Rick Berke

@rickberke

Co-founder & executive editor, STAT @statnews. Longtime reporter, editor @nytimes

Boston, MA

Joined July 2011

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STAT@statnews · Jul 3

Have you seen who is on the 2025 #STATUSList? 50 influential people shaping the future of health and life sciences across biotech, medicine, health care, policy, and health tech. Meet the list members who work in academia. 🧵 Part 2. statnews.com/status-list/20…

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Rick Berke@rickberke · Jul 22

Breaking: In surprise reversal, Sarepta Therapeutics says it will pause shipments of Duchenne gene therapy statnews.com/2025/07/21/sar… via @statnews @adamfeuerstein @Jasonmmast

rickberke's tweet card. Sarepta Pharmaceuticals will halt all shipments of Elevidy, its gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients, by Tuesday evening.

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Rick Berke@rickberke · Jul 21

.@matthewherper weighs in on the crisis over Sarepta’s Duchenne therapy. He says it’s a mess. statnews.com/2025/07/21/sar… via @statnews

rickberke's tweet card. The crisis over Sarepta Therapeutics' Duchenne therapy offers a valuable lesson: Listening to critics, and responding with data, is the surest path forward.

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Rick Berke@rickberke · Jul 21

Breaking: FDA taps biotech veteran George Tidmarsh to lead drug center statnews.com/2025/07/21/geo…

rickberke's tweet card. The FDA named George Tidmarsh, who has led a number of biotech companies, to be its top drug regulator.

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Rick Berke@rickberke · Jul 21

An inside look at how University of Minnesota president grapples with massive cuts in federal funding By @JonathanWosen statnews.com/2025/07/21/uni… via @statnews @UMNews

rickberke's tweet card. University of Minnesota president Rebecca Cunningham is drawing on her experience as an emergency physician in this tumultuous time for academia.

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Rick Berke@rickberke · Jul 18

We are mothers of Duchenne patients. Recent setbacks with Sarepta must not stop progress statnews.com/2025/07/18/sar… via @statnews

rickberke'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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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦@HelenBranswell · Jul 15

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…

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Rick Berke@rickberke · Jul 14

.@ChelseaCirruzzo skillfully catalogues the growing influence of vaccine skeptics inside HHS statnews.com/2025/07/14/ant… via @statnews

rickberke's tweet card. The growing influence of vaccine critics inside RFK Jr.'s health department is alarming public health experts.

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Rick Berke@rickberke · Jul 14

Decades of perspective from @LarryTye: 25 years ago, I reported on horrifying hospital errors. Here’s what’s changed since then — and what hasn’t statnews.com/2025/07/14/med… via @statnews

rickberke's tweet card. Twenty-five years ago, Larry Tye reported on hospital errors for the Boston Globe. His recent wrist surgery showed just how much things have changed since then.

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Rick Berke@rickberke · Jul 6

SCOOP: HHS devises legal playbook for future grant terminations, internal memo shows statnews.com/2025/07/06/hhs… via @statnews @AnilOza16

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

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Rick Berke@rickberke · Jul 4

Forceful essay by @mtosterholm: The U.S. government is failing on vaccine policy. The Vaccine Integrity Project is here to help statnews.com/2025/07/03/vac… via @statnews

rickberke's tweet card. The Vaccine Integrity Project will convene experts to assess the evidence on influenza, RSV, and Covid-19 to equip clinicians with reliable, evidence-based information.

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Rick Berke@rickberke · Jul 4

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SSTAT@statnews · Jul 2

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Rick Berke@rickberke · Jul 4

Before you grill, watch this.

SSTAT@statnews · Jul 4

An oldie but a goodie. Is grilling meat bad for your health? trib.al/VKe5zuS

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Rick Berke@rickberke · Jul 3

How the tax-cut bill that’s headed to Trump’s desk would upend health care statnews.com/2025/07/03/tru… via @statnews

rickberke's tweet card. Trump's tax cut bill makes major changes to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act.

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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

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Rick Berke@rickberke · Jul 3

Counter intuitive? Terminated NIH grants are being reinstated almost entirely in blue states statnews.com/2025/07/03/nih… via @statnews @AnilOza16

rickberke'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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Rick Berke@rickberke · Jul 2

My fav part is the touches here from the “Batman” TV show: Who is the Senate parliamentarian, and why do they matter for Medicaid? statnews.com/2025/07/02/tru… via @statnews @HoganAlex

rickberke's tweet card. Who is the Senate parliamentarian, and why do they matter for Medicaid? Watch this week’s episode of a new video series from STAT to find out.

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Rick Berke@rickberke · Jul 2

Why Woebot, a pioneering therapy chatbot, shut down statnews.com/2025/07/02/woe… via @statnews @mariojoze

rickberke'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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Rick Berke@rickberke · Jul 2

Deep, deep reverberations: How the tax-cut bill that just passed the Senate would upend health care statnews.com/2025/07/02/tru… via @statnews @_daniel_payne @ChelseaCirruzzo @john_wilkerson

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Zachary Tracer@ZTracer · Jul 1

The Senate narrowly passed Trump's tax cut bill, which would slash federal health spending and sharply reduce the number of Americans with insurance: statnews.com/2025/07/01/sen… on to the House...

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