Eric Boodman
Reporter at STAT
Journalist @statnews. Trad fiddler. Formerly @PittsburghPG @mtlgazette. Always happy to hear your story ideas! [email protected]
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4 weeks ago |
statnews.com | Eric Boodman
In the months before she lost her job at the Food and Drug Administration, Karen Hollitt’s mom and boyfriend kept telling her not to worry. She’d be fine, they said; she was a veteran. She knew better. She’d read the blueprint for Donald Trump’s second presidency. She knew there were plans to slash federal workers like her. Her PTSD symptoms crept back. She’d graduated from therapy in 2020, hadn’t needed medication since 2022.
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1 month ago |
statnews.com | Eric Boodman
After Hurricane Ian, as Floridians returned home to sodden furniture and moldy piles of debris, many with asthma could feel their chests tightening. To figure out what was safe, some sent their concerns directly to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But on Tuesday — days before floods ravaged Nashville, potentially prompting similar queries — the people who would normally answer such asthma questions stopped working.
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1 month ago |
nymag.com | Eric Boodman
H olly Davis didn't believe in luck until she realized just how unlucky she was. Then she couldn't quite shake it, this sense of having an anti-Midas touch, bad outcomes following her unprovoked. Often, it was the little things. Reservations she made disappeared. Rides she booked never came. Someone else would fill out an annoying but vital online form without a hitch; the site would crash as soon as she tried.
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1 month ago |
statnews.com | Eric Boodman
On Wednesday, as S. was heading to the library to apply for yet more jobs, an email pinged onto her phone. The subject line said, “Read this immediately” — the same as in February, when she was notified she would be fired from her job at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “In accordance with the Temporary Restraining Order issued related to probationary employees, your administrative leave is being extended through Friday, March 21st.
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1 month ago |
statnews.com | Eric Boodman |Katie M. Palmer
NEW YORK — To gene therapy pioneer Jim Wilson, the field is currently clouded with “irrational pessimism.” Companies are abandoning ship; approved therapies aren’t being prescribed. Yet both he and University of Pennsylvania researcher Kiran Musunuru are forging ahead, using contrasting approaches, as they explained onstage at STAT’s Breakthrough Summit East.
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