Elizabeth Cooney

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Cardiovascular Reporter at STAT

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More universities open to private equity deals, and emerging companies turn to new targets

1 week ago | statnews.com | Allison DeAngelis |Elizabeth Cooney

This is the online version of our BIO 2025 newsletter. Get more BIO updates directly to your inbox by signing up here, and sign up for our morning biotech news roundup newsletter here. I have a fresh double shot of espresso in hand, which I’m sure would please my colleague Ed Silverman, aka Pharmalot. BIO has been busy this year.
George W. Bush drops by BIO, and so does the FDA commissioner

1 week ago | statnews.com | Allison DeAngelis |Elizabeth Cooney

This is the online version of our BIO 2025 newsletter. Get more BIO updates directly to your inbox by signing up here, and sign up for our morning biotech news roundup newsletter here. Happy Tuesday, folks! I have an exciting update for you: Friend of STAT/C&EN reporter Rowan Walrath nabbed me a BIO 2025 pin. The design is of, *drumroll please*… a Boston Terrier!Now, on to the news….
What we’re hearing on Chinese NewCos, AI, and BIO’s executive ranks

1 week ago | statnews.com | Alexa Lee |Allison DeAngelis |Elizabeth Cooney

This is the online version of our BIO 2025 newsletter. Get more BIO updates directly to your inbox by signing up here, and sign up for our morning biotech news roundup newsletter here. Hello everyone! Allison DeAngelis here, coming to you from Boston’s Convention and Exhibition Center, where I just did laps around the BIO exhibition hall in search of the special edition pin for this year’s conference.
A closer look at the new members of the CDC vaccine advisory panel

2 weeks ago | statnews.com | Lizzy Lawrence |Matthew Herper |Isabella Cueto |Elizabeth Cooney |Andrew Joseph |Daniel Payne | +1 more

For more than a half-century, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have relied on outside experts to guide the agency’s recommendations on how vaccines should be used to prevent the spread of infectious disease. That task will now fall to a panel that includes several individuals who’ve either been openly critical of vaccines or who have scant infectious disease expertise.
RFK Jr.'s chronic disease agency would eliminate or reduce funding for some prevention programs

3 weeks ago | statnews.com | Elizabeth Cooney

Budget documents released by the Trump administration Friday provide the first clear indication of the priorities of a proposed new agency focused on preventing chronic disease. The Administration for a Healthy America would absorb multiple federal agencies and existing programs, but the documents indicate that numerous initiatives axed from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through a reduction in force (RIF) in April will be resurrected with reduced funding — or not at all.
GLP-1 drugs may be linked to elevated risk of serious eye disease, study finds

3 weeks ago | statnews.com | Elizabeth Cooney

People with diabetes who were taking GLP-1 drugs had a low but elevated risk of an age-related eye disease that can sometimes lead to blindness, a new observational study concludes, adding to a short list of concerns about eye health in people taking the powerful medications.
Dismantling CDC’s chronic disease center ‘looks pretty devastating’ to public health experts

3 weeks ago | statnews.com | Elizabeth Cooney

Chronic disease isn’t going away, but a national center devoted to its prevention may be, a prospect that is alarming agency insiders and public health officials across the country. The Department of Health and Human Services’ budget for 2026, released Friday, proposed $14 billion in discretionary funding for programs that aim to reverse the chronic disease epidemic, but it would also abolish the CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
New budget bans Medicaid coverage of trans gender-affirming care

1 month ago | statnews.com | Elizabeth Cooney

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. It’s Liz again, wondering why May looks and feels like March in Boston. Ahead of the Memorial Day weekend, let’s catch up on the news. The NIH is already in turmoil.
FDA asks mRNA vaccine makers to widen age range for rare heart risk warning

1 month ago | statnews.com | Elizabeth Cooney

In another sign of growing scrutiny over Covid-19 vaccines, the Food and Drug Administration has asked the two makers of mRNA vaccines to widen the age range of boys and young men that their labels say are at risk for a rare side effect causing heart inflammation. The letters, first reported by CBS News, asked Moderna and partners Pfizer and BioNTech to make updates to safety information based on new studies of myocarditis or pericarditis or both after vaccination.
Risk scores accurately predicted heart attacks, study finds. With CT scans, they did even better

1 month ago | statnews.com | Elizabeth Cooney

In what researchers hope could be a case of 1 + 1 = 3, new research suggests that combining a model to predict 10-year cardiovascular risk with an imaging test of coronary arteries could be better than either method alone at identifying people in danger of their first heart attack.