One of the biggest misconceptions about Trump’s business is the idea that he put his assets into a blind trust—or gave them all away to his family members. He did neither. Full PBS Newshour segment here: www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Trump’s plan to quarantine Americans with Ebola exposure in Kenya hits local opposition and gets suspended by a Kenyan court www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

AI may not cause the next bust. But if GDP keeps rising while millions of people struggle to find good work, it will only reinforce a growing distrust in official government pronouncements about the economy.

As Garner Health hits $2.7B valuation, our @forbes.com story from February when it was valued at just over half that. Lot of $$$ betting on health tech www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

The New York Times editorial board: “Americans should be cleareyed about what the president is doing. He is taking their money and showering it on criminals.”

New Yorkers: What’s going on with Little Island scheduling this year?

In this week’s @forbes.com InnovationRx newsletter w/ @thealexknapp.bsky.social, I write about Genesis Molecular AI’s drug dev deal w/ Incyte worth $120m upfront and potentially >$1B www.forbes.com/sites/innova...

Must read on Eric Trump’s kids’ cancer charity. @forbes.com’s Dan Alexander got 1000s of pages of docs thru FOIA that show the depths of dishonesty of Eric Trump’s sales pitch, incl misrepresenting how much his fundraisers spent to use his dad’s golf courses www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court HALTS the 5th Circuit's decision blocking telemedicine mifepristone nationwide. Alito and Thomas dissent. Thomas suggests that mailing abortion pills violates the Comstock Act. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

NEW from me for @forbes.com: I wrote about the corporate-sponsored "Great American Road Trip" Sean Duffy and his family got, ethics rules and how taxpayers did pay for at least a portion: www.forbes.com/sites/kylemu...

Isomorphic Labs’ $2.1B fundraise is the biggest bet to date in AI drug discovery — but the company is tight-lipped on what drugs it might bring to the clinic @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

This week’s @forbes.com InnovationRx newsletter from me and @thealexknapp.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/innova...

NVision’s metabolic MRIs for cancer look more like weather maps than traditional scans — giving docs more insight into the disease and how to treat it Now with $38M in new equity funding led by Abbott, it’s expanding into quantum computing My latest for @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

This is crazy. Unprecedented??

AI drug discovery heating up as Google-backed Isomorphic raises $2.1B www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

As the Strait of Hormuz crisis drags on, interest & investment is surging in the drone boat industry. My latest for @forbes.com profiles a buzzy contender, Havoc, run by a man who came to the U.S. as a 10-year-old refugee from Burma and just raised $100 million: www.forbes.com/sites/monica...

DOJ subpoenas NYU Langone over young trans patients’ care ca.news.yahoo.com/doj-issues-g...

Billions of prescriptions go unfilled. Startup Forus hit a $1B valuation by using AI to help fix that. My latest for @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

Working behind the scenes, RFK Jr is spearheading a vast inquiry — led by Martin Kulldorff — into his anti-vaccine theories 👀 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/h...

Is “mildly PCR positive” like “a little bit pregnant”? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/u...

Blue paint on the reflecting pool !? A no-bid contract with no review www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...

Pennsylvania sues AI firm over claims chatbot posed as doctor | NPR www.npr.org/2026/05/05/n...

In this week’s @forbes.com health newsletter, @thealexknapp.bsky.social and I look at the first Alzheimer’s patients treated with microrobotic surgery, Indian billionaire Dilip Shanghvi’s US moves, the hantavirus outbreak, and more! www.forbes.com/sites/innova...

This is horrifying. Parents are shunning Vitamin K shots for their babies. Now many are dying of vitamin K deficiency bleeding www.propublica.org/article/more...

A little timeline cleanse from 2 weeks’ vacation

My latest @forbes.com feature looks at $1.8B startup Formation Bio, which is making a big bet that AI can push clinical trials faster. “What we think the world has wrong is that drug discovery is the bottleneck,” says cofounder and CEO Ben Liu. www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

Connie Ballmer --wife of megabillionaire and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer-- is stepping up with a big donation to NPR, @bloomberg.com reports: #billionaires #philanthropy www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

If you own Fidelity Contrafund or Blue Chip Growth Fund in your 401k, you’re making a big bet on Elon Musk’s SpaceX whether you realize it or not

In this week’s @forbes.com InnovationRx newsletter, @thealexknapp.bsky.social and I look at: —RevMed’s pancreatic cancer pill —self-made healthcare entrepreneurs —30 Under 30 Europe science & health —-and more! www.forbes.com/sites/innova...

Much more interested in the buyers, Alen Mamrout & family, and their history of snapping up distressed brands than in yet another idiotic meme stock

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

New with @pamherd.bsky.social: While never mentioning Trump or political parties, the show’s second season offers an almost-real time commentary on how policy changes are affecting health. Lets take one particular example of Medicaid coverage loss. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-p...

Pulmonary fibrosis-focused biotech Avalyn filed to go public to fund late-stage clinical trials. My dad had IPF so seeing any potential new drugs for this miserable disease is personal. endpoints.news/pulmonary-fi...

Worth reading on Hegseth’s Christian nationalism foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/08/p...

In the latest edition of our healthcare newsletter, InnovationRx, @amyfeldman7.bsky.social and I look at Trump’s pharmaceutical tariffs, the first robotic cataract surgeries in humans, the underbelly of marketing compounded GLP-1s, and more. www.forbes.com/sites/innova...

The Trump admin is quietly seeking unprecedented access to federal workers’ medical records kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...

In other words: US doesn’t attack — Iran doesn’t respond. Iran’s military controls the strait. This is worse than what it was before it all started, and there’s no peaceful way out of it. “The Art of The Deal”.

The next test of AI prescribing in Utah: psych med renewals neuralnetworkworld.com/utah-ai-psyc...

The war in Iran has slowed down international shipping, much of which contains medical and humanitarian goods destined for Asia and Africa. n.pr/4c3LUaY

Snake bros 🤦🏻‍♀️ www.wired.com/snake-bros-a...

In this week’s @forbes.com health newsletter, we look at ARPA-H’s plan to use agentic AI to treat heart failure, a disease where few get the right treatment “Can it be better than the status quo? I think the answer is yes,” says program manager Dr. Haider Warraich www.forbes.com/sites/innova...

As Kailera files for an IPO today, my profile of the company last year @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

430,000 US households have amassed $30M or more www.wsj.com/economy/weal...

In this week’s @forbes.com healthcare newsletter w/ @thealexknapp.bsky.social: —why the Iran war may make your MRI more expensive —an FDA-approved AI doctor? —Pfizer’s Lyme disease vaccine www.forbes.com/sites/innova...

“I want to fix the ‘I am not a doctor’ problem by building AI that is recognized by the FDA and recognized by the states.” @forbes.com

An average of 50+ U.S. citizen kids *a day* with a parent pulled into detention

Serial entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky built North America’s largest chain of fertility clinics. Now he wants to build the first FDA-approved AI doctor My latest @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

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