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brittanytrang, 9 months ago to Health

Why haven't #hospitals' & #doctors' associations spoken out about the #Medicare #drug negotiations?

Because if they supported price-fixing, they'd have to support the regulation of their own rates, which they've protested for years.

(they're also making money off of expensive drugs 👀)

@STAT's Bob Herman with the incisive take:

https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/31/pharma-medicare-drug-negotiation-hospitals-doctors/

#CMS #pharma #bigpharma #health #healthcare #medicine

AlexanderSpinelli, 9 months ago to random

Housing is health care

In the final episode of season two of our podcast "Color Code", we delve into how housing — and today’s housing crisis — intersects with health care. We also explore how racial discrimination has played a part in causing this crisis
via @STAT

https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/28/long-island-housing-health-care/

AlexanderSpinelli, 9 months ago to random

“We estimated that there were approximately 10 million people in the first year of the pandemic in the U.S. who are in this predicament: who got Covid, got long Covid, but tested negative for Covid."

https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/23/long-covid-diagnosis-negative-test/

AlexanderSpinelli, 9 months ago to random

The number of gender-affirming surgeries taking place in the U.S. nearly tripled between 2016 and 2019.

The story in @STAT

https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/23/gender-affirming-surgeries/

AlexanderSpinelli, 9 months ago to random

Only 4.5% of the images in medical textbooks feature darker skin tones.

Medical illustrations neglect people with dark skin. A Nigerian doctor-to-be is working to change that

Via @STAT

https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/22/diversity-medical-illustrations-chidiebere-ibe/

brittanytrang, 9 months ago to Medicine

Professional news! 🚨

Today's my first day @STAT in my new role as a full-time reporter covering everywhere $ meets healthcare.

Dumb $ reason people aren't getting innovations or the best care? Screaming up the wall about ridiculous rules? Labor issues? 🤯⁉️ fees?

hmu: brittany.trang@statnews.com or 231-818-8189 on Signal

#MedMastodon #medicine #healthcare #health #doctors #healthpolicy #insurance

jaspar, 9 months ago to random

🆕 from me, Bob Herman, @adamfeuerstein, Mohana Ravindranath, and Lizzy Lawrence: we spent the past few months digging through financial filings to analyze how top health care CEOs hauled in $4 billion last year.

https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/17/health-ceo-salaries-compensation/

brittanytrang, 10 months ago to Health

One researcher "imagines a standard that puts all menstrual products on a scale similar to peppers, hot sauces and salsas being rated by the Scoville scale."

I'm shook that no one has measured the capacity of these period products before

by @STAT's new Begley fellow, Deborah Balthazar

https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/07/period-products-menstrual-disc-new-study/

#health #healthcare #reproductive #medicine

brittanytrang, 10 months ago to Biotechnology

A Jason Mast must-read for catching up on today's big gene therapy question:

It's biology's century, but who's gonna pay for it?

[finding out who was in this room over the course of the story felt like watching the Avengers (of gene therapy) assemble]

https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/31/gene-therapy-crisis-rare-disease-car-t/

#genetherapy #CRISPR #medicine #biotech #health #healthcare #FDA #raredisease

brittanytrang, 10 months ago to Medicine

Many said they doubted themselves, and thought that if they just worked even harder and shined even brighter, opportunities would follow.

"I would think, maybe if I just write another 100 papers, someone will notice me."

Required reading from @STAT's Usha McFarling. I feel so seen as an Asian American, and understand so much better.
https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/26/asian-american-doctors-medicine-leadership/

#medicine #health #healthcare #DEI #equity #Asian #AsianAmerican #leadership

brittanytrang, 10 months ago to Health

ICYMI: Isa Cueto's beautiful story from last week is about so much more than an obesity clinic for kids.

It's about changing the way adults and kids think and talk about weight and health, about the hard choices you make with $27 in your pocket, about being a parent, and about being a kid.

https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/17/healthy-weight-clinic-children-obesity-barriers/

#obesity #health #weight #healthequity #healthcare #medicine

brittanytrang, 10 months ago to ai

like,,,I still don't want to be a medical doctor...but the residents made the puzzle of diagnosis look so fun??

@STAT's Katie Palmer and me on how one hospital is teaching their residents to diagnose both diseases AND problems with GPT-4

https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/20/chatgpt-gpt4-health-care-medical-education/

#AI #ChatGPT #artificialintelligence #medicine #health #healthcare #MedMastodon

brittanytrang, 10 months ago to Futurology

BREAKING: #Stanford president to resign after investigation finds he failed to ‘decisively and forthrightly’ correct research

https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/19/marc-tessier-lavigne-stanford-president-resignation/

#AcademicMastodon #research #ethics

brittanytrang, 10 months ago to Futurology

• NIH #postdoc, #postbac, and #gradstudent researchers are unionizing, partially to get a raise

• However, #Congress controls the #NIH budget (and doesn't like NIH very much)

• Twist: NIH already gave IRTA fellows a raise, but won't say where the $ is from

So where's the money coming from? External grant funds?

Me for @STAT: https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/11/nih-union-pay-raise/

#research #science #sciencepolicy #medicine #health #healthcare #unionization #labor

matthewherper, 10 months ago to random

You may have heard a lot about how new weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro could change the way we understand addiction and cravings.

Read this story by Megan Molteni and you'll understand why.

https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/10/new-weight-loss-drugs-wegovy-food-cravings/

brittanytrang, 10 months ago to Futurology

A re #introduction: I'm a PhD scientist-turned-journalist, now a reporting fellow @STAT News, where I'm covering #biotech for the next 1.5 mo.

I've also covered and am interested in #healthcare, #AI, #PFAS, the #NIH and #science / #research

Got press releases, tips, or story ideas? Send 'em to brittany.trang@statnews.com or 231-818-8189‬ on Signal.

video/mp4

brittanytrang, 10 months ago to random

I have hopefully completed my socials horcrux collection and am at

-bsky
-twitter
-newsie.social
-linkedin
-post.news
as @brittanytrang

and on threads I am drbrittanytrang (because brittanytrang was taken)

my phone is running out of storage pls don't make more apps

Send news tips, stories, and such as well: brittany.trang@statnews.com / ‪231-818-8189‬ on Signal

brittanytrang, 11 months ago to random

How much Yellowstone, Jeopardy!, and US Open Golf Championships did @STAT intern Simar Bajaj have to watch for this story?

Unclear, but it may not have been much, if pro- and anti-PBM ad budgets are this big 👇 ICYMI yesterday:

https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/06/pbm-ad-wars/

#pharma #pbm #healthinsurance #drugpricing #lobbying #BigPharma

brittanytrang, 11 months ago to drugs

“It’s one thing to reach out to physicians and say ‘We’ve got these treatments and they’re so effective and we want you to know about them,’ I don’t think that’s ever going to explain over 100 meals. You just have to laugh, it’s so crazy.”

by (who else but) @STAT's Nick Florko: https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/05/ozempic-rybelsus-novo-nordisk-meals-for-doctors/

#obesity #drugs #GLP1 #ozempic #wegovy #rybelsus #semaglutide #pharma #BigPharma #health #medicine #healthcare #NovoNordisk

brittanytrang, 11 months ago to science

This feels familiar: Media coverage of a scientific advance sparking concern (and anger) in the field about how we should talk about it

But the stakes are even higher when it's about embryos (or is it embryoids? or my favorite: stembyros?)

@STAT's Megan Molteni w the juice:
https://www.statnews.com/2023/06/27/embryo-models-controversy/

#science

jaspar, 11 months ago to random

I took a look at some of the data behind how abortion access in America has changed in the past year since the repeal of Roe v. Wade https://www.statnews.com/2023/06/24/abortion-roe-v-wade-anniversary/