What FDA's consideration of a generative AI chatbot says about how the agency's regulation of generative AI based devices www.statnews.com/2026/03/03/f... via @statnews.com

It's time to VOTE! #STATMadness is back! Our bracket-style contest to find the best innovation in science and medicine. Help us crown a new champ! Vote now: www.statnews.com/feature/stat...

How can HHS drive clinical AI adoption? The industry wish list is starting to take shape www.statnews.com/2026/03/02/h... via @statnews.com

“Digital twins” can transform preventative medicine, making health care less reactive. But, it still remains a concept rather than a solution for the health care sector, @ravindranize.bsky.social reports: www.statnews.com/2026/02/24/d... via @statnews.com

An interesting industry petition could shift the burden of evidence to post-market monitoring for six AI product types www.statnews.com/2026/02/23/h... via @statnews.com

ICYMI: Key study of Grail’s cancer detection test fails in setback for company www.statnews.com/2026/02/19/g... via @statnews.com

Breaking: FDA taps AI executive to lead digital health center www.statnews.com/2026/02/19/f... via @statnews.com

In today's AI Prognosis, a conversation with Casey Ross about the new frontier in health insurer AI, and why I think the ACCESS pricing wasn't surprising: "I will go out of my way to destroy that CPT code if that’s what you do," Medicare head Chris Klomp said at CES. More @statnews.com: 🩺🖥️

STAT wins fourth Polk Award for reporting on impact of Trump on health www.statnews.com/2026/02/18/s... via @statnews.com

FDA reverses course, agrees to review Moderna’s flu vaccine www.statnews.com/2026/02/18/f... via @statnews.com

In a financial pinch, major health insurers are turning to AI for help. Their broadening efforts to cut costs and boost efficiency raise thorny questions about trust and oversight, @caseyross.bsky.social reports: www.statnews.com/2026/02/17/h... via @statnews.com

Prasad overruled FDA staff to reject Moderna's flu vaccine application www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m... via @statnews.com

Hims & Hers’ is one of the most visible telehealth brands. A crackdown on Hims could have implications for a broad national network of companies that market and prescribe compounded drugs, @katiepalmer.bsky.social reports: www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/h... via @statnews.com

The National Cancer Institute is studying ivermectin as a potential cancer treatment, according to its top official, alarming career scientists. www.statnews.com/2026/02/10/i...

Abridge CTO talks Epic, Microsoft, and rebranding as ‘more than an AI scribe’ www.statnews.com/2026/02/10/a... via @statnews.com

Hims, other telehealth platforms push multi-cancer detection tests before evidence of benefit www.statnews.com/2026/02/06/t... via @statnews.com

Doctors nationwide are seeing patients avoid care amid ICE crackdowns, sometimes with dire consequences. Health providers are now employing pandemic-era tactics to keep care accessible. How immigration policy is changing American health care: www.statnews.com/2026/02/03/i...

AI could soon renew prescriptions without clinician help. Should the FDA make sure it’s safe? www.statnews.com/2026/02/03/u... via @statnews.com

New data shows how HHS is implementing Trump AI mandates www.statnews.com/2026/02/03/n... via @statnews.com

Tenuous funding for biomedical research has some first-year Ph.D. students struggling to find labs -- and questioning their future career plans. My latest for @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/01/30/f...

Could results from a health test that you ordered online — blood panels, genetic tests you name it — impact your application for a new mortgage or a life insurance policy? @ravindranize.bsky.social takes a closer look at the privacy protections www.statnews.com/2026/01/30/d... via @statnews.com

NEW: You can now access all of STAT's most important FDA reporting from last year in one place. Check out our special report documenting the agency's inner turmoil. reports.statnews.com/products/ins...

The main thing that these 21 (not 19, sorry typo) new members have in common? Most of them have publicly expressed or belong to groups that have publicly expressed a belief in the debunked claim that vaccines can cause autism. www.statnews.com/2026/01/28/k...

AI biotech founded by ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is raising $150 million www.statnews.com/2026/01/28/h... via @statnews.com

Why some hospitals are making their own ChatGPTs for patient records www.statnews.com/2026/01/28/s... via @statnews.com

You can buy a whole host of sketchy drugs at many gas stations. I wondered why gas stations, of all places, were the premier destination for people seeking quasi-legal recreational (or knockoff pharmaceutical) drugs. I dig into why in this week's @statnews.com STATus Report. youtu.be/4QsVjgIWVZs

News: HHS is stacking a key federal committee on autism with members who align with health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism. The group met Thursday, despite no prior public notice about the gathering. www.statnews.com/2026/01/23/k...

Key autism committee is being reshaped to support Kennedy’s vaccine agenda, researchers and advocates fear www.statnews.com/2026/01/23/k... via @statnews.com

FDA clears Aidoc's tool that can detect 14 different conditions from a CT scan www.statnews.com/2026/01/21/f... via @statnews.com

Shared clinical decision making was devised to help patients & their doctors make choices when the answer isn't clear cut. People who devised the approach fear it's being hijacked to undermine decades of study supporting #vaccines, @ericboodman.bsky.social writes. www.statnews.com/2026/01/20/s...

Former AMA president says the U.S. health care system will implode without an overhaul www.statnews.com/2026/01/19/a... via @statnews.com

Do you, like me, feel like the news is trying its best to kill you? Fear not, I am standing in front of the firehose of #healthAI 🩺🖥️ news for you. I present you with some tidy buckets of important health and biotech AI news you may have missed over the last month: www.statnews.com/2026/01/14/b...

Emoji have entered the chat. Is that a good thing for electronic health records? www.statnews.com/2026/01/14/e... via @statnews.com

Epic sues health information network over nearly 300,000 illegally accessed records www.statnews.com/2026/01/13/e... via @statnews.com

At JPM, doctors’ darling OpenEvidence says it’s pursuing ‘medical super-intelligence’ www.statnews.com/2026/01/12/o... via @statnews.com

ChatGPT and Claude get into the business of health advice. Should you trust them? www.statnews.com/2026/01/12/c... via @statnews.com

As more patients order lab tests online, doctors don’t know what to do with the results, @ravindranize.bsky.social reports: www.statnews.com/2026/01/09/p... via @statnews.com

Panel behind new dietary guidelines had financial ties to beef, dairy industries, @isabellacueto.bsky.social reports: www.statnews.com/2026/01/07/n... via @statnews.com

ICYMI: What does Neuralink want — to help people with paralysis, or prepare for a war with AI? www.statnews.com/2026/01/05/n... via @statnews.com

This is how fast health AI is moving: Between when I drafted this post on Monday and when it sent this morning, two of these 2026 #health #AI predictions basically became outdated. (click in the below post to find out which ones they were!) 🖥️🩺

STAT’s @helenbranswell.bsky.social on the ‘startling’ new U.S. vaccine schedule www.statnews.com/2026/01/07/k... via @statnews.com

FDA announces sweeping changes to oversight of wearables, AI-enabled devices www.statnews.com/2026/01/06/f... via @statnews.com

AI has finally started making drug-like antibodies. When will it revolutionize biopharma? www.statnews.com/2026/01/06/w... via @statnews.com

Despite a tough year for medicine, @matthewherper.bsky.social gives us some good reasons to celebrate, and be hopeful. www.statnews.com/2025/12/31/2... via @statnews.com

Rolling back health AI transparency rule will shift the burden of vetting to health systems www.statnews.com/2025/12/23/d... via @statnews.com

How the Trump administration is recasting government’s role in regulating health technology www.statnews.com/2025/12/23/t... via @statnews.com

Trump administration to scrap federal rule requiring transparency into health AI tools  www.statnews.com/2025/12/22/h... via @statnews.com

When an NIH scientist began studying a controversial illness, it gave patients with a glimmer of hope. Then came RIFs and spending freezes and too much uncertainty to continue the research. @ericboodman.bsky.social with the 10th part of American Science, Shattered: www.statnews.com/2025/12/22/t...

Anyway check out the full new @statnews.com STATus Report video to learn all about the new CDC hepatitis B vaccine guidance! Feat @danielpayne.bsky.social youtu.be/43QtKjCnO5c

Earlier this year, I asked more than 90 health AI experts what's on their bingo card for the rest of 2025. Who gets to say "I told you so" now? Our look back at what did and didn't happen in 2025: www.statnews.com/2025/12/17/2... 🖥️🩺