Jessica Glenza
@jessicaglenza.bsky.social
Senior Health Reporter, The Guardian | 2026 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University Signal: @jessicaglenza.12
My latest scoop on Trump cuts: 600 aging Pittsburgh residents may not receive Alzheimer's test results because of NIH cuts. Read here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Hundreds of ageing Americans may not get results of Alzheimer’s study due to Trump cuts
Shutdown of study is latest for Trump administration, which has canceled, frozen and otherwise disrupted more than 5,700 medical research grants over two years
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Congress passed a law to make it easier to track contaminated food through the supply chain. The only problem? That law has been delayed – for 15 years. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
US law to investigate foodborne illness outbreaks has been delayed for 15 years
Law was set to go into effect in January, months before cyclosporiasis outbreak, but now is set for 2028
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My cyclospora coverage cited by @blumenthal.senate.gov in a letter sent about "backroom dealing" between Taylor Farms and Trump White House www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
Blumenthal Presses FDA & Taylor Farms For Answers About Cyclospora Outbreak | U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut
[WASHINGTON, D.C.] — U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Ranking Member of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), today...
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Read this fabulous reporting by my friend @landmansplained.bsky.social about potential cyclospora contamination in a hospital cafeteria (!) landmansplained.com/p/you-don-t-...
You don’t win friends with salad
A retired microbiologist is out-investigating the federal government on a record-breaking outbreak.
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Latest here: Scientists unite against Trump admin proposal to bring $1tn in federal grant-making under political appointees www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘Complete shock and dismay’: scientists unite against Trump’s $1tn grant attack
OMB proposal would upend entire grant-making system – and put vast sums into hands of political appointees
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CDC: Cyclospora outbreak expected to continue through August. Sorry y'all. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Cyclospora outbreaks causing diarrhea in US expected to continue through August
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it is scouring food supply chain for culprit, which may be lettuce
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SCOOP: Amid a Legionnaires' outbreak NYC health officials have already asked 19 Upper East Side buildings to clean their cooling towers, though it won't know for weeks which building might have caused the outbreak. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Legionnaires’ outbreak rocks New York as experts warn of rising climate threat
Officials say climate crisis ‘worsening our exposure’ to bacteria as at least 28 people sickened in Manhattan
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I'm back from leave as a @niemanfoundation.bsky.social fellow and looking forward to reporting for @theguardian.com – Tip line is open! Signal @jessicaglenza.12
Final reminder for our upcoming webinar: How Medical Debt Is Pummeling Americans! Mon., 11/10, 10 am PST. Get tips, insights & ideas from @raelnb.bsky.social & @jessicaglenza.bsky.social on the U.S. medical debt crisis. Register at: bit.ly/MedicalDebtReg
How rural Medicaid recipients will be impacted by Republican's mega bill – listen here @the1a.org @mayagarg.bsky.social the1a.org/segments/the...
The megabill, Medicaid and rural Americans
Congressional Republicans in favor of the law say it targets waste, fraud and abuse in the Medicaid system.
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Supreme court decision in Kennedy v Braidwood Management, Inc. paves the way for more politicized science, experts tell me www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US supreme court ruling sets stage for more politicized science under RFK Jr
Experts call decision that found health secretary has power to convene key panel ‘classic good news, bad news’
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Wow long ACIP hearing. Here's our stories – one on Dr. Michael Ross's withdrawal – and the govt's failure to publish conflict of interest disclosures www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Member of RFK Jr’s new vaccine panel withdraws over conflict of interest
Dr Michael Ross was involved in multiple private healthcare firms and withdrew after a review of financial holdings
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Good puece from @jessicaglenza.bsky.social on the devastating proposed Medicaid and ACA cuts the Senate wants to use to fund its tax cuts that benefit the rich: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Republican senators’ proposed Medicaid cuts threaten to send red states ‘backwards’
Advocates fear Senate’s version of Trump’s budget bill could leave millions without healthcare and boost corporations
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Here’s RFK Jr in June 2023 saying he’s going to blackball any scientist who is on ACIP and block them from ever sitting on a committee again, and from receiving federal funding for 8 years. Today, he fired all 17 experts on that committee, which advises the nation on vaccines.
@kevinh-phd.bsky.social Hi Kevin, I'm a health reporter with the Guardian. I would love to connect for a potential interview. Would you be open to emailing me so we could set something up? jessica dot glenza at theguardian dot com
