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Lison Joseph
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Health and science journalist.

An editor at STAT (@statnews.bsky.social) dealing mostly with technology in health care/medicine/life sciences
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CDC moves to end telework for employees, including those with medical needs www.statnews.com/2025/11/21/c... via @statnews.com
CDC moves to end telework for employees, including those with medical needs
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ended full-time telework agreements for reasonable accommodations, employees say.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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How K Health is using tech to help large health systems — Cedars-Sinai, Mayo Clinic, Hackensack Meridian Health, Hartford HealthCare, Mass General Brigham, and Northwell Health — reach more patients, @katiepalmer.bsky.social reports:

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Armed with AI and virtual care, K Health thinks it can make primary care more accessible
Clinical artificial intelligence company K Health is working with large health systems to make primary care more accessible.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Tie-ups between telehealth companies and pharmaceutical manufacturers are becoming more consequential as competition for patients seeking GLP-1 medications grows, @katiepalmer.bsky.social reports:

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Novo Nordisk's $199 Ozempic deal shows what telehealth platforms can do for pharma
Novo Nordisk's $199 Ozempic deal shows what telehealth platforms can do for pharma
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November 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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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:

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How RFK Jr., America's celebrity health secretary, is steamrolling science
RFK Jr. is plowing ahead with sweeping changes to U.S. health care that have thrilled supporters, purged opponents, and horrified critics.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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As HHS secretary, RFK Jr. has pledged to pursue gold-standard science, preserve access to vaccines, and insist on radical transparency in policymaking.

Here is our examination of his tenure to date:

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How RFK Jr., America's celebrity health secretary, is steamrolling science
RFK Jr. is plowing ahead with sweeping changes to U.S. health care that have thrilled supporters, purged opponents, and horrified critics.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Offshift helps truckers build a healthy lifestyle to prevent or manage chronic disease. They can be effective, and yet digital health solutions like those often struggle with like low adoption and engagement, @katiepalmer.bsky.social reports:

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Many truck drivers don't live past 61. Could digital health help?
Many truck drivers don't live past 61. Could digital health help?
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November 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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How two top FDA officials — Vinay Prasad and Tracy Beth Høeg — are quietly upending vaccine regulations. Via @lizzylawrence.bsky.social

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How two top FDA officials are quietly upending vaccine regulations
Vinay Prasad and Tracy Beth Høeg mix skepticism with new ways to define risk in pursuing sweeping changes to vaccine policy at the FDA.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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"What’s easy to miss from the outside is that this isn’t chaos — it’s community. And if public health wants to confront it, we need to understand it first," @craigspencer.bsky.social writes:

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I’m a physician who went to the anti-vaccine movement’s biggest gathering. More of my colleagues should too
A pro-vaccine physician went to the anti-vaccine movement’s biggest gathering. He warns that public health must learn what it’s up against.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Device/software makers say the price is justified by downstream savings. But some medical groups and physicians worry AI’s costs could balloon out of proportion compared to its benefits, @katiepalmer.bsky.social reports:

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Medicare will pay more than $1,000 for AI to analyze a heart scan. Is that too much?
Medicare will pay more than $1,000 for AI to analyze a heart scan. Is that too much?
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November 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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UnitedHealthcare drops remote monitoring coverage in defiance of Medicare policies www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/u... via @statnews.com
UnitedHealthcare drops remote monitoring coverage in defiance of Medicare policies
UnitedHealthcare will no longer pay physicians to remotely monitor the data that patients collect at home.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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New from @brittanytrang.com

Medicare picks tech vendors to run AI prior authorization pilot in six states www.statnews.com/2025/11/06/m... via @statnews.com
Medicare picks tech vendors to run AI prior authorization pilot in six states
Medicare picks tech vendors to run AI prior authorization pilot in six states, STAT has learned.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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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
November 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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The FDA’s Digital Health Advisory Committee (DHAC) will convene to discuss nitty gritty details around the regulation of therapy chatbots and other mental health devices that use generative AI, @mariojoze.bsky.social reports:

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FDA digital advisers confront risks of therapy chatbots, weigh possible regulation
FDA's digital advisors could nudge the agency to clarify how its rules apply to medical applications of generative AI, including therapy chatbots.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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The new trend of microdosing GLP-1s is more about telehealth companies and their compounding pharmacy partners than any proven benefit for patients, @katiepalmer.bsky.social reports:

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Microdosing aims to extend the lifespan of the GLP-1 compounding market
Despite no strong evidence of clinical benefit, microdosing GLP-1s will likely continue as a strategy for some to profit off of the popular drug class.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Lawsuit against top FDA drug regulator is packed with incendiary texts, emails www.statnews.com/2025/11/03/g... via @statnews.com
Lawsuit against top FDA drug regulator is packed with incendiary texts, emails
A lawsuit filed against George Tidmarsh, who resigned from a top FDA post on Sunday, includes a series of incendiary texts and emails
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November 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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jasonukman.bsky.social
In Texas, the nation’s MAHA capital, many are frustrated with the status quo in health care.

A great read via @isabellacueto.bsky.social.

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In Texas, the nation's MAHA capital, many are frustrated with the status quo in health care
Texas is the MAHA capital of the country — offering a look at health policies that may soon roll across the country.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Med First’s experience of using AI for medical coding is part of a new battleground in the American health care sector with insurers blaming providers for inflated coding, @brittanytrang.com reports:

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AI for medical coding is helping this primary care clinic open a dozen more locations
Autonomous coding using AI is turning into a new battlefront between insurers and health care providers.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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FDA’s top drug regulator resigns amid investigation www.statnews.com/2025/11/02/f... via @statnews.com
FDA’s top drug regulator resigns amid investigation
George Tidmarsh, the FDA's top drug regulator, has been placed on leave after being accused of abusing his regulatory authority, STAT has learned.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Health insurers say hospitals' use of AI coding tools is eating into their profits, @katiepalmer.bsky.social reports:

But large insurers have long used AI to scrutinize medical claims — and have been sued over allegedly wrongful denial of care.

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Insurers say they’ll deploy more AI to combat ‘aggressive’ coding by hospitals
Insurers say they’ll deploy more AI to combat ‘aggressive’ coding by hospitals.
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October 31, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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New from @lizzylawrence.bsky.social, based on over a dozen interviews with current and former staffers, contractors and regulatory experts.

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Under Vinay Prasad, employees at a key FDA center fear speaking out, look for the exits
Exclusive: Vinay Prasad has rattled FDA staff by expanding his power and pushing out senior leaders.
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October 31, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Absolutely chilling story by @aniloza.bsky.social on censorship in grant titles at NIH and how researchers are complying and sometimes fighting back. "They are trying to make people afraid to use the word equity," said one program officer. "It's highly effective." www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...
Scientists had to change more than 700 grant titles to receive NIH funding. Health disparities researchers fear what’s next
The titles of more than 700 multi-year NIH grants have been changed this year, according to an analysis by Jeremy Berg, a former agency official
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October 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Eli Lilly: We want to make sure that the U.S. wins the medicines race

NVIDIA: We want to help ensure that America wins the AI race

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Eli Lilly, NVIDIA team up to build pharma’s biggest AI supercomputer
Eli Lilly announced a partnership with chipmaker NVIDIA to build what it claims will be the “most powerful supercomputer owned and operated by a pharmaceutical company.”
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October 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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All of a sudden, dementia treatment is becoming very exciting www.statnews.com/2025/10/27/d... via @statnews.com
All of a sudden, dementia treatment is becoming very exciting
In the past two years, patients with dementia and their families have begun to speak about hope in new ways, writes new STAT columnist Jason Karlawish.
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October 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Top White House pandemic preparedness official resigns, officials say, in sign of broader disarray www.statnews.com/2025/07/30/w... via @statnews.com
Top White House pandemic preparedness official resigns, officials say, in sign of broader disarray
Exclusive: A top White House pandemic preparedness official has resigned, officials tell STAT, in a sign of broader disarray.
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July 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Viral infections in the lung, like Covid-19, can reactivate dormant cancer cells www.statnews.com/2025/07/30/f... via @statnews.com
Viral infections in the lung, like Covid-19, can reactivate dormant cancer cells
Certain respiratory infections could trigger a reawakening of dormant cancer cells in the body, according to a new study.
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July 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM