How two top FDA officials — Vinay Prasad and Tracy Beth Høeg — are quietly upending vaccine regulations. Via @lizzylawrence.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/f...

"What’s easy to miss from the outside is that this isn’t chaos — it’s community. And if public health wants to confront it, we need to understand it first," @craigspencer.bsky.social writes: www.statnews.com/2025/11/11/c... via @statnews.com

Device/software makers say the price is justified by downstream savings. But some medical groups and physicians worry AI’s costs could balloon out of proportion compared to its benefits, @katiepalmer.bsky.social reports: www.statnews.com/2025/11/11/m... via @statnews.com

UnitedHealthcare drops remote monitoring coverage in defiance of Medicare policies www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/u... via @statnews.com

New from @brittanytrang.com Medicare picks tech vendors to run AI prior authorization pilot in six states www.statnews.com/2025/11/06/m... via @statnews.com

Sometimes doctors "fake" CPR. It's called a "slow code" in medical parlance. But "slow code" is really an umbrella term for all types of insincere attempts at CPR. Here's a clip from my new @statnews.com video on the topic

The FDA’s Digital Health Advisory Committee (DHAC) will convene to discuss nitty gritty details around the regulation of therapy chatbots and other mental health devices that use generative AI, @mariojoze.bsky.social reports: www.statnews.com/2025/11/05/f... via @statnews.com

The new trend of microdosing GLP-1s is more about telehealth companies and their compounding pharmacy partners than any proven benefit for patients, @katiepalmer.bsky.social reports: www.statnews.com/2025/11/04/m... via @statnews.com

Lawsuit against top FDA drug regulator is packed with incendiary texts, emails www.statnews.com/2025/11/03/g... via @statnews.com

In Texas, the nation’s MAHA capital, many are frustrated with the status quo in health care. A great read via @isabellacueto.bsky.social. www.statnews.com/2025/11/03/m...

Med First’s experience of using AI for medical coding is part of a new battleground in the American health care sector with insurers blaming providers for inflated coding, @brittanytrang.com reports: www.statnews.com/2025/11/03/a... via @statnews.com

FDA’s top drug regulator resigns amid investigation www.statnews.com/2025/11/02/f... via @statnews.com

Health insurers say hospitals' use of AI coding tools is eating into their profits, @katiepalmer.bsky.social reports: But large insurers have long used AI to scrutinize medical claims — and have been sued over allegedly wrongful denial of care. www.statnews.com/2025/10/31/h... via @statnews.com

New from @lizzylawrence.bsky.social, based on over a dozen interviews with current and former staffers, contractors and regulatory experts. www.statnews.com/2025/10/31/v... via @statnews.com

Absolutely chilling story by @aniloza.bsky.social on censorship in grant titles at NIH and how researchers are complying and sometimes fighting back. "They are trying to make people afraid to use the word equity," said one program officer. "It's highly effective." www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...

Eli Lilly: We want to make sure that the U.S. wins the medicines race NVIDIA: We want to help ensure that America wins the AI race www.statnews.com/2025/10/28/e... via @statnews.com

All of a sudden, dementia treatment is becoming very exciting www.statnews.com/2025/10/27/d... via @statnews.com

Top White House pandemic preparedness official resigns, officials say, in sign of broader disarray www.statnews.com/2025/07/30/w... via @statnews.com

Viral infections in the lung, like Covid-19, can reactivate dormant cancer cells www.statnews.com/2025/07/30/f... via @statnews.com

A policy change could provide automatic Medicare coverage to the many AI devices deemed 'breakthroughs' by the FDA. Of the nearly 700 such devices captured in STAT’s Breakthrough Device Tracker, at least 10% use artificial intelligence. www.statnews.com/2025/07/30/f... via @statnews.com

Kevin Hall, uncensored: Top nutrition scientist on clashing with MAHA and what he actually eats www.statnews.com/2025/07/30/k... via @statnews.com

Few states have implemented AI tools for managing Medicaid programs, and past experiments with using technology to automate eligibility and enrollment have been plagued with problems, @brittanytrang.com reports: www.statnews.com/2025/07/28/w... via @statnews.com

“The reality is, budgets are tight right now,” said Doximity CEO Jeff Tangney told @katiepalmer.bsky.social. To be sure, Doximity’s free ambient scribe won’t feed directly into EHR — that could be a stumbling block for smaller practices. www.statnews.com/2025/07/24/d... via @statnews.com

Researchers sequence complex parts of human genome, expanding the future of precision medicine www.statnews.com/2025/07/23/l... via @statnews.com

Sarepta Therapeutics’ Duchenne therapy faces ‘arduous’ path back to market, senior FDA official says www.statnews.com/2025/07/22/f... via @statnews.com

Slingshot AI, the a16z-backed mental health startup, launches a therapy chatbot www.statnews.com/2025/07/22/s... via @statnews.com

AlphaFold developer Google DeepMind to fund CASP as NIH funding falls short www.statnews.com/2025/07/21/c... via @statnews.com

Getting Coca-Cola to use cane sugar rather and ice cream manufacturers to stop their use of synthetic dyes are the latest achievements trumpeted by the Make America Healthy Again movement. www.statnews.com/2025/07/17/c...

Where @brittanytrang.com really leans into pasta shapes to help you understand what might prove to be one of the most exciting new scientific discoveries for the biotech world: www.statnews.com/2025/07/17/n... via @statnews.com

National guidelines for assessing preeclampsia risk are ineffective, study finds www.statnews.com/2025/07/17/u... via @statnews.com

Eli Lilly’s contracts pay a total of $942K over three years to three telehealth providers. One of Pfizer’s telehealth providers charges each of its pharma clients between $510K and $2.45 million over a 3-year contract, @katiepalmer.bsky.social reports: www.statnews.com/2025/07/17/s...

For context: Medicare spending on RPM services jumped from $15 million in 2019 to over $300 million in 2022 www.statnews.com/2025/07/16/c... via @statnews.com

If CASP falls apart, the U.S. would lose its leadership in this area. Without U.S. federal funding, a European or Chinese organization would likely pick up the reins in some way, cofounder John Moult, tells STAT's @brittanytrang.com www.statnews.com/2025/07/16/c... via @statnews.com

The govt accountability office findings come just as more states are considering involuntary commitment — also called assisted outpatient treatment — as a way to address crime and homelessness, @rosebroderick.bsky.social reports: www.statnews.com/2025/07/14/g... via @statnews.com

FDA publishes rejection letters sent to drugmakers, with a big caveat www.statnews.com/2025/07/10/f... via @statnews.com

Child walks again after receiving experimental treatment for rare genetic condition www.statnews.com/2025/07/09/n... via @statnews.com

News: U.S. sees most single-year measles cases since it declared disease eliminated, according to new CDC count. www.statnews.com/2025/07/09/m...

Could community health systems benefit from adopting artificial intelligence tools? @katiepalmer.bsky.social looked at one such AI experiment at Summa Health in Ohio (recently acquired by VC firm General Catalyst as a test bed for new health tech) www.statnews.com/2025/07/09/o... via @statnews.com

Rapidly advancing health technology made worse by a slow-moving, regulatory environment that hadn't caught up with the technology, made it nearly impossible for her Woebot to compete, founder Alison Darcy tells @mariojoze.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/07/02/w... via @statnews.com

Many medical devices deemed ‘breakthrough’ by FDA are backed by patchy evidence www.statnews.com/2025/06/30/a... via @statnews.com

New study challenges understanding of how age, chronic diseases and inflammation are linked www.statnews.com/2025/06/30/i... via @statnews.com

In the U.S., preeclampsia impacts Black women more than their white and Asian counterparts due to biological, social, and cultural factors. The new blood test could help address that health disparity: www.statnews.com/2025/06/30/p... via @statnews.com

11.8 million to lose health insurance under Senate Republican tax bill, CBO projects www.statnews.com/2025/06/29/1... via @statnews.com

Senate GOP tweaks health care measures in tax bill to win holdouts, please parliamentarian www.statnews.com/2025/06/28/s... via @statnews.com

Supreme Court rejects challenge to free preventive care, bolsters RFK Jr.’s power www.statnews.com/2025/06/27/s... via @statnews.com

The CDC’s vaccine advisory panel, empowered by RFK Jr., is just getting started   www.statnews.com/2025/06/26/c... via @statnews.com

Eric Green was the first NIH institute director ousted by Trump — he sat down with us for his first public remarks since being forced into retirement from federal service for a wide ranging conversation about what’s happening to the NIH and his next moves: www.statnews.com/2025/06/26/n...

A CDC “background briefing” on thimerosal — noting evidence doesn't support a link between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism — was posted to the agency's website Tuesday. Today, it was taken down. HHS explanation below. www.statnews.com/2025/06/25/c...

ADHD medicines linked to less impulsive behavior, crashes, and crime www.statnews.com/2025/06/25/s... via @statnews.com

Today, DeepMind announced a new AI model called AlphaGenome for predicting gene regulation from a given DNA sequence -- an early step toward possible applications in therapeutic development. | New from @katiepalmer.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/06/25/g... via @statnews.com