Christina Jewett
@By_CJewett
New York Times investigative reporter covering the Food & Drug Administration. +boy mom, prodigal skier & nature lover // Tips? DM for Signal.
NEW: F.D.A. asked a company to stop shipping a drug to some patients today after the deaths of two teens and a 51-year-old patient with muscle diseases. The company refused. nytimes.com/2025/07/18/hea…
A singular achievement in reporting and storytelling: The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-imm… by @propublica and partners
Breaking News: The EPA said it would eliminate its scientific research arm and begin firing hundreds of scientists, after denying that it intended to do so. nyti.ms/4500xIU
How to Find the Right Medical Rehab Services Specialized hospitals, nursing homes, clinics and home health agencies provide rehab therapy. Insurers may limit the services you can get. nytimes.com/2025/07/15/hea…
For-profit medical rehab hospitals provide most inpatient physical therapy but tend to have worse readmission rates to general hospitals. Medicare doesn’t tell consumers about troubling inspections. nytimes.com/2025/07/15/hea…
A very big study from Denmark generates some reassuring findings about aluminum in childhood vaccines, finding no association between aluminum and development of a number of illnesses, including asthma. statnews.com/2025/07/14/alu…
A day after the Texas floods, FEMA laid off hundreds of call-center workers. Then, records show, the agency did not answer thousands of calls to its disaster assistance line.
When Secretary Kennedy fired the former members of #ACIP, he said it was needed to restore confidence in the committee. His dept promised to release conflict of interest forms for the new ACIP members he chose. Hasn't happened, @isabellacueto reports. statnews.com/2025/07/09/ken…
More construction workers die by suicide than die by work-related injuries. A little known federal agency was leading research and programs to address the crisis. Now, most of its staff has been cut. My latest for @kffhealthnews & @cbsnews kffhealthnews.org/news/article/c…
Exclusive: I spoke with 15 employees at the FDA to get a sense of how the agency is functioning since the April 1 layoffs. They described tanking morale and an intensifying staff exodus. Read more here: statnews.com/2025/07/07/fda…
"Kansans created Food for Peace, for 70 years a font of rural income and pride. Now at least one grain broker is trying to sell grain that once fed the world as dog food." GIFT: nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/…
On the Moderna approval, Dr. Prasad filed a “center director override memo,” a document signed on rare instances when top officials substitute their decisions over the findings of staff experts. Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for the Health and Human Services Department, disputed the…
Great reporting out of West Virginia - by great student journalists - about where opioid settlement money is going in a state that's long been considered the epicenter of the opioid and overdose crisis.
As millions in opioid settlement funds reach West Virginia, counties are making high-stakes choices about how to spend them. 'The Price of Recovery' series explores the tension between political priorities, financial pressures and community needs. buff.ly/h8MWTLj
Though the West Texas #measles outbreak has slowed down, the nationwide number of confirmed cases this year is still climbing. The number of recorded cases in the first 6 months of 2025 is close — 8 shy — to surpassing the 2019 total to become the highest yearly tally since…
NEW: The FDA's new top vaccine official overrode the decision of staff on the approval of two new Covid vaccines. Staff signed off on Moderna & Novavax approvals for all 12+. @VPrasadMDMPH cited "known and unknown" risks and changed it to 65+ and under 65 w/medical condition.…
Huge cuts to research funding by the current US administration can seem abstract. It's why it's so important to tell people where the rubber is hitting the road — what is being lost in this seemingly indiscriminate slashing. Concrete examples here. statnews.com/2025/06/30/har…
Trump and Musk talked about waste in humanitarian aid--and I found it. In a warehouse in West Africa, I found millions of doses of valuable American medicines meant to prevent river blindness and other ailments. But Trump canceled distribution, so now they're just gathering…