Amy Feldman

You can’t pay for health insurance with an FSA. And if you get cancer or need surgery and don’t have insurance, your FSA won’t come close to covering the bill.

Interesting story from @forbes.com @amyfeldman7.bsky.social on IPO of a biotech company doing non-invasive prenatal tests. up next: new diagnostic products including those that could be used in early detection of cancer, one of the holy grails of testing.

Diagnostics Company BillionToOne Valued At $5.8 Billion In Public Offering Turkish immigrant Oguzhan Atay started the company in 2016 with a focus on prenatal testing. Now, he’s expanding to cancer tests.

Today’s hot IPO: a medical diagnostics company that hit $5.8B market cap after share soared 80%+ @forbes.com

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The Multi-Billion-Dollar Battle For Metsera In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at the battle for Metsera, the departure of FDA’s top drug regulator, Kimberly-Clark’s $40 billion Kenvue deal, and more.

In this week’s @forbes.com InnovationRx newsletter w/ @thealexknapp.bsky.social
—the multibillion dollar battle for Metsera’s obesity drugs
—SNAP benefit cuts are harmful to health
—the FDA’s top drug regulator is out

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What To Know About President Trump’s Cognitive Test In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look Nvidia’s collaborations in life sciences and drug development, Cobot’s hospital robots, and more.

New edition of our healthcare newsletter, InnovationRx, is here. In it, @amyfeldman7.bsky.social and I take a look at:

🧠 What to know about President Trump's cognitive test.

💻 New Nvidia collaborations in healthcare.

🤖 How robots can save time and manpower at hospitals

And more!

The Big Changes To ACA Premiums At The Heart Of The Government Shutdown Health care coverage through the Marketplaces will be more expensive in 2026. Premiums are going up and the enhanced premium tax credits are scheduled to expire.

@bsky.app If you get your coverage through an ACA Marketplace--or just want to why tax subsidies are such a big issue in the government shutdown--a great explainer. Particularly scary for early retirees. www.forbes.com/sites/kellyp...

Anti-science bills hit statehouses, stripping away public health protections built over a century More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year.

At least 420 state bills attacking public health protections like vaccination, fluoridation and milk safety

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New Drugs Show Promise In Tough-To-Treat Cancers In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at a high-tech chair that could revolutionize cancer radiation therapy, AI chatbots for seniors and more.

In this week’s @forbes.com InnovationRx newsletter, @thealexknapp.bsky.social and I look at:
—new drugs for tough-to-treat cancers
—AI chatbots for the elderly
—a high-tech chair for cancer radiation therapy
—and more!

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Frequent flyers: Top drugmakers’ private jets descended on DC more than 120 times this year, data show The trips come at a time of near-constant lobbying and negotiation by the industry over drug prices, trade, science, the FDA and many other issues.

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The Tech Right Gets Its Own Phyllis Schlafly

“A Silicon Valley pitchdeck version of Christian nationalism”

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Lonely Seniors Are Turning To AI Bots For Companionship The AI boom has brought with it a new crop of startups looking to build a business on an urgent but vaguely dystopian idea: solving loneliness among the elderly.

Older adults across the country are turning to AI companions to help deal with loneliness. We visited a senior care facility in the Bronx and spoke with residents about their experience speaking to AI bots. With @richardnieva.bsky.social.
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OpenEvidence’s Daniel Nadler $1.3 Billion Richer In Just Three Months After The AI Startup Hits $6 Billion Valuation OpenEvidence, which Forbes profiled in July, has been signing up users fast. Its ultimate goal: To not just help doctors find existing medical research, but to create medical superintelligence.

OpenEvidence’s Daniel Nadler, now worth $3.6B after raising new funds $6B valuation, says the company’s ultimate goal isn’t just to help doctors find existing medical research, but to create medical superintelligence. New from me & @rashis.bsky.social at @forbes.com
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OpenEvidence Cofounder Daniel Nadler Is Now A Billionaire Daniel Nadler started OpenEvidence to help physicians sort through a deluge of medical research. Now, he’s raised $210 million at a $3.5 billion valuation.

With OpenEvidence reportedly raising at $6B valuation, re-upping our profile from July @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

OpenAI Ordered To Unmask ChatGPT User Behind 2 Prompts First known warrant of its kind reveals the government can ask OpenAI to provide identifying information on anyone who enters specific prompts.

🚨SCOOP🚨 DHS ordered OpenAI to identify a user who'd made 2 specific prompts.

User was anonymous and accused of helping run 15 child abuse sites. They'd disclosed the prompts to an undercover agent.

First example of what I'm calling a reverse AI prompt search.

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How Two Ride-Share Guys And An ER Doc Are Building An Air Traffic Control System For Healthcare Startup Sage Care is coming out of stealth with $20 million in funding and customers that include Bronson Healthcare and White Plains Hospital.

Startup Sage Care — with founders from rideOS and Carbon Health — is coming out of stealth with $20 million in funding to build an air-traffic control system for healthcare. New from me @forbes.com

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Could a high-tech treatment chair and scanner help increase access to an important cancer therapy?

“We are just not getting the proton therapy to patients. The reason is 100% cost.”

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How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto The president and his family have built a rapidly growing digital assets empire which has been fuelled by the administration’s industry-friendly policies

The FT commissioned a poll of Trump voters, finding that most thought that the president had made less than $100 million while in office, and a third thought he hadn't made anything from the presidency.

His net worth has, in fact, gone up by billions. www.ft.com/content/2ea2...

How A High-Tech Chair Could Revolutionize Cancer Radiation Therapy Startup Leo Cancer Care is transforming proton radiation treatment with a simple idea: having patients sit up instead of lying down. Now hospitals that include Stanford and McLaren are lining up to bu...

My latest @forbes.com daily cover profiles startup Leo Cancer Care, which is transforming cancer radiation treatment with a simple idea: having patients sit up instead of lying down. Now hospitals are buying dozens of its chairs.

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“It certainly costs a lot less money to partner with Cleveland Clinic than to buy a hospital, and it comes with less strings attached and less brain damage.”

(AP) — Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who cover the American military further from the seat of its power.

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Khosla Ventures And Cleveland Clinic Partner On Healthcare Tech In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at Town Hall Ventures’ $440 million haul, the CDC’s “Friday night massacre,” Boehringer’s new lung drug, and more.

In this week’s @forbes.com InnovationRx newsletter, @thealexknapp.bsky.social and I look at
—the Cleveland Clinic-Khosla partnership on healthtech
—Town Hall Ventures’ new fund
—CDC’s ‘Friday night massacre’
—Boehringer’s new drug for pulmonary fibrosis
—and more!

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Medicare Administrator Turned Health Venture Capitalist Raises $440 Million For New Fund Andy Slavitt’s Town Hall Ventures has been investing in healthcare innovations focused on low-income and vulnerable communities. With new funding from investors that include John Doerr, it now has tot...

Andy Slavitt’s Town Hall Ventures has been investing in healthcare innovations focused on low-income and vulnerable communities. With $440M new funding from investors that include John Doerr, it now has total assets of $1.4 billion.

New from me @forbes.com

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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

Inside Facebook And Discord’s 3D Printed Ghost Gun Groups The world’s biggest social media sites are home to thousands of 2nd Amendment devotees who believe anyone should be able to use a 3D printer to build their own gun. Meta, Discord and the DOJ are tryin...

🚨NEW🚨 Feds have been raiding the data of 3D printed gun communities on Facebook and Discord, which have tens of thousands of members.

A "slippery slope," says one privacy activist.

'3D2A' leaders say neither social media nor the government can "stop the signal."

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Why These Investment Firms Bet $400 Million On A Chinese Ozempic Rival Kailera jumped the weight loss miracle-drug line by licensing four clinical-stage obesity therapies from China, which is quickly emerging as a powerhouse pharmaceutical R&D center.

In light of obesity drug startup Kailera Therapeutics $600M fundraise today — one of largest biotech hauls of the year — resharing my @forbes.com magazine profile of the company

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As a former marathoner I’m so so sorry — and hope it’s a false alarm

There's nothing at all wrong with being Palestinian, and using "Palestinian" in this way is deeply racist against Palestinians, but it is also antisemitic, because it defines Jewishness as something that can be granted and removed for political reasons.

Boehringer Ingelheim breathes new life into lung fibrosis field with FDA approval for Jascayd More than 10 years after bringing one of the first idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) drugs to market, Boehringer Ingelheim is freshening up its leadership in the rare lung disease space with a ne | ...

My dad had idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Good to finally, finally see a new drug for this miserable disease

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