A STAT Investigation: To avoid fines for reporting excessive hospital-acquired infections, some facilities are discouraging testing. www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/h...

We're hiring! STAT is looking for a Senior Vice President, Growth and Content Strategy. Apply today: www.statnews.com/careers/seni...

The CDC's vaccine panel recommended that people 6 months and older consult with their doctor before getting the Covid vaccine - preserving insurance coverage of the shots and diverging with the FDA's more limited approval: www.statnews.com/2025/09/19/a...

“Over and over again, Covid-19 has shown it can cause severe disease in children, disease that is preventable by a safe and effective vaccine,” writes former CDC Director Rochelle Walensky. www.statnews.com/2025/09/19/c...

If you don't have bandwidth to sit through, like, 16 hours of this key ACIP meeting, STAT reporters have got you covered. Helpful write-ups of the major points: www.statnews.com

If you just cancelled Disney+ and you’re wondering what do to with that extra money, one option: STAT is running a big sale right now, you can get 10 months for $10 marketing.statnews.com/stat-10th-st...

Exclusive: HHS abruptly cancels CDC meeting with RFK Jr., anti-vaccine activist as scrutiny mounts www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/r...

Democratic senators have proposed legislation that would break up UnitedHealth and its subsidiary Optum by banning health insurers from buying medical practices. More @statnews.com: www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/u...

“It was the only place that she was expressing that she wanted to take her life, and it was no different than her saying it to a wall,” Montoya said. “There was nobody there to hear her.” Gift link: wapo.st/4n8KFM7

No words www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/m...

"The nation’s top health agency is not well, according to a portrait that emerged in testimony Wednesday by two of its former leaders." @elizabethcooney.bsky.social on the state of affairs at the CDC. www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/m...

I'm a health AI reporter and I hear a lot about how pharma companies are using AI. A conversation I had last week finally offered some genuine insight. In this week's AI Prognosis, some actually enlightening examples of how GSK gets the most out of AI. More: 🖥️🩺

Did the FDA use AI to write its recent bolus of drug ad warning letters? Some of the bizarre nitpicks make experts think so. Does the government have the manpower to enforce these letters after firing the department responsible? More @statnews.com: www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/f...

Group that includes most major insurers — apart form UnitedHealthcare — says its plans will continue to cover vaccines including Covid and flu despite potential changes to recommendations. More @statnews.com: www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/a...

Sen. Cassidy enters STAT reporting into the record for the hearing about the tumult and vaccine policy changes at the CDC Our reporting from earlier this month: www.statnews.com/2025/09/03/k...

Ousted CDC director Susan Monarez says Kennedy told her he plans to change the childhood vaccine schedule this month: “He did not have any data or science to point to." www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/c...

New financial disclosures from Surgeon General nominee Casey Means show that she’s made hundreds of thousands of dollars promoting supplements and other health and wellness products. www.statnews.com/2025/09/16/c...

Exclusive: Former officials at the CDC plan to tell the powerful Senate health committee that political forces have overtaken scientific evidence at the agency, threatening Americans’ health, according to written remarks obtained by STAT. www.statnews.com/2025/09/16/c...

HHS officially announced the appointment of the 5 new ACIP members we wrote about last week — ahead of their meeting this Thursday & Friday: www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/k...

Unfortunate news: I am here to tell you that the trick of including curse words in your Google search no longer disables the AI overview (I usually include a much milder word but had to experiment to see if the results were different...they were not)

I've noticed engine smells on a lot of my flights recently and wonder if this is the culprit. Just because something is hard to measure and research doesn't mean it's not real, even if that means that companies can wiggle out of fixing it that way. www.wsj.com/business/air...

Sundays are for doing crosswords. Try out our new #STATMini! www.statnews.com/stat-mini-cr...

Extremely specific crossover I was not anticipating. Love to know that somebody at trusty ol' @merriam-webster.com is watching @dropout.tv (This is the second video Merriam Webster has in this style. The first one? Taylor Swift and the Kelce brothers on their podcast)

Brockaway, WI burned through its water district budget digging new wells to try to find a water source uncontaminated by #PFAS. The state has money to help communities like Brockaway, but the money isn't being released. Laura Schulte with more on the problem: www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...

New @statnews.com via @chelseacirruzzo.bsky.social: Lawmakers have snubbed health secretary RFK Jr. by including an amendment in a spending bill mandating that an agency under his purview continue to research messenger RNA vaccines. 🩺💉 #mrna #vaccines #publichealth

If you run a life science lab where research has either significantly slowed or shut down completely due to Trump administration policies, I’d like to hear your story. I'm a biotech and life sciences reporter for @statnews.com, and you can reach me at [email protected] #journorequest

We love a tracker at @statnews.com: breakthrough medical devices, generative AI in hospitals, obesity drug trials. We have a new one for those looking to fact-check RFK Jr: the RFK Jr. promises tracker. Has he ended the chronic disease epidemic? Has he taken fluoride out of water? Just click here:

Even a Oracle's stock soars, Oracle Health can't stop trying to take shots at competitors, namely, Epic. Ahead of Oracle Health's summit, I talked to Oracle Industries president Mike Sicilia about the company's AI strategy...and Epic's. In today's AI Prognosis newsletter: 🩺🖥️

My colleague @mariojoze.bsky.social is in Cupertino, where Apple has just announced a big high blood pressure feature. How will this play with the Whoop - FDA drama from earlier this year? And will this wrongly flag a bunch of Apple Watch users with hypertension? Read Mario's first thoughts: 🩺🖥️

If you haven't already heard, the antitrust case against electronic health record vendor Epic from Particle Health is headed to discovery. Read more @statnews.com: 🩺🖥

We are SO EXCITED that Anil is staying on with us at STAT! Excited to see another Begley fellow become STAT staff. Anil's been indispensable in covering what's been going on at the NIH this year; give him (and STAT) a subscribe/follow

Miss today's three-hour-long slugfest of a hearing with RFK Jr.? @danielpayne.bsky.social and @isabellacueto.bsky.social didn't, and have you covered with the big takeaways. Via @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/09/04/h...

Can anyone get a Covid shot if they want one? The answer, in short, is no. www.statnews.com/2025/09/04/c...

“People need to know the story of what went down” internally at NIH, Jeanne Marrazzo, the former director of NIAID, told STAT. "The story needed to be told.” Via @aniloza.bsky.social @mmolteni.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/09/04/n...

New: In today's House hearing on health AI, lawmakers were optimistic about AI's potential in health care but also raised several concerns. One lawmaker called a new Medicare AI fraud pilot an "AI death panel" and said it should be shut down. More @statnews.com:

Exclusive: According to a leaked audio recording obtained by @statnews.com, Abridge CEO Shiv Rao yesterday in a customer town hall addressed "misconceptions" about its relationship with Epic and laid out the AI scribe company's future plans.🖥️🩺

Following CDC director Susan Monarez's firing fiasco, several top CDC officials have quit the agency in protest. @statnews.com with a closer look at the leaders the CDC is losing: www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/p... 🩺💉

Exclusively in AI Prognosis this week: Epic's Phil Lindemann on Epic's new patient risk AI and the path to integrating it in the EHR Plus: ✨ Google downplays the environmental impact of AI ✨ a study I'm going to refer to every time I need to explain why ChatGPT doesn't actually understand anything

NEW: Sumit Rana is largely expected to succeed the legendary Judy Faulkner as CEO of Epic. How might he be different? “I don't want to be a person that the company can't do without,” he said. “No one of us should be that central to a company that [it] cannot thrive.” More @statnews.com: 🩺🖥️

ICYMI in yesterday's AI Prognosis: I get a little personal about STAT's layoffs, what that has to do with health care, and what that has to do with AI. Plus: - LLMs pretend that fake diseases are real - AI updates from Epic -My tribute to Carly Rae Jepsen's album Emotion, which turns 10 today 🩺🖥️

Big scoop from @danielpayne.bsky.social: CDC attacker likely attempted to enter campus days before shooting. www.statnews.com/2025/08/21/c...

New video- @brittanytrang.com just wrote a great new piece about how the use of AI by doctors could increase medical bills. She joined me to talk about it in the newest STATus Report. @statnews.com

We think of AI as something that decreases costs and increases revenue. But _for whom_ does it make more $? AI scribe companies promise that doctors will now get paid for everything they did in a visit. But where is that money coming from? All of us. More from me @statnews.com: 🖥️🩺

'I can't die.' These parents are terrified their son will outlive them www.usatoday.com/story/life/h...

Today is my 3-year STATiversary. I'll never forget getting an email from the NYT's Carl Zimmer as I took the Red Line to the STAT office the first time (pictured below!), asking me for an interview about my Science paper. Weird way to start off a career as a reporter—getting interviewed yourself! 🧵

Eli Lilly said Thursday that it would increase the prices of medicines in Europe and other developed markets “in order to make them lower” in the U.S., in an apparent response to the Trump administration’s calls to do so. from @elaineywchen.bsky.social & @danielpayne.bsky.social at @statnews.com 🩺

OpenAI says ChatGPT isn't intended to diagnose or treat medical conditions, yet in GPT-5's launch, CEO Sam Altman encouraged people to get diagnoses from it. Experts warn that this fast-and-loose approach could land OpenAI in hot water with the FDA. More at this week's AI Prognosis: 🩺🖥️

The gutting of AHRQ leaves it unable to award grants or support experts who advise on preventive services www.statnews.com/2025/08/13/f...

NEW: As rumors swirl about Epic getting into scribes, $5B AI scribe company Abridge is making a platform play. Together with Highmark Health, Abridge will develop an AI tool that will get insurance approvals in-visit. More on Abridge's future ambitions: 🖥️🩺

Breaking: Vinay Prasad is returning to the FDA. via @lizzylawrence.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/08/09/v...