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Inside the internal fight over Pinterest’s health misinformation policy
Erin Brodwin⚡ - STAT 86d 3 tweets
Pinterest’s battle against health misinformation has been just as much a fight inside the company’s own doors.
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STAT A STAT SPECIAL REPORT Externally polished, internally marginalized: Inside the fight over Pinterest’s health misinformation policy Read the story by here: #Pinterest #Health Illo by 86d
STAT+ Conversations: A conversation with Amwell - STAT
Erin Brodwin⚡ - STAT 87d 1 tweets
STAT is joined by Peter Antall, chief medical officer at Amwell to discuss the future of the company, and telemedicine more broadly.
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STAT HAPPENING NOW We're hosting another one of our #STATPlusConversations! leads a conversation with Watch the live stream here 87d
No news on Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine is good news — and bad news
Matthew Herper - STAT 87d 6 tweets
Pfizer and BioNTech are under a white-hot spotlight because their vaccine, by design, is likely to be the first to have any efficacy data.
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STAT Pfizer revealed that researchers have not yet conducted an analysis of the efficacy of the vaccine it is developing against Covid-19. The announcement is both good news and bad news. 87d
WHO warns giving up on efforts to control Covid-19 would be 'dangerous'
Helen Branswell - STAT 87d 12 tweets
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows seemed to indicate the Trump administration has concluded containment of the virus is not possible.
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STAT The warned countries against giving up on efforts to control the coronavirus pandemic, with the head of the agency saying doing so would be “dangerous.” 87d
mRNA vaccines face their first test with Covid-19. How do they work?
Hyacinth Empinado - STAT 88d 5 tweets
Watch to see how mRNA is being harnessed by scientists to to try to protect us from disease — including Covid-19. 
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STAT mRNA vaccines face their first test in the fight against Covid-19. How do they work? Watch our video explainer here: 87d
2020 STAT Summit
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The 2020 STAT Summit is a virtual program from Nov. 16-19.
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STAT SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Learn more about our #STATSummit here: Get your viewer pass here: 88d
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STAT SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT Reshma Kewalramani, M.D. CEO and President, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Learn more about our #STATSummit here: Get your viewer pass here: 86d
As STAT turns 5, a look back at science and medicine’s biggest headlines
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As STAT celebrates its five-year anniversary, our reporters took a look back at areas we’ve covered closely and cast an eye to the future.
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STAT It's our birthday week!! #STATturns5! Take a look back at our biggest headlines with , , , , , and ! And make sure to share your favorites with hashtag #STATturns5 88d
Mirati results set new response bar for KRAS-blocking lung cancer drugs
Adam Feuerstein - STAT 89d 4 tweets
A pill from Mirati Therapeutics designed to block the cancer protein KRAS shrank tumors in 45% of patients with advanced lung cancer.
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STAT A pill from Mirati Therapeutics designed to block the cancer protein KRAS shrank tumors in 45% of patients with advanced lung cancer, according to new data. 89d
Amid Covid-19 pandemic, U.S. has seen 300,000 ‘excess deaths'
Andrew Joseph - STAT 94d 4 tweets
CDC researchers found that nearly 300,000 more people in the U.S. died so far this year than the average number who died in recent years.
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STAT Amid pandemic, U.S. has seen 300,000 ‘excess deaths,’ with highest rates among people of color 89d
Covid-19’s wintry mix: Dry indoor air helps the virus spread - STAT
Elizabeth Cooney - STAT 93d 8 tweets
The worry is not just that people might mingle more closely inside, but that the air they breathe will make the virus more dangerous.
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STAT Cold, dry air facilitates the spread of the coronavirus, and the social distancing that helped outside won’t be as effective indoors, scientists say. 89d
Covid-19 is pushing pharma companies to the cloud
Casey Ross - STAT 89d 1 tweets
The Covid-19 pandemic has rapidly accelerated the drug industry's migration to the cloud, with pharma striking new deals with tech giants.
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STAT The drug industry has been migrating to the cloud for years. But Covid-19 has rapidly accelerated that shift for a simple reason: Researchers needed to run the biggest experiment of their lives in record time, and they lacked the power to launch it. 89d
I'm never prepared for emptiness, grief when police shoot a Black person
K.C. Ardem, MD, MS 🦸🏽‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 - STAT 91d 3 tweets
As a psychiatrist, I should be well-equipped to deal with the emotions that arise in me when police shoot a Black person. But I'm not.
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STAT Read the story here 90d
FDA express concern over emergency authorization of Covid-19 vaccines
Helen Branswell - STAT 91d 13 tweets
The ageny may be exploring the idea of using expanded access — a more limiting program — in the early days of Covid vaccine rollouts.
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STAT There are serious signs the FDA is getting cold feet over the notion of issuing emergency use authorizations to allow for the widespread early deployment of Covid-19 vaccines. #FDA #Covid_19 #vaccines 90d
Health Canada posts final version of controversial drug-pricing regulations
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"Innovative new medicines will not launch in Canada, depriving patients of potentially life-changing new treatments," an industry group said.
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STAT After months of delay, Health Canada has released a final version of new regulations that are designed to cut prescription drug spending by the Canadian government. 90d
Covid-19 vaccine trials from AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson to restart
Matthew Herper - STAT 90d 6 tweets
“We should be reassured by the care taken by independent regulators to protect the public," AstraZeneca's CEO said.
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STAT Two major studies of vaccines against Covid-19, both paused because of potential safety concerns, are set to restart, the companies running them said Friday. #Covid_19 #vaccines 90d
Study: Universal mask use could save 130,000 lives by February - STAT
Eric Boodman - STAT 91d 13 tweets
“Expanding mask use is one of the easy wins for the United States," said the lead author of the new study.
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STAT BREAKING: Universal mask use could save 130,000 lives by the end of February, new modeling study says 91d
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STAT Universal mask use could save 130,000 U.S. lives by the end of February 89d
Science journal editors shouldn't contribute to politicizing science - STAT
Genevieve Kanter - STAT 91d 12 tweets
By advocating against or endorsing presidential candidates, science journal editors make themselves vulnerable to charges of bias.
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STAT Opinion: This election is a crucial opportunity to reclaim public health and science leadership in this country, all the more reason why science journal editors should cleave tightly to core scientific principles that will outlast politics. 91d
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STAT Opinion: Editors’ ultimate allegiance should be to a process — the scientific method — not to a person or a party. 90d
FDA wants pharma to include younger women in breast cancer drug trials 
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New guidance from the FDA says those who are premenopausal should no longer be excluded from breast cancer drug trials.
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STAT New guidance from says those who are premenopausal should no longer be excluded from breast cancer drug trials, a move greeted as good news for younger patients. 91d
Biden warns of ‘dark winter’ during final presidental debate - STAT
Lev Facher - STAT 91d 1 tweets
President Trump and Joe Biden presented starkly different visions for the country’s recovery from Covid-19 at the final presidential debate.
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STAT On a day the U.S. reported more than 72,000 new Covid-19 cases and 1,000 new deaths, President Trump insisted the U.S. was “rounding the turn” on Covid-19. Joe Biden warned of a “dark winter.” 91d
Blood plasma showed no benefit in Covid-19 patients in trial
Damian Garde - STAT 91d 11 tweets
The findings, published in BMJ, could re-energize the debate over whether blood plasma is an effective treatment for the disease.
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STAT Infusing hospitalized Covid-19 patients with blood plasma from people who recovered from the disease had no effect on whether patients got sicker or died, according to the first completed randomized trial of the treatments. 91d
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STAT Infusing hospitalized Covid-19 patients with blood plasma from people who recovered from the disease had no effect on whether patients got sicker or died, according to the first completed randomized trial of the treatments. 90d
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STAT BREAKING: Blood plasma showed no benefit in Covid-19 patients in trial — a finding that could re-energize debate 91d