Health + Medical editor at The Boston Globe, ex-MIT KSJ Project Fellow, Dallas Morning News, @SciAm and Newsweek. Views are my own.
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Anna Kuchment retweeted
As noted in the @BostonGlobe, COVID is back! And it's not what it used to be!
To ID doctors, neither statement is particularly surprising. But why is this happening?
A brief explainer, with a few recycled PowerPoint slides. Free-to-read link in replies. @akuchment
RT @DrChoueiri: I’m excited to join fellow experts and Shirley @leung at @BostonGlobe Media’s Future of Medicine Summit to discuss how canc…
Anna Kuchment retweeted
Trump administration plan to quarantine Americans suspected of having high-risk exposures to #Ebola in Kenya meets on-the-ground opposition. The plan to quarantine people exposed & treat cases abroad relies on good will the US may not have right now. washingtonpost.com/world/202…
Anna Kuchment retweeted
The combined confirmed and suspected #Ebola cases in DRC now top 1,000. This outbreak will be a bear to extinguish.
🚨 #EbolaRDC | Rapport de situation au 23 mai 2026
L’épidémie d’Ebola reste active dans 3 provinces : Ituri, Nord-Kivu et Sud-Kivu.
📊 101 cas confirmés
⚠️ 904 cas suspects cumulés
📍 11 zones de santé touchées
📞 Numéro vert officiel gratuit : 151
Les autorités sanitaires poursuivent les activités de surveillance, de dépistage et de sensibilisation dans les zones affectées.
La vigilance et le respect des mesures de prévention restent essentiels.
#StopEbola #PréventionEbola #SantéPublique #Com_MediasRDC
Anna Kuchment retweeted
Just wanna say that @HelenBranswell is absolutely crushing the reporting on every aspect of this Ebola outbreak. @statnews
There's no vaccine to protect against #Ebola #Bundibugyo. But there is a tiny bit of animal data suggesting Ervebo, the Ebola Zaire vaccine, might offer some cross protection & debate within scientific circles & at #WHO over whether to try to see if it might help. statnews.com/2026/05/18/ebol…
Anna Kuchment retweeted
The US government is working to extricate some Americans who had potentially problematic exposures to suspected #Ebola #Bundibugyo in DRC. But it won’t talk about it. When I and other journalists asked during a #CDC press conference, we got no answers. statnews.com/2026/05/17/in-e…
Anna Kuchment retweeted
Boston/Cambridge MA-area folks, please come out for our (@PeterHotez & my) #ScienceUnderSiege conversation with @BostonGlobe science writer @AKuchment, THIS THURSDAY (4/2/26) at the @MIT @MITMuseum!
You can register here: mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/ev…
RT @MichaelEMann: "Author Talk: Science Under Siege" | I'm looking forward to joining my #ScienceUnderSiege co-author @PeterHotez for this…
Some dogs go nuts when they see hugging. Our vet can tell you why, via @BostonGlobe bostonglobe.com/2025/10/21/m…
Anna Kuchment retweeted
ACIP voted unanimously yes here, which seems to protect coverage of Covid shots for all while only recommending it strongly for those over 65.
Not clear to me how this interacts with the FDA labeling, which is more restrictive. @doritmi
Anna Kuchment retweeted
ICYMI: #HHS has been circulating an FAQ explaining why Kennedy unilaterally dropped recommendations that kids & pregnant people get #Covid shots. It cites studies. But the studies it cites to suggest dangers of getting the shot during pregnancy dispel that claim. politico.com/news/2025/06/10…
Anna Kuchment retweeted
This is the big one: Kennedy is firing the entire #ACIP in a move he says is needed to restore confidence in vaccines.
"It scares me to think of what’s ahead,” Mike Osterholm of CIDRAP told me. statnews.com/2025/06/09/rfk-…
Anna Kuchment retweeted
Calling medical journals "corrupt," Kennedy says gov't scientists may be barred from publishing in Lancet, NEJM, etc going forward. #NIH may establish its own journals, he said.
Meanwhile #CDC 's Emerging Infectious Diseases journal is on the budget chopping block. statnews.com/2025/05/27/rfk-…
Anna Kuchment retweeted
Grateful to the incomparable @AnilOza16 @statnews and Chris Serres @BostonGlobe for providing vital context about the stakes and implications of current and potentially forthcoming cuts
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Anna Kuchment retweeted
STAT has published an ambitious, sweeping series of stories marking Trump's first 100 days in health/science. Start with this timeline
statnews.com/2025/04/24/trum… via @statnews @ushamcfarling
Anna Kuchment retweeted
We are over the moon at @statnews for winning our first National Magazine Award for general excellence. statnews.com/stat-wins-natio…
Anna Kuchment retweeted
My colleague Lev Facher hit the road following Secretary Kennedy's MAHA tour. Among other things, Kennedy bragged about how well the response to the ongoing #measles outbreak, which has claimed 3 lives, is going.
New from @statnews: On RFK Jr.'s road show out west, MAHA goals take precedence. Measles prevention less so.
statnews.com/2025/04/09/rfk-…
Anna Kuchment retweeted
US government funding has brought cancer science to the point where new discoveries are accelerating & the stage was set for major gains over the coming decade. But deep & puzzling cuts instigated by the new administration are throwing all that into doubt, @angRchen reports. statnews.com/2025/03/24/trum…
Anna Kuchment retweeted
RFK warned followers about about dangers of CRISPR gene editing, while investing in CRISPR Therapeutics
via @rachelcohrs @owermohle + @isabellacueto
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Anna Kuchment retweeted
For a long time, food and medicines in this country were extremely toxic. Like, actually murderous.
Despite that, progress in regulating them was very slow and arduous work.
The FDA isn’t perfect. But wow do we need it. Here’s a thread on its history and what existed before 👇
