Mario Aguilar

@mariojoze

Reporter covering tech and health care @statnews. Previously at many other fine publications. Subscribe to my twice weekly health tech newsletter!

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Joined March 2009

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Tara Bannow@TaraBannow · Jun 6

Whenever I'm feeling low, I remind myself that at least I'm not that guy who committed Medicare fraud and emailed his co-conspirators: “WOWIE!!!!! HOW DO WE GET SOME MORE OF THAT???!!!!!!!” statnews.com/2022/06/01/doj… Anyway, happy Friday.

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Mario Aguilar@mariojoze · Jul 23

Apple and Elevance’s asthma study shows wearables can help improve health for lower-income people, too statnews.com/2025/07/23/app… via @statnews

mariojoze's tweet card. Study participants effectively managed their asthma with a smartphone app that used data from Apple Watch.

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Mario Aguilar@mariojoze · Jul 22

Slingshot AI, the a16z-backed mental health startup, launches a therapy chatbot statnews.com/2025/07/22/sli… via @statnews

mariojoze's tweet card. New AI chatbot called Ash is different, Slingshot founders say, because its training model is based on real therapeutic conversations.

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Jason Mast@Jasonmmast · Jul 18

Peter Marks, the FDA official who overruled his own staff to approve Sarepta's Duchenne gene therapy, told STAT he agreed with the decision to pause shipments after recent deaths. “It does seem like it makes a fair amount of sense to get a better handle on the issues before…

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Mario Aguilar@mariojoze · Jul 16

CMS proposes more remote patient monitoring coverage without heeding warnings about abuse statnews.com/2025/07/16/cms… via @statnews

mariojoze's tweet card. Remote patient monitoring companies see a win in Medicare's plan to expand coverage, and the absence of any proposed guardrails.

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Mario Aguilar@mariojoze · Jul 11

Thanks for all you do, @SusieWiles.

RRapid Response 47@RapidResponse47 · Jul 9

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on President Trump's cabinet: "It is an amazing group of people that he put together ... There is not one who I would say is not a complete success in what they're doing."

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Mario Aguilar@mariojoze · Jul 3

A GPT-powered medical device certified in Europe raises questions about generative AI in health care statnews.com/2025/07/03/ai-… via @statnews

mariojoze's tweet card. Generative AI chatbot for doctors called 'Prof. Valmed' earns E.U. approval. In the U.S., FDA is yet to issue guidelines on the technology's use in medicine.

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David Shaywitz@DShaywitz · Jul 3

Super interesting @statnews from @mariojoze about fate of @WoebotHealth (in area w huge promise IMHO) which recently shut down. statnews.com/2025/07/02/woe… Mgmt: less-than-agile FDA unable to deal with tech. At least as significant: struggle of rules-based-tech in genAI world.

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John Torous, MD MBI@JohnTorousMD · Jul 2

.@mariojoze breaks down the recent news and history around the Woebot mental health chatbot and what happens when FDA regulation, generative AI, market forces, and science converge. Out today in STAT news with quotes from me and others: statnews.com/2025/07/02/woe…

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Mario Aguilar@mariojoze · Jul 2

I wrote about what happened to Woebot, an early therapy chatbot that shut down this week. The company came up before ChatGPT made talking to bots normal. But adding the tech to Woebot would've been very difficult on an already challenging FDA path. statnews.com/2025/07/02/woe…

mariojoze's tweet card. Woebot's demise was hastened by the new wave of conversational AI that the mental health bot foreshadowed.

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Mario Aguilar@mariojoze · Jul 1

Senate passes Trump’s tax-cut bill that would slash Medicaid spending statnews.com/2025/07/01/sen… via @statnews

mariojoze's tweet card. The Senate has passed a $4.5 trillion tax cut bill after last-minute changes to its health care provisions, as Republicans scrambled to get their party on board.

Mario Aguilar@mariojoze · Jun 30

Many medical devices deemed ‘breakthrough’ by FDA are backed by patchy evidence statnews.com/2025/06/30/are… via @statnews

mariojoze's tweet card. The FDA's breakthrough devices program helps the industry with faster review times, but the benefit to patients is unclear.

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Mario Aguilar@mariojoze · Jun 25

DeepMind launches AlphaGenome, aiming to predict gene regulation from DNA sequence statnews.com/2025/06/25/goo… via @statnews

mariojoze's tweet card. Google's DeepMind launches AlphaGenome, an artificial intelligence model that predicts gene expression from DNA sequence.

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Morgan Cheatham, MD@morgancheatham · Jun 25

thank you to @mariojoze of @statnews for the thoughtful coverage of our work! statnews.com/2025/06/24/bre…

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Mario Aguilar@mariojoze · Jun 24

Why this health tech investor thinks AI could bring the ‘learning health system’ to life statnews.com/2025/06/24/bre… via @statnews

mariojoze's tweet card. Morgan Cheatham, the new head of health care and life sciences at Breyer Capital, on his investment strategy.

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Mario Aguilar@mariojoze · Jun 23

Novo Nordisk ends deal with Hims due to compounding concerns with obesity drugs statnews.com/2025/06/23/nov… via @statnews

mariojoze's tweet card. Novo Nordisk is ending a deal with telehealth company Hims & Hers, saying Monday that Hims has been engaging in “illegal mass compounding” of GLP-1 obesity treatments and “deceptive marketing.”

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Mario Aguilar@mariojoze · Jun 11

Coalition for Health AI will help Joint Commission write responsible AI ‘playbooks’ statnews.com/2025/06/10/exc… via @statnews

mariojoze's tweet card. The playbooks are designed to create a roadmap and offer guidance for more than 80% of U.S. health care organizations and programs.

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Mario Aguilar@mariojoze · Jun 10

23andMe leaders grilled on genetic data risks by federal lawmakers statnews.com/2025/06/10/23a…

mariojoze's tweet card. The future of the genetic data owned by 23andMe is uncertain as the company undergoes a court-supervised sale.

Mario Aguilar@mariojoze · Jun 9

!!! Health secretary RFK Jr. abruptly fires CDC vaccine advisory panel statnews.com/2025/06/09/rfk… via @statnews

mariojoze's tweet card. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken the extraordinary step of firing the expert panel that advises the CDC.

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Mario Aguilar@mariojoze · Jun 6

As Omada goes public, executives reflect on why profits are elusive in digital health statnews.com/2025/06/06/oma… via @statnews

mariojoze's tweet card. Omada Health, a 14-year-old digital health company supporting chronic disease patients, has yet to generate profits.

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