Usha Lee McFarling

1 week ago | statnews.com | Usha Lee McFarling

Theirs is an unusual scientific collaboration, to say the least. Jacob Glanville is an immunologist, who worked for the pharma giant Pfizer before striking out to found startups focused on developing therapies that protect against things like coronaviruses, malaria, HIV, and, more recently, snakebites. Tim Friede is a truck mechanic and snake enthusiast from Wisconsin. Between 2001 and 2018, he was bitten 856 times by the world’s deadliest snakes: black mambas, water cobras, and kraits.

2 weeks ago | statnews.com | Usha Lee McFarling

A new Trump administration executive order targeting the use of “DEI-based standards” to accredit universities could shake up the small club of groups that set standards for the nation’s medical schools and residency programs. The order expressly calls out two organizations that accredit medical schools and residency programs for requiring institutions to have recruitment and retention policies that promote diversity in the medical workforce.

2 weeks ago | statnews.com | Usha Lee McFarling

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Usha Lee McFarling filling in for Theresa this morning, and very excited to hear about her adventures. In this space, we’ve debated potato chips (whether or not they should be flavored) and the best french fries (Thrasher’s found on the boardwalk in Rehoboth Beach, Del.), but people, we need to talk about burgers.

3 weeks ago | statnews.com | Usha Lee McFarling

It’s hard to remember all the earthshaking decisions and events that have transpired with unprecedented speed in the first few months of the Trump administration. We’re tracking, day by day, what’s happened in the worlds of science and health. HHS will “undertake a massive testing and research effort” to determine causes of autism by September, Kennedy tells Trump at a Cabinet meeting. “There’s got to be something artificial out there that’s doing this,” Trump says.

1 month ago | statnews.com | Usha Lee McFarling

Amid the layoff notices sent to stunned employees of the Department of Health and Human Services Tuesday was yet another surprise: some of them, including top National Institutes of Health officials, were offered the chance to transfer to the Indian Health Service. “The Indian Health Service (IHS) has an untenable vacancy rate of approximately 30%.