Managing editor @statnews, ex @washingtonpost editor. Contactable: jason.ukman@statnews.com
Austin, TX
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This year, a loosely regulated clinical trial system in China gained global attention after the deaths of three patients.
Now, a rare disease advocate says one of the only paths to creating drugs for desperate kids is being closed off.
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New: In the five weeks since its approval, a pancreatic cancer drug shown to markedly extend survival time has been used to treat 5,000 patients who likely would have had no such reason to hope previously. Via @adamfeuerstein @statnews
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Significant: Democratic scientists and clinicians have spent the past two years outraged and often powerless. Now, some of them are headed for public office.
Via @AnilOza16 @SarahLizChar
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Where does MAHA go after a searing midterm rebuke? Here are three possibilities: statnews.com/2026/11/04/maha…
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NEW: Medicare for All isn't happening in the immediate term. But last night will almost certainly give advocates real momentum, @john_wilkerson notes for @statnews.
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🗳️ IT'S ELECTION DAY 🗳️ and my colleagues at @statnews have everything you need to know about health care in the midterms, starting with @_daniel_payne on the biggest ways votes cast today could change how you receive care: statnews.com/2026/10/31/midt…
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The 4 biggest ways the midterms could change health policy, according to policymakers, lobbyists, and experts statnews.com/2026/10/31/midt…
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An upcoming eczema trial readout from Kymera Therapeutics ($KYMR) is a crucial moment in the biotech's bid to rival Sanofi and Regeneron's Dupixent. For more context on the drug, study, and expectations, see my latest for @statnews
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New: After a melanoma diagnosis, mRNA cancer vaccine delivered a patient hope — and a path forward. #STATSummit
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Three former FDA commissioners offered advice to Heidi Overton, Trump's nominee to lead the agency, at #STATSummit: "“Recruit, support, and defend the workforce" statnews.com/2026/10/14/form…
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@adamfeuerstein: So do you think that Dario at some point is going to find out that biology is going to kick his ass?
Matt Gline, CEO of Roivant: I think Dario is going to find out that no one wants to go to an AI restaurant and eat an AI cheeseburger. That they want to go to an actual hospital and take an actual pill. #STATSummit
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Science editor-in-chief Holden Thorpe gave the day’s first warning about the rise of science in China.
He says he can see it in the papers researchers are trying to get published in the top scientific journal he edits.
"Submissions from China continue to increase, not just in number but in quality, and submissions from the U.S. are going down,” Thorpe said.
He later added: “The atmosphere there (China) is just so much more pro-science than it is here.”
Here is a video.
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I’m thrilled here to be here in Boston, one of my favorite cities on the planet, for today’s #STATSummit. Watch here for tweets and stories from STAT staff, or buy a virtual ticket… I’m very proud of this agenda.
Here are some pictures from my jog the other day.
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Helen Branswell was a gift — to family and friends, to colleagues, and to masses of people whose lives were made better by the work to which she was so devoted. I was lucky to know her.
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MAHA activists have claimed to lead a revolution in American politics.
Now, they meet disappointing midterm realities.
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Fifty years ago, pioneering researcher Robert Gallo and his colleagues pursued basic research science and changed history.
Sometimes you don't know where the work will lead. That, he writes in @statnews, is a lesson that should still matter.
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U.S. health spending is on pace to cost almost $16,500 per person this year.
And the biggest portion of an employer’s health spending — even for the largest corporations in the country — has remained the same since the 1980s: bit.ly/4edjsFi
ALT Bar chart illustrating the increase in average per-person healthcare spending from 2021 to 2026. Categories include hospital outpatient, physician care, prescription drugs, hospital inpatient, and other. The total rises from $6,107 in 2021 to $8,460 in 2026. Chart by J. Emory Parker/STAT, source Milliman.
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