Lison Joseph
@lisonjoseph.bsky.social
Health and science journalist.
An editor at STAT (@statnews.bsky.social) dealing mostly with technology in health care/medicine/life sciences
An editor at STAT (@statnews.bsky.social) dealing mostly with technology in health care/medicine/life sciences
Despite a tough year for medicine, @matthewherper.bsky.social gives us some good reasons to celebrate, and be hopeful.
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The top medical advances of 2025
It has been a tough year for medicine. But make no mistake: Science didn’t stop, and medicine has had its share of major advances.
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December 31, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Despite a tough year for medicine, @matthewherper.bsky.social gives us some good reasons to celebrate, and be hopeful.
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Rolling back health AI transparency rule will shift the burden of vetting to health systems www.statnews.com/2025/12/23/d... via @statnews.com
Rolling back health AI transparency rule will shift the burden of vetting to health systems
A proposal to deregulate AI products used in health care would shift the burden of vetting those tools onto health systems.
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December 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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How the Trump administration is recasting government’s role in regulating health technology www.statnews.com/2025/12/23/t... via @statnews.com
How the Trump administration is recasting government’s role in regulating health technology
Federal agencies that used to set up guardrails for health technology have transformed into cheerleaders for new risky technologies like AI.
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December 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Trump administration to scrap federal rule requiring transparency into health AI tools www.statnews.com/2025/12/22/h... via @statnews.com
Trump administration to scrap federal rule requiring transparency into health AI tools
The Trump administration wants to scrap rules that require developers to disclose how AI tools used to treat patients were developed and tested.
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December 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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When an NIH scientist began studying a controversial illness, it gave patients with a glimmer of hope. Then came RIFs and spending freezes and too much uncertainty to continue the research.
@ericboodman.bsky.social with the 10th part of American Science, Shattered:
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@ericboodman.bsky.social with the 10th part of American Science, Shattered:
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NIH study was a beacon for the topical steroid withdrawal community. Then, amid federal upheaval, the research stalled
An NIH study was a beacon for the topical steroid withdrawal community. Then, amid federal upheaval, the research stalled.
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December 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
When an NIH scientist began studying a controversial illness, it gave patients with a glimmer of hope. Then came RIFs and spending freezes and too much uncertainty to continue the research.
@ericboodman.bsky.social with the 10th part of American Science, Shattered:
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@ericboodman.bsky.social with the 10th part of American Science, Shattered:
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Anyway check out the full new @statnews.com STATus Report video to learn all about the new CDC hepatitis B vaccine guidance! Feat @danielpayne.bsky.social youtu.be/43QtKjCnO5c
New CDC hepatitis B vaccine guidance, explained
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December 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Anyway check out the full new @statnews.com STATus Report video to learn all about the new CDC hepatitis B vaccine guidance! Feat @danielpayne.bsky.social youtu.be/43QtKjCnO5c
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Earlier this year, I asked more than 90 health AI experts what's on their bingo card for the rest of 2025.
Who gets to say "I told you so" now?
Our look back at what did and didn't happen in 2025:
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Who gets to say "I told you so" now?
Our look back at what did and didn't happen in 2025:
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December 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Earlier this year, I asked more than 90 health AI experts what's on their bingo card for the rest of 2025.
Who gets to say "I told you so" now?
Our look back at what did and didn't happen in 2025:
www.statnews.com/2025/12/17/2...
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Who gets to say "I told you so" now?
Our look back at what did and didn't happen in 2025:
www.statnews.com/2025/12/17/2...
🖥️🩺
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Science is like "glimpsing God's mind": On the last episode of this season of the First Opinion Podcast, I talked to former NIH Director Francis Collins and Fox News' Marc Siegel, author of the new book The Miracles Among Us, about faith, medicine, and science: www.statnews.com/2025/12/17/f...
Francis Collins and Marc Siegel say medicine is a gift from God
“To have Christians be the group that was most resistant” to the Covid vaccine “really seems wrong here,” said former NIH Director Francis Collins.
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December 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Science is like "glimpsing God's mind": On the last episode of this season of the First Opinion Podcast, I talked to former NIH Director Francis Collins and Fox News' Marc Siegel, author of the new book The Miracles Among Us, about faith, medicine, and science: www.statnews.com/2025/12/17/f...
Still early in the process, but clinicians hope the technology can trigger more proactive care to prevent future cancers, heart attacks, and strokes, @katiepalmer.bsky.social reports:
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The AI industry wants to turn the routine mammogram into a powerful multitool
A new generation of AI algorithms aim to go beyond detecting cancers to predicting risk for cardiovascular diseases.
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December 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Still early in the process, but clinicians hope the technology can trigger more proactive care to prevent future cancers, heart attacks, and strokes, @katiepalmer.bsky.social reports:
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NEW: I dug deep into new top drug regulator Tracy Beth Høeg's record at the FDA so far, talked to agency staff, and even found some old and interesting blog posts, to get a sense of how she'll lead the drug center. TLDR, staff are worried. More here:
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FDA staff fear Tracy Beth Høeg will bring bias and instability to embattled drug center
Høeg is set to become the fifth head of the FDA's drug center in a year.
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December 11, 2025 at 11:41 PM
NEW: I dug deep into new top drug regulator Tracy Beth Høeg's record at the FDA so far, talked to agency staff, and even found some old and interesting blog posts, to get a sense of how she'll lead the drug center. TLDR, staff are worried. More here:
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The destruction of the enterprise of US academic science has been one of the most confounding aspects of a hugely confounding year. My @statnews.com colleagues are writing about the consequences for individuals & the country.
You want to read this series.
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You want to read this series.
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American Science, Shattered
An eight-decade partnership between universities and the federal government made U.S. science preeminent. It took Trump less than a year to shred that
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December 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The destruction of the enterprise of US academic science has been one of the most confounding aspects of a hugely confounding year. My @statnews.com colleagues are writing about the consequences for individuals & the country.
You want to read this series.
www.statnews.com/american-sci...
You want to read this series.
www.statnews.com/american-sci...
“I’ll evade, if that’s alright,” said Jim O’Neill, deputy health secretary about Trump's plan to block state AI laws, @mariojoze.bsky.social reports:
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Top HHS official evades discussing Trump plan to block state AI laws
Deputy health secretary Jim O’Neill demurred when asked about a proposal to prevent states from enforcing local AI laws.
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December 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
“I’ll evade, if that’s alright,” said Jim O’Neill, deputy health secretary about Trump's plan to block state AI laws, @mariojoze.bsky.social reports:
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The authorization of Waskyra for Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome reflects the challenges buffeting gene therapies, and how academics and nonprofits are trying to overcome them, Drew Joseph reports:
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In a first, a nonprofit wins FDA approval for rare disease gene therapy
The Food and Drug Administration this week granted approval to a new gene therapy for a rare immune disorder, the maker of which is notably not a drug
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December 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The authorization of Waskyra for Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome reflects the challenges buffeting gene therapies, and how academics and nonprofits are trying to overcome them, Drew Joseph reports:
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Overworked radiologists already struggle to adjudicate abnormalities flagged by the current generation of AI models. That stands to get worse as AI’s capabilities grow. @katiepalmer.bsky.social looks at how radiologists are thinking about that:
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Is AI ready to interpret chest X-rays without human supervision?
In radiology, an early adopter of health AI, a debate is brewing: Should generative AI models interpret medical images on their own?
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December 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Overworked radiologists already struggle to adjudicate abnormalities flagged by the current generation of AI models. That stands to get worse as AI’s capabilities grow. @katiepalmer.bsky.social looks at how radiologists are thinking about that:
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We finally have randomized, controlled clinical trial results from ambient AI scribes. But what do these RCTs actually tell us?
Look at the below chart. Time savings are often low, but doctors give the technology rave reviews, esp in anecdotes that people tend to believe more than data 👀 🧵
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Look at the below chart. Time savings are often low, but doctors give the technology rave reviews, esp in anecdotes that people tend to believe more than data 👀 🧵
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December 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
We finally have randomized, controlled clinical trial results from ambient AI scribes. But what do these RCTs actually tell us?
Look at the below chart. Time savings are often low, but doctors give the technology rave reviews, esp in anecdotes that people tend to believe more than data 👀 🧵
🖥️🩺
Look at the below chart. Time savings are often low, but doctors give the technology rave reviews, esp in anecdotes that people tend to believe more than data 👀 🧵
🖥️🩺
Health care providers started implementing AI scribes to reduce clinician burnout. The assumption was that it'd help cut down the hours docs spend on documenting patient visits. So, has that happened?
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AI scribes may not save a lot of time on clinical notes, but they make clinicians happy
As hospitals study the impact of AI scribes, they are finding that clinicians love the tools, even if they don’t save that much time.
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December 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Health care providers started implementing AI scribes to reduce clinician burnout. The assumption was that it'd help cut down the hours docs spend on documenting patient visits. So, has that happened?
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Top drug regulator Richard Pazdur set to leave the FDA www.statnews.com/2025/12/02/r... via @statnews.com
Top drug regulator Richard Pazdur set to leave the FDA
Top drug regulator Richard Pazdur filed papers to retire from the Food and Drug Administration at the end of this month, but could withdraw them.
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December 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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FDA offers staff ‘agentic AI’ to support pre-market reviews, administrative tasks www.statnews.com/2025/12/01/f... via @statnews.com
FDA offers staff 'agentic AI' to support pre-market reviews, administrative tasks
The FDA is offering staff a broad set of agentic AI tools despite concerns that the technology can behave unpredictably
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December 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Off an $80 million acquisition, Cognita’s CEO on the power of scale in radiology AI www.statnews.com/2025/12/01/c... via @statnews.com
Off an $80 million acquisition, Cognita's CEO on the power of scale in radiology AI
Cognita Imaging CEO Louis Blankemeier on the promise of foundation models in radiology.
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December 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Why first-generation mental health apps cannot ignore next-gen AI chatbots www.statnews.com/2025/12/01/a... via @statnews.com
Why first-generation mental health apps cannot ignore next-gen AI chatbots
Digital health firms like Talkspace, Lyra, SonderMind, and Headspace consider integrating AI chatbot features.
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December 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Mental health chatbot developer Slingshot AI wants the world to believe that its smartphone app, Ash, will do more good than harm. The evidence that the company offers, though, raises more questions than answers, @mariojoze.bsky.social writes:
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Is Slingshot’s mental health chatbot safe? Its first study raises questions about evaluating AI
Slingshot AI publishes new data showing its chatbot Ash is safe, but experts say the study offers little clinical proof.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Mental health chatbot developer Slingshot AI wants the world to believe that its smartphone app, Ash, will do more good than harm. The evidence that the company offers, though, raises more questions than answers, @mariojoze.bsky.social writes:
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CDC moves to end telework for employees, including those with medical needs www.statnews.com/2025/11/21/c... via @statnews.com
CDC moves to end telework for employees, including those with medical needs
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ended full-time telework agreements for reasonable accommodations, employees say.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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How K Health is using tech to help large health systems — Cedars-Sinai, Mayo Clinic, Hackensack Meridian Health, Hartford HealthCare, Mass General Brigham, and Northwell Health — reach more patients, @katiepalmer.bsky.social reports:
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Armed with AI and virtual care, K Health thinks it can make primary care more accessible
Clinical artificial intelligence company K Health is working with large health systems to make primary care more accessible.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
How K Health is using tech to help large health systems — Cedars-Sinai, Mayo Clinic, Hackensack Meridian Health, Hartford HealthCare, Mass General Brigham, and Northwell Health — reach more patients, @katiepalmer.bsky.social reports:
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Tie-ups between telehealth companies and pharmaceutical manufacturers are becoming more consequential as competition for patients seeking GLP-1 medications grows, @katiepalmer.bsky.social reports:
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Novo Nordisk's $199 Ozempic deal shows what telehealth platforms can do for pharma
Novo Nordisk's $199 Ozempic deal shows what telehealth platforms can do for pharma
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November 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Tie-ups between telehealth companies and pharmaceutical manufacturers are becoming more consequential as competition for patients seeking GLP-1 medications grows, @katiepalmer.bsky.social reports:
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A new profile of RFK Jr offers fresh insights into how he works, the bond he shares with Trump, & how he's moved HHS “from evidence-based decision-making to decision-based evidence-making." Story by @chelseacirruzzo.bsky.social, @caseyross.bsky.social, & me:
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How RFK Jr., America's celebrity health secretary, is steamrolling science
RFK Jr. is plowing ahead with sweeping changes to U.S. health care that have thrilled supporters, purged opponents, and horrified critics.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
A new profile of RFK Jr offers fresh insights into how he works, the bond he shares with Trump, & how he's moved HHS “from evidence-based decision-making to decision-based evidence-making." Story by @chelseacirruzzo.bsky.social, @caseyross.bsky.social, & me:
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