Anna Edney

The No Surprises Act was supposed to end surprise medical bills. It succeeded. But the law also accidentally created a system that has enriched medical providers, middlemen and arbitration firms. @sarahkliff

Hormone therapy is making a $6 billion comeback after U.S. health officials nixed safety warnings that kept women from much-needed menopause and perimenopause treatments for two decades

Baby formula recalls rocking companies in Europe and the US have exposed a weakness in an industry that has been increasingly trying to fashion itself as more and more like breast milk: The more sophisticated it tries to be, the harder it is to keep safe bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Thank you @sangerkatz - good memory!

on this week's #WTHealth podcast: @mayagoldman_ , @annaedney, and @SherylNYT on the ACA fight, vaccine policy changes, and rural health funding fight. Plus Linda Blumberg on GOP health plans. kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast/w…

Abbott said it might have to stop selling certain types of its Similac baby formula. That was just the beginning. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

On this week's #WTHealth podcast: @LaurenWeberHP, @annaedney, and @JoanneKenen on the GOP's shifting talking points on the shutdown, RIFs at HHS, and another pharma deal with Trump. Also, @LouiseNorris on Medicare's Open Enrollment: kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast/w…

On this week's #WTHealth podcast: @LaurenWeberHP, @SandhyaWrites, and @annaedney on the latest fight over spending bills, the MAHA report, and tv drug ads going away? We'll see... kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast/w…

Gift link: bloomberg.com/features/2025-…

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

In my @business 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

Important and disturbing story reported by @annaedney @tanaz115 in @business about BioZorb's breast implant device -- another example of the harms sustained by patients under our outdated system for postmarket device surveillance: bloomberg.com/features/2025-…

A small medical device was supposed to transform breast cancer care. The FDA approved it without clinical trials or even proof it would work. Then, when complaints from women tormented by the device began flowing in, they were hidden for years…until now bloomberg.com/features/2025-…

Would you take a medicine made at a factory that was so bad the FDA banned it from shipping drugs here? You might have already. @propublica uncovered how for years the FDA has quietly let these risky drugs into hospitals and medicine cabinets propublica.org/article/fda-dr…

on this week's #WTHealth: @JoanneKenen , @SarahKarlin, and @annaedney on RFK and vaccines, plus unrest at NIH and Doug Holtz-Eakin on how CBO works...kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast/w…

Retweets, replies, comments—having my back out loud means more than you know because predators thrive in silence. cjr.org/feature-2/wesl… 4/5