Daniel Payne 🌸 Chelsea Cirruzzo chaser: statnews.com/2025/07/31/hhs…

Axing #BARDA funding for research on #mRNA vaccines is not just a problem for pandemic preparedness, it's a national security threat, experts in that area tell STAT. “We're unilaterally disarming ourselves" — and advertising that fact. statnews.com/2025/08/07/ken…

New: A company that has Donald Trump Jr. on its board debuted a new service to help pharmaceutical companies launch direct sales platforms, one week after President Donald Trump demanded that drugmakers create similar systems. (Gift link) bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

As Vinay Prasad returns to FDA, I wrote him an open letter about how he can admit humans make mistakes, actually welcome dissent, and serve public health. And also, make it so I don't need to write another Vinay Prasad piece for a while! Dear Vinay: Please embrace dissent, and

What might the FDA's Vinay Prasad do differently the second time around? Matthew Herper has some interesting thoughts. statnews.com/2025/08/11/vin…

Fascinating study about how clinical AI can undermine doctors' skills (with caveats...): statnews.com/2025/08/12/ai-…

New: It’s a small federal health agency but the advocates I spoke with said it has big impact on making our health care system better for patients. Now, former staff tell me cuts to HHS has rendered it non-functional: statnews.com/2025/08/13/fed…

AHRQ, the federal agency once prized by health care researchers, is a shadow of its former self, 🌸 Chelsea Cirruzzo reports, with close to 90% of its workers gone following Trump administration cuts and early retirements. statnews.com/2025/08/13/fed…

So proud of STAT reporters winning FOUR Murrows: Eric Boodman Katie Palmer Usha Lee McFarling @Tara Bannow Lizzy Lawrence Bob Herman Casey Ross For Excellence in Writing, Investigative, Feature Reporting, DEI

The best story on the HHS announcement about restarting a vaccine safety task force is this gem from Sarah Owermohle and Rachel Cohrs Zhang from February. statnews.com/2025/02/11/rfk…

New: I spent the week looking into the cancelled mRNA contracts. Interviews with HHS officials and MAGA and MAHA media influencers reveal an HHS agency plagued by dysfunction as Kennedy chips away at the nation’s public health. msnbc.com/news/news-anal…

Very important work here by STAT reporters on how political oversight is gumming up the process of funding for scientific research. statnews.com/2025/08/15/ins…

So, what's in that leaked version of the MAHA Commission report? We break it down: statnews.com/2025/08/15/mah…

The health care industry broadly failed its investors in 2024. That didn't stop those leading blue-chip companies from amassing generational wealth. Read and search through our latest CEO pay analysis, where there's no shortage of huge numbers. statnews.com/2025/08/18/hea…

Conflicts among CDC and FDA vaccine panel members are not as numerous as you think, ⁦pharmalot⁩ writes. statnews.com/pharmalot/2025…

Health care CEOs harvest billions even as industry lags broader stock market statnews.com/2025/08/18/hea… via STAT

Stephen Hahn has a new job. The FDA commissioner-turned-VC is returning to his roots in radiation oncology. We've got the exclusive at STAT: statnews.com/2025/08/20/nuc…

Former FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn is not troubled by the recent agency layoffs, per Allison DeAngelis statnews.com/2025/08/20/nuc…

Our annual report on the biotech VCs with the top returns is out! prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

Though Secretary Kennedy said he would add scientists to the HHS workforce, agencies have lost thousands of them, along with colleagues who those scientists depended on to dispatch checks, fix computers and order lab supplies, enabling them to do their jobs. projects.propublica.org/federal-health…