75,000 health care workers are about to go on strike, and you may have questions. Brittany Trang has answers: statnews.com/2023/09/21/kai…

tfw a ho-hum folo on diagnostics turns out to involve an Alexander Calder on sale at a Madison Ave. gallery and a monumental Henry Moore in a private sculpture garden in Beverly Hills

statnews.com/2023/10/04/con…

NEW: A key female chemist has been edged out of the Ozempic origin story.

Svetlana Mojsov's experiences expose a disciplinary bias against chemists in favor of MDs and show how narratives of scientific discovery get passed down. From me and Megan Molteni
statnews.com/2023/09/27/wei…

'a cheek swab can tell otherwise healthy individuals they are likely to die of ALS or a number of devastating diseases... What does the medical and research world owe them?'

A, deep, beautifully told story from Jason Mast

statnews.com/2023/09/21/als…

A 'world-first' RCT on gender-affirming care was published last week. “[I] have to commend the team for figuring out the one ethical way to conduct an RCT of gender-affirming care,” one expert said. “Not that the naysayers won’t just move the goalposts.” statnews.com/2023/09/15/ran…

I’m excited to get to chat with weparmet at Porter Square Books on Sept. 20!

In 1986, a researcher noticed a paradox: Hispanic people had less income and health care, higher rates of diabetes and obesity—but were living longer than white people.

But what can that finding actually tell us?

Great piece by Usha Lee McFarling
statnews.com/2023/09/14/his…

Nearly 70 obesity drugs are in the works now trying to eclipse Wegovy and Mounjaro.

To keep tabs on all the significant obesity drugs in development and on the market, Allison DeAngelis, J Emory Parker and I created this new tracker:
statnews.com/2023/09/12/new…

There is nothing that makes my job more fun than when I get an awesome Alex Hogan illo to go with my story. An instant STAT classic. (The story is fun too, read it: statnews.com/2023/09/12/nut…)

'I see so many people say: ‘Remember, Covid’s not over,'' Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH told Helen Branswell 🇨🇦. 'Covid’s never going to be over. You need to set expectations accordingly. It is never going to be over.”

statnews.com/2023/09/10/cov…

It's impossible to express how much I'm going to miss working with Megan Thielking. Megan is a brilliant journalist and one of the best human beings I've met. The NYT is so, so lucky to have her.

A beautiful (and totally gutting) window onto the imagined worlds of people on death row, from the great Keri Blakinger

themarshallproject.org/2023/08/31/dun…

Supplement-maker LifeVantage has plaudits from Nasdaq and has Erin Brockovich on its board.

One of its distributors uses anti-vaccine talking points as a promotional tool. Others reportedly claim the supplements can help treat cancer. By Lindsay Gellman

statnews.com/2023/09/08/lif…

Today the FL Supreme Court will hear a case that could trigger a 6-week abortion ban in the third most populous state.

5/ 7 justices were appointed by Gov DeSantis, the court is widely viewed as one of the country’s most conservative. Several justices have antiabortion ties 🧵

The turmoil ProMED isn't over. #ISID fired 3 of the top moderators today, leaders of the strike that began in early Aug. & was due to end Sept. 11.
'It doesn’t feel like it’s a move that would help solve ProMED’s problems,” said John Brownstein. statnews.com/2023/09/07/pro…

'To spend time with Adams is to have your expectations scrambled, as if he contains within him a whole colorful cast of strange bedfellows.'

A great story, beautifully told by Eric Boodman

-- statnews.com/2023/09/06/wes… via STAT