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Erin Brodwin

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Health tech reporter @Axios. Send tips on Signal: @erin.14 or via email at erinbecca@proton.me. She/they

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Erin Brodwin @erinbrodwin.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
interesting. it was reported today that Neuralink raised $600m, a tad over the $500m is was rumored to be raising back in April, but the story doesn't name the investors. anyone know who's involved here? www.semafor.com/article/05/2...
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink raises fresh cash at $9B valuation
The company, which implants experimental brain chips to help paralyzed patients, raised $600 million from private investors, people familiar with the matter said.
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Erin Brodwin @erinbrodwin.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
excited to announce I'll officially be spending more time diving deep into the stories shaping the future of healthtech. tldr: my purview's no longer limited to stories w/ a deal element. (but keep deal news coming!) if you're building, investing in, analyzing, or advising in this space, let's talk!
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Erin Brodwin @erinbrodwin.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
scoop: Next Life Sciences is looking to raise $20M to further develop male contraceptive product Plan A. the San Luis Obispo company is courting investors and hopes to close the round by this June to power early feasibility trials in Australia and Canada and to prep for a 2027 U.S. FDA submission.
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Exclusive: Male birth control maker raising $20M to develop "Plan A"
Next Life Sciences is based in San Luis Obispo, California.
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Erin Brodwin @erinbrodwin.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
this headline appears to suggest the other VC firms aren't *already* in Washington... www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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General Catalyst goes to Washington
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Axios @axios.com · 17/03/2025
Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order
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Navajo Code Talkers get "DEI" label as military info disappears under Trump order
Also vanishing: The Civil War regiment from "Glory," women pilots from WWII and a Medal of Honor winner.
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Erin Brodwin @erinbrodwin.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I've gotten a lot of good feedback about this story — if there's more to share, pls contact me on Signal at @erin.14 or via email at erinbecca@proton.me.
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Erin Brodwin @erinbrodwin.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
calling all San Diegans: Join me this Friday at 9am for an event about the challenges in today’s pain treatment landscape and the current state of pain, featuring Stanford University’s Beth Darnall. what smart Qs should I ask her? theprognosisforamericaspainmanagement.splashthat.com/newsletters
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Axios' The Prognosis for America’s Pain Management
Join Axios for an event in San Diego, convening thought leaders and medical experts for conversations about the challenges in today’s treatment landscape and the current state of pain.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Board member of Meta hugs it out with Andrew Tate, well known heinous person www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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Andrew Tate receives warm welcome from UFC’s Dana White at weekend events
The Tate brothers — who are under criminal investigation in Florida and charged with human trafficking in Romania — attended UFC 313 and Power Slap 12 events.
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Casey Langwith @caseylangwith.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Sadly unsurprising
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Erin Brodwin @erinbrodwin.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
www.axios.com/pro/health-t... beep
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Inside Memora's surprise fire sale to Commure
Investors and former employees had thought the patient navigation company was a roaring success, Axios has learned.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
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Erin Brodwin @erinbrodwin.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
www.axios.com/2025/02/28/g... boop
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General Catalyst is in the early stages of considering an IPO
GC would be the first U.S. venture capital firm to take the public plunge.
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Yesterday I caught Pfizer making some telling changes to their DEI page. @elaineywchen.bsky.social tried to get the company to explain, but they only gave her a generic statement. Judge for yourself, we’ve got all the edits here, annotated: www.statnews.com/2025/02/27/p...
Screenshot showing before and after text from Pfizer’s website. The highlighted changes remove references to diversity and delete links to organizations that represent historically underrepresented populations.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 26/02/2025
The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.
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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
My colleagues and I have been working to break news + write stories holding powerful people accountable. These are the top stories on our homepage right now, one of which I worked on. Our newsroom work is continuing. No one has ever told me what to write. If that changes, I’d speak out and leave.
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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Important! Fantastic story by @claudia-lopez.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...
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Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies
Such a shift would “put us back in the dark ages in terms of our science,” says neuroscientist Anne Murphy, who helped to formulate the original policy.
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Erin Brodwin @erinbrodwin.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I heard a ski instructor tell a little kid on a ski lift recently "it's not win-lose. it's win-learn." and I think I'm just going to have to accept that as my slogan for 2025
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Erin Brodwin @erinbrodwin.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Talkspace, which NYC paid $26M to provide free online therapy to teens, was leaking data about who visited the website to TikTok, Meta, Snap, and other social media companies that the city is currently suing for harming teen mental health. gizmodo.com/teen-mental-...
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Teen Mental Health App Sent Kids' Data Straight to TikTok
The company removed tracking tools from its teen-focused websites in New York, Seattle, and Baltimore after parents complained.
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Alison Mudditt @amudditt.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Excellent piece from PLOS co-founder and Nobel laureate, Harold Varmus: "If the attacks on our scientists and their institutions are allowed to continue, our envisioned future of longer, healthier lives will happen more slowly, in other countries, or not at all." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
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Opinion | American Science is Under Attack (Gift Article)
The Trump administration hobbles research and endangers the public health.
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Erin Brodwin @erinbrodwin.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
important note for anyone interested in healthcare: FDA cleared *does not* mean FDA approved. FDA clearance can simply mean the agency is allowing you to advertise and sell your product. in many cases, it simply means a product is "substantially equivalent" to other cleared products.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
“This is a parallel overlaying of authority over the entire structure of the U.S. government.“
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Erin Brodwin @erinbrodwin.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Scoop: With its unprecedented hospital deal officially closed, General Catalyst is setting up shop in Ohio. www.axios.com/pro/health-t...
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Scoop: General Catalyst, now a hospital owner, is setting up shop in Ohio
The moves mark the beginning of the firm's work using Summa Health as a test bed for its tech tools.
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Erin Brodwin @erinbrodwin.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
new: racing to combat burnout, health systems are flocking to technology at an unprecedented pace as they test and trial AI medical scribes. with investors flooding the zone, the landscape is primed for a massive shakeout. www.axios.com/pro/health-t...
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Health systems see scribes as the real AI revolution
Notoriously technophobic hospitals are jumping to adopt tools from Big Tech companies and Silicon Valley startups alike.
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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
DATA! 📊 Health care policy analyst @charlesgaba.com has downloaded the entire CDC site. Access it below.
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Erin Brodwin @erinbrodwin.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
figure this is as good a time as any to say: I write investigations and deep dives focused on businesses in the digital health sector. please send tips to erinbecca@proton.me or send me a direct message and I'll give you my Signal number. both platforms are encrypted for privacy purposes.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
You know how the Trump admin blocked publication of the CDC's weekly morbidity and mortality report, which until now had been released every single week since 1952? Turns out last week's report would have included 2 important new studies on bird flu transmission. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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Trump Administration’s Halt of CDC’s Weekly Scientific Report Stalls Bird Flu Studies - KFF Health News
An unprecedented freeze on the agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report sparks new concerns about political meddling in science.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
New: RFK Jr says he’ll amend his ethics form after questions about his financial stake in HPV vaccine litigation RFK Jr had denied a possible conflict of interest when pressed by @warren.senate.gov at confirmation hearing this week Warren now says it’s grounds to delay the nomination
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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.
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Nsikan Akpan @monscience.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The CDC has shuttered its webpages for supporting LGBTQ+ youth in schools, Health Disparities Among LGBTQ Youth, and Creating Safe Schools for LGBTQ+ Youth www.cdc.gov/healthy-yout... www.cdc.gov/healthy-yout... www.cdc.gov/youth-safe-e...
A screenshot of a CDC website page with the message "The page you're looking for was not found." The URL shown at the top reads: cdc.gov/healthy-youth/lgbtq-youth/.A screenshot of another CDC "Page Not Found" page. The URL at the top reads: cdc.gov/healthy-youth/lgbtq-youth/health-disparities-among-lgbtq-youth.html.A screenshot of a CDC website displaying the same "The page you're looking for was not found" message. The URL bar shows: cdc.gov/youth-safe-environments/professional-development/
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Erin Brodwin @erinbrodwin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
General Catalyst is selling stakes as it expands beyond its VC roots www.axios.com/2025/01/30/g... @danprimack.bsky.social
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Erin Brodwin @erinbrodwin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
HITAC's meetings focused on creating "protections for patients at a time of rapid innovation" www.statnews.com/2025/01/29/h...
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Trump administration cancels meetings of health technology advisory committee
Trump administration has canceled meetings of a health tech advisory committee that helps formulate rules around the use of health data and AI.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I just donated $50 to @transjournalists.org because they do important work and deserve the support. I strongly encourage anyone who can match me to do so. It also feels better than becoming more overwhelmed from doomscrolling: www.transjournalists.org/donate/
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Support the TJA
Together, we can promote more accurate, nuanced coverage of trans issues and communities in the media while also supporting gender-expansive journalists in their workplaces and careers. Join the TJA'...
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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
If you're a scientist that serves on an NSF panel that got cancelled today, I'd love to talk to you about it for an NPR story. DM, email or reach out on signal.
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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
PBS is now live on Prime — ad-free — and you don't need a subscription to watch. This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service. Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky
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Stream PBS and PBS KIDS Free on Prime Video
PBS and Amazon announced that more than 150 local PBS stations and the PBS KIDS Channel will launch ad-free as a Prime Video FAST offering. This marks the…
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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Please repost! We’re trying hard to sort out rumors from truth + would like to hear from anyone affected by the new federal orders + NIH pause. Patients, scientists, health equity researchers: please contact us below. We won’t share anything without your permission. www.statnews.com/2025/01/25/t...
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Are you affected by the Trump administration’s pause on health communications, science meetings, and reviews?
Have you been affected by the Trump administration’s pause on communications, science meetings, and reviews? @statnews would like to hear from you.
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Erin Brodwin @erinbrodwin.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
my take on JPM 2025 in a nutshell: leery health care insiders seek safety www.axios.com/pro/health-t...
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Safety and stability were the unspoken themes at JPM 2025
Anyone hoping for a resurgence of 2021-era optimism may be disappointed as investors batten down the hatches.
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Erin Brodwin @erinbrodwin.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
really not feeling like dressing up for JPM. can we just all agree it's gonna be more casual vibe this year?
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Erin Brodwin @erinbrodwin.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
it's wild to me that Amazon could have its biggest impacts on the pharmacy sector not through the entity it created for that purpose, Amazon Pharmacy, but rather through its core retail business, which is cutting significantly into the revenues of players like CVS and Walgreens.
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Erin Brodwin @erinbrodwin.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
"A 2014 study of 40 random episodes of 'The Dr. Oz Show' found that less than half (46%) of the recommendations made on the show had at least a case study to back them up." Case studies are among the most basic forms of "research"—usually one person's story. www.axios.com/2024/11/20/d...
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Trump's latest health care curveball
Trump's selection puts a celebrity physician with no experience in government in line to run the nation's biggest health insurance programs.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
“One thing he could not do is abolish vaccine mandates, such as requirements that children receive certain immunizations before attending school. Those are set by state and local governments. The federal health secretary does not have the authority to override them.”
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Five Ways R.F.K. Jr. Could Undermine Lifesaving Childhood Vaccines
If he is confirmed as H.H.S. secretary, the longtime vaccine critic would be in a position to change the government’s immunization recommendations and delay the development of new vaccines.
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Erin Brodwin @erinbrodwin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
back from family leave; what did I miss? ✌🏻
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Erin Brodwin @erinbrodwin.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
one of those stories I'll probably *still* be talking about over the holidays. www.theverge.com/c/features/2...
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How Twitter broke the news
“No one chasing money in media ever chased Twitter. But anyone chasing power found themselves irresistibly drawn to the platform.”
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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
There is simply no modern precedent for the number of journalists killed in Gaza. The toll is staggering. cpj.org/2023/12/isra...
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Israel-Gaza war takes record toll on journalists - Committee to Protect Journalists
More journalists have been killed in the first 10 weeks of the Israel-Gaza war than have ever been killed in a single country over an entire year, according to CPJ data. By December 20, 2023, at least...
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Erin Brodwin @erinbrodwin.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
SCOOP: a sale process is underway for Sheridan Capital-backed Oral Surgery Partners. would be the first deal of its kind in 6 months. www.axios.com/pro/health-t...
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Scoop: Oral Surgery Partners deal
If successful, it would be the first private equity sale in the oral surgery practice management sector in six months.
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Erin Brodwin @erinbrodwin.bsky.social · 18/09/2023
guidance from @amermedicalassn.bsky.social to VC & PE funds: "direct investments to companies that work with incumbents to help ensure coordination of care & reduced fragmentation, address needs of vulnerable populations & perform efficacy research of their products" www.ama-assn.org/system/files...
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Erin Brodwin @erinbrodwin.bsky.social · 12/09/2023
Exclusive: Bold, a provider of virtual exercise programs for Medicare Advantage members, inks $17M in Series A funds led by Rethink Impact. www.axios.com/pro/health-t...
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Exclusive: $17M Series A for clinical exercise programs
Bold offers virtual fitness programs to Medicare Advantage members.
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Erin Brodwin @erinbrodwin.bsky.social · 24/08/2023
exclusive: pharma-focused decision analysis software provider Aily Labs added $20.7M in Series A funds, the startup's first outside funding. www.axios.com/pro/health-t...
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Exclusive: Aily Labs inputs $21M Series A for AI-powered pharma intelligence tools
Insight Partners led the round.
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Erin Brodwin @erinbrodwin.bsky.social · 24/08/2023
Bolt founder Ryan Breslow's medical startup Love debuted in 2022 with the tagline "people-powered pharma." it now sells tea and soap. www.axios.com/pro/health-t...
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Bolt's Breslow turns pharma startup into wellness marketplace
Love launched in 2022 with the tagline "people-powered pharma." It now sells tea and soap.
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