Eric Boodman

Journalist @statnews. Trad fiddler. Formerly @PittsburghPG @mtlgazette. Always happy to hear your story ideas! [email protected]

[Eric Boodman @EricBoodman]

I wrote about #Fibromyalgia patients, who are often told the pain is all in their head, and the physician framing himself as one of their few true allies.

A story of medical misogyny, contested illness, and the weird world of blood-test entrepreneurship.
https://t.co/tsu8Dlfytt

[Tara Bannow @TaraBannow]

NEW: A Houston-based microhospital operator came close to bankruptcy after the No Surprises Act banned balance billing. Then, less than a year after Nutex Health began using the NSA's arbitration process, revenue tripled and profit grew twelvefold. 1/5

[drklausner @drklausner]

ICYMI https://t.co/fFEP9DKcSN

[Eric Boodman @EricBoodman]

@chngin_the_wrld @drklausner @NCSDDC @ASHPOfficial @UtahDHHS @CAPublicHealth Thanks for bringing this broader issue to my attention in the first place!

[Eric Boodman @EricBoodman]

Without treatment, syphilis in pregnancy can cause miscarriage, stillbirth, or lifelong disability. It's entirely preventable.

Pfizer has an emergency system to get patients penicillin.

But it's so confusing that in April, a baby was born untreated.

https://t.co/O0p1bxfZyR

[Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @HelenBranswell]

Congenital #syphilis is a "never event" in the medical world - shouldn't happen. But the only drug to prevent spread from an infected mother to her baby is in short supply & the system set up to deliver it where it's needed failed, @EricBoodman reports. https://t.co/vLUnTzOyHo

[Daniel Payne @_daniel_payne]

RFK Jr. claimed his calendar, including meeting details, is public.

But those records have not been released by HHS — despite more than a year of FOIA requests from @statnews reporters.

More on the state of transparency at HHS, w/ @ChelseaCirruzzo

https://t.co/qEPtSWZWlI

[Isa Cueto @isabellacueto]

STAT has kept a running list of Kennedy's promises for 9 months now. We just ran a full update on the tracker.

The refresh includes new deets on 10 HHS priorities that have gained traction in recent months, plus what's not moving & much more:

https://t.co/dm1jt9zmTu

[Tara Bannow @TaraBannow]

Since the FDA ordered a nonprofit to stop shipping fecal transplant material in 2024, patients with recurrent C. diff have struggled to find cures.

@EricBoodman documented one mom's long journey to keep her son alive.

https://t.co/48ADcDGU0b via @statnews

[Maya Averbuch @mayaaverbuch]

"He had transmuted the principles of urban planning into SimCity, the existential consumerist ennui of suburbia into The Sims, the branching complexities of evolutionary theory into Spore." The videogame designer has a new obsession. Lovely @EricBoodman! https://t.co/gVXj8vZbdp

[Eric Boodman @EricBoodman]

"I’m beginning to regret having lived so long," Stanley Plotkin, aka "the godfather of vaccines," tells @HelenBranswell in this sobering piece.

https://t.co/EcxLJvPbED

[Lizzie Johnson @lizziejohnsonnn]

I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.

[Rick Berke @rickberke]

Breaking: Private equity firm will finance Harvard research lab, in possible template for future https://t.co/wEQdkB99Dq via @statnews @ADeAngelis_bio

[Eric Boodman @EricBoodman]

Wrote about how fallopian tube removal has been replacing “tube-tying” — and how pathologists first found evidence that the most common form of ovarian cancer often begins in the tube.

https://t.co/hr5d1PVN9Z

[Tara Bannow @TaraBannow]

How could the Trump's admin's cuts to CDC affect Americans' health? @EricBoodman has a striking example.

At least 6 of the authors on CDC's paper on how they pinpointed applesauce as the source of lead poisoning in 566 kids in 2023 have been fired.

https://t.co/XrYQisNZK0

[Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @HelenBranswell]

Lots of talk among the HHS & FDA leadership of potentially fewer people being offered #Covid boosters going forward. CDC’s vaccines advisory panel, ACIP, has been working on a risk-based plan for a while. https://t.co/yzqD3AGSf0

[Eric Boodman @EricBoodman]

A laid-off CDC expert is offering free help to Milwaukee during its lead crisis. “As far as I know, it’s still a free country, and if you want to volunteer your time to help people in need, I don’t think that’s proscribed," he said. HHS isn't so sure.
https://t.co/PX1s54P8VY

[Daniel Payne @_daniel_payne]

Trump proposes billions in cuts to federal health agencies from NIH to CDC

https://t.co/iEvMLlgYCh

[O. Rose Broderick @rosebroderick_]

Adults who suspect they have autism and parents of autistic kids are cancelling diagnostic evaluations after federal officials announced a national autism registry.

https://t.co/fSrju4qDoR

[Eric Boodman @EricBoodman]

"In seeking to help him, did I just paint a giant target on his back?"

Parents of autistic kids are asking clinicians to erase diagnoses out of fear of Trump administration's "autism registry" idea, @rosebroderick_ reports

https://t.co/qVchJ6uwhf