Gideon Gil

@GideonGil

Managing editor @statnews (http://statnews.com); former @bostonglobe health & science editor; @ahcj veep and board member; Mastodon: @[email protected]

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Joined May 2011

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Gideon Gil@GideonGil · 9 h

Kentucky’s campaign to improve rural cancer care is a national model. Federal cuts threaten its progress statnews.com/2025/07/23/can… via @statnews

GideonGil's tweet card. Improvements in rural cancer care in Kentucky could be imperiled by President Trump's tax and domestic policy bill.

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Gideon Gil@GideonGil · Jul 22

Exclusive: Sarepta Therapeutics’ Duchenne therapy faces ‘arduous’ path back to market, senior FDA official says statnews.com/2025/07/22/fda… via @statnews

GideonGil's tweet card. Sarepta Therapeutics faces an "arduous path” to try to get its gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy back onto the market, a senior FDA official told STAT.

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Gideon Gil@GideonGil · Jul 18

“A search for absolute safety guarantees will come up short. That luxury is not afforded to our club — and never will be,” write two mothers of Duchenne patients statnews.com/2025/07/18/sar… via @statnews

GideonGil's tweet card. Despite the risks of gene therapy, “we chose the risk of action over reticence,” write two Duchenne mothers.

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Gideon Gil@GideonGil · Jul 18

What the GOP’s cuts to public broadcasting have to do with health care policy statnews.com/2025/07/18/res… via @statnews

GideonGil's tweet card. The partisan move to claw back funds could undermine bipartisan policymaking in health care.

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Gideon Gil@GideonGil · Jul 18

Patient dies in Sarepta gene therapy trial, adding to safety concerns statnews.com/2025/07/18/sar… via @statnews

GideonGil's tweet card. A 51-year-old man died last month after receiving an experimental treatment from Sarepta, the third death this year tied to the company's gene therapies

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Gideon Gil@GideonGil · Jul 15

I worked for 20 years for the HHS office that safeguarded people in research studies. DOGE gutted it statnews.com/2025/07/15/off… via @statnews

GideonGil's tweet card. With fewer human research protection program staff in research institutions, mistakes will be made, and no one might be there to fix them.

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Gideon Gil@GideonGil · Jul 15

Vacant positions created by new HHS contract reviews blamed for delaying patient care at Indian Health Service: hospitals forced to reduce surgeries, deliveries, and imaging services statnews.com/2025/07/15/ind… via @statnews

GideonGil's tweet card. Numerous service and staffing cuts at IHS facilities nationally have been caused by a new HHS contract review process, according to IHS workers and emails.

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Gideon Gil@GideonGil · Jul 15

The FDA commissioner is a gifted talker — but the job is about more than that statnews.com/2025/07/14/fda… via @statnews

GideonGil's tweet card. FDA Commissioner Marty Makary's vision for the agency risks the best of an agency that mostly has functioned well for the sake of an uncertain payoff.

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Gideon Gil@GideonGil · Jul 11

FDA rejects Capricor’s cell therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy statnews.com/2025/07/11/fda… via @statnews

GideonGil's tweet card. The FDA rejected a Duchenne muscular dystrophy cell therapy from Capricor Therapeutics, as a larger study of the treatment continues.

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Gideon Gil@GideonGil · Jul 11

Scoop from @JonathanWosen - Academic groups finalize counterproposal to NIH research overhead cuts statnews.com/2025/07/10/aca… via @statnews

GideonGil's tweet card. Ten groups representing universities, medical centers, and others have wrapped up an alternative to the Trump administration's plan to cut billions of dollars in research overhead payments.

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Gideon Gil@GideonGil · Jul 8

Inside the staff exodus and tanking morale that threaten Makary’s FDA statnews.com/2025/07/07/fda… via @statnews

GideonGil's tweet card. FDA staff are struggling and missing deadlines, and the future consequences could be even more dire.

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Gideon Gil@GideonGil · Jul 6

Exclusive: HHS devises legal playbook for future grant terminations, internal memo shows statnews.com/2025/07/06/hhs… via @statnews

GideonGil's tweet card. Exclusive: HHS devises a legal playbook for future research grant terminations, an internal memo shows.

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Gideon Gil@GideonGil · Jul 3

Defenders of Medicaid cuts are misunderstanding a study I worked on statnews.com/2025/07/03/ore… via @statnews

GideonGil's tweet card. Defenders of Medicaid cuts point to the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment to argue that the cuts won’t harm people’s health. But they misunderstand the results, writes one of the study’s authors.

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Gideon Gil@GideonGil · Jul 3

Terminated NIH grants are being reinstated almost entirely in blue states statnews.com/2025/07/03/nih… via @statnews

GideonGil's tweet card. Researchers in Democratic congressional districts stand to have $2.1 billion in NIH grants reinstated, compared to $62 million in Republican districts.

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Gideon Gil@GideonGil · Jul 3

Dr. Oz tries to seal the deal on Trump’s tax-cut bill statnews.com/2025/07/02/dr-… via @statnews

GideonGil's tweet card. Dr. Oz reassured lawmakers wary of deep health care cuts in Trump's tax bill.

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Gideon Gil@GideonGil · Jun 26

To tackle race in clinical guidelines, researchers seek alternatives to federal dollars statnews.com/2025/06/26/tac… via @statnews

GideonGil's tweet card. As federal grants to study the use of race in clinical algorithms dry up researchers are looking for other funding sources.

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Gideon Gil@GideonGil · Jun 26

In Eric Green’s first public comments about being the first institute director forced out of NIH, he says he still hasn’t been told why but suspects the White House was involved in decision to “decapitate a leader” statnews.com/2025/06/26/nih… via @statnews

GideonGil's tweet card. Eric Green said the process leading to his ouster as a NIH institute director by the Trump administration remains "shrouded in mystery"

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Jason Ukman@JasonUkman · Jun 25

News: The American Academy of Pediatrics says it will no longer take part in the process of ACIP meetings. “We won’t lend our name or our expertise to a system that is being politicized at the expense of children’s health,” the group's president says. statnews.com/2025/06/25/cdc…

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Gideon Gil@GideonGil · Jun 26

Generic cancer drugs used around the world fail quality tests, investigation shows statnews.com/2025/06/25/gen… via @statnews

GideonGil's tweet card. Vital chemotherapy drugs used around the world have failed quality tests, putting cancer patients in more than 100 countries at risk

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Gideon Gil@GideonGil · Jun 24

Cassidy calls to delay meeting of CDC’s vaccine panel in challenge to RFK Jr. statnews.com/2025/06/23/bil… via @statnews

GideonGil's tweet card. A key GOP senator is calling for the CDC's vaccine meeting to be postponed after RFK Jr. shook up the panel.

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