Brittany Trang
@brittanytrang.com
Health tech / AI reporter @ STAT News
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Brittany Trang
@brittanytrang.com
· Jan 14
🚨 Excited to officially announce I'm writing a new newsletter for @statnews.com!
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+!)
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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+!)
www.statnews.com/signup/ai-pr...
Do you, like me, feel like the news is trying its best to kill you? Fear not, I am standing in front of the firehose of #healthAI 🩺🖥️ news for you.
I present you with some tidy buckets of important health and biotech AI news you may have missed over the last month: www.statnews.com/2026/01/14/b...
I present you with some tidy buckets of important health and biotech AI news you may have missed over the last month: www.statnews.com/2026/01/14/b...
January 14, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Do you, like me, feel like the news is trying its best to kill you? Fear not, I am standing in front of the firehose of #healthAI 🩺🖥️ news for you.
I present you with some tidy buckets of important health and biotech AI news you may have missed over the last month: www.statnews.com/2026/01/14/b...
I present you with some tidy buckets of important health and biotech AI news you may have missed over the last month: www.statnews.com/2026/01/14/b...
This piece by @katiepalmer.bsky.social is so 🤗 🎉 😆
If you're looking for some fun news:
www.statnews.com/2026/01/14/e...
🖥️🩺 #health #healthcare #medicine #ehr #healthtech #healthit
If you're looking for some fun news:
www.statnews.com/2026/01/14/e...
🖥️🩺 #health #healthcare #medicine #ehr #healthtech #healthit
Emoji have entered the chat. Is that a good thing for electronic health records?
New research asks if emoji use in clinical records could impact patient understanding, perceived professionalism, and legal liability.
www.statnews.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:13 PM
This piece by @katiepalmer.bsky.social is so 🤗 🎉 😆
If you're looking for some fun news:
www.statnews.com/2026/01/14/e...
🖥️🩺 #health #healthcare #medicine #ehr #healthtech #healthit
If you're looking for some fun news:
www.statnews.com/2026/01/14/e...
🖥️🩺 #health #healthcare #medicine #ehr #healthtech #healthit
This is getting the microplastics that may or may not be in my blood pumping bc I'm mad.
These studies aren't running blanks?! They're not spiking samples?!
As someone who's done a lot of low-conc analytical chem...this is basic and just sloppy.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
These studies aren't running blanks?! They're not spiking samples?!
As someone who's done a lot of low-conc analytical chem...this is basic and just sloppy.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body
Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:22 AM
This is getting the microplastics that may or may not be in my blood pumping bc I'm mad.
These studies aren't running blanks?! They're not spiking samples?!
As someone who's done a lot of low-conc analytical chem...this is basic and just sloppy.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
These studies aren't running blanks?! They're not spiking samples?!
As someone who's done a lot of low-conc analytical chem...this is basic and just sloppy.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Reposted by Brittany Trang
Watch: At #JPM26, former drug regulator Richard Pazdur rings the alarm about politics at FDA
Full session: www.statnews.com/2026/01/13/j...
Full session: www.statnews.com/2026/01/13/j...
January 13, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Watch: At #JPM26, former drug regulator Richard Pazdur rings the alarm about politics at FDA
Full session: www.statnews.com/2026/01/13/j...
Full session: www.statnews.com/2026/01/13/j...
Reposted by Brittany Trang
Dr. Oz told health care executives at a fancy yacht club that they don't need to worry about the impending Medicaid cuts. Plus, he said the people who are about to lose Medicaid coverage are couch potatoes anyway. @tarabannow.bsky.social reports from #JPM26: www.statnews.com/2026/01/13/j...
January 13, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Dr. Oz told health care executives at a fancy yacht club that they don't need to worry about the impending Medicaid cuts. Plus, he said the people who are about to lose Medicaid coverage are couch potatoes anyway. @tarabannow.bsky.social reports from #JPM26: www.statnews.com/2026/01/13/j...
Reposted by Brittany Trang
Read @elaineywchen.bsky.social's write-up of former top FDA drug regulator Rick Pazdur's explosive panel at STAT's event at #JPM2026 last night, moderated by @matthewherper.bsky.social. Drug makers should be more concerned by what's happening at FDA, Pazdur said. www.statnews.com/2026/01/13/r...
Pazdur warns that politics, ‘chaos’ are damaging FDA
At a STAT event, veteran drug regulator Richard Pazdur, who left the FDA last month after 26 years, said that politics and 'chaos' were damaging the agency.
www.statnews.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Read @elaineywchen.bsky.social's write-up of former top FDA drug regulator Rick Pazdur's explosive panel at STAT's event at #JPM2026 last night, moderated by @matthewherper.bsky.social. Drug makers should be more concerned by what's happening at FDA, Pazdur said. www.statnews.com/2026/01/13/r...
BREAKING: EHR company Epic sues a health information network over 300,000 patient records accessed illegally by what Epic calls "organized syndicates" of bad actors who are allegedly profiting off of selling medical records
More at @statnews.com:
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More at @statnews.com:
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Epic sues health information network over nearly 300,000 illegally accessed records
Epic Systems is suing a health information network over improperly accessing nearly 300,000 patient records.
www.statnews.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:37 PM
BREAKING: EHR company Epic sues a health information network over 300,000 patient records accessed illegally by what Epic calls "organized syndicates" of bad actors who are allegedly profiting off of selling medical records
More at @statnews.com:
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More at @statnews.com:
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Why should you trust #ChatGPT Health's advice? Well, it's a feeling, OpenAI health lead Karan Singhal told me.
"We kind of now feel like we have the ability to kind of understand how to train model behavior and the models so that they represent clinician judgment," he said.
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"We kind of now feel like we have the ability to kind of understand how to train model behavior and the models so that they represent clinician judgment," he said.
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ChatGPT and Claude get into the business of health advice. Should you trust them?
AI chatbot are getting into the business of offering consumers health advice. What are the risks?
www.statnews.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Why should you trust #ChatGPT Health's advice? Well, it's a feeling, OpenAI health lead Karan Singhal told me.
"We kind of now feel like we have the ability to kind of understand how to train model behavior and the models so that they represent clinician judgment," he said.
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"We kind of now feel like we have the ability to kind of understand how to train model behavior and the models so that they represent clinician judgment," he said.
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Reposted by Brittany Trang
Nearly half of Trump-appointed experts involved in shaping the new dietary guidelines have financial ties to meat and dairy industries.
Exclusive with @sarah-todd.bsky.social and @elizabethcooney.bsky.social -->
www.statnews.com/2026/01/07/n...
Exclusive with @sarah-todd.bsky.social and @elizabethcooney.bsky.social -->
www.statnews.com/2026/01/07/n...
Panel behind new dietary guidelines had financial ties to beef, dairy industries
The industry connections of an advisory panel for the new dietary guidelines are notable, especially in light Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s criticism of corporate influence.
www.statnews.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Nearly half of Trump-appointed experts involved in shaping the new dietary guidelines have financial ties to meat and dairy industries.
Exclusive with @sarah-todd.bsky.social and @elizabethcooney.bsky.social -->
www.statnews.com/2026/01/07/n...
Exclusive with @sarah-todd.bsky.social and @elizabethcooney.bsky.social -->
www.statnews.com/2026/01/07/n...
Someday soon, a company is going to claim to have put the "first AI-designed antibody" into the clinic. But experts are divided on what that even means, much less how close we are to that happening.
Read more from me in STAT:
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Read more from me in STAT:
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AI has finally started making drug-like antibodies. When will it revolutionize biopharma?
AI has finally started making drug-like antibodies. When will it revolutionize biopharma?
www.statnews.com
January 7, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Someday soon, a company is going to claim to have put the "first AI-designed antibody" into the clinic. But experts are divided on what that even means, much less how close we are to that happening.
Read more from me in STAT:
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Read more from me in STAT:
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Reposted by Brittany Trang
NEW: For better or worse, get ready for a new wave of wearables and AI-enabled devices promising better health.
Via @lizzylawrence.bsky.social, @katiepalmer.bsky.social @brittanytrang.com, Mario Aguilar.
www.statnews.com/2026/01/06/f...
Via @lizzylawrence.bsky.social, @katiepalmer.bsky.social @brittanytrang.com, Mario Aguilar.
www.statnews.com/2026/01/06/f...
FDA proposes sweeping changes to oversight of wearables, AI-enabled devices
The FDA will ease regulation of digital health products, aiming to deregulate AI and promote its widespread use.
www.statnews.com
January 6, 2026 at 8:55 PM
NEW: For better or worse, get ready for a new wave of wearables and AI-enabled devices promising better health.
Via @lizzylawrence.bsky.social, @katiepalmer.bsky.social @brittanytrang.com, Mario Aguilar.
www.statnews.com/2026/01/06/f...
Via @lizzylawrence.bsky.social, @katiepalmer.bsky.social @brittanytrang.com, Mario Aguilar.
www.statnews.com/2026/01/06/f...
If you like a mini crossword, try STAT's, which is free and now daily! (The clues are not exclusively health or science related, in case you're worried about that!) www.statnews.com/stat-mini-cr...
STAT Mini Crossword
STAT MINI Test your knowledge every weekday with our crossword. Listen: Hear from the voices shaping biotech and the life sciences with STAT podcasts Sign
www.statnews.com
January 5, 2026 at 9:15 PM
If you like a mini crossword, try STAT's, which is free and now daily! (The clues are not exclusively health or science related, in case you're worried about that!) www.statnews.com/stat-mini-cr...
bob went offfff today in the newsletter:
An actual statement from CMS, the agency that oversees Medicare, Medicaid, and all other taxpayer-funded health care: "No reporter is entitled to interviews, press calls, or access to internal staff." Read more from this week's Health Care Inc: www.statnews.com/2026/01/05/h...
The silence of CMS
Welcome BACK. So glad you’re here. I kicked off my 2026 by running a 5k with a friend, and now I’m wondering whether running continues to be a hobby or an
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January 5, 2026 at 9:14 PM
bob went offfff today in the newsletter:
Reposted by Brittany Trang
I don’t have the energy to do a year-end thread right now, but this series is our attempt at analyzing the impacts of this year on biomedical research … and what could come next
The series tackles everything from diversity grants, a brain drain, lack of comms, and plenty more
The series tackles everything from diversity grants, a brain drain, lack of comms, and plenty more
Explore American Science, Shattered
A multipart series on how the Trump administration has disrupted labs, upended lives, and delayed discoveries
Part 1: Scientists lost a reliable partner, with ‘nothing to replace it’
www.statnews.com/2025/12/04/a...
By @mmolteni.bsky.social @aniloza.bsky.social
A multipart series on how the Trump administration has disrupted labs, upended lives, and delayed discoveries
Part 1: Scientists lost a reliable partner, with ‘nothing to replace it’
www.statnews.com/2025/12/04/a...
By @mmolteni.bsky.social @aniloza.bsky.social
Trump has ‘shaken the hell’ out of the 80-year research pact between the government and universities. What now?
Trump has "shaken the hell" out of the 80-year research pact between the government and universities. What now?
www.statnews.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I don’t have the energy to do a year-end thread right now, but this series is our attempt at analyzing the impacts of this year on biomedical research … and what could come next
The series tackles everything from diversity grants, a brain drain, lack of comms, and plenty more
The series tackles everything from diversity grants, a brain drain, lack of comms, and plenty more
Reposted by Brittany Trang
Explore American Science, Shattered
A multipart series on how the Trump administration has disrupted labs, upended lives, and delayed discoveries
Part 1: Scientists lost a reliable partner, with ‘nothing to replace it’
www.statnews.com/2025/12/04/a...
By @mmolteni.bsky.social @aniloza.bsky.social
A multipart series on how the Trump administration has disrupted labs, upended lives, and delayed discoveries
Part 1: Scientists lost a reliable partner, with ‘nothing to replace it’
www.statnews.com/2025/12/04/a...
By @mmolteni.bsky.social @aniloza.bsky.social
Trump has ‘shaken the hell’ out of the 80-year research pact between the government and universities. What now?
Trump has "shaken the hell" out of the 80-year research pact between the government and universities. What now?
www.statnews.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Explore American Science, Shattered
A multipart series on how the Trump administration has disrupted labs, upended lives, and delayed discoveries
Part 1: Scientists lost a reliable partner, with ‘nothing to replace it’
www.statnews.com/2025/12/04/a...
By @mmolteni.bsky.social @aniloza.bsky.social
A multipart series on how the Trump administration has disrupted labs, upended lives, and delayed discoveries
Part 1: Scientists lost a reliable partner, with ‘nothing to replace it’
www.statnews.com/2025/12/04/a...
By @mmolteni.bsky.social @aniloza.bsky.social
As we end 2025: Some health tech/AI stories I'm proud of and think you should read — Friends-style (I only watched like the first 5 episodes of Friends before I gave up)
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🤑 The one that people on Reddit pirated the most: www.statnews.com/2025/02/10/a...
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🤑 The one that people on Reddit pirated the most: www.statnews.com/2025/02/10/a...
Two biotechs say they're using AI to conjure drugs from scratch. Their documents suggest otherwise
A STAT examination shows how AI-powered biotechs like Absci and Generate Biomedicines routinely aggrandize their AI capabilities.
www.statnews.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
As we end 2025: Some health tech/AI stories I'm proud of and think you should read — Friends-style (I only watched like the first 5 episodes of Friends before I gave up)
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🤑 The one that people on Reddit pirated the most: www.statnews.com/2025/02/10/a...
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🤑 The one that people on Reddit pirated the most: www.statnews.com/2025/02/10/a...
My 10 favorite records from 2025, though I'm not wedded to this ordering.
Instead of championing an album of the year, I'm trying a new thing: my 5 favorite music moments of the year 👇🧵
Instead of championing an album of the year, I'm trying a new thing: my 5 favorite music moments of the year 👇🧵
December 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
My 10 favorite records from 2025, though I'm not wedded to this ordering.
Instead of championing an album of the year, I'm trying a new thing: my 5 favorite music moments of the year 👇🧵
Instead of championing an album of the year, I'm trying a new thing: my 5 favorite music moments of the year 👇🧵
Reposted by Brittany Trang
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 [email protected]. #journorequest
December 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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 [email protected]. #journorequest
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As we close out the year, wanted to share this running list of FDA leadership departures one last time. Some new names on there include digital health director Jessica Paulsen, and director of clinical policy in the chief medical office Shari Targum.
www.statnews.com/2025/04/03/f...
www.statnews.com/2025/04/03/f...
A running list of senior FDA officials who have left the agency
Here is a running list of senior FDA officials who have left the agency recently.
www.statnews.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
As we close out the year, wanted to share this running list of FDA leadership departures one last time. Some new names on there include digital health director Jessica Paulsen, and director of clinical policy in the chief medical office Shari Targum.
www.statnews.com/2025/04/03/f...
www.statnews.com/2025/04/03/f...
Reposted by Brittany Trang
Science is like "glimpsing God's mind": On the last episode of this season of the First Opinion Podcast, I talked to former NIH Director Francis Collins and Fox News' Marc Siegel, author of the new book The Miracles Among Us, about faith, medicine, and science: www.statnews.com/2025/12/17/f...
Francis Collins and Marc Siegel say medicine is a gift from God
“To have Christians be the group that was most resistant” to the Covid vaccine “really seems wrong here,” said former NIH Director Francis Collins.
www.statnews.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Science is like "glimpsing God's mind": On the last episode of this season of the First Opinion Podcast, I talked to former NIH Director Francis Collins and Fox News' Marc Siegel, author of the new book The Miracles Among Us, about faith, medicine, and science: www.statnews.com/2025/12/17/f...
Earlier this year, I asked more than 90 health AI experts what's on their bingo card for the rest of 2025.
Who gets to say "I told you so" now?
Our look back at what did and didn't happen in 2025:
www.statnews.com/2025/12/17/2...
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Who gets to say "I told you so" now?
Our look back at what did and didn't happen in 2025:
www.statnews.com/2025/12/17/2...
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December 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Earlier this year, I asked more than 90 health AI experts what's on their bingo card for the rest of 2025.
Who gets to say "I told you so" now?
Our look back at what did and didn't happen in 2025:
www.statnews.com/2025/12/17/2...
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Who gets to say "I told you so" now?
Our look back at what did and didn't happen in 2025:
www.statnews.com/2025/12/17/2...
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What's the health care impact of the new Trump executive order targeting state AI laws?
According to health system chief AI officers, it may actually create more confusion than if state laws stayed intact.
More, plus a summary of the health AI laws that have been passed this year, @statnews.com
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According to health system chief AI officers, it may actually create more confusion than if state laws stayed intact.
More, plus a summary of the health AI laws that have been passed this year, @statnews.com
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Trump order blocking state AI laws could slow health AI adoption, leave patients vulnerable
Trump's order to block state AI laws could help the tech industry but hurt health systems looking to adopt AI safely, and leave patients vulnerable.
www.statnews.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM
What's the health care impact of the new Trump executive order targeting state AI laws?
According to health system chief AI officers, it may actually create more confusion than if state laws stayed intact.
More, plus a summary of the health AI laws that have been passed this year, @statnews.com
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According to health system chief AI officers, it may actually create more confusion than if state laws stayed intact.
More, plus a summary of the health AI laws that have been passed this year, @statnews.com
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“I’ll evade, if that’s alright.”
HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill, RFK Jr's #2, dodged a question about Trump's "one rule" AI executive order at an event Wednesday.
He also opined on CHAI, HHS' AI efforts, and how the "Genesis Mission" confuses him.
More from @mariojoze.bsky.social:
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HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill, RFK Jr's #2, dodged a question about Trump's "one rule" AI executive order at an event Wednesday.
He also opined on CHAI, HHS' AI efforts, and how the "Genesis Mission" confuses him.
More from @mariojoze.bsky.social:
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Top HHS official evades discussing Trump plan to block state AI laws
Deputy health secretary Jim O’Neill demurred when asked about a proposal to prevent states from enforcing local AI laws.
www.statnews.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
“I’ll evade, if that’s alright.”
HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill, RFK Jr's #2, dodged a question about Trump's "one rule" AI executive order at an event Wednesday.
He also opined on CHAI, HHS' AI efforts, and how the "Genesis Mission" confuses him.
More from @mariojoze.bsky.social:
🖥️🩺
HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill, RFK Jr's #2, dodged a question about Trump's "one rule" AI executive order at an event Wednesday.
He also opined on CHAI, HHS' AI efforts, and how the "Genesis Mission" confuses him.
More from @mariojoze.bsky.social:
🖥️🩺
Reposted by Brittany Trang
Overworked radiologists already struggle to adjudicate abnormalities flagged by the current generation of AI models. That stands to get worse as AI’s capabilities grow. @katiepalmer.bsky.social looks at how radiologists are thinking about that:
www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/c... via @statnews.com
www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/c... via @statnews.com
Is AI ready to interpret chest X-rays without human supervision?
In radiology, an early adopter of health AI, a debate is brewing: Should generative AI models interpret medical images on their own?
www.statnews.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Overworked radiologists already struggle to adjudicate abnormalities flagged by the current generation of AI models. That stands to get worse as AI’s capabilities grow. @katiepalmer.bsky.social looks at how radiologists are thinking about that:
www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/c... via @statnews.com
www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/c... via @statnews.com