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Parents are getting their kids vaccinated early, worried that recent moves by RFK Jr could limit access to childhood shots. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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My latest for @cnbc: NIH funding cuts delayed a promising childhood brain cancer trial. Patients lost time they didn’t have cnbc.com/2026/09/25/nih-cuts…
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The $25 Million Plan to Raze a Beach House and Put Up a Parking Lot by @gerryfsmith: nytimes.com/2026/09/18/reale…
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For @ObserverUK, I spent a day with Anthony Scaramucci in the Long Island town where he grew up. We talked about Trump, Mamdani, podcasting and getting fired from the White House after 11 days.
"You become more human to everybody with a few failures.”
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A rare disease is taking his vision. A gene therapy could help — if he can get it. My story for @cnbc: cnbc.com/2026/09/10/rare-dis…
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Is that fireplace real or AI? Listings on Zillow and StreetEasy are littered with homes with fake fireplaces, improved views and virtual landscaping, raising false advertising concerns nytimes.com/2026/09/08/reale…
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Women were once told to suffer through menopause in silence. Now they’re navigating a cacophony of supplements, hormone subscriptions, influencers and dubious promises. My new story on how the menopause boom is leaving women behind: bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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Come for Zohran Mamdani’s Taylor Swift playlist, stay for Bill de Blasio’s favorite song about “the way past lovers linger in our memories for years or even decades.” nytimes.com/2026/07/02/nyreg…
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This Parking Spot Is Free. Should It Be? with @stefanoschen and @edenweingart: nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
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Scoop: Blackstone is providing as much as $1.3 billion to Apogee to help the biotech company advance a potential competitor to Dupixent
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In one of the first moves of the post-Makary era, FDA has scheduled a meeting of outside experts to discuss Moderna's controversial mRNA flu vaccine application. w/ @gerryfsmith bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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New: US officials are working with a small biotech company, Mapp Biopharmaceutical, to provide an experimental treatment that may be used in patients exposed to Ebola. google.com/url?q=bloomberg.c…
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New: Can AI Drug Development Live Up to the Hype?
The industry is pouring billions into the idea that it can make the process faster and more predictable, but there's reason for caution:
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More turnover at FDA: The agency is replacing the head of its vaccine and gene therapy division with FDA adviser Karim Mikhail, while current acting director Katherine Szarama will stay at the agency. Other changes here:
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New: FDA's top drug regulator Tracy Beth Høeg is departing the agency following Marty Makary's exit earlier this week. CDER deputy director Mike Davis will serve as acting director bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Marty Makary’s exit as head of the FDA is giving the biotech industry hope for stability after months of turmoil.
"It’s been a circus," one analyst said, adding that he's looking forward to "a new leader and less drama."
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President Donald Trump plans to oust FDA Commissioner Marty Makary following tumult at the agency (confirming @l_e_whyte)
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Scoop: Blackstone is investing $250 million in the biotech startup Anagram Therapeutics, part of the private equity giant’s strategy to own more cutting-edge drugmakers.
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A true team effort to illuminate management issues at FDA with @jessicanix_ @gerryfsmith @rileyraygriffin @g0ingmad @RobertLangreth @annaedney
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Marty Makary was supposed to be one of President Donald Trump’s more conventional advisers. Instead, tension and controversy have clouded his tenure. Insiders say one more high-profile misstep could put the FDA commissioner’s job at risk. bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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ICYMI our story with Upshot about the debate over raising income taxes for wealthy New Yorkers: nytimes.com/2026/05/02/upsho…
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Marty Makary was supposed to be one of President Donald Trump’s more conventional advisers. Instead, tension and controversy have clouded his tenure. Insiders say one more high-profile misstep could put the FDA commissioner’s job at risk. bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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NEW: Dylan Field Turner had cycled through antidepressants for a decade before trying Spravato. “It shakes things loose,” he said. “It’s like changing your spark plugs.”
More here on J&J’s blockbuster depression treatment for @business bloomberg.com/features/2026-…
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