Anna Kuchment

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Highly recommend clicking through & following their feeds 🎉

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Ask the Vet: Why does our goldendoodle go nuts when my wife and I hug? - The Boston Globe The Globe is taking your questions about pet health and behavior.

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Do healthy adults still need annual COVID shots? Here’s what the science says. - The Boston Globe Experts say the science is nuanced, but everyone should have access to boosters.

Do healthy adults still need annual boosters? Here's what the science says amid conflicting recommendations. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/03/m...

Congratulations, Max! So well deserved.

‘Like a horror’: A Harvard scientist studied the mysteries of aging. Now her future is in peril. - The Boston Globe Kseniia Petrova’s future has hung in the balance since she allegedly failed to declare frog embryos that she was bringing back from France for research.

Kudos to @chrisserres.bsky.social for this gorgeous, revelatory profile of @harvard.edu scientist Kseniia Petrova. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/23/n...

A breakthrough in a Harvard lab led to a new cancer drug. Could it save a man with six months to live? - The Boston Globe The hunt for a medical breakthrough has been caught up in the Trump administration's political assault on the university.

A must read today by @kaylazar.bsky.social in @bostonglobe.com. She so clearly illustrates the role of federal funding in medical breakthroughs and why cuts to that funding-- including the near total freeze on federal grants to Harvard -- endanger all of us. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/08/m...

Harvard professor turns to private equity to counter Trump research cuts - The Boston Globe School officials hope the collaboration could be the first of multiple privately financed labs.

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A member of RFK Jr.’s MAHA movement and a public health expert met on Zoom. Here’s what happened next. - The Boston Globe When public heealth experts and MAHA activists broke bread together, they found more in common than they expected.

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‘Have we no shame?’ Federal judge declares hundreds of NIH grant terminations ‘void and illegal.’ - The Boston Globe Judge William Young expressed frustration over the government’s criteria for terminating hundreds of medical research grants.

Three great reads from @bostonglobe.com and @statnews.com today, featuring @craigspencer.bsky.social @chrisserres.bsky.social @britshmit.bsky.social @meganranney.bsky.social
1. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/16/m...

‘Have we no shame?’ Federal judge declares NIH grant terminations ‘void and illegal.’ - The Boston Globe Judge William Young expressed frustration over the government’s criteria for terminating hundreds of medical research grants.

“I‘ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this,” said US District Court Judge William Young. “Is it true of our society as a whole? Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?”
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Harvard scientist accuses Homeland Security of violating due process rights, seeks to prevent further detention - The Boston Globe Legal experts say the smuggling charge against Kseniia Petrova is unlikely to be upheld, though it could bolster deportation efforts.

Four immigration law experts told The Boston Globe that the smuggling charge is unlikely to be sustained in court and could be a pressure tactic to compel Petrova to leave the country voluntarily.
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Among the studies impacted are investigations into the origins of breast cancer, a treatment with potential to reverse ALS symptoms and more. Said one scientist, "[The Trump administration] is actively trying to bring down one of the best research institutions in the country."

‘A bloodbath’: Trump administration moves to terminate hundreds of federal grants at Harvard - The Boston Globe Harvard researchers who rely on federal grants to study cancer, infectious diseases, and a range of other topics began receiving termination notices en masse on Thursday from a number of federal agenc...

Today the Trump administration terminated nearly all of Harvard Medical School's federal grants, bringing the total amount of Harvard funding slashed to nearly $3 billion h/t @kaylazar.bsky.social @chrisserres.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/16/m...

$533 million and counting: Tracking canceled research grants across New England - The Boston Globe Researchers have lots hundreds of grants across areas including childhood vaccinations and teen mental health.

@bostonglobe.com tracked cancelled research grants across New England with help from @scott-delaney.bsky.social and colleagues. Thanks to @gashina.bsky.social @lizkowalczyk.bsky.social and team! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/30/m...

Post-Graduate Plans Have the Trump administration's changes impacted your post-graduate plans? The Boston Globe wants to hear from you for a story! If you are interested in participating, please fill out the short survey...

Are you graduating this spring and changed your post-grad plans due to the Trump administration’s actions? Have you recently decided to apply to law school? We want to hear from you for a @bostonglobe.com story!

If this is you, please fill out this survey: forms.gle/1JARhxEdi77t...

Scoop: CDC has no Acting Director, sources confirm. The power vacuum means upcoming vaccine recommendation decisions will legally fall to RFK Jr.

Unusual situation here.
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NIH abruptly terminates millions in research grants, defying court orders - The Boston Globe The sweeping actions would appear to violate court rulings from federal judges in Rhode Island and Washington, D.C.

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Snitch City: A Boston Globe Spotlight Team report coming soon In a nation addicted to drugs, local police are addicted to informants. This is the story of an American city that, like so many others, is enmeshed in the war on drugs.

Coming soon from @globespotlight.bsky.social: Snitch City.

This is the story of every American city enmeshed in the war on drugs. It’s about a deeply flawed system, the flawed people working within it, and the injustices that can occur when no one’s watching.

Despite court orders, New England health agencies still face funding threats from federal government - The Boston Globe State departments of public health and community health clinics have received strongly worded orders to stop all DEI programs.

State departments of public health and community health clinics have received strongly worded demands from Washington to “immediately terminate, to the maximum extent, all programs, personnel, activities, or contracts” that promote DEI. via @bostonglobe.com by Jason Laughlin and Matt Stout

‘Gender Ideology’ Ban is Already Harming Health, Experts Say (Gift Article) Documents purged from government websites include guidelines for safe contraception and information on racial inequities in health care.

SCOOP: Many of the pages that went missing on Friday from the CDC website on Friday have reappeared — in response to intense media coverage, backlash from the scientific community and concern for the public’s health.

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‘Their lives are awful’: More doctors are quitting medicine, citing burnout and workplace issues - The Boston Globe Large numbers of physicians are leaving, or looking to leave, clinical practice. How will our health care system survive?

Among specialists, anesthesiologists, pulmonologists, and ER doctors reported high levels of burnout.

According to one report, more than 70,000 physicians — over 6 percent of the country’s physicians — left medicine just between 2021 and 2022.

Anna Kuchment - Health and Medical Editor - The Boston Globe Anna Kuchment is The Boston Globe's health and medical editor. Prior to joining the Globe, she spent 14 years as a writer and editor at Newsweek magazine, a senior editor at Scientific American and a ...

Hi, Dani. I'd love to be added to your science communicators feed. I'm the health and medical editor at The Boston Globe. www.bostonglobe.com/about/staff-...

Critical data on disease transmission, LGBTQ+ health vanishes from government websites - The Boston Globe Included in the purge is information on child abuse and treatment and prevention of HIV.

After a long week of breaking news, my colleagues at @bostonglobe.com scrambled to pull together this update on the government data purge, including a tracker of missing CDC sites with crucial health information led by the amazing @gashina.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/31/m...

Tracking broken CDC web pages - The Boston Globe Dozens of pages on the website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention focused on LGBTQ issues, HIV, racial disparities, and contraception were down on Friday.

The @bostonglobe.com is tracking CDC pages that have gone dark. We've counted more than 100 so far. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/31/d...

Updates on Trump's public health choke hold. A scorched Earth approach ensues. Seven major stories we are following, January 28, 2025.

Updates on Trump's public health choke hold.

1. All federal grants HALTED. (Lawsuits now pending)
2. CDC/WHO stop-work order. Impacts
3. USAID gutted.
4. HIV drugs cut off to poor nations.
5. New NSF grants on hold.
6-7 Some good news at NIH and on data blackout

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‘A terrible way to treat scientists’: Trump directives sow uncertainty, fear among area labs and hospitals - The Boston Globe Massachusetts receives the largest share per capita of National Institutes of Health funding of any state but that could change under President Trump.

A few thoughts from me and others in the @bostonglobe.com
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‘A terrible way to treat scientists’: Trump directives sow uncertainty, fear among area labs and hospitals - The Boston Globe Massachusetts receives the largest share per capita of National Institutes of Health funding of any state but that could change under President Trump.

Massachusetts receives more NIH funding per capita than any other state. Here's how things have played out here. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/28/m...

Live impromptu chat with Dr. Atul Gawande. Instead of a phone call, we went Live on Instagram. On the docket: What the halt in US foreign aid means *immediately*.

I’ve long wanted to turn what would be phone calls among colleagues into something everyone could listen to.

Here’s an attempt with Atul Gawande, covering the halt of US aid, including PEPFAR, which saved >20 million lives.

Transcript + captions on Inside Medicine
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