Tara Bannow

On all the 🤑health tech IPOs lately (Omada, Hims, Hinge), Lux Capital's Deena Shakir says: "I think all of this is not a coincidence. I think it’s a referendum and it's foretelling for what next year and the years to come will bring for digital health." #STATBreakthrough

RT @statnews: "My primary worry is not the FDA. My worry is the American public." - @DrCaliff_FDA #STATBreakthrough https://t.co/yK5vXpru…

On pharma's AI ambitions, Ryan Fukushima of AI precision med co Tempus says the big Q is whether docs actually change their decisions based on his company's insights. If they do, "the datasets can scale quite dramatically" in oncology, neuropsych, rare diseases. #STATBreakthrough

Speaking at #STATBreakthrough, former FDA Commissioner Robert Califf says current HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s opinions on vaccination are not at all irrelevant. "I think he's flat-out wrong and doing harm to the American people with what he's saying." @statnews https://t.co/sMhMCuLim2

RT @statnews: Medicare’s Disadvantage? Medicare Advantage insurers pull in billions in extra taxpayer dollars each year by adding question…

UnitedHealth stock tumbles as CEO resigns, 2025 outlook pulled https://t.co/18cjjKt0pU via @statnews

Parents are canceling autism evalulations over fears of a national registry, @rosebroderick_ reports. After getting an eval/diagnosis for son, one dad worried, “In seeking to help him, did I just paint a giant target on his back?” https://t.co/FOKvd2zeAY via @statnews

Justice Department sues Medicare Advantage insurers and brokers, alleging kickbacks https://t.co/CWu4O53JDf via @statnews

RT @rickberke: We're honored at @statnews that our "Health Care's Colossus'' series about UnitedHealth is a @SH_Awards finalist in national…

Sutter Health will pay nearly $230 million to settle class-action antitrust case https://t.co/tuBWCd4xxj via @statnews

In case you're struggling to keep tabs, @statnews put together a handy day by day timeline of all that's happened in the worlds of health and science during the first 100 days of Trump's second term https://t.co/CA7CedJhjI via @ushamcfarling

RT @EricBoodman: “I just really believed that if anybody would be safe, the veterans would be safe.” https://t.co/Cn0oDiEP5a

Trump's latest executive order seeks to lower drug prices and 340B payments to providers, but most of it can't happen without further rulemaking or buy-in from Congress. https://t.co/FaEdiIok75 via @statnews

"I suspect that a lot of my colleagues are quite excited that Harvard has a spine." STAT's @Jasonmmast reports that some of Harvard's scientists are panicking, while others are ready to fight after Trump admin freezes $2.2B in grants https://t.co/lR6FJoKSFe via @statnews

Trump administration launches probe into pharmaceutical imports, likely a prelude to tariffs on a potentially large number of medicines https://t.co/SroeS66XWj via @edsilverman @statnews

Why CDC cuts are being called ‘the greatest gift to tobacco industry in the last half-century’ https://t.co/Qc1f1R2SYQ via @statnews

RT @txtianmiller: I’ve been reporting on health insurance denials for more than a year. Last fall, I stumbled across a lawsuit that, with i…