Apparently Cedars-Sinai is sending their patients deepfakes, and it's increasing the # of patients filling out colorectal cancer screenings?? This and more in the new tracker, developed by STAT's experts Casey Ross Katie Palmer J Emory Parker: statnews.com/2023/09/05/gen…

Very cool new tool devised by STAT, a Generative AI Tracker: A guide to the health systems and companies driving adoption statnews.com/feature/stat-p… via STAT Katie Palmer Casey Ross J Emory Parker

FYI Google is turning Chrome into spyware. Stop using Chrome and switch to Firefox. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/0…

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…

Terrific new reader service just out: STAT's obesity drug tracker. statnews.com/2023/09/12/new… via STAT Elaine Chen Allison DeAngelis J Emory Parker

My latest for STAT looks at how demand for life science lab space has fallen sharply. Vacancy rates are the highest they’ve been in a decade. See below. Thanks to J Emory Parker for a nice graphic based on data from JLL. (Story link: statnews.com/2023/09/19/bio…)

On my way to SRCCON! hmu if you’re going too!

A STAT #investigation: UnitedHealth Group employees say they were pressured to use the company's algorithm, which predicts how long patients will need to stay in rehab, to deny care. From Casey Ross and Bob Herman 🧵 trib.al/1JtTxnF

Please hire this person, you will not regret it

Absolutely ecstatic that STAT has been named a 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Investigative Reporting. A testament to Bob Herman & Casey Ross's outstanding journalism, whose piece 'Denied by AI' sheds crucial light on how Medicare Advantage algorithms impact senior care.

There’s a heat wave coming. Here’s the CDC health risk forecast and other details. statnews.com/2024/06/18/exc… via STAT Theresa Gaffney J Emory Parker

EXCLUSIVE: AbbVie dramatically outspent its pharma company rivals in 2023 to promote its drugs to doctors statnews.com/2024/07/05/abb… via STAT Nicholas Florko J Emory Parker

Why is Covid surging this summer? My smart colleagues Elizabeth Cooney Andrew Joseph J Emory Parker and Rohan Rajeev have answers: statnews.com/2024/07/18/lat…

How UnitedHealth harnesses its physician empire to squeeze profits out of patients The first part of a giant STAT investigation from Bob Herman Tara Bannow Casey Ross and Lizzy Lawrence statnews.com/2024/07/25/uni…

The Visuals team was exceptionally hit hard by this news. Please reach out if you're looking for data viz designers, developers, data analysts, visual storytellers or illustrators.

Interesting stats in Elizabeth Cooney story, and very helpful chart by J Emory Parker: As Covid deaths drop, heart disease and cancer remain leading causes of death statnews.com/2024/08/08/lea… via STAT

Evening Post Industries -- the ownership group that publishes the Post & Courier -- is the target of a federal class action lawsuit filed by a former employee earlier today. ecf.scd.uscourts.gov/doc1/163114198… Here's the disclosure that's been on the site for months: postandcourier.com/site/evening-p…

Nick Reynolds Happened to them when I was an employee at the Aiken Standard. If I recall, an employee sent all of our info to some email. Anyway, I got credit monitoring because of it.

lfg!!!

The one thing that could get me to temporarily break my twitter strike: publicizing the federal class action just filed against my horrible former employer