Welp www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

French healthtech Doctolib, worth $6.4B and once that country’s highest valued startup, is in talks for a secondary investment in the hundreds of millions. For @forbes.com w/ @iainmartin.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

In this week's edition of our healthcare newsletter, InnovationRx, @amyfeldman7.bsky.social and I take a look at Medline's upcoming blockbuster IPO, how Fred Moll is pushing the future of robotic surgery, the inaugural Forbes Top Hospitals list and more! www.forbes.com/sites/innova...

Medline’s founding Mills family has a $6B+ stake in its upcoming blockbuster IPO. Total family net worth $20B by @forbes.com estimates www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

The latest chipping away at America’s longstanding vaccine policy under RFK Jr…. ACIP’s decision today on hepatitis B immunization for infants is likely to increase the number of people who develop chronic infections and liver cancer www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c...

Fred Moll, the legendary cofounder of Intuitive Surgical, has invested in some 15 companies building robots that could help make both complex and common surgeries more accessible for everyone. My latest @forbes.com daily cover story www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus working with Humana on a new partnership, they tell the @forbes.com Healthcare Summit in NYC www.forbes.com/sites/brucej...

12 former commissioners of the FDA came together to write a Perspectives piece for the New England Journal of Medicine; raising our concerns about recent changes to vaccine approval policy at the FDA and its implications for patients and public health.

In this week’s @forbes.com InnovationRx newsletter w/ @thealexknapp.bsky.social we look at: —price cuts for blockbuster weight-loss drugs —the Forbes 30 Under 30 Healthcare list —and the coming barriers to vaccines www.forbes.com/sites/innova...

Among those the US killed in its boat attacks: a fisherman struggling to live on $100/mo, a local crime boss, and a down-on-his-luck bus driver Great reporting by AP apnews.com/article/trum...

This year’s @forbes.com 30 Under 30 is out. Check out the Healthcare list here. With @thealexknapp.bsky.social and Genevieve Bookwalter www.forbes.com/sites/alexkn...

In this week’s @forbes.com InnovationRx newsletter w/ @thealexknapp.bsky.social —RFK Jr. escalates his war on vaccines —Abbott’s $21B bet on cancer detection —Vivek Ramaswamy’s soaring wealth —and more www.forbes.com/sites/innova...

“long-held theory” 🙄

It was always a long shot but still *very* disappointing www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/11/...

Metaverse startup Napster earlier this year claimed to have raised a massive $3 billion round from one, unnamed investor, valuing it at $12 billion. Now it claims the money never landed and its working with law enforcement as a “victim of misconduct”. www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

Beware: Googling Obamacare during open enrollment brings up telemarketer ads and “junk insurance” www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

🚨NEW🚨 A US AI founder and NVIDIA partner got caught trying to ship the most powerful of the chip maker's processors to China, the DOJ says. He just got offered a job at another NVIDIA partner as CTO. The offer has been rescinded. H/T @courtwatch.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

ByHeart infant formula behind the botulism outbreak that has sickened 31 babies in 15 states may still be on the shelves despite recall, according to reports received by FDA www.fda.gov/food/outbrea...

The eye popping number of $129B in biopharma M&A ytd is already out of date as Abbott agrees to buy Exact Sciences for $21B — Will it hit $200B for the year? www.forbes.com/sites/innova...

Profluent, which uses AI to make proteins programmable, raised $106M from Bezos, Altimeter. “The proposition of making biology programmable is going to enable blockbuster drugs … and it’s going to require a lot of capital,” says founder Ali Madani @Forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

Exclusive: Calley Means, a confidante to health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., will take on a role as a bridge between the Make America Healthy Again movement and President Trump’s broader MAGA coalition.

Trump to MBS: "I want to just tell you what an honor it is to be your friend and I very much appreciate the investment of now $1 trillion."

As health insurance gets more expensive, more people opt for bare-bones plans — that may not cover tens of thousands in surgery costs www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

In the latest Current Climate newsletter: ⚡️Data centers, crypto mining to push electricity costs even higher in 2026 🚘 Tesla’s engineering exodus 🚛 Helping the electric truck market expand #renewableenergy #climate www.forbes.com/sites/curren...

Recursion’s incoming CEO Najat Khan needs to prove that AI drug development can pay off. New from me for @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

The three 22-year-old cofounders of Mercor became billionaires last month. Now workers say they canned an AI project that involved thousands of contractors, then offered to rehire workers at a lower hourly rate. www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...

Penn Station is the absolute worst. And the history is so depressing www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

NEW: Trump says America needs more foreign workers. His company requested a record 184 of them for 2025. me, for @Forbes 1/

In this week's edition of InnovationRx, @amyfeldman7.bsky.social and I look at: 💵 The Senate punting on Obamacare subsidies 🧪 Diagnostics company BillionToOne's IPO 🧬 Lilly's deal with MeiraGTx for a gene therapy to treat a form of blindness And more! www.forbes.com/sites/innova...

You can’t pay for health insurance with an FSA. And if you get cancer or need surgery and don’t have insurance, your FSA won’t come close to covering the bill.

Interesting story from @forbes.com @amyfeldman7.bsky.social on IPO of a biotech company doing non-invasive prenatal tests. up next: new diagnostic products including those that could be used in early detection of cancer, one of the holy grails of testing.

Today’s hot IPO: a medical diagnostics company that hit $5.8B market cap after share soared 80%+ @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

In this week’s @forbes.com InnovationRx newsletter w/ @thealexknapp.bsky.social —the multibillion dollar battle for Metsera’s obesity drugs —SNAP benefit cuts are harmful to health —the FDA’s top drug regulator is out www.forbes.com/sites/innova...

New edition of our healthcare newsletter, InnovationRx, is here. In it, @amyfeldman7.bsky.social and I take a look at: 🧠 What to know about President Trump's cognitive test. 💻 New Nvidia collaborations in healthcare. 🤖 How robots can save time and manpower at hospitals And more!

@bsky.app If you get your coverage through an ACA Marketplace--or just want to why tax subsidies are such a big issue in the government shutdown--a great explainer. Particularly scary for early retirees. www.forbes.com/sites/kellyp...

At least 420 state bills attacking public health protections like vaccination, fluoridation and milk safety apnews.com/article/vacc...

If you want to get the newsletter first, sign up here (it’s free) @forbes.com www.forbes.com/newsletter/i...

In this week’s @forbes.com InnovationRx newsletter, @thealexknapp.bsky.social and I look at: —new drugs for tough-to-treat cancers —AI chatbots for the elderly —a high-tech chair for cancer radiation therapy —and more! www.forbes.com/sites/innova...

👀 endpoints.news/top-drugmake...

“A Silicon Valley pitchdeck version of Christian nationalism” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

Older adults across the country are turning to AI companions to help deal with loneliness. We visited a senior care facility in the Bronx and spoke with residents about their experience speaking to AI bots. With @richardnieva.bsky.social. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

OpenEvidence’s Daniel Nadler, now worth $3.6B after raising new funds $6B valuation, says the company’s ultimate goal isn’t just to help doctors find existing medical research, but to create medical superintelligence. New from me & @rashis.bsky.social at @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

With OpenEvidence reportedly raising at $6B valuation, re-upping our profile from July @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

🚨SCOOP🚨 DHS ordered OpenAI to identify a user who'd made 2 specific prompts. User was anonymous and accused of helping run 15 child abuse sites. They'd disclosed the prompts to an undercover agent. First example of what I'm calling a reverse AI prompt search. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

Startup Sage Care — with founders from rideOS and Carbon Health — is coming out of stealth with $20 million in funding to build an air-traffic control system for healthcare. New from me @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

Could a high-tech treatment chair and scanner help increase access to an important cancer therapy? “We are just not getting the proton therapy to patients. The reason is 100% cost.”

❤️ The Oatmeal theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

The FT commissioned a poll of Trump voters, finding that most thought that the president had made less than $100 million while in office, and a third thought he hadn't made anything from the presidency. His net worth has, in fact, gone up by billions. www.ft.com/content/2ea2...

My latest @forbes.com daily cover profiles startup Leo Cancer Care, which is transforming cancer radiation treatment with a simple idea: having patients sit up instead of lying down. Now hospitals are buying dozens of its chairs. www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

“It certainly costs a lot less money to partner with Cleveland Clinic than to buy a hospital, and it comes with less strings attached and less brain damage.”