Daniel Payne @_daniel_payne
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Days before Trump deadline to lower prices, companies push a flurry of initiatives. Will it be enough? w/ @elaineywchen statnews.com/2025/09/26/pha…
Days before a Trump-set drug pricing deadline, the president threatens a 100% tariff on drugmakers — unless they build in the U.S. statnews.com/2025/09/25/tru…
This story shouldn’t get lost in the rush of health policy news this week: Hospitals get dinged for reporting too many infections. In some cases, the solution is not to test Via @TaraBannow statnews.com/2025/09/22/hos…
President Trump's comments on vaccines signal how RFK Jr.'s influence within the White House has grown — and raises new questions about the lengths the two will go to upend vaccine policy. W/ @_daniel_payne statnews.com/2025/09/23/tru…
New: For a brief time, it seemed like RFK Jr.'s criticism of Covid vaccines could spell trouble for him with the White House. Instead, he appears to retain as much political influence as ever. Via @ChelseaCirruzzo @_daniel_payne statnews.com/2025/09/23/tru…
Where Trump's anti-vaccine comments came from, what they mean for RFK Jr. — and how it could shape federal health policy w/ @ChelseaCirruzzo statnews.com/2025/09/23/tru…
RFK Jr. is moving rapidly to reshape vaccine policy, and Trump's remarks raise questions about how far the two may go. trib.al/jdcyDAd
Sharp new reporting on Kennedy’s growing influence on Trump statnews.com/2025/09/23/tru… via @statnews @ChelseaCirruzzo @_daniel_payne
Trump, questioning vaccine safety, pushes major changes to how kids get shots trib.al/b5P58Tu
What President Trump said today about vaccines could send shockwaves through the country for a very long time. Story from @_daniel_payne @AnilOza16 @ChelseaCirruzzo statnews.com/2025/09/22/tru…
Trump pushes sweeping changes to how kids get vaccines, despite longstanding evidence statnews.com/2025/09/22/tru…
A very unusual move at the FDA as the Trump administration unveils its "Autism Action Plan" statnews.com/2025/09/22/fda…
Breaking: FDA brings back GSK’s leucovorin drug that RFK Jr. touted as autism treatment statnews.com/2025/09/22/fda… via @statnews @DrewQJoseph @_daniel_payne
New: Cassidy invites RFK Jr. to testify before Senate health panel statnews.com/2025/09/18/cas…
The key takeaways from an important Senate hearing today, w/ @isabellacueto statnews.com/2025/09/17/mon…
Monarez's meeting with Kennedy has come up again and again at this hearing. Context from our earlier reporting: statnews.com/2025/09/16/cdc…
On the one hand, these purported comments by an HHS secretary about CDC staff are astonishing. On the other, they echo much of what RFK Jr. has said publicly in the past. Via @_daniel_payne @isabellacueto statnews.com/2025/09/17/mon…
BREAKING: Ousted CDC director says Kennedy plans to change pediatric vaccine schedule statnews.com/2025/09/17/cdc…
BREAKING: The CDC is temporarily ending remote work. The decision leaves scores of employees in the lurch, even forcing people with disabilities with high-support needs to come into the office. statnews.com/2025/09/16/cdc…
Sen. Cassidy enters STAT reporting into the record for the hearing about the tumult and vaccine policy changes at the CDC Our reporting from earlier this month: statnews.com/2025/09/03/ken…

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