I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

George Tidmarsh, the Food and Drug Administration’s top regulator of drugs, has been placed on administrative leave after being accused of using his regulatory authority to inflict financial harm on a former business associate, STAT has learned. www.statnews.com/2025/11/02/f...

EXCLUSIVE: A slow-boiling feud between Vinay Prasad and his staff at the FDA is threatening the future of the center that regulates the nation’s vaccines, biological products, and blood supply. Read more here: www.statnews.com/2025/10/31/v...

Goodbye, SAMHSA? After the Trump administration's latest layoffs at the federal agency for mental health and addiction treatment, the agency is in shambles. On the sacking of SAMHSA and what it means for the country's behavioral health, w/ @levfacher.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/10/30/s...

The NIH has insisted there are no banned words But, an analysis by @jeremymberg.bsky.social found over 700 hundred grants changed their titles from '24 to '25 Some see it as a small price to pay to keep their grant, but others are worried about what comes next www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...

We're (officially) launching STATus Report, a new video series from @statnews.com ! If you'd like to learn about "genericide," why Novo Nordisk sells the exact same drug under two trademarks, or see me do a "backside Fahrvergnügen" on rollerblades, check it out today's episode! youtu.be/XKjoo1aS2Bg

How did these nine companies win priority drug review vouchers? Lizzy has the answers: www.statnews.com/2025/10/24/h...

During the #STATSummit today, AMA president Bobby Mukkamala defended the org’s restrained advocacy strategy with the Trump administration, while playing up the alignment between the admin and the AMA on issues like prior authorization. www.statnews.com/2025/10/16/a...

“It’s not about putting on fancy outfits, it’s about being presentable … I know how much AMA fees are each year and I know they can afford that." Doctor Mike was fiery today at #STATSummit www.statnews.com/2025/10/15/d...

“What it really means is it is impossible to rapidly disseminate public health science for action,” former editor-in-chief Charlotte Kent told @chelseacirruzzo.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...

Supreme Court arguments on conversion therapy mostly went as expected today. But it's worth pointing out how the very idea of medical consensus came under attack multiple times from ADF and DOJ lawyers, as well as some conservative justices. Read my recap: www.statnews.com/2025/10/07/c...

For 3 years, I've reported on 2 big telehealth trends: pharma partnerships and compounding. They've gone head-to-head as patients demand GLP-1s. But they've been part of the same story for much longer. Here's how telehealth got hooked on drug-first thinking: www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/t...

The Supreme Court hears arguments on a conversion therapy law tomorrow. "What you have is competing visions of how states regulate medicine and whether regulation of medicine should be solely evidence-based or not,” one expert said. More here on the potential impact: www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/s...

With last week's announcement on Tylenol, pregnancy & autism — & an FDA panel in July on SSRIs during pregnancy — I've been thinking about exclusion of pregnant women in clinical trials. Talked to some experts about how we got here, and what can change: www.statnews.com/2025/10/02/c...

Mothers regularly shoulder the "blame" for having a child with autism. So when autistic moms watched Trump insist — despite little scientific evidence — that Tylenol use during pregnancy causes autism, it felt like a return to a dark era. #disability #autism www.statnews.com/2025/09/25/a...

Parents may flock to a dietary supplement with the same key ingredient as leucovorin, which the FDA just approved for children with autism. But there are drawbacks. www.statnews.com/2025/09/23/l...

Also check out this excellent q&a with Guyatt in STAT by @theresagaff.bsky.social

For years, medical professionals and transgender advocates have been saying the "Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine" was not following the principles of evidenced-based medicine. Now the "godfather" of evidence-based medicine is leveraging the same claim against them. (1/)

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...

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

Had a really interesting convo with the guy who coined the term "evidence based medicine," who has also worked on some systematic reviews of gender-affirming care. He says using the reviews as justification for banning care is an “egregious and unconscionable” misuse www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/e...

I spoke with five families in the D.C. region about what it's like raising trans kids in Trump's backyard. They shared fears about being personally targeted by the federal government and their joys in raising kids that are learning to express themselves authentically in a difficult world.

Important news from @tarabannow.bsky.social ahead of this week's ACIP meeting www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/a...

This. A reputable news organization would not print this without providing additional detail. Again, we have a case of a major news organization abandoning basic journalistic standards when the reporting is about trans people.

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...

Breaking news via @lizzylawrence.bsky.social and @matthewherper.bsky.social: FDA issues narrower approvals for Covid boosters, revokes emergency authorizations www.statnews.com/2025/08/27/f... @statnews.com

MAHA turned 1 over the weekend, and it's hard to believe it's only been one year since Kennedy endorsed Trump and kickstarted this movement. I talked with nearly two dozen people to try and make sense of all that has happened — or not. Lots to unpack! www.statnews.com/2025/08/25/r...

NEW: More than 20 hospitals and health systems have temporarily or indefinitely rolled back trans care for minors and some young adults this year amid threats of federal investigations and cuts to government funding, an NBC News analysis found. For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

"A distressing development," via @danielpayne.bsky.social at @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/08/21/c...

By now, most people have seen the latest Williams Institute report on the number of trans people in the U.S. But I wanted to add one important piece of context on where that data comes from, because it is disappearing under the Trump admin. In Morning Rounds: www.statnews.com/2025/08/21/h...

We think of AI as something that decreases costs and increases revenue. But _for whom_ does it make more $? AI scribe companies promise that doctors will now get paid for everything they did in a visit. But where is that money coming from? All of us. More from me @statnews.com: 🖥️🩺

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...

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

Trump executive order seeks to centralize control of grantmaking under political appointees www.statnews.com/2025/08/08/t...

Since UPMC, one of the largest hospital systems in Pennsylvania ended gender-affirming care for those under nineteen on June 30, one therapist in the system told me, they are now expected to lie to young people about their care being illegal, even to discuss. newrepublic.com/article/1988...

New: Trump is threatening health care giants with the weight of the federal government. It’s working — sometimes. w/ @sarah-todd.bsky.social @chelseacirruzzo.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/08/06/t...

The dismantling of the science-driven #ACIP continues, with members of professional groups (pediatricians, family docs, obgyns, etc) that have liaison status on the panel that shapes #CDC's vaccination policy told they are biased, can't serve on ACIP work groups. www.statnews.com/2025/08/01/c...

NEW: Massive and confusing inconsistencies at NIH. New director says health disparities research is critical yet grants are being cut left and right. With @aniloza.bsky.social and @ericboodman.bsky.social. (Also my last story for STAT. 😢) www.statnews.com/2025/08/01/n...

Quick writeup of today's ADA celebration and why some folks declined to attend www.statnews.com/2025/07/28/a...

Queer women will be hit especially hard by the incoming Medicaid cuts and restrictions in Trump's tax law. That includes Sara Habein, a mother of two living in northern Montana, who recently learned that she has cysts in her brain. Read her story in the latest from me and @chabeli.bsky.social

“[Children's] small bodies are shutting down — they can’t breathe, their immune systems are collapsing." Meanwhile, Gaza health authorities say more 1,000 people have been shot and killed trying to access food distribution sites backed by Israel and the US. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

MAHA prefers Coke with cane sugar, fries made with beef tallow, and ice cream with no synthetic dyes. Experts say those ingredients don't really make the foods any healthier. But what *I* wanted to know is if they made them taste any better. So I went on a mini MAHA food crawl for @statnews.com

Are you a trans journalist trying to change your byline? You should check out this guide I have been writing for the last few months for @theopennotebook.bsky.social, which is full of tips/tricks from me and many other trans journalists. www.theopennotebook.com/2025/07/22/h...

The association of AFP journalists writes: “Since AFP’s founding in 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had members of our ranks wounded or taken prisoner, but none of us can remember ever having seen a colleague die of hunger.”

For nonswimmers, the Masters program is essentially swim team for adults who have aged out of all other competition. This is not a program for Olympians. No one is being swindled bc the point is not to determine whose grandma in the 70+ category is the best lady swimmer in the US. It's for fun!!!

NEW: Of the 230+ Venezuelans deported to El Salvador: • Almost half had immigration cases that were not yet decided • More than 60 had pending asylum claims, some just days away from final hearings These men had followed U.S. immigration procedures. Then Trump changed the rules.

This week, MAHA celebrated ice cream without artificial dyes and Coca-Cola without corn syrup. Nutrition experts say...uhhh, it's still Coke and ice cream. from @sarah-todd.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/07/17/c...

"The law approved late Wednesday applies to those younger than 21 and calls for 15 years in prison for any violators, as well as a $50,000 penalty and the revocation of all licenses and permits of medical staff." www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

LGBTQ+ adults are twice as likely to use Medicaid as their main insurance. Trump’s new tax law could create insurmountable hurdles for their health care. I spoke with some of the most vulnerable at risk of losing this care; disabled trans folks, who are afraid for their futures right now.

“There was a brief silence among the three of us, a beat of shared recognition of the difficulties of staying alive.” Hanif Abdurraqib reflects on meeting Mahmoud Khalil and Zohran Mamdani at a comedy show.