We found at least 18 of the drugs on TrumpRx have cheaper generics available ranging from potential savings of over $600 for Tikosyn to just around $2 for Diflucan. Most of the drugs are made by Pfizer.
So about TrumpRx: We crunched the numbers today and about half of the drugs on there have cheaper generics available already. www.statnews.com/2026/02/06/t...
STAT gathered nine of the biggest voices in the health influencer space worth keeping an eye on, for better or for worse.
List members include:
@kkjetelina.bsky.social
@drjessicaknurick.bsky.social
@jessicamalaty.bsky.social
@hubermanlab.com
Read the story: www.statnews.com/2026/01/27/w...
👌 nailed the tone @rosebroderick.bsky.social. #MAHA @statnews.com
(Read today's free newsletter here: statnews.com/2026/01/22/h...) 🧪
Very excited for "The Influencer’s Dilemma" session at the @statnews.com Breakthrough East on Mar 19: Social media’s leading science communicators on medical skepticism online (@drjessicaknurick.bsky.social, @drnoc.bsky.social & @jessicamalaty.bsky.social) www.statnews.com/stat-summit-...
Trump administration cuts up to $1.9 billion from mental health and addiction treatment programs www.statnews.com/2026/01/14/s... via @statnews.com
If you're a first-year biomedical Ph.D. student, I'd like to hear how your first few months of grad school have been going. I'm a science journalist at @statnews.com and got my Ph.D. in immunology before going into journalism. You can reach me at jonathan.wosen@statnews.com. #journorequest
Welcome back to the @statnews.com “3 To Watch” series where instead of closing the year with a review of the past, we focus on what's ahead. First up: 3 key issues to watch at FDA as Makary struggles to stabilize the agency. Vaccine policy is #2 💉via @lizzylawrence.bsky.social
🧠✈️ Scientists are leaving the U.S. for Europe due to funding cuts and political challenges. What's next for American innovation? 🌍🔬https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/17/research-cuts-fuel-scientific-brain-drain-american-science-shattered/ via @statnews.com
We've received a wonderfully large number of requests for gift subscriptions to @statnews.com this holiday season. We don't have the ability (yet) to send a nice "Amanda bought this for you!" note, but reach out to subscribers[at]statnews[dot]com and we'd love to help! 🧪 📰
This week's installments to our American Science, Shattered series @statnews.com include a check-in with scientists, federal workers, policy experts, and patients whose stories we brought you earlier this year.
www.statnews.com/2025/12/11/a...
We finally have randomized, controlled clinical trial results from ambient AI scribes. But what do these RCTs actually tell us?
Look at the below chart. Time savings are often low, but doctors give the technology rave reviews, esp in anecdotes that people tend to believe more than data 👀 🧵
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STAT will be on the ground at #ASH25. Join us Dec. 5 in Orlando for STAT@ASH: Standing on Medicine’s Threshold — an evening of conversation with leading voices in hematology and biotech. www.statnews.com/event/stat-a...
A new profile of RFK Jr offers fresh insights into how he works, the bond he shares with Trump, & how he's moved HHS “from evidence-based decision-making to decision-based evidence-making." Story by @chelseacirruzzo.bsky.social, @caseyross.bsky.social, & me:
www.statnews.com/2025/11/18/r...
Ellen Hengesbach (from USPIRG) has 5 takeaways from her conversation with an AI chatbot therapist. statnews.com/2025/11/15/c.... (#5? She says what is creepier than the chatbot therapist pretending to be human is the fine print from character.ai)
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Yesterday, the NIH abruptly placed @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social, who has been a vocal critic of the administration’s changes to the NIH, on leave
“It is intended as a threat,” she told me yesterday
www.statnews.com/2025/11/14/n...
Dear STAT News, I want to say a heartfelt THANK YOU for the vitally important work you do and the irreplaceable voices you bring to the biomedical science and health conversation! I’ve been at multiple workshops and conferences over the last month (including right now as I write this), and at least one STAT News article has been mentioned at every one of them, usually in the opening keynote. We need your partnership now more than ever, and I’m so grateful we have it. 🙏🏻
Love reading feedback like this from @statnews.com readers. www.linkedin.com/posts/josh-f...
Anyway I’m glad that even if James Watson outlived Sharon Begley, he didn’t outrun her.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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We're hosting a virtual event tomorrow 11/6 @ 1pm ET about the rise & unraveling of Moderna. @jasonmast.bsky.social & Damian Garde will be there to talk about their coverage of the company, and you can ask them any questions - Register here for free: www.statnews.com/event/modern... 🧪
Sometimes doctors "fake" CPR. It's called a "slow code" in medical parlance. But "slow code" is really an umbrella term for all types of insincere attempts at CPR. Here's a clip from my new @statnews.com video on the topic
Are you a SAMHSA employee who has been RIF-ed? Or are you part of the skeleton crew still left at the agency? I want to talk with you for a story about what's going on. @statnews.com
DM me or contact me securely on Signal at rosebroderick.11.
If there are NIH folks who would like to watch our STAT summit (including a panel on the state of the NIH), please reach out and we can get you access
Flyer advertising talk at STAT summit, in various shades of teal. Called "featured session: Inside the upheaval at NIH" and including speakers Jeremy Berg, formerly of NIGMS, Eric Green who led NHGRI, and Mallory Harris of SciMap with moderator Anil Oza. October 15-16
Excited to be moderating a panel at the @statnews.com summit later this week on the upheaval at the NIH this year, and I have the honor of sharing the stage with three people who have helped me make sense of this moment
Going to thread some background reading, featuring our three speakers:
& if you don't have access to any of the stories, we are running a promo for STAT+ subscriptions (ends this friday!!)
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Ousted CDC director says Kennedy plans to change pediatric vaccine schedule www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/c... via @statnews.com
If you run a life science lab where research has either significantly slowed or shut down completely due to Trump administration policies, I’d like to hear your story. I'm a biotech and life sciences reporter for @statnews.com, and you can reach me at jonathan.wosen@statnews.com #journorequest
STAT is 10!
Join us in reflecting on a decade of reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine.
We’re proud that since 2015 we’ve delivered urgent, authoritative, and impactful journalism.
Celebrate with us: www.statnews.com/stat-10th-an...
#STAT10 🧵
Emmie will interact w/ patients within MyChart & help them plan their appointments, get info about diseases, answer billing questions & more. Penny will help back-office staff w/ tasks such as AI-generated denial appeal letters & autonomous coding www.statnews.com/2025/08/20/e... via @statnews.com
For more, tune in virtually, live, for free, tonight at 5pm ET. Register here: www.statnews.com/event/womens...
Kevin Hall, uncensored: Top nutrition scientist on clashing with MAHA and what he actually eats www.statnews.com/2025/07/30/k... via @statnews.com
