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Leah Rosenbaum
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Healthcare editor at , public health superfan. Formerly: , , . Email: lrosenbaum@insider.com. She/her 🏳️‍🌈
Oakland, CAbusinessinsider.com/author/leah-ro…Joined May 2015

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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! latimes.com/california/sto
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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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Fascinating investigation from the incredibly talented !! A must-read 👀
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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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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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🧵I want to share some thoughts about reporting on long COVID and other complex chronic illnesses. (e.g. below) This is a thread about the ethos behind these pieces, and how I’ve approached interviewing, writing, and the rest of it. 1/ twitter.com/edyong209/stat
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Your weekend read from !!
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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. businessinsider.com/folx-health-pl
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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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🚨 Are you or someone you know an aspiring healthcare or business journalist? Come work with me this winter at @BusinessInsider !! We're hiring a healthcare fellow starting in January 2023 for a 6-month fellowship. Pay is $20/hr. Apply here: boards.greenhouse.io/insider/jobs/4
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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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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. Via
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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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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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🚨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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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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