Below, GSK CEO Emma Walmsley meets Baby KJ, the child who was treated with CRISPR gene editing by researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

It was one of the biggest moment from #STATSummit. You can read about that moment and more here: www.statnews.com/2025/10/24/p...

This morning I spoke with @billgates.bsky.social about his foundation's $2.5 billion commitment to women's health -- and the U.S. governments withdrawal from research.

"We're just not able to replace what the U.S. government has canceled," Gates said -- though where they can, they will.

This Life cover, from 1914, imagines how people would dress in 1950.

They were only off by 75 years!!! This couple wouldn’t get a second glance in Williamsburg.

Except people also wear the 1914 outfits.

So it's Memorial Day, dusk. And this is perhaps not my normal post, but I've been thinking about this fractured country and reading poems.

STAT wins National Magazine Award for General Excellence!!!

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For almost two decades, I covered health for Forbes. In 2011, I wrote a cover story on Bill Gates, focusing not on Microsoft but on his philanthropy surrounding vaccines. Here is how we described GAVI, the vaccine alliance he helped create.

For my birthday I got to see @michaelstipe.bsky.social sing “Pretty Persuasion” with the Shannon/ @jasonnarducy.bsky.social band and it sounded incredible.

Far from all wrong, it was all right. And too cool a moment to remember to take a picture. Thank you, guys. What a show.

So I asked President Carter if I could see his prepared remarks. He handed me that sheet of paper, written on hotel stationary.

Later , I'd get to meet him briefly, and spend some time with Rosalynn, when I did a fellowship on mental health at the Carter Center. 6/8

In 1987 Merck's CEO, Roy Vagelos, came to visit Carter with an offer.

Merck's Mectizan (ivermectin) could treat river blindness, a serious parasitic condition. If Carter could get the drug where it needed to be, Merck would donate it. Here's a picture of the two of them. 2

I shared this story about Jimmy Carter on X last year. I'd like to put it here, too.

It starts with a reporter's keepsake.

These are the notes President Carter handed me after I met him at a $MRK event to celebrate the company's collaboration with the Carter Center to end river blindness. 1/8

I am getting DTC ads for Zolgensma. It seems like an odd drug to market DTC, given that it is a lifesaving medicine for a very rare disease.

Also why me? Do parents of kids with SMA play online Scrabble?

(I assume they are targeting doctors, whose search histories aee similar to mine.)

STAT's Ed Silverman has written an amazing piece today about the push and pull between having high regulatory standards and making sure patients have what they need.

And this photo makes it even more heart-rending.

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