If you want to share stories of how you're affected or share tips, the form here is open:
Also feel free to reach out to STAT reporters on Signal (mine's btrang.01) or via email (in our site bios)
https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/25/trump-pause-science-meetings-communications-research-tips/
[#]cdc #nih #fda #hhs #cms #health #publichealth #healthpolicy #healthcare #medicine
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“Everyone I know in public health and science more broadly is freaking out right now.”
Datasets are disappearing off of the CDC website (and we're hearing rumors that there will likely be more by the end of the day)
by @STAT's Theresa Gaffney
https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/31/cdc-removes-data-on-sexual-orientation-gender-identity-from-website/
[#]cdc #data #research #health #science #lgbtq #medicine #publichealth
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On Wed, RFK Jr told senators his campaign doesn't exist anymore.
The campaign sent out a fundraising email praising the HHS freeze during that hearing.
Yesterday, he told senators he'd raised "zero" dollars off the emails.
His campaign says it raised $500,000.
from Isa Cueto at
@STAT
https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/31/rfk-jr-campaign-fundraising-email-hhs-freeze-trump-kennedy-senate-hearings/
[#]health #healthcare #medicine #rfk #hhs #nih #healthpolicy
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I'm hearing that most normal NSF grants are okay.
But for postdocs directly funded through the NSF, the portal remains frozen.
Rent, credit cards, bills—early-career scientists live paycheck to paycheck, & the federal freeze that arguably never was is still disrupting lives & research.
by @STAT's Eric Boodman:
https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/trump-funding-freeze-national-science-foundation-suspends-salary-payments/
[#]nsf #research #academicmastodon #health #science #medicine
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NEW: Trump administration cancels health tech meetings (ASTP/ONC's HITAC, for the real heads out there)
Reminder that my colleagues & I encourage you to reach out if you want to talk anything HHS or ONC-related, especially if you are or formerly are part of the administration.
I'm btrang.01 on Signal & my email is brittany.trang@statnews.com
https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/29/hhs-astp-onc-health-tech-advisory-committee-meetings-canceled/
[#]health #healthcare #healthtech #healthpolicy #trump #onc #healthIT #AI #healthAI
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Did the #Trump administration mean to freeze #Medicaid? According to a new memo, no.
But are Medicaid programs having trouble accessing money? From what we know now: Yes.
The @STAT team sorts out fact from fiction here:
https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/28/federal-grant-pause-disrupts-medicaid-trump-freeze-executive-order/
[#]health #Healthcare #medicine #healthpolicy #HHS #CMS
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“There has been confusion on the scope of the pause,” said a memo from acting #NIH director Matthew Memoli viewed by @STAT
The truth about what's allowed: Ongoing clinical trials can continue, and projects that started before January 20 can continue with procurement
More:
https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/27/nih-staff-restrictions-clinical-trials-research-purchasing-travel-eased-trump-freeze-chaos/
[#]health #medicine #Lifesciences #research #AcademicMastodon
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Have you been affected by the communications freezes at the NIH, CDC, FDA, HHS, etc?
You can reach out via the form below or contact @statnews reporters via email (they're on our site bios) or Signal (mine's btrang.01)
https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/25/trump-pause-science-meetings-communications-research-tips/
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Trump orders U.S. to withdraw from World Health Organization
https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/20/trump-order-us-withdrawal-world-health-organization-historic-policy-shift/ via @STAT
[#]health #publichealth #healthcare #medicine #who #trump #healthpolicy
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Trump’s initial orders reverse Biden on health care costs, protections from discrimination.
Not mentioned here, but Trump also rescinds the Biden AI executive order that was the driving force behind lots of AI safety work
https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/20/trump-executive-orders-health-care-drug-pricing-aca-covid-gender-discrimination/ via @STAT
[#]health #healthcare #medicine #healthpolicy #equity #ai #trump
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Companies advertising "passive income" for hospitals that sell their patients' records are popping up as AI creates a demand for training data
Patients don't have to give permission or be informed about this. It's all legal, as long as the info is "de-identified" (which is a another story!)
A bioethicist compares it to the 1973 film "Soylent Green": Chopping up people and selling parts back to them in a different package
https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/16/health-ai-electronic-health-records-hipaa-deidentified-data-market/
[#]AI #health #healthcare #healthtech #medicine
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The FDA announcement:
https://www.fda.gov/food/hfp-constituent-updates/fda-revoke-authorization-use-red-no-3-food-and-ingested-drugs
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FDA bans red dye No. 3 in foods on the basis that it causes cancer at high exposure in rats.
But the agency notes that the mechanism that caused rat cancer isn't present in humans and claims that it's bad for humans "are not supported by the available scientific information."
https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/15/red-dye-3-fda-ban-food-additive-linked-cancer/
[#]health #FDA #food
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PS: A STAT+ subscription hack: If you sign up to attend our AI-themed Breakthrough Summit West in San Francisco in May, you get 6 months of STAT+ for free 👀
A virtual ticket is only $80 on our earlybird special. An absolute steal.
Get it before they tell me to stop telling people about this!!
https://www.statnews.com/stat-summit-west/
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I'll be bringing that scrutinizing lens to our journey as we learn about #artificialintelligence together, whether that's learning how AI models work; questioning claims, benefits, and harms; or interpreting business moves.
Ask me your burning #AI in #health questions on the signup page, and tell your friends!
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I started writing about #AI at STAT two years ago, when we were all trying to figure out what the heck #ChatGPT meant for medicine (throwback below).
Before that, I got a PhD in chemistry, and before that, I was a kid who always asked "why?" (I am now an adult who asks "why?" too often)
https://www.statnews.com/2023/01/26/chatgpt-health-care-science-hospitals/
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This newsletter won't aggregate stories (though I'll be sharing plenty of links) but is designed to interpret and give you exclusive insight into what's going on in #health AI.
If you've been forced to pay attention to AI because of your job, or you simply exist in the healthcare system and don't know anything about AI but want to, this is for you.
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🚨 Excited to officially announce I'm writing a new newsletter for @STAT!
AI Prognosis starts Feb 12. It's all about #AI in #healthcare, #medicine & #biotech.
(If you sign up before Jan 20, you'll get the first 4 issues free, even if you don't have STAT+!)
https://www.statnews.com/signup/ai-prognosis/
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A fantastic example of why AI models like ChatGPT, Claude, etc are just fancy autosuggest and aren't AGI or capable of actual reasoning like humans are:
They suck at NYT Connections
(which reminds me, gotta play today's!)
https://mindmatters.ai/2025/01/large-language-models-llms-flunk-word-game-connections/
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“A lot of the current decisions that are made are made on the basis of PowerPoints, and if those PowerPoints are also sales pitches, then it’s really, really hard to know what are you dealing with.”
Transparency requirements for (some) AI in healthcare are here. Will they make a difference?
https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/06/health-care-artificial-intelligence-regulation-transparency-rule-hti1-model-card/
[#]AI #artificialintelligence #health #healthcare #healthtech
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