Come for the hard hitting journalism, stay for the cute animated bacteria holding spoons and forks. Check out my latest TikTok for STAT about how human milk could help immunocompromised adults.

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Strong and pertinent First Opinion in STAT today on the rise of colorectal cancer in young people by Simone Ledward-Boseman. statnews.com/2024/05/01/col…

The @NewmarkJSchool grads who worked on this are among the best & brightest: Emily Nadal Zack Smith Bruce Gil Audrey Carleton. Lastly, the article is behind a paywall, so please subscribe to @STATNews; producing quality journalism costs $$ statnews.com/subscribe/ /16

Thank you to many experts who were generous w/ their time, including: Kim Burchiel, Ruth Macklin, Robert Gross, Jaimie Henderson, Daniel R. Weinberger, Kushal Kadakia, Cara Tenenbaum Stephen Rosenfeld Karen Rommelfanger /15

BREAKING: Out today, our 2-year STAT investigation into a Mount Sinai research study called Living Brain Project (LBP), which biopsies brain tissue from living patients undergoing deep brain stimulation (DBS) to make new disease discoveries statnews.com/2024/05/01/bra… 🧵👇/1

Wheelchair users in the U.S. routinely wait months! to get their wheelchairs repaired. My latest for STAT: why these delays are happening, the cost of inaction and what activists in one state are doing to improve this service
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Out today: An important two-year STAT investigation by Katherine Eban and team

So helpful - of course STAT is a must read on all of this right now

Examination of what we’re starting to learn about H5N1 in cows, and the risk to people
Also Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 Megan Molteni helpfully explain what we don't know.
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Standing room only for ⁦STAT⁩ DC policy event with ⁦Ed Markey⁩ and many others.

It's starting to look like pasteurization inactivates #H5N1 #birdflu viruses in milk. But people who drink raw milk are playing with fire right now. statnews.com/2024/04/29/bir…

Great piece by Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 looking into the process behind manufacturing and distributing a potential H5N1 vaccine should it be required. It underscores the importance of learning from COVID and investing in our vaccine delivery solutions.
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A poignant note.

Congratulations to the incredible duo of Casey Ross and Bob Herman for winning the invetigative reporting prize, and to Nicholas Florko for being recognized for beat reporting of health and science

If #AI can really improve productivity, and reduce clinician burnout, shouldn’t it be accessible to all caregivers — and not just those who work in academic medical centers?

Via STAT:

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SCOOP: New, serious safety risk related to MorphoSys’ cancer drug complicates, potentially threatens, Novartis acquisition statnews.com/2024/04/28/mor… via STAT Adam Feuerstein ✡️

Cattle testing for H5N1 bird flu will be more limited than USDA initially announced statnews.com/2024/04/26/h5n… via STAT Megan Molteni

I'm looking forward to this event, and my conversation with Dr. Larry Altman, who covered the health of presidents and world leaders for decades for the The New York Times

BREAKING: Biden administration punts menthol cigarette rule indefinitely statnews.com/2024/04/26/bid… via STAT Sarah Owermohle