statnews.com that the FTC and a group of attorneys general are looking into EHR giant Epic's practices for potential antitrust action. Read more about the context, including the counts that the FTC is probing on, from me and Casey Ross: 🖥️🩺
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Epic’s alleged anti-competitive practices under scrutiny from federal, state investigators
Epic Systems is the subject of a broad inquiry into its business practices, people who were contacted by FTC investigators told STAT.
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 13/08/2026
NEW: A followup to our Commure investigation from yesterday: The company has terminated its programs that pay partners for referring its products. Read more @statnews.com from me and @caseyross.bsky.social: 🩺🖥️
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Commure terminates payments under its customer referral programs tied to AI products
Commure, which develops and sells AI products to clinics, has terminated a program that paid for referrals to new customers.
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 12/08/2026
One Commure customer says he went without a paycheck for 20 weeks because its AI billing software was so bad. Others call it "magic." What gives? Read my & @caseyross.bsky.social's months-long investigation into a $7B company trying to transform health care, only at @statnews.com: 🩺🖥️
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Inside a $7 billion Silicon Valley startup’s mad dash to automate the business of health care
Commure wants to automate health care's administrative tasks with AI. An inside look at the messy realities of the startup's ambitious quest.
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
reposting this story because .... www.statnews.com/2025/09/26/t...
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3 burning questions about the MMR vaccine, answered
President Trump has said the MMR vaccine should be broken up. But experts see no medical benefit in separating one shot into three.
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Jason Ukman @jasonukman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The CDC officially has a director again. www.statnews.com/2026/08/05/s...
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Erica Schwartz confirmed as CDC director, filling nearly year-long vacancy
Now confirmed, Erica Schwartz is the third CDC nominee since Trump took office his second term.
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 24/07/2026
Absolutely sobbing by the end of this story. A must-read. Very interested to see what impact this has on the gene-editing field. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made public
Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 23/07/2026
"The concept of prior authorization is not understandable to even a 4-year-old" is a real sentence I uttered in my attempt to learn from Advanced Machine Intelligence CEO / Nabla chief AI officer Alex LeBrun what "world models" are. Find out the context, and learn more, at STAT:
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What is a ‘world model’? Nabla's Alex LeBrun explains
In this edition of AI Prognosis, Brittany Trang talks to Alex LeBrun, AI scribe company Nabla's executive chairman, about an alternative to LLMs
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 20/07/2026
Seeing @ratboysband.bsky.social last night at Pritzker Pavilion on a 74°, sunny evening encapsulates everything that is good and perfect about peak summer Chicago. It makes me miss living here.
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Isabella Cueto @isabellacueto.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Our series, "The Deadliest Drug," captured the American drinking problem. Today we turn to solutions. Here are a dozen ways the U.S. can start addressing excessive drinking and its many harms. (No paywall!) www.statnews.com/2026/07/14/a...
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12 ideas for tackling the U.S. alcohol epidemic
The U.S. can save lives from excess alcohol use without taking drastic measures. Here are 12 steps that can help.
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 14/07/2026
Are you a @statnews.com reader? We're asking for feedback: Tell us what you like and don't like, what you want more of, and what new features you'd be interesting in us offering 👀
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 08/07/2026
"Licensure has never been about just passing a test. It is about bearing responsibility for the outcome. AI will reshape how clinical decisions are formed. The question is who answers for the decision based on that output — and who is responsible for that decision when something goes wrong." 🖥️🩺
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The AI licensure debate is missing the point of licensure
“AI will reshape medicine. The physicians who answer for the outcome must lead the way it enters patient care," write Afnan R. Tariq and Ami Bhatt.
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Megan Molteni @mmolteni.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Really important new series from @bobjherman.bsky.social, chronicling the quiet erosion of U.S. employer health insurance system and what it means for everyday Americans. www.statnews.com/health-insur...
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STAT @statnews.com · 07/07/2026
STAT's @bobjherman.bsky.social talks about his new project 'Out of Pocket. Out of Reach.' A multipart series on the soaring costs of health insurance for America’s workers and businesses. Explore: www.statnews.com/health-insur...
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 06/07/2026
The central Ohio area (where I live) has the sixth-most data centers in the country and was leading the country in terms of growth, at least as of a year ago. The Columbus Dispatch just got the first actual data, via FOIA, about how much water data centers use. www.dispatch.com/story/news/l...
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Columbus-area data centers used 1.2 billion gallons of water in a year
Columbus data centers used 1.2 billion gallons of water in a 12-month period, which amounts to 3% of Columbus' water in that time.
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 01/07/2026
This is too long for bluesky, but #chemsky ⚗️🧪 might appreciate this behind-the-scenes look I posted on LinkedIn about how Claude has increased its chemistry fluency. Includes mention of IUPAC names and SMILES, if that whets your appetite: www.linkedin.com/posts/britta...
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The moment Anthropic convinced me it’s serious about science | Brittany Trang, PhD
Bonus material: You might think yesterday, with the Claude Science and drug development announcements, was the moment I thought Anthropic was serious about science. But that moment actually happened a...
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 01/07/2026
NEW: Anthropic buried the lede in its Claude Science event today: It's going to start developing its own drugs. Details are scarce, but @matthewherper.bsky.social and I talked to Anthropic executives to bring you some exclusive tidbits about the program: #AI #pharma #artificialintelligence
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AI company Anthropic announces it will begin developing drugs of its own
AI giant Anthropic has already become a dominant player in technology and a household name for everyday users of artificial intelligence. Can it make drugs too?
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 30/06/2026
Breaking: Anthropic releases Claude Science, an application it hopes does for science what Claude Code did for software. Read more from me and @matthewherper.bsky.social: 🧪 #science #research #AI
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Anthropic releases Claude Science, a product aimed at researchers, the pharma industry
Anthropic released Claude Science, an application that optimizes its large language model for scientists and, especially, those doing research at pharma companies.
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Daniel Payne @danielpayne.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
At BIO's San Diego conference this week, Washington and AI loomed large w/ @brittanytrang.com www.statnews.com/2026/06/25/b...
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At BIO 2026, industry wrestled with Washington politics, and making AI work better
Biotech executives reveal concerns over Chinese biotech, the profitability of AI, and the durability of Trump's drug price moves.
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STAT @statnews.com · 24/06/2026
STAT is in San Diego at the #BIO2026 conference! On the ground we have @brittanytrang.com, @danielpayne.bsky.social, @alexhogan.bsky.social, and @rickberke.bsky.social!
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Amanda Garces @amanda-garces.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
STAT's @brittanytrang.com is at #BIO2026 and already has some early takeaways on what's next for AI in biotech. www.linkedin.com/posts/britta...
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#bio2026 #health #healthcare #medicine #ai #artificialintelligence #biotech #pharma | Brittany Trang, PhD
I'm here at #BIO2026 and have some early takeaways on what's poppin' and what's next for AI in biotech. Drop any trends you're seeing below! 👇 and subscribe to AI Prognosis, which drops Wednesday at 7...
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Lizzy Lawrence @lizzylawrence.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Eli Lilly gave compassionate use access to retatrutide, their unapproved powerful obesity drug, to a 79-year-old man in April. The application was arranged by a top doctor at NIH, and cleared by the FDA. www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/e...
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Eli Lilly gave extraordinary obesity drug access to a 79-year-old patient. Who was it?
Exclusive: STAT has learned that Eli Lilly and the FDA allowed a 79-year-old to gain extraordinary access to an experimental obesity drug through the agency’s “compassionate use” program.
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
There's been a lot of attention on the OMB proposal, namely the changes to peer review, but I wanted to highlight another side of it: how health disparities research, already under a lot of political pressure, could be at risk www.statnews.com/2026/06/22/h...
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Health equity researchers fear unseen level of scrutiny under White House proposal
Health disparities researchers say a new White House proposal could disqualify much of their work from federal funding — perhaps the most serious threat yet to the future of their field.
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 22/06/2026
Your read for today: "When applying to medical school, I pictured medicine as a clean transaction — diagnosis, treatment, discharge. Tonight, a syringe, a song, four guards in damp clothes represent a more common reality: the strange, cramped intimacy of mismatched resources in a failing system."
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I work in a psychiatric ER. I’m watching the system fail people in real time
The psychiatric ER is “a detox center for those with no safe place to withdraw and a respite center for caregivers at their breaking point,” writes a psychiatrist.
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Today #CDC issued a release on #Measles to its press list. Pretty pro forma, with links to info on the CDC site. Normally, this would be a routine thing. But CDC has been largely muzzled of late so it was both surprising & a bit heartening to see. Can't post a link because it's not on the CDC site.
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Lison Joseph @lisonjoseph.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Verge Genomics is pivoting, after the clinical trial of its ALS drug failed. Now, as Verge Labs, the company has built a brain AI model to solve patient-stratification problems for neurology clinical trials, @brittanytrang.com reports: www.statnews.com/2026/06/16/v... via @statnews.com
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Verge Labs’ new AI model solves patient stratification problems for neurology clinical trials
As the saying goes, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Or as Verge Labs might put it, one company’s failed clinical trial … is that same company’s
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 11/06/2026
tl;dr: A government watchdog investigated what STAT found in its Pulitzer-finalist "Denied by AI" series and found: -health insurance companies' denials for care were overturned 97% of the time when they were appealed -82% of people do not appeal and thus were wrongly denied care for no reason
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 11/06/2026
Kennedy said that his calendar is "publicly available." That isn't true — STAT has tried to FOIA for it multiple times over the course of more than a year. More @statnews.com: www.statnews.com/2026/06/11/r...
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RFK Jr. claims his calendar is publicly available. We've been trying to get it for a year
None of STAT's requests for Kennedy's schedule have been completed, and some haven't even been acknowledged.
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Megan Molteni @mmolteni.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Fallout continues from the ADA's decision to forcibly expel five diabetes experts from its annual meeting in New Orleans for handing out copies of an editorial criticizing federal cuts to biomedical research. Liz Cooney has the latest: www.statnews.com/2026/06/09/a...
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Diabetes Association in uproar after members expelled from annual meeting over protest of NIH cuts
The condemnations keep coming after five diabetes experts were escorted out of an ADA meeting for handing out copies of an editorial criticizing federal research cuts.
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 07/06/2026
Am I hearing things? Or does the new Death Cab for Cutie song "I Built You A Tower (a)" sound like a TWIABP song to anyone else? (specifically "Infinite Josh" or "Afraid to Die")
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 05/06/2026
This is nuts. Police ejecting researchers from the American Diabetes Association meeting for distributing an editorial, telling them they can no longer attend even though some of them are slated to present. "They're taking our lanyards....Censorship is real. America needs to stand up." #science 🧪🩺
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Video: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA Meeting
Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 04/06/2026
Patients are getting used to being recorded at the doctor's office. But are doctors comfortable with patients recording them? @katiepalmer.bsky.social addresses several aspects of this topic, spurred by new apps springing up to help patients keep track of what's happening. #AI #health #patients 🩺🖥️
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After hospitals, patients get a turn to bring AI into the doctor’s office
Ambient scribes were the first large-scale application of AI in health care. Now developers are pitching them as diligent note-takers for patients.
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 03/06/2026
Curious what the pope's encyclical on AI says & how it applies to health care, but don't have time to read the almost-40,000-word document? I read the whole thing so you don't have to. The pope's view on AI is refreshing and echoes ideas from tech thinkers like Karen Hao & Nilay Patel. A fun one:
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What the pope’s encyclical on AI means for Catholic hospitals, and all of health care
In this edition of STAT's AI Prognosis: Brittany Trang analyzes the pope's encyclical on artificial intelligence for takeaways relevant for health care.
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 02/06/2026
Come for local citizens of all stripes banding together; stay for the 12-year-old whose mom drove him to the Statehouse after his baseball game so he could testify about why he doesn't want Ohio to lose more farmland to data centers. www.dispatch.com/story/news/p...
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Ohioans urge statewide moratorium as data center boom sparks pushback
Ohioans took their concerns over the rapid development of data centers to the Ohio Statehouse.
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 02/06/2026
If an inaccuracy has made its way into your doctor's notes because they were using an AI scribe, please email me at brittany.trang@statnews.com! I am a health AI reporter and would love to talk to you about this problem!
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 27/05/2026
PLEASE SHARE: STAT is hiring for a "Trust-in-science" reporter! The reporter will cover where trust is breaking down, the consequences, and how to rebuild it. If you or someone you know would be great for the position, please apply! #journojobs #journalismjobs #journalism #science 📰🧪
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STAT, Reporter, Trust-in-Science
About STAT In November 2015, STAT was launched as a new national media brand focused on health, medicine, and life sciences. Since then, we have grown to
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
There's optimism, and then there's optimism...
Chart showing that of 45 people polled at a longevity conference, only 6 said they expect their lifespans to be in line with current life expectancy statistics. 14 people responded that they expect to live forever.
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STAT @statnews.com · 19/05/2026
Not a dry eye in the audience at #STATBreakthrough West listening to Joanie Kraus talk about the AI technology that helped find a drug to treat her daughter’s ultra-rare disease.
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STAT @statnews.com · 20/05/2026
Former Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne responded publicly for the first time, at a STAT event Tuesday, to allegations in a new book about why he was forced to resign. www.statnews.com/2026/05/19/f...
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Marc Tessier-Lavigne addresses new book’s allegations about his conduct in Stanford misconduct case
Former Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne responded publicly for the first time, at a STAT event Tuesday, to allegations in a new book about why he was forced to resign.
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This is such a moving piece. If your interested in #Ebola — the damage it causes, the trauma families and communities and responders face during and after an outbreak — please read it. www.statnews.com/2026/05/20/e...
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I saw Ebola as both doctor and patient. I wish people cared more about the Africans I worked alongside
“As another Ebola outbreak unfolds, we cannot repeat the mistakes of the past,” writes Krutika Kuppalli.
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 19/05/2026
If you haven't already tuned in to the #STATBreakthrough Summit, you've missed out! We started with a great interview with HW Bush & Clinton FDA commissioner David Kessler, who had messages for FDA staff, and the next FDA commissioner. Sign up for the stream here: www.statnews.com/stat-summit-...
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STAT @statnews.com · 12/05/2026
Just one week left! The countdown to #STATBreakthrough Summit West is on. Hear from leaders across health care, biotech, and technology discussing AI in care delivery, wearable health tech, drug discovery, & more. Join us May 19 in San Francisco or online: www.statnews.com/stat-summit-...
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STAT Breakthrough Summit West 2026 - San Francisco, May 19
STAT Breakthrough Summit West on May 19, 2026 in San Francisco is your chance to hear from industry leaders on the latest trends at the intersection of science, medicine, and technology.
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Isabella Cueto @isabellacueto.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
STAT's new multi-part investigation, "The Deadliest Drug," is out. @levfacher.bsky.social and I have spent months examining the country's unchecked epidemic of injuries, diseases and deaths caused by excessive alcohol, and why the U.S. is ignoring its biggest substance use problem. @statnews.com
Several glasses in the background, and one in the foreground with a golden liquid spilled next to it. Text over the image reads: "A STAT Series: The Deadliest Drug," and "Alcohol kills more Americans each year than all other drugs combined. Why does the U.S. ignore its most harmful substance use crisis?"
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Lizzy Lawrence @lizzylawrence.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
BREAKING: FDA Commissioner Marty Makary is resigning today. Top food regulator Kyle Diamantas will serve as acting. www.statnews.com/2026/05/12/f...
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Makary departs FDA amid turmoil as Diamantas, agency's top food official, steps in
Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary is resigning from his role after a tumultuous tenure.
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 10/05/2026
EPA assessment of the health risks of chemicals was already bad. According to a leaked memo, the agency is going to make it even worse. It doesn't help that the EPA eliminated its R&D division last year... from @leighkboerner.bsky.social cen.acs.org/articles/104...
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