Healthcare, financial, data journalist for Reuters. [email protected]
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Joined April 2009
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Our latest story examines new data showing the rise of adolescents taking Wegovy, GLP1s, for weight-loss. With @chadterhune reuters.com/business/healthc…
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Exclusive: US families begin to embrace weight-loss drugs for their children, data show. My latest w/ @RobinRespaut #obesity #wegovy #pediatrics reuters.com/business/healthc…
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As sales soar for Wegovy and Ozempic, there’s growing debate on how widely these powerful and expensive weight-loss medications should be prescribed and for how long reut.rs/3T1kJFS by @chadterhune @RobinRespaut via @specialreports
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Novo Nordisk, maker of Wegovy and Ozempic, has spent millions of dollars on doctors and obesity experts who exert influence over how weight-loss drugs are dispensed and covered by insurance reut.rs/49YLAbH by @chadterhune @RobinRespaut via @specialreports
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Some top obesity experts are promoting weight-loss drugs for tens of millions of Americans. Some of those same doctors also took large amounts of money from Novo Nordisk, the maker of Wegovy and Ozempic, @Reuters found reut.rs/46UIkeR by @chadterhune @RobinRespaut
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How Novo Nordisk forged financial ties with leading obesity doctors with broad influence over how weight-loss drugs like Wegovy are used. @Reuters investigates reut.rs/3T5uH92 by @chadterhune @RobinRespaut via @specialreports
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My latest story with colleague @RobinRespaut. We dug into the FDA's adverse events database, filed public records requests and interviewed numerous doctors and patients about this potential safety issue #obesity #patientsafety reuters.com/business/healthc…
Our latest story describes the experiences of patients who took the new, popular weight-loss drugs and experienced suicidal thoughts. reut.rs/3ZznuiO with @chadterhune
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Our latest: Merck’s best-selling asthma and allergy medicine, Singulair, has been linked for years to suicides and psychiatric problems, often in children. reuters.com/investigates/spe… w/@FedcourtJunkie @kristinacooke @mike_d_spector
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Nicholas England, a healthy 22-year-old from Virginia, shot himself in the head in 2017 shortly after starting to take an allergy medicine. His parents were blocked from suing drug companies by Supreme Court precedents reut.rs/3CMgi8v
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Congratulations to @RobinRespaut, @chadterhune, @michelleconlin and @jriggers of @Reuters for winning @NIHCM's 2023 General Circulation Journalism Award for their excellent series, "Youth in Transition." Well deserved!
Announcing the winners for the 2023 #NIHCM Awards in Journalism and Research! bit.ly/2023NIHCMAwards
#NIHCMAwardsJournalism #NIHCMAwardsResearch
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ALT 29th Annual NIHCM Award Winners; KFF Health News, NPR, CBS News; Reuters; Science; Onyx Collective, ABC News Studios, Hulu; The American Economic Review
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Announcing the winners for the 2023 #NIHCM Awards in Journalism and Research! bit.ly/2023NIHCMAwards
#NIHCMAwardsJournalism #NIHCMAwardsResearch
@KFFHealthNews @NPR @CBSNews @Reuters @NewsfromScience @aftershockdoc @OnyxCollective @abcnews @hulu @AEAjournals
ALT 29th Annual NIHCM Award Winners; KFF Health News, NPR, CBS News; Reuters; Science; Onyx Collective, ABC News Studios, Hulu; The American Economic Review
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This was farmland in the southern San Joaquin Valley (Kings County, south of Corcoran). #flooding
It’s now more of an ocean – at Hanford, CA
As African kids died, doctors fought for ban on toxic Indian syrup. A haunting special report by @Reuters reuters.com/investigates/spe…
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INSANE conditions on Mt Washington, NH. 120mph+ winds and -95°F wind chill. It is above the tropopause, meaning that these are stratospheric winds.
Footage from the summit live stream 2:30-2:40pm. #nhwx
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My baby's cancer may have returned and my insurance, @Cigna, is refusing to help cover a PET scan so we can find out if it has, and if needed, continue our work to save his life. No qualms about putting my child's life on the line for their bottom line. He is not even 2 years old
Our latest story about why detransitioners are crucial to the science of gender care, with @chadterhune @michelleconlin reuters.com/investigates/spe…
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Demand for care among England’s trans teens is growing. So are obstacles to treatment reuters.com/investigates/spe… with @chadterhune @RobinRespaut
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Adolescents assigned female at birth account for a significant majority of minors receiving gender-affirming care, including top surgery, fueling debate about the influence of peer groups and social media reut.rs/3Gsmdm5 via @specialreports
