"I’m not a doctor," President Trump said yesterday. That acknowledged lack of medical credentials did not stop him from offering medical opinions on risk factors for autism that the preponderance of the scientific evidence does not support. www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/t...

Trying to make sense of the fallout from yesterday's wild press conference about autism, Tylenol and vaccines with Trump, Kennedy and other top health officials? Boy have I got @statnews.com stories and a subscription deal for 🫵

If you have a question about Trump's autism announcement ... it's probably answered somewhere here

What President Trump said today about vaccines could send shockwaves through the country for a very long time. Story from @danielpayne.bsky.social @aniloza.bsky.social @chelseacirruzzo.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/t...

At a time of huge questions about autism, Tylenol, and more, you won't find a better source of information than @statnews.com. Scientific explainer: www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/t... FDA approval story: www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/f... Main story TK.

Nobel laureate Drew Weissman tells @matthewherper.bsky.social at @statnews.com “It’s just not true.” www.statnews.com/2025/09/20/d...

Winner of mRNA Nobel Prize says ACIP member’s claim that Covid vaccines persist is “absolutely impossible” In Q&A, Drew Weissman says vast literature shows Covid shots are safe, refutes claims from Retsef Levi www.statnews.com/2025/09/20/d...

If you want the top line from the two day long meeting of RFK’s reconstituted vaccine advisory committee, @chelseacirruzzo.bsky.social @elaineywchen.bsky.social & @lizzylawrence.bsky.social have you covered www.statnews.com/2025/09/19/w...

Just in: Federal vaccine panel remade by RFK Jr. votes to maintain insurance coverage for Covid shots. ACIP encourages consultations with clinicians, even as panelists question shots’ benefits. www.statnews.com/2025/09/19/a...

If you don't have bandwidth to sit through, like, 16 hours of this key ACIP meeting, STAT reporters have got you covered. Helpful write-ups of the major points: www.statnews.com

Good morning from Atlanta where a panel of federal vaccine advisers pushed a vote to delay the hepatitis B shot in some newborns to a later meeting. @aniloza.bsky.social has why: www.statnews.com/2025/09/19/c...

And more breaking news, from @aniloza.bsky.social at @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/09/19/c...

RFK's ACIP ended up voting to ... table the vote on delaying the hep B vaccine “There’s enough ambiguity here and enough remaining discussion about safety, effectiveness, & timing that I believe that a vote today is premature,” a member of the committee said www.statnews.com/2025/09/19/c...

going to be a busy day at ACIP today — we will have: - Vote on delaying Hep b newborn shot (pushes from yesterday) - Vote on Covid vaccine boosters We'll be watching along @statnews.com — some context threaded below

Our story is UPDATED: - Hep B vote pushed until tomorrow - confusing, split vote on mmrv (see below) More tomorrow 👋

"We took an oath. You did too. Will you uphold yours?” Nearly 900 federal workers, including CDC and NIH staff, signed a letter to Congress urging it to protect medicine and science. Story via @angusrohan.bsky.social and @aniloza.bsky.social for @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/09/18/f...

CDC's ACIP is about to discuss a potential delay in administering the hep B shot to newborns — here's what's at stake (we're tuning in and will be updating) w/ @elaineywchen.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/09/18/c...

NEW: RFK Jr. has dubbed fluoride “industrial waste,” and federal agencies are reviewing their approaches to fluoridation amid a backlash that has seen state and local governments upending a decadeslong public health success story. By @annaleighclark.bsky.social

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...

Ousted CDC director Susan Monarez says Kennedy told her he plans to change the childhood vaccine schedule this month: “He did not have any data or science to point to." www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/c...

This @danielpayne.bsky.social scoop is paywalled. But it just so happens you can get @statnews.com for $10/month for a good stretch. marketing.statnews.com/stat-10th-st...

“Our girls are still dead”: Camp Mystic parents successfully pushed for laws to protect kids at camp. But too late to save their own children. Beautifully told story by former @ksjatmit.bsky.social fellow @emfoxhall.bsky.social via @texastribune.org

HHS officially announced the appointment of the 5 new ACIP members we wrote about last week — ahead of their meeting this Thursday & Friday: www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/k...

covering the @nihvigils.bsky.social today

“It is a cruel irony that just days after a gunman sprayed over 500 bullets across the CDC campus, the government fired over 150 violence and injury prevention specialists at the CDC,” former CDC official Tom Simon told me. My story at @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/09/12/g...

Here is a plot of 4-year multi-year funded new R01s for 2015-2025. NIH has made some 4-year R01s late in the fiscal year to invest the last of the appropriation, but what is happening this year is quite different. I estimate that these new R01s are ~25% of the multi-year funding since July 1.

It's been a busy time for NIH grants staff — the agency seems on track to spend its budget this fiscal year But, because of multi-year funding, fewer projects are being funded than in previous years. The number of R grants has fallen from 5,633 to 3,758 analysis by @jaspar.bsky.social

ACIP is meeting next week — here's the new cast of members we might see there www.statnews.com/2025/09/09/a...

new MAHA report dropped: www.statnews.com/2025/09/09/r...

New: HHS has told all employees that they should start using ChatGPT, continuing the administration's AI-ification of everything, its trust in tools that hallucinate, and the general sense that getting things right is not important or worth trying to do: www.404media.co/hhs-asks-all...

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 🧵

Whistleblower complaints allege Trump administration broke the law in terminating grants, ignored peer review in creating flu vaccine program www.statnews.com/2025/09/04/n...

News 🚨: The much-anticipated autism report from RFK Jr.'s HHS will point to Tylenol during pregnancy, folate deficiency, among other possible causes of autism. With @nidhisubs.bsky.social Link👇 www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Last week I finished up my fellowship w/ @ksjatmit.bsky.social & @statnews.com It's been a whirlwind of a year covering science and politics BUT I am very happy to say ✨ I won't be going anywhere ✨ I will be staying here at STAT as a general assignment reporter focusing on health equity & NIH

“People need to know the story of what went down” internally at NIH, Jeanne Marrazzo, the former director of NIAID, told STAT. "The story needed to be told.” Via @aniloza.bsky.social @mmolteni.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/09/04/n...

Today, two former NIH leaders filed whistleblower reports, detailing the hampering of vaccine science at the agency and pushback on the way the agency terminated grants @mmolteni.bsky.social & I talked to former NIAID director Jeanne Marrazzo about why www.statnews.com/2025/09/04/n...

A new National Academies report outlines potential policy fixes in a rare area where the administration’s rhetoric is aligned with academia’s interests: simplifying federal research regulations. Story via me and @aniloza.bsky.social for @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/09/03/n...

Don't even know which story to post ... they are all so well done and important. Just go read @statnews.com

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Putting aside the pandemic, hard to recall @statnews.com covering a more dizzying series of events over the course of a single day than what played out today at CDC. And it feels like we're at the start of a new chapter, not the end. www.statnews.com/2025/08/27/c...

In addition to Monarez, three other senior officials have resigned Read the story by my colleagues at the link below:

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

The most burdensome diseases globally are the least studied. The gap is narrowing, but authors of a new study warn that U.S. funding cuts imperil these gains, @aniloza.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2025/08/27/g...

And now the Supreme Court chimes in: apnews.com/article/supr...

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...

After we talked about concerns over a pocket rescission in this story, @politico.com reports today: "Lawmakers anticipate Trump will send Congress a formal rescissions request to claw back billions ... as soon as lawmakers return from recess in September." www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

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Great profile by @jonathanwosen.bsky.social of Kelvin Droegemeier — Trump's first OSTP director — who is now trying to get academia and the administration on the same page regarding how to cover indirect costs www.statnews.com/2025/08/19/n...

Excellent reporting by my @statnews.com colleagues on how political oversight has ‘put sand in the gears’ of NIH grant funding. Story via @mmolteni.bsky.social, @aniloza.bsky.social, and @angusrohan.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/i...

This point isnt being made enough. Last week’s attack on the #CDC could have been a slaughter. www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...