Managing editor @statnews, ex @washingtonpost editor. Contactable: [email protected]
Austin, TX
Joined August 2012
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If you want to conduct scientific research involving issues related to race, your odds of getting NIH funding are getting tougher.
statnews.com/2026/10/02/nih-…
Recently @statnews sent @Jasonmmast to an investors conference in Shanghai to check out the China biotech scene that has the world abuzz. What he saw spoke volumes.
statnews.com/2026/10/01/chin…
Deep red bar to the right helps tell the story of the FDA under the Trump administration.
Story by @MargaretManto, chart by @jaspar.
statnews.com/2026/09/17/fda-…
How can skyrocketing health care costs affect an entire community, even when not everyone realizes it? @bobjherman knows.
statnews.com/2026/08/18/publ…
For many small business owners, at the heart of the U.S. economy, the math behind health insurance costs no longer adds up. Via @bobjherman
statnews.com/2026/07/07/smal…
How an FDA reversal on an experimental Huntington's disease treatment landed with a woman who has been diagnosed with the condition: "I'm literally crying right now."
statnews.com/2026/06/17/hunt…
Via @adamfeuerstein @statnews
This morning @statnews launches an ambitious new series on the deadliest drug around: alcohol.
The figures themselves are eye-opening.
statnews.com/2026/05/12/amer…
Not every day you see a biotech company get into the mining business in ... Greenland. Seems like an interesting time for it to do so.
Via @ADeAngelis_bio
statnews.com/2026/03/05/biot…
Stanley Plotkin, the "godfather of vaccines," devoted so much of his career to the scientific development of vaccines that this was once his license plate. (He's a francophile, thus the French word here, without the "e.")
statnews.com/2026/03/02/stan…
