{"id":64043,"date":"2025-10-09T17:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/64043\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T17:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:13:10","slug":"macarthur-genius-cannabis-psychosis-crispr-morning-rounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/64043\/","title":{"rendered":"MacArthur genius, cannabis psychosis, CRISPR: Morning Rounds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT\u2019s free newsletter Morning Rounds.\u00a0Sign up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A STAT editor spotted somebody yesterday wearing a t-shirt that read: \u201cI \u2764\ufe0f Tylenol.\u201d That sent a few reporters\u00a0down a rabbit hole of vintage drug industry merch. I think my favorite\u00a0was a Lexapro-branded cocktail shaker.\u00a0<\/p>\n

(You can\u2019t buy drug merch anymore, but you CAN buy STAT merch<\/a>. If you were wondering.)<\/p>\n

House speaker backs EMTALA as GOP targets immigrant medical treatment<\/p>\n

House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, said yesterday that Republicans don\u2019t want to change the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act, which requires hospitals to provide care to anyone experiencing a medical emergency, including immigrants without legal status. It\u2019s the latest comment from a Republican in a week focused on undocumented immigrants and medical care.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of the most consistent Republican arguments in the government shutdown debate is that the Democrats\u2019 government-funding bill would spend hundreds of billions of dollars providing \u201cfree health care for illegals.\u201d (Note: Undocumented immigrants are already prohibited from receiving federally funded health insurance, including Medicaid.) Read more<\/a> from STAT\u2019s John Wilkerson on where things stand.<\/p>\n

How the public reacted to Trump\u2019s Tylenol claims<\/p>\n

In the week after President Trump made an unsubstantiated claim<\/a> linking Tylenol (acetaminophen) use during pregnancy to autism, a nationally representative KFF poll<\/a> found that most adults were unsure about about the facts, responding that the claim is either \u201cprobably true\u201d or \u201cprobably false.\u201d By \u201cmost,\u201d I mean 30% thought it was likely true, and another 30% thought it likely false \u2014 which way folks leaned heavily depended on whether they identified as Republican or Democrat. Some more interesting findings:<\/p>\n

Nearly 60% of respondents disapproved of Robert F. Kennedy Jr\u2019s overall performance as health secretary, and 62% disapproved of how he\u2019s handling vaccine policy specifically.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trust in the CDC has continued to decline, but 64% of respondents said they trust information from the AMA, and 69% of parents said they trust AAP.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Seventy percent of parents who responded said they oppose removing vaccine requirements for public schools in their state.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And as a reminder, STAT\u2019s Matt Herper has broken down all the evidence on both Tylenol<\/a> and vaccines<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

More people with psychosis are using cannabis<\/p>\n

In states where cannabis has been legalized, people with psychosis are using the drug more and more, according to a study published yesterday in JAMA Psychiatry. Researchers analyzed data from 1,856 adults with a lifetime history of psychosis from a national longitudinal study run by the FDA and the NIH. They found that cannabis use increased by nearly 10% five years after states legalized recreational marijuana use.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While the vast majority of people who use cannabis do not develop psychosis, many studies show a link between cannabis use and increased risk of developing psychosis at an earlier age and with a worse prognosis. And as STAT\u2019s O. Rose Broderick points out, the proliferation of legal cannabis has outpaced the regulation of relevant products. Read more<\/a> about the research and why it has medical experts worried.<\/p>\n

Report: First gene-edited pig liver transplanted into a living person\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a medical milestone, a research team in China successfully transplanted a CRISPR gene-edited pig liver into a living person. The organ functioned well for a month before having to be removed. The case study<\/a>, published today in the Journal of Hepatology, is both cause for cautious optimism for the resurgent field of xenotransplantation<\/a>, and a reminder of how far the technology still has to travel.<\/p>\n

The patient, a 71-year-old man with a history of liver failure, arrived in a hospital in Anhui Province in May 2024, where doctors discovered a large tumor on his liver threatening to rupture. With few options and little time, he and his family opted for an experimental xenotransplant through a compassionate use program.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Once connected to the patient\u2019s circulatory system, the gene-edited pig liver began to secrete bile and perform other essential functions. But starting around day 31, tests revealed a surge in inflammation and signs of dangerous damage to blood vessels, prompting the emergency removal of the organ. While those injuries were resolved, the patient died three months later from sudden uncontrollable bleeding in his upper GI tract.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sun Beiching, the surgeon who led the work, said\u00a0that the experiment showed xenotransplantation can offer a lifesaving bridge for patients with inoperable liver cancer or untreatable liver failure. His team is now developing a pig with additional genetic modifications, which he hopes will lead to organs that \u201cwill become more compatible.\u201d \u2014 Megan Molteni <\/p>\n

This year\u2019s \u2018geniuses\u2019 are in<\/p>\n

The MacArthur Foundation announced 22 new \u201cgenius\u201d fellows<\/a> yesterday, including an astrophysicist, a composer, a novelist, and many researchers \u2014 including a few who have been featured in STAT\u2019s journalism over the years. Here are a couple notable names:<\/p>\n

Nabarun Dasgupta is an epidemiologist and harm reduction advocate. He first spoke to STAT in late 2021 about the increasing potency<\/a> of naloxone overdose treatments. And he spoke to STAT\u2019s Lev Facher earlier this year about how policymakers should respond to the fact that a sedative called \u201cdex\u201d is replacing \u201ctranq\u201d<\/a> in the illegal drug supply.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jason McLellan, a structural biologist, investigates virus fusion proteins and develops new ways to prevent infectious diseases. He was part of the team that designed the spike protein target that a number of vaccine manufacturers used to make their Covid vaccines. STAT\u2019s Helen Branswell references this accomplishment in her 2022 story<\/a>, \u201cwhy Covid-19 vaccines are a freaking miracle.\u201d<\/p>\n

What we\u2019re reading<\/p>\n

Was Trump always against LGBTQ+ rights? Everything in his past says no, The 19th<\/a><\/p>\n

Parents of children with rare diseases ask: How long until our CRISPR miracle?\u00a0STAT<\/a><\/p>\n

California\u2019s nursing shortage is getting worse. Frontline workers blame management, KFF Health News<\/a><\/p>\n

First Opinion: Pharma\u2019s shift away from infectious disease research could spell disaster for the world\u2019s poorest people, STAT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT\u2019s free newsletter Morning Rounds.\u00a0Sign up here.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,1541,521,85,46],"class_list":["post-64043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}