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Leah Rosenbaum
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Some *** personal news *** ! After covering this stuff for a long time, my toddler has a rare disease. It is awful to watch your child suffer. There is a biologic drug. What follows is not a special or orginal story, it's the most ordinary possible story about healthcare.
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Literally the dream assignment
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Are you a #freelancewriter based in #SF with a dog who wants to visit this fun restaurant and write about the experience (with photos) for @BusinessInsider? Email me at akalish[at]insider[dot]com with clips, thanks!
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NEW: CRISPR pioneer Feng Zhang is building a secretive new startup to solve gene-editing's biggest problem — getting into more parts of the body
Meet Aera Therapeutics, which has raised $200 million to advance Zhang's work:
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CRISPR gene editing can be curative - that's been definitively established.
Now what?
I wholeheartedly share the data-based optimism that this thoughtful and comprehensively reported piece by evokes about the clinical future of CRISPR.
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🍦Scoop alert!!🍦
found out about a new stealth biotech company that's planing to transform how CRISPR is delivered into the body!
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NEW from me: Elemy, the $1.15 billion autism-care startup, promised families and their healthcare providers fast access to ABA therapy for kids. But insiders said Elemy often failed to deliver on its promises, and kids hung around on indefinite waitlists. businessinsider.com/elemy-insiders
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To whom it may concern: if you have someone in your life who is #disabled or chronically ill and they tell you they can't do something, believe them. If someone with a dynamic disability tells you they can only do something during a short window of the afternoon, believe them.
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Do not let anyone convince you that you need to get sick to be healthy. This is very silly.
While the day we fully understand the immune system will probably never come, there are a few things we can say for sure about how exposure to microbes impact your immune health...
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Also a huge issue in folks with chronic migraine 🙋♀️
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Brain fog isn’t unique to long COVID. The same specific problems affect many HIV patients, epileptics post-seizures, cancer patients w/ chemo brain & folks w/ chronic illnesses like ME/CFS. Many of these conditions have long been stigmatized & neglected 7/ theatlantic.com/health/archive
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An incredible thread about ethics of writing about/interviewing people with debilitating & chronic disease.
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This is crucial: I make sure that people know upfront that they can pull out of a scheduled interview at any time—including mid-call—if they feel that they don’t have the spoons. I say this at the start of every call. And people *have* pulled out. 7/
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One of the more interesting things about the Prime IPO filing is just how intertwined the company is with the Broad Institute -- home of cofounder David liu. Check out what learned here: businessinsider.com/post/preview?p
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Anytime my dog does anything:
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BIG FRIDAY PUB: current rules that let trans people get testosterone online, which provides privacy and safety, are currently set to tighten when the PHE expires. i asked @folxhealth & @get_plume, two companies prescribing t online, how they plan to adapt.
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And to preemptively answer a common question -- this is a full time fellowship (AKA we highly recommend you are not in school), and you must live in the US for the duration of the fellowship.
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🚨Last call for applicants!! 🚨 We're going to start interviews soon for our winter healthcare fellow role, but there's still a few days left to apply! Shoot us a resume and tell us why you want to cover the business of healthcare 💉🤑
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Be skeptical of any research that shows the health risks / benefits of a behavior that can also be correlated to wealth.
Is quinoa good for you? Or do rich people get better healthcare?
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This was an awesome story about barriers to eliminating Hep C at the state level! #harmreduction
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In 2019(!) I pitched @AHCJ on an investigation about how the "Netflix model" was working to eliminate Hep C. Covid delayed those plans, but the story came out today and I am very proud of it. Hope you'll read it. (It's got SCOOPS too) statnews.com/2022/09/13/lou
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Proud to announce WTFentanyl.com, a resource to correct the ridiculous misinformation about fentanyl exposures online that spreads at a fever pitch these days. Please take a look and bookmark for future reference. You can also reference in replies!
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A fun thing about living in California is when you smell smoke and you have to run outside to check if it's your building that's on fire (the answer is usually no...but occasionally yes!)
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Requiring employers to cover PrEP ruled as violating employers’ religious rights?!?
This makes no sense and am assuming is being driven solely by homophobia and transphobia. Disgusting and inhumane.
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BREAKING: US District Judge Reed O’Connor in Texas rules that requiring employers to provide coverage for PrEP drugs (preventing the transmission of HIV) violates the religious rights of employers under federal law (RFRA).
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In less than 24 hours, a thread offering tips to avoid / fight cancer 'naturally' (mainly through diet⛳️) has gotten over 100k likes.
Sadly, the advice given is both wrong and dangerous, and *very* likely to cause harm.
A quick thread on why this is so misguided... 🧵
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A big chunk of Baltimore, and a section of Baltimore county is under a water boil advisory. E.coli was found in water samples, and people are being told to boil their water before they drink it, or interact with it in any way. That includes showers. This should be a bigger story.
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We live in the worst timeline
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BREAKING: US District Judge Reed O’Connor in Texas rules that requiring employers to provide coverage for PrEP drugs (preventing the transmission of HIV) violates the religious rights of employers under federal law (RFRA).
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I spoke to 6 employees about what led to the Amazon Care shutdown ➡️
I was pretty surprised by the goals they were supposed to hit (and didn't) and the bureaucracy employees faced when they tried to improve the product.
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A nice tribute from on the legacy of Sandy Morris, an ALS patient who died this week at 51.
She pushed the field to adapt more humane clinical trials — “We are humans,” she told me back in 2019. “We aren’t zebrafish.”
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Since it's #NationalOverdoseAwarenessDay I wanted to re-up this thread on what community-based harm reduction ACTUALLY looks like 💉💉💉
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There’s been a lot of talk about drug use & harm reduction over the past few days, so I thought some folks might be interested in seeing what harm reduction looks like! 
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More people need to be talking about Jackson, Mississippi. The city ran out of bottled water to give residents yesterday. It’s the largest city in Mississippi. It’s 80% Black. Their water system is failing because of years of neglect. This is environmental racism.
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The good people at are putting together a project about health insurance denials. They are collecting stories. They came to the right corner of twitter for stories. You can tell yours at the link below.
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tons of people across the state and across the country have been asking how they can help with the Jackson water crisis.. #jxnwatercrisis
here’s what i’ve compiled and will add to this week: 🧵
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. on why an analyst thinks Moderna's lawsuit might signal the "end of the pandemic" — at least when it comes to Big Pharma.
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🚨NEW INVESTIGATION: and I looked at evictions within San Francisco's housing for its most vulnerable homeless
We found evictions for similar issues that qualified ppl for housing: poverty, mental illness, inability to care for themselves
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I will have more to say on this lol but my initial 2 cents is that the people at Amazon Care are super sad :( reminds me of conversations at Google/Apple Health. This is a diff situation but the human impact of having your work sort of canceled and gaslit by tech bros is real.
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this is a slap in the face to everyone who worked hard and paid the $51 to Elsevier to rent an article for 24 hours
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BREAKING: White House issues new policy that will require, by 2026, all federally-funded research results to be freely available to public without delay, ending longstanding ability of journals to paywall results for up to 1 year. Coverage coming on @ScienceInsider.
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BREAKING: White House issues new policy that will require, by 2026, all federally-funded research results to be freely available to public without delay, ending longstanding ability of journals to paywall results for up to 1 year. Coverage coming on .
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Just over a year ago, I read a paper which showed that when private equity buys nursing homes, death rates go up 10%. I was a med student at Stanford, but I halted my studies to investigate. Today, that investigation was published in
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New: Patients receiving methadone are ~60% less likely to die of an opioid overdose — but an archaic web of federal regulations keeps the medication out of reach for many Americans.
Amid climbing overdose deaths, advocates are pushing to broaden access:
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