Gideon Gil

“Lost in the focus on ‘me’ rather than ‘we’ has been discussion of vaccines’ wider benefits: The indirect — and sometimes surprising — benefits of vaccines statnews.com/2026/03/19/vac… via @statnews

Cancer cells can ‘barf’ proteins onto their cell surface. That may create new targets for immunotherapies statnews.com/2026/03/12/can… via @statnews

5 lessons from Vinay Prasad’s turbulent tenure at the FDA statnews.com/2026/03/08/vin… via @statnews

Round 1 of STAT Madness is underway. Vote now!

UniQure plans to seek approval for Huntington’s therapy still blocked by FDA statnews.com/2026/03/02/uni… via @statnews

Trump touts lower drug costs and anti-fraud measures in lengthy State of the Union, even as more than half of Americans say health care has become more unaffordable statnews.com/2026/02/24/tru… via @statnews

Nature Medicine to investigate study that found cancer treatment is better in morning, after sleuths find inconsistencies in data statnews.com/2026/02/20/can… via @statnews

Key study of Grail’s cancer detection test fails in setback for company statnews.com/2026/02/19/gra… via @statnews

Should routine semen analysis become a biomarker of general men’s health? Some men’s health experts say yes, but there’s also skepticism about the idea statnews.com/2026/02/19/sem… via @statnews

I took part in a 2012 psilocybin trial. What I’m seeing now horrifies me: “Despite the marketing hype that puts the drugs themselves at the center of the story, psychedelics are therapeutic accelerants, not panaceas”statnews.com/2026/02/19/psy… via @statnews

NIH Director Bhattacharya to lead CDC after O’Neill’s exit statnews.com/2026/02/18/cdc… via @statnews

The FDA’s Moderna pirouette is one more sign of chaos at the agency statnews.com/2026/02/18/mod…

FDA reverses course, agrees to review Moderna’s flu vaccine statnews.com/2026/02/18/fda… via @statnews

Exit of CDC’s acting director highlights agency’s lack of leader statnews.com/2026/02/15/cdc… via @statnews

Kennedy says he’ll act on legal challenge to ultra-processed foods statnews.com/2026/02/15/ken… via @statnews

The new childhood vaccine guidelines have a paid leave problem statnews.com/2026/02/10/rsv… via @statnews

Students, faculty mystified as NSF turns back applications for prestigious fellowship program statnews.com/2026/02/11/nsf… via @statnews

TrumpRx claims to offer the lowest prices. But many drugs have cheaper generics statnews.com/2026/02/06/tru… via @statnews

Democrats say America’s role as a scientific leader is slipping, while Republicans remain unworried statnews.com/2026/01/15/ame… via @statnews