Anna Edney
@annaedney.bsky.social
National health care reporter, Bloomberg News. Opinions are my own.
Six years and almost $1 billion in taxpayer dollars later, there still isn't a company that can produce a 100% American-made medical glove.
Almost $1 Billion Later, the US Still Can’t Make a Medical Glove
The failure of a program to produce 100% American nitrile gloves shows the difficulty of reviving US manufacturing
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When you think you're getting skincare from a great brand but it's actually made in an industrial park in Louisiana, near a National Tire Wholesale and a Safelite AutoGlass... and it's contaminated with high levels of cancer-causing benzene to boot www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Popular Acne Creams Far Exceeded Limits on Cancer-Causing Benzene Levels
The amount of benzene was up to 15 times accepted limits, topping levels in other personal-care items, previously unreleased test results show.
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Does MAHA have as much political clout as its leaders claim? We're about to find out in Louisiana, where the movement isn't making a big financial impact or putting health and environmental issues front and center in the high-stakes Senate primary. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
Set on ousting Cassidy, MAHA faces first midterms test
Movement leaders' efforts to sway the midterms, starting with defeating Sen. Bill Cassidy, will help determine whether MAHA outlasts Trump
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Hormone therapy is making a $6 billion comeback after U.S. health officials nixed safety warnings that kept women from much-needed menopause and perimenopause treatments for two decades
The National Cancer Institute, the federal research agency charged with leading the war against the nation’s second-largest killer, is studying ivermectin as a potential cancer treatment, according to its top official. New from me @kffhealthnews.org kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
US Cancer Institute Studying Ivermectin’s ‘Ability To Kill Cancer Cells’ - KFF Health News
At a January event organized by allies of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., National Cancer Institute Director Anthony Letai said results may be released “in a few months.” Ivermectin, used to d...
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On this week's #WTHealth podcast: HHS gets funded, but will RFK Jr. follow Congress's priorities or his own? Plus ACA negotiations break down, again. With @annaedney.bsky.social, @sandhyawrites.bsky.social, and @joannekenen.bsky.social. kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast...
HHS Gets Funding, But How Will Trump Spend It? - KFF Health News
Congress has passed — and President Trump has signed — the annual spending bill for the Department of Health and Human Services. But it’s unclear whether the administration will spend the money as Con...
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US health officials plan to test infant formula ingredients used in a wide variety of brands to see whether contamination that causes botulism is a greater risk than previously thought, Kyle Diamantas, FDA's deputy commissioner for human foods, told me www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US Will Test Infant Formula to See If Botulism Is a Wider Risk
US health officials plan to test certain dairy-based ingredients used in a wide variety of baby formulas for spores that can cause infant botulism, in the wake of the ByHeart recall last year that was...
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High-profile baby formula recalls rocking companies in Europe and the US have exposed a weakness in an industry that has been increasingly trying to fashion itself as more and more like breast milk: The more sophisticated it becomes, the harder it is to keep safe www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Babies Are Getting Sick From Formula That Mimics Mother’s Milk
A widening recall shows that as the infant food gets more nutritionally complex, the systems designed to keep it safe are struggling to keep pace.
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Exclusive with @annaedney.bsky.social ! Four democratic senators sent a letter to RFK Jr. demanding answers for his changes to vaccine court and outlining ways he and his allies have the potential to benefit. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Senators Bash RFK Jr. on Changes to Vaccine Injury Committee
Four Senate Democrats are pushing US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to detail his plans for revamping how the federal government compensates people who are harmed by vaccine...
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Scoop with @jessicanix.bsky.social Health officials found spores that can cause infant botulism at a supplier for formula-maker ByHeart as part of their investigation into an outbreak that sickened dozens of babies, according to a document viewed by Bloomberg. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Infant Botulism Linked to ByHeart Formula Ingredient Supplier
Health officials found spores that can cause infant botulism at a supplier for formula-maker ByHeart Inc. as part of their investigation into an outbreak that sickened dozens of babies in the US, acco...
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our first #WTHealth podcast of 2026 now up! @alicemiranda.bsky.social, @laurenweberhp.bsky.social and @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social join me to break down the latest on the ACA fight, changes to the vaccine schedule and food pyramid, and more. kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast...
New Year, Same Health Fight - KFF Health News
Congress returned from its break facing a familiar question: whether to extend the expanded subsidies for Affordable Care Act health plans that expired at the end of 2025. Meanwhile, HHS Secretary Rob...
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"While children in California, which does not allow for nonmedical vaccine exemptions, are vaccinated against measles at 96 percent, there is not a single county in Idaho, Louisiana, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah or Wisconsin whose kindergarten rates meet herd immunity protection."
Caitlin Gilbert@caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 7mo agoEXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43
Target & Walmart received warnings from the FDA after regulators found recalled ByHeart formula on store shelves. Target even had ByHeart formula on sale for $2 off more than a week after all of the formula was recalled for being linked to a baby botulism outbreak www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Target, Walmart Get FDA Warning for Selling Recalled Baby Formula
Target Corp., Walmart Inc. and other large grocery chains were warned by US regulators for continuing to offer ByHeart infant formula for sale that’s been recalled because it’s potentially contaminate...
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Abbott said it might have to stop selling certain types of its Similac baby formula. That was just the beginning. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Abbott Fired a Warning Shot on Baby Formula — Then Launched a Lobbying Blitz
Litigation that could cost the company billions has it on the offensive — and asking for the government to intervene.
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An outbreak of infant botulism linked to ByHeart’s baby formula is much wider than initially thought, potentially dating back two years www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
ByHeart Botulism Outbreak Expands to Cases From 2023, CDC Says
An outbreak of infant botulism linked to ByHeart’s baby formula is much wider than initially thought, potentially dating back two years, US health agencies said Wednesday.
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California is investigating 6 cases if infant botulism that occurred before the current outbreak linked to ByHeart The CA Dept of Public Health told me it first tested a can of ByHeart in the spring. It didn't find contamination but it can be hard to detect www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
California Probing Baby Botulism Cases Prior to Current Outbreak
The California Department of Public Health is investigating six additional cases of botulism in the state in infants who were given ByHeart formula before the start of the current outbreak in August, ...
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If China can restrict rare earth minerals, can it also restrict our drug supply? It's hard to predict but the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission reports today that the consequences could mean lost lives and rationed care in the US. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
China’s Grip on American Medicine Cabinets Grows More Entrenched
A US congressional commission is ringing alarm bells about China’s growing dominance over America’s drug supply, saying it is putting the country’s health in the hands of an adversarial nation.
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ByHeart is recalling all of its infant formula after 15 babies who drank it came down with botulism. ByHeart is a very small company and this shouldn't create shortages but it certainly is scary for parents www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
ByHeart Infant Formula Recall Expands After 15 Babies Sickened
US regulators are urging parents to stop using all ByHeart infant formula products after more than a dozen babies became seriously ill, setting off a recall of all the company’s products.
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Just in time for the holidays "Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners." (Scoop from @ikeswetlitz.bsky.social ) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Walgreens Cuts Pay for Hourly Store Workers After $10 Billion Buyout
Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners.
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Great story from Rebecca Robbins highlighting how the generic drug industry is left behind in Trump's proclamations about bringing pharmaceutical manufacturing back to the US www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/h...
This Closed Factory Shows How Hard Reviving Drug Manufacturing Will Be
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new #WTHealth up! @laurenweberhp.bsky.social, @annaedney.bsky.social, @joannekenen.bsky.social and I on shutdown latest, another Rx deal for Trump, and layoffs at HHS. Plus @louisenorris.bsky.social on Medicare Open Enrollment for 2026. kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast...
Schrödinger’s Government Shutdown - KFF Health News
Democrats and Republicans remain stalled over funding the federal government as Republicans launch a new attack on the Affordable Care Act. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is taking advantage of t...
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The administration's new immigrant visa rules are set to hit hospitals in 3 states hardest. All 3 voted for Trump. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Trump's new $100K visa fee could pummel red state hospitals
Rural areas that overwhelmingly voted for the president employ a high concentration of doctors on H-1B visas.
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Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts www.popsci.com/environment/...
Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts
Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.
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New: inside Trump’s “very important” autism announcement for Monday — new warnings on tylenol’s risk for pregnant women — new endorsement of leucovorin’s potential as autism treatment — new NIH data science initiatives underway
Trump administration set to tie Tylenol to autism risk, officials say
The Trump administration plans to tie Tylenol to autism risk while touting another drug, leucovorin, as a potential autism treatment.
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SCOOP: Trump health officials plan to link covid vaccines to the deaths of 25 children as they consider limiting which Americans should get the shots, per sources. W @rachelroubein.bsky.social @ddiamond.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Trump officials to link child deaths to covid shots, alarming career scientists
The move to link coronavirus vaccines to 25 child deaths alarms career scientists who say the shots have been extensively studied.
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SCOOP: The CDC intends to fund a study on the links between vaccines and autism, a disproven theory. More here for @bloomberg.com : www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
CDC Intends to Fund Investigation Into Vaccines and Autism
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention intends to fund a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute study examining links between vaccines and autism — a widely debunked theory that Health and Human ...
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new #WTHealth podcast up! Join me, @annaedney.bsky.social, @sandhyawrites.bsky.social, and @laurenweberhp.bsky.social to discuss the latest health budget news, the MAHA report, and banning drug ads on TV? kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast...
Countdown to Government Shutdown - KFF Health News
With less than three weeks before the deadline to pass legislation to keep the federal government running, lawmakers are still far apart on a strategy. Democrats hope Republicans will agree to extend ...
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Seems like some celebrity chefs would rather sacrifice everyone's health than learn to cook differently (or lose revenue on the environmentally harmful crap they sell). Manufacturing with forever chemicals is widely harmful to so many communities. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/c...
States Want to Ban ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Cookware. These Chefs Say Don’t Do It.
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My daughter (5 years old) yesterday: "It's great we have newspapers now and don't have to get news off our phones." I've been making a point to read the physical paper at breakfast since she was tiny so she sees it and internalizes it. Subscribe, the kids notice!
This is an impressive list @statnews.com -- full of impactful journalism worth revisiting www.statnews.com/2025/09/09/s...
10 times STAT coverage reverberated through health and medicine
In its first decade, STAT has led the way in charting seismic events in health and medicine. To mark our 10-year anniversary, take a look back at 10 of our most impactful stories.
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