Kristina Fiore
@kristinafiore.bsky.social
I lead enterprise & investigative journalism at MedPage Today. Have a story? Get in touch. Signal: KristinaMedPage.64
The odd Federal Register notice caught my eye. Emergency use of medical countermeasures for the military? Some digging turned up a sole-source contract for a novel form of ketamine: www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
Health, Defense Secretaries Pave Way for Ketamine Drug
Emergency declaration sets up pathway for sublingual ketamine to treat pain in service members
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Thanks to Bob Crawford for having me on when he guest-hosted The Michael Smerconish Show! Bob told me he's an avid reader of @medpagetoday.com, and he wanted to talk about my story on CDC's Voyager program. Check out the episode here: sxm-publish-clips.content-ingest.siriusxm.com/clip/54c05ba...
Kristina Fiore with Bob Crawford
Guest Host Bob Crawford speaks with Kristina Fiore, Director of Enterprise & Investigative Reporting at MedPage Today, about the 'Transformation' Project underway at the CDC. The Michael Smerconish Pr...
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As CDC reels from several outbreaks and staffing cuts, leadership announced the CDC Voyager program aimed at "transforming" the agency. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
'Transformation' Project Underway at CDC
Employees question what 'CDC Voyager' project will mean for agency's future
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The CDC has shaken up leadership of its Ebola response team after a Rolling Stone article that cited internal emails & meeting notes around a controversial decision to detain Americans coming back from DRC: www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
Leadership Shakeup at CDC's Ebola Response Team
Move follows suspicions about media leaks regarding 'wild misuse' of CDC powers
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MedPage Today: Stop 'Harassment' of Fauci, Scientists Urge Politicians — Open letter signed by 155 physicians, scientists ahead of Congressional testimony ▶️ bit.ly/4c2kDX1 by Kristina Fiore @kristinafiore.bsky.social @medpagetoday.com
"I was not expecting [AHRQ funding] to ever come back, but I guess there was always some glimmer of hope that the money that had been appropriated would come through." www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
HHS Agency Cuts Dozens of Grants
In many cases, funding had stalled months ago
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You've heard of Cyclospora, now here are the other parasites you can catch from food. Yes, of course we mention brain worms! www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
You've Heard of Cyclospora. What Other Parasites Can You Catch From Food?
Experts describe some of the most common protozoa and worms
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It's likely that only 2 OMB employees are plowing through nearly 500K comments.
CherClarHealth@cherclarhealth.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe OMB's draconian proposed rule that would politicize all grantmaking Oct. 1 - has prompted a deluge of opposition, with 500,000 comments on regulations.gov. Yet only two people are assigned the task to review. Lawsuits to come? www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
Good story by @kristinafiore.bsky.social on expensive multifocal lenses for cataract surgery - with reminders that they’re not for everyone. www.medpagetoday.com/ophthalmolog...
Eye Specialists Flag Concerns About Pricey Lenses in Cataract Surgery
Multifocal lenses are not for everyone, experts say
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Patients having cataract surgery are often offered an "upgrade" to multifocal lenses, often at an out-of-pocket cost of $5,000 per eye. But they're not right for everyone, and some can end up very unhappy with the results. www.medpagetoday.com/ophthalmolog...
Eye Specialists Flag Concerns About Pricey Lenses in Cataract Surgery
Multifocal lenses are not for everyone, experts say
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CDC director's nomination hearing in front of Senate HELP is scheduled for next Wednesday, July 15: www.help.senate.gov/hearings/nom...
Nominations of Sean Kaufman to be Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response for the Department of Health and Human Services and Erica Schwartz to be Director of the Centers for Disease Control...
Nomination Hearing on July 15, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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Among the CDC emails released last week, I found threads with William Thompson very interesting. This is a CDC scientist who felt so empowered by the HHS Secretary that he made demands of agency leadership and criticized their work, sometimes looping in RFK Jr.: www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
Emails Reveal How RFK Jr. Empowered a Lone CDC Scientist
William Thompson made demands of and criticized CDC leadership
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EXCLUSIVE: Eli Lilly gave compassionate use access to retatrutide, their unapproved powerful obesity drug, to a 79-year-old man in April. The application was arranged by a top doctor at NIH, and cleared by the FDA. www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/e...
Eli Lilly gave extraordinary obesity drug access to a 79-year-old patient. Who was it?
Exclusive: STAT has learned that Eli Lilly and the FDA allowed a 79-year-old to gain extraordinary access to an experimental obesity drug through the agency’s “compassionate use” program.
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Leaders Resign From ADA After Experts Booted From Meeting via @kristinafiore.bsky.social @medpagetoday.com www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
Leaders Resign From ADA After Experts Booted From Meeting
Resignations included the organization's president-elect and scientific sessions chair
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MedPage Today -- Video: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA Meeting by Kristina Fiore @kristinafiore.bsky.social censorship is real bit.ly/43Q684d
Video: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA Meeting
Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions
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MedPage Today: Hantavirus Cruise Passengers Being Surveilled at Home Around the Clock Experts have said the constant surveillance exceeds typical public health protocols. by Kristina Fiore @kristinafiore.bsky.social @medpagetoday.com ▶️ bit.ly/4vsb7Uq
MedPage Today: FDA's Analysis of Child Deaths After COVID Shot Released by Senator by Kristina Fiore @kristinafiore.bsky.social @medpagetoday.com Ron Johnson bit.ly/4nEo4rL
FDA's Analysis of Child Deaths After COVID Shot Released by Senator
Review was not exactly as described by former FDA leadership
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We wanted to know if everyone is accounted for and what they’re actually doing Here’s what we found out. With @medpagetoday.com open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Where are the Americans exposed to Andes hantavirus? And what are they doing?
Here's what we know...
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The CDC isn't making this information readily available, so we're putting it together. Here's how many people who may have been exposed to hantavirus are being monitored, and which states they're in: www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
These States Are Watching for Potential Hantavirus Cases
Several Americans are already being monitored at home
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Hantavirus update. Still not a five alarm fire, but an escalation. Story broken in @medpagetoday.com by Kristina Fiore. I contributed reporting. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo... insidemedicine.substack.com/p/medpage-to... www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
Some Hantavirus Cruise Passengers Are Back in the U.S.
26 passengers disembarked the ship at St. Helena on April 24
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SCOOP: Americans were among people potentially exposed to hantavirus who disembarked the MV Hondius at St. Helena in April. At least 7 are back in the U.S., sources tell me. The extent of surveillance/monitoring isn't clear: www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
Some Hantavirus Cruise Passengers Are Back in the U.S.
26 passengers disembarked the ship at St. Helena on April 24
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Andes virus, a hantavirus that has been shown to transmit person-to-person, may be involved in the outbreak aboard the MV Hondius: www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
Hantavirus That Can Spread Between Humans May Be Involved in Cruise Ship Outbreak
The culprit may be Andes virus, a type of hantavirus that causes cardiopulmonary syndrome
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RFK Jr. and the CDC’s top official, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, don’t want you to read this. Paper shows that 2025-2026 Covid-19 vaccines were effective. They censored it. That’s exactly why we need to read it. So, we published it in Inside Medicine! Take a look... open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Exclusive: Here's the Covid-19 vaccine paper the CDC censored.
RFK Jr. and the CDC’s top official, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, don’t want you to read this. That’s exactly why you should.
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4,049 people gone from NIH compared to 2024, an 18% loss in staff. www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
Here's How Many Jobs HHS Has Lost Since RFK Jr. Took Over
See the totals from NIH, FDA, CDC, and CMS, too
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Here's how many jobs HHS and its key subagencies lost since RFK Jr. took the helm, according to OPM's own data: www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
Here's How Many Jobs HHS Has Lost Since RFK Jr. Took Over
See the totals from NIH, FDA, CDC, and CMS, too
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BREAKING: The controversial hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau has been *cancelled,* I can now report. A senior official with Africa CDC confirmed the cancellation and said GB officials are working to make sure any research is conducted ethically: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Controversial US study on hepatitis B vaccines in Africa is cancelled
$1.6m project drew outrage over ethical questions about withholding vaccines proven to prevent disease
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Are those #TaylorSwift Eras Tour “joy blackouts” normal? Here’s what psychiatrists told us. ⬇️ @kristinafiore.bsky.social @drjessigold.bsky.social www.medpagetoday.com/popmedicine/...
Taylor Swift Fans' 'Joy Blackouts' Are Completely Normal
Highly emotional experiences can mess with memory formation, experts say
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