The self-proclaimed Fashion Whisperer of Boston was a star stylist for the city's elite. Saks says he scammed it out of $400,000.

Texas sued healthcare technology giant Epic Systems, alleging the company’s setup can block parents from accessing their children’s health information.

A Democratic effort to extend federal health-insurance subsidies failed in the Senate. A rival GOP plan funding health accounts also fell short of advancing. on.wsj.com/3MxAp2n

The Making of a Monopoly: Part 2 of @gingerthompson.bsky.social's outstanding look at Phoebe Putney and about how it waged a yearslong battle to eliminate its competition. Required reading for anyone who cares about why our health care system is what it is. (w/ Doris Burke)

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.

Very cool radioactive fungus news From @chelleraiser.bsky.social www.sciencealert.com/chernobyl-fu...

BREAKING: Ozempic – and 14 other popular prescription drugs – will cost less for Medicare after the U.S. government negotiated lower prices

Texas AG @KenPaxtonTX is suing more drug companies. This week, he sued Sanofi and Bristol-Myers Squibb for failing to disclose that their drug Plavix did not work effectively for certain patients.

Breaking: Pfizer prevails over Novo Nordisk for a weight-loss drug startup after an unusual bidding war

James Watson has died. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...

Forget hoodies. The latest addition to the tech-bro look is a newly taut face. on.wsj.com/3L8d9HD

Freelancers: AHCJ membership = credential support for major health conferences. 👉 Join today: healthjournalism.org/become-a-member #FreelanceJournalism

After decades of fluoridating drinking water to improve public health, some communities are wavering on the practice. In one Michigan county, the medical director is mirroring Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s efforts against fluoridation. @annaleighclark.bsky.social

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED. Here is my updated story. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

"A study... showed that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29 percent, their risk of hospitalizations by 39 percent and their risk of death by 64 percent. ”" www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

Why does the naked mole rat have the longest lifespan of any rodent, nearly 40 years? A 30-year long mystery unraveled @ScienceMagazine today! Its cGAS enzyme in cells has 4 missense mutations that upends its function, promoting DNA repair and suppressing inflammation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

America’s Soybean Farmers Are Panicking Over Loss of Chinese Buyers * China hasn’t booked any U.S. soybean purchases in months * Without a deal soon, one farmer warns of “a bloodbath” * The economics are bad enough that some farmers are already calling it quits www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

Breaking: OpenAI and chip maker AMD have entered a multibillion-dollar computing partnership on AI data centers, a direct challenge to industry leader Nvidia.

The CDC director was pushed out after less than two months on the job following clashes with RFK Jr. and his staff.

Major League Baseball is getting close to inking new licensing deals, Joe Flint and Isabella Simonetti report

Spending on AI data centers is now so great that it’s crowding out investment in housing and other critical parts of the real economy, through higher energy costs and by propping up interest rates, argues The Economist economist.com/finance-and-...

NEW The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year Chokes off billions in research funding Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol... with @nidhisubs.bsky.social

A Wall Street Journal helped spur this proposal

Four Silicon Valley investors and entrepreneurs debate economics and tech on their podcast. It’s among the most popular in the U.S.--and a force in Washington.

That landmark deal to allow the UAE to buy advanced semiconductors? Some US officials are holding it up due to national security concerns.

Details on the drama that led to the departure of two members of RFK Jr.'s inner circle www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Amazon reaches an automation milestone: More than a million robots are working in its warehouses

As RFK Jr.'s new immunization panel met in Atlanta and announced it would reconsider the childhood vaccine schedule, CDC director nominee Susan Monarez was on the Hill saying that vaccines save lives With Dominique Mosbergen: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

NEW: ProPublica has sued the FDA, accusing the agency of withholding information about the safety and availability of generic drugs critical to millions of Americans.

Waymo is setting its sights on the Big Apple

Amazon’s CEO tells his own employees that AI will mean fewer jobs

The new FDA commissioner plans to start new fast-track drug approval process that would reward companies that support "national priorities." And lots of other news in my story today: www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Exclusive: Tensions between OpenAI and Microsoft over the future of their famed AI partnership are reaching a boiling point.

The federal government froze this university’s research funding. It hasn’t told the school how it can get the money back.

A set of brainy Silicon Valley executives will trade their corporate-branded vests for U.S. Army Reserve uniforms because they know a heckuva lot about AI.

The studio and cable conglomerate that David Zaslav created couldn’t overcome outside forces and massive debt. Now he’s breaking up Warner Bros. Discovery.

AI’s huge power needs and competition with China are pushing startups to reinvent atomic energy

The ranks of media owners and entertainment companies are poised for their biggest makeover in a generation.

An anti-vaccine activist hired by RFK Jr. is hunting for proof of a cover-up. He's looking for evidence that federal officials buried data showing a link between vaccines and autism. Former CDC officials say no data was ever hidden. www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Looking forward to this year’s Association of Health Care Journalists conference that’s about to start.

This is the executive walking the tightrope of Paramount’s efforts to resolve Trump’s “60 Minutes” lawsuit, complete the Skydance merger and calm wary CBS News staffers

The FDA has received reports of side effects including sexual dysfunction and suicidal thoughts from use of the popular hair-loss drugs

Scrutiny of U.S.-based scientists and students from China has intensified in the months since Donald Trump returned to the White House.

The Health and Human Services Department and Food and Drug Administration unveiled measures Tuesday to eliminate petroleum-based synthetic dyes in food, including Red 40, Yellow 5 and 6, Green 3, and Blue 1 and 2.

New exclusive- The Trump administration has grown so furious with Harvard after escalating fireworks between the two sides that it is planning to pull an additional $1 billion of the school’s funding www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s response to the outbreak has drawn criticism from both serious scientists and his most loyal MAHA supporters

RFK Jr says HHS is launching a “massive testing and research effort” that will determine “what has caused the autism epidemic” by September. Researchers and advocates are skeptical, to say the least (+ first @cnn.com byline from @owermohle.bsky.social!) www.cnn.com/2025/04/10/h...