New: Cassidy invites RFK Jr. to testify before Senate health panel www.statnews.com/2025/09/18/c...

A late scoop: HHS abruptly cancelled a meeting today w/ Kennedy, David Geier and the officials at a key vaccine safety database. Lots of nuggets, but the upshot: RFK Jr and Geier want to study the pediatric vaccine schedule to find a link with autism. www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/r...

The key takeaways from an important Senate hearing today, w/ @isabellacueto.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/m...

News from a tense hearing, reported by @danielpayne.bsky.social and @isabellacueto.bsky.social at @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/m...

Fear and politics pervade Kennedy’s CDC, former leaders testify @elizabethcooney.bsky.social reporting www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/m...

Monarez's meeting with Kennedy has come up again and again at this hearing. Context from our earlier reporting: www.statnews.com/2025/09/16/c...

On the one hand, these purported comments by an HHS secretary about CDC staff are astonishing. On the other, they echo much of what RFK Jr. has said publicly in the past. Via @danielpayne.bsky.social @isabellacueto.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/m...

BREAKING: Ousted CDC director says Kennedy plans to change pediatric vaccine schedule www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/c...

BREAKING: The CDC is temporarily ending remote work. The decision leaves scores of employees in the lurch, even forcing people with disabilities with high-support needs to come into the office. #disability www.statnews.com/2025/09/16/c...

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...

Supplements and other health and wellness products are on the list. New from @sarah-todd.bsky.social and @isabellacueto.bsky.social at @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/09/16/c...

NEW: CDC has been ‘censored’ and ‘politicized’ under RFK Jr., former officials plan to tell senators www.statnews.com/2025/09/16/c...

New: Hill staff mull Trump’s drug pricing plan in a closed-door meeting www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/t...

Inside hospitals’ war rooms for handling Medicaid cuts, considerations include shuttering services, deploying new tech, and consolidating with larger systems. How the $1 trillion cut is reverberating across the U.S. www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/h...

The CDC plans to fund new research on the previously debunked connection between vaccines and autism. More on the proposed research and the researcher tapped for the job: www.statnews.com/2025/09/12/v...

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

Monarez to testify in Senate hearing next week www.statnews.com/2025/09/09/f...

Kennedy looks to add new members to federal vaccine panel www.statnews.com/2025/09/09/a...

The next MAHA report is here. @isabellacueto.bsky.social reporting www.statnews.com/2025/09/09/r...

STAT is 10! Join us in reflecting on a decade of reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine. We’re proud that since 2015 we’ve delivered urgent, authoritative, and impactful journalism. Celebrate with us: www.statnews.com/stat-10th-an... #STAT10 🧵

Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s aggressive moves to change U.S. vaccine policy — adopted by leaders at other federal health agencies — may be putting him at odds with President Trump himself. w/ @chelseacirruzzo.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/09/08/v...

CDC was at the center of much of the questioning of Kennedy today. Catch up on all that's been happening there, via @alexhogan.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/09/04/k...

The big takeaways from health secretary RFK Jr.’s contentious Senate hearing www.statnews.com/2025/09/04/h...

There was shouting. From @danielpayne.bsky.social and @chelseacirruzzo.bsky.social at @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/09/04/h...

And now, Kennedy recounts a very different memory of his meeting with Monarez: The health secretary claimed that he asked the then-CDC director if she was “a trustworthy person.” “She said no,” Kennedy said. Very different from Monarez's memory and other reporting (below)

Remarkable comments from the nation's top health official Kennedy gets animated over CDC allegations, mRNA vaccines, long-respected vaccine expert groups, and much more... All the details: www.statnews.com/2025/09/04/h...

Kennedy addressed the shakeup at CDC: www.statnews.com/2025/09/04/h...

7 burning questions for RFK Jr. as he faces senators’ questions on CDC turmoil and more. Very smart from @chelseacirruzzo.bsky.social and @isabellacueto.bsky.social. Hearing opens tmrw morning. www.statnews.com/2025/09/03/k...

News comes so fast and furious these days it's hard to appreciate the magnitude of developments such as these: An individual who until last week was running the CDC issuing a major warning on the current administration. Latest from @danielpayne.bsky.social. www.statnews.com/2025/09/04/h...

Monarez speaks publicly for the first time since her ouster — plus more key context as RFK Jr. is set to testify before the Senate Finance Committee this morning. www.statnews.com/2025/09/04/h...

NEW: RFK Jr. pushed out Susan Monarez, former CDC director, last week — suggesting it was needed to reform the agency. But many of Kennedy’s reform ideas match a memo Monarez sent HHS leaders nearly a month ago. www.statnews.com/2025/09/03/k...

New: Trump weighs in on the “mess” at CDC www.statnews.com/2025/09/01/t...

How the sweeping changes at CDC are spilling into the real world, via @elizabethcooney.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

Jim O’Neill to be acting director of CDC www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/j...

Lots of crucial reporting today across STAT on the sweeping changes at the CDC over the last 24 hours. Are you in the agency, elsewhere in HHS, or on the Hill? Signal: @danielp.100 / Email: daniel.payne (at) statnews (dot) com www.statnews.com

And while much of the health world focuses on turmoil at the CDC... Health industry giants are plotting a major lobbying push over the coming weeks to extend federal insurance subsidies. Billions of dollars and the coverage of millions of patients are at stake. www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/h...

Here is a closer look at the top-ranking officials who resigned from the CDC this week. www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/p...

Bill Cassidy is calling for next month’s meeting of a federal advisory panel on vaccines to be postponed in the wake of a mass exodus of leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

NEW: Inside the meetings and disagreements over vaccine policy that led to Susan Monarez's ouster at CDC — and a series of other agency leaders' resignations www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

Special Report Inside the CDC director’s ouster: Kennedy demanded acceptance of new vaccine policies; Susan Monarez refused www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

#Breaking: Health secretary RFK Jr. issues harsh critique of CDC after ouster of its director www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/r...

Update: At least three other high-ranking officials in CDC have also resigned. “I am not able to serve in this role any longer because of the ongoing weaponization of public health,” one of the officials said in a note to staff.

CDC Director Susan Monarez is out www.statnews.com/2025/08/27/c...

#Breaking: CDC attacker likely attempted to enter campus days before shooting www.statnews.com/2025/08/21/c...

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

News: The man who attacked the CDC in a shooting earlier this month attempted to enter its campus days earlier, investigators believe www.statnews.com/2025/08/21/c...

New: CDC has increased the number of security guards at nearly all its campuses nationwide www.statnews.com/2025/08/21/c...

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 🩺

Eli Lilly says it will raise drug prices in Europe to ‘make them lower’ in U.S. — in line the Trump administration's agenda w/ @elaineywchen.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/08/14/e...

AMA has stayed largely quiet as the Trump administration roils the state of science in the U.S. Now the largest group representing physicians is changing course: “We have to stand up for science,” CEO John Whyte tells @theresagaff.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/08/13/a...