Tara Bannow

RT @rickberke: 5 food power players have strong ties to the MAHA movement https://t.co/Vw0dp0xIQL via @statnews

Whenever I'm feeling low, I remind myself that at least I'm not that guy who committed Medicare fraud and emailed his co-conspirators: “WOWIE!!!!! HOW DO WE GET SOME MORE OF THAT???!!!!!!!” https://t.co/9L3T50wiI7 Anyway, happy Friday.

RT @bobjherman: UnitedHealth Group mistakenly sent us confidential talking points that were prepared for the company's shareholder meeting…

The man at the center of DOGE's health care cuts has quite the history: Top execs from a startup he founded feel he ripped them off & lower-level workers say their jobs were to cut services from vulnerable patients. https://t.co/dN69ov07WM via @statnews

Reeling from Trump contract cuts, the National Academies prepares for ‘a fairly radical downsizing’ https://t.co/yuKAfWLF2h via @statnews

How could the Trump's admin's cuts to CDC affect Americans' health? @EricBoodman has a striking example. At least 6 of the authors on CDC's paper on how they pinpointed applesauce as the source of lead poisoning in 566 kids in 2023 have been fired. https://t.co/XrYQisNZK0

RT @ZTracer: From @TaraBannow / @brittanytrang, a look at some of the legal challenges facing AI in health care, with a solid 💩 quote, to b…

On the Trump admin's cuts to science funding, @PublicHealth exec director Georges Benjamin said at #STATBreakthrough: "We're not using science. We've taken apart the public health infrastructure. And the truth of the matter is, as they say, we're up the creek."

"When you're already in crisis w/your family member, there’s this added stress of, ‘This care is going to end and you’re going to have to figure out what you're going to do.'" -Megan Bent, whose dad died after his insurer stopped paying for inpatient rehab #STATBreakthrough https://t.co/uOBSVpTcsa

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