Anna Edney

California Probing Baby Botulism Cases Prior to Current Outbreak The California Department of Public Health is investigating six additional cases of botulism in the state in infants who were given ByHeart formula before the start of the current outbreak in August, ...

California is investigating 6 cases if infant botulism that occurred before the current outbreak linked to ByHeart

The CA Dept of Public Health told me it first tested a can of ByHeart in the spring. It didn't find contamination but it can be hard to detect
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China’s Grip on American Medicine Cabinets Grows More Entrenched A US congressional commission is ringing alarm bells about China’s growing dominance over America’s drug supply, saying it is putting the country’s health in the hands of an adversarial nation.

If China can restrict rare earth minerals, can it also restrict our drug supply? It's hard to predict but the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission reports today that the consequences could mean lost lives and rationed care in the US.

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ByHeart Infant Formula Recall Expands After 15 Babies Sickened US regulators are urging parents to stop using all ByHeart infant formula products after more than a dozen babies became seriously ill, setting off a recall of all the company’s products.

ByHeart is recalling all of its infant formula after 15 babies who drank it came down with botulism. ByHeart is a very small company and this shouldn't create shortages but it certainly is scary for parents
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Walgreens Cuts Pay for Hourly Store Workers After $10 Billion Buyout Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners.

Just in time for the holidays

"Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners."

(Scoop from @ikeswetlitz.bsky.social ) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This Closed Factory Shows How Hard Reviving Drug Manufacturing Will Be

Great story from Rebecca Robbins highlighting how the generic drug industry is left behind in Trump's proclamations about bringing pharmaceutical manufacturing back to the US www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/h...

Schrödinger’s Government Shutdown - KFF Health News Democrats and Republicans remain stalled over funding the federal government as Republicans launch a new attack on the Affordable Care Act. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is taking advantage of t...

new #WTHealth up! @laurenweberhp.bsky.social, @annaedney.bsky.social, @joannekenen.bsky.social and I on shutdown latest, another Rx deal for Trump, and layoffs at HHS. Plus @louisenorris.bsky.social on Medicare Open Enrollment for 2026.
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Trump's new $100K visa fee could pummel red state hospitals Rural areas that overwhelmingly voted for the president employ a high concentration of doctors on H-1B visas.

The administration's new immigrant visa rules are set to hit hospitals in 3 states hardest. All 3 voted for Trump. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts www.popsci.com/environment/...

Trump administration set to tie Tylenol to autism risk, officials say The Trump administration plans to tie Tylenol to autism risk while touting another drug, leucovorin, as a potential autism treatment.

New: inside Trump’s “very important” autism announcement for Monday

— new warnings on tylenol’s risk for pregnant women

— new endorsement of leucovorin’s potential as autism treatment

— new NIH data science initiatives underway

Trump officials to link child deaths to covid shots, alarming career scientists The move to link coronavirus vaccines to 25 child deaths alarms career scientists who say the shots have been extensively studied.

SCOOP: Trump health officials plan to link covid vaccines to the deaths of 25 children as they consider limiting which Americans should get the shots, per sources. W @rachelroubein.bsky.social @ddiamond.bsky.social
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CDC Intends to Fund Investigation Into Vaccines and Autism The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention intends to fund a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute study examining links between vaccines and autism — a widely debunked theory that Health and Human ...

SCOOP: The CDC intends to fund a study on the links between vaccines and autism, a disproven theory. More here for @bloomberg.com :

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Countdown to Government Shutdown - KFF Health News With less than three weeks before the deadline to pass legislation to keep the federal government running, lawmakers are still far apart on a strategy. Democrats hope Republicans will agree to extend ...

new #WTHealth podcast up! Join me, @annaedney.bsky.social, @sandhyawrites.bsky.social, and @laurenweberhp.bsky.social to discuss the latest health budget news, the MAHA report, and banning drug ads on TV?
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States Want to Ban ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Cookware. These Chefs Say Don’t Do It.

Seems like some celebrity chefs would rather sacrifice everyone's health than learn to cook differently (or lose revenue on the environmentally harmful crap they sell). Manufacturing with forever chemicals is widely harmful to so many communities.
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My daughter (5 years old) yesterday: "It's great we have newspapers now and don't have to get news off our phones."

I've been making a point to read the physical paper at breakfast since she was tiny so she sees it and internalizes it. Subscribe, the kids notice!

10 times STAT coverage reverberated through health and medicine In its first decade, STAT has led the way in charting seismic events in health and medicine. To mark our 10-year anniversary, take a look back at 10 of our most impactful stories.

This is an impressive list @statnews.com -- full of impactful journalism worth revisiting
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Thank you!

Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them. The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two...

SCOOP: Three Trump Cabinet Members Have Multiple Primary-Residence Mortgages @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @justinelliott.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

Pus, Pain and Infections: A Faulty Implant Tormented Cancer Patients for Years BioZorb was marketed to help breast cancer patients, but the company behind it kept complaints from regulators and the public.

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Mary Munney Griffiths' breast surgeon pulled 24 shards of plastic out of her chest after the device broke apart, leaving her in constant pain

But it wasn't just Hologic that kept these horrific experiences of women quiet. A company called Focal Therapeutics that developed the device and its inventor, a serial entrepreneur named Gail Lebovic, did as well

**Yes, that Hologic - the one that makes practically every mammogram machine out there

In my @bloomberg.com Big Take out today I explored how Hologic pushed a medical device on breast cancer patients despite hundreds of complaints, most of which stayed buried until now

Pus, Pain and Infections: A Faulty Implant Tormented Cancer Patients for Years BioZorb was marketed to help breast cancer patients, but the company behind it kept complaints from regulators and the public.

A small medical device was supposed to transform breast cancer care. The FDA approved it without clinical trials or even sufficient proof it would work.
Then, when complaints from women tormented by the device began flowing in, they were hidden for years…until now
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Defying RFK Jr., pediatric group urges covid shots for young kids The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends all children ages 6 months to 23 months old receive a coronavirus vaccine as federal officials move to roll back recommendations.

NEW: Defying RFK Jr., pediatric group urges covid shots for young kids. The AAP is recommending that all children ages 6 months through 23 months receive a coronavirus vaccine to help protect against serious illness. My story.

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Natural M&M’s and Skittles Add to the Sugar Glut Mars said it will make new, naturally hued candies—but the artificially colored ones will stay on the market, too.

So many of these food company announcements on artificial dyes are not all they're cracked up to be. Thankfully, my colleague @deenashanker.bsky.social is on top of it.
I really love the "line extensions as a form of political appeasement" idea 😂
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Costco Forgoes Sale of Abortion Pill, Emboldening Religious Groups A coalition of faith-based activists had pressured the retailer to not offer the abortion pill mifepristone in its pharmacy locations. The group now turns its focus to CVS and Walgreens.

Costco decided not to dispense the abortion pill mifepristone at its more than 500 pharmacy locations, a decision hailed by a group of faith-based activists. Now, they are eyeing CVS and Walgreens. From me and Jeff Green for @business www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Inside the research machine that helps UnitedHealth protect its Medicare profits A STAT Investigation: Inside the research machine that helps UnitedHealth protect its Medicare profits.

Medicare Advantage is costing taxpayers $550 billion this year. UnitedHealth Group and a web of business partners have built a research apparatus — replete with flawed studies and papers — to push back against critics and ward off attempts at MA reform. www.statnews.com/2025/08/11/u...

The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files The bureau’s FOIA team tasked with conducting a final review of the records blacked out the names before higher-ups said last month that releasing the documents ‘would not be appropriate or warranted....

NEW FOIA Files SCOOP: The FBI redacted Trump’s name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the Epstein files under two privacy exemptions before DOJ & FBI concluded “no further disclosure” of the files “would be appropriate or warranted.”
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US Measles Cases Climb to Highest Level in Three Decades Halfway through 2025, the US’s total annual measles cases have reached a level not seen in more than three decades.

"Halfway through 2025, the US’s total annual measles cases have reached a level not seen in more than three decades."

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