Isabella Cueto
Chronic Disease Reporter at STAT
Reporter for @statnews writing about chronic disease, MAHA & more. Message me on Signal isabellacueto.03 or find me elsewhere 🦋@isabellacueto.bsky.social
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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.
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2 weeks ago |
statnews.com | Isabella Cueto
Deaths from alcohol-related liver diseases have been rising for years — and at an accelerated rate for groups including women, young adults and Indigenous people. New data suggest a surge in deaths in the early months of the pandemic has continued in subsequent years. The study presents a discouraging picture of the nation’s liver health.
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2 weeks ago |
statnews.com | Daniel Payne |Isabella Cueto |Chelsea Cirruzzo
The new agency at the center of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s agenda is hitting its first hurdle: Congress. The administration’s sweeping reorganization plan for the Department of Health and Human Services would shrink the National Institutes of Health and slash a litany of disease prevention programs while making the Administration for a Healthy America a new crown jewel of the agency, focused on chronic disease.
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3 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Lizzy Lawrence |Isabella Cueto
On Wednesday, the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed it was canceling more than $700 million worth of contracts with Moderna to develop, test, and license mRNA vaccines for flu strains that could cause future pandemics, including the H5N1 bird flu virus.
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3 weeks ago |
statnews.com | Lizzy Lawrence |Isabella Cueto
WASHINGTON — mRNA, a Nobel-winning technology harnessed by Trump officials to create Covid shots in record time, is becoming a political reject as the nation’s leaders openly embrace vaccine skepticism. Republican lawmakers and federal health officials alike are shunning messenger RNA, a basic building block of biology that proved its value during Covid, and that holds promise for combating the next pandemic and unlocking new cancer treatments.
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A team of STAT reporters took a closer look at the new ACIP appointees. Lots of interesting deets here: https://t.co/EUJCiDG3uh
RT @statnews: Kennedy announced the new members of the panel of experts that advises the CDC on vaccine policy. https://t.co/RPdaFU7Ngw
A troubling picture of the nation's liver health in this new study of mortality data, which highlights how alcohol-associated liver disease deaths have been sharply increasing — especially in women, Indigenous populations and people 25 to 44 yrs old. https://t.co/VODF5RJT6u
