Healthcare, financial, data journalist for Reuters. robin.respaut@reuters.com
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15 Feb 2024
Our latest story examines new data showing the rise of adolescents taking Wegovy, GLP1s, for weight-loss. With @chadterhune reuters.com/business/healthc…
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15 Feb 2024
Exclusive: US families begin to embrace weight-loss drugs for their children, data show. My latest w/ @RobinRespaut #obesity #wegovy #pediatrics reuters.com/business/healthc…
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As sales soar for Wegovy and Ozempic, there’s growing debate on how widely these powerful and expensive weight-loss medications should be prescribed and for how long reut.rs/3T1kJFS by @chadterhune @RobinRespaut via @specialreports
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Novo Nordisk, maker of Wegovy and Ozempic, has spent millions of dollars on doctors and obesity experts who exert influence over how weight-loss drugs are dispensed and covered by insurance reut.rs/49YLAbH by @chadterhune @RobinRespaut via @specialreports
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Some top obesity experts are promoting weight-loss drugs for tens of millions of Americans. Some of those same doctors also took large amounts of money from Novo Nordisk, the maker of Wegovy and Ozempic, @Reuters found reut.rs/46UIkeR by @chadterhune @RobinRespaut
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How Novo Nordisk forged financial ties with leading obesity doctors with broad influence over how weight-loss drugs like Wegovy are used. @Reuters investigates reut.rs/3T5uH92 by @chadterhune @RobinRespaut via @specialreports
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28 Sep 2023
My latest story with colleague @RobinRespaut. We dug into the FDA's adverse events database, filed public records requests and interviewed numerous doctors and patients about this potential safety issue #obesity #patientsafety reuters.com/business/healthc…
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28 Sep 2023
Our latest story describes the experiences of patients who took the new, popular weight-loss drugs and experienced suicidal thoughts. reut.rs/3ZznuiO with @chadterhune
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21 Sep 2023
Are you an early career Indian photographer?
@Reuters has launched the Danish Siddiqui Photojournalism Internship in memory of our late colleague who continues to inspire us all.
This year-long, paid internship, will be based in Delhi.
Join our team: bit.ly/45MIu81
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28 Jun 2023
Our latest: Merck’s best-selling asthma and allergy medicine, Singulair, has been linked for years to suicides and psychiatric problems, often in children. reuters.com/investigates/spe… w/@FedcourtJunkie @kristinacooke @mike_d_spector
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Nicholas England, a healthy 22-year-old from Virginia, shot himself in the head in 2017 shortly after starting to take an allergy medicine. His parents were blocked from suing drug companies by Supreme Court precedents reut.rs/3CMgi8v
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19 Apr 2023
Congratulations to @RobinRespaut, @chadterhune, @michelleconlin and @jriggers of @Reuters for winning @NIHCM's 2023 General Circulation Journalism Award for their excellent series, "Youth in Transition." Well deserved!
19 Apr 2023
Announcing the winners for the 2023 #NIHCM Awards in Journalism and Research! bit.ly/2023NIHCMAwards
#NIHCMAwardsJournalism #NIHCMAwardsResearch
@KFFHealthNews @NPR @CBSNews @Reuters @NewsfromScience @aftershockdoc @OnyxCollective @abcnews @hulu @AEAjournals
ALT 29th Annual NIHCM Award Winners; KFF Health News, NPR, CBS News; Reuters; Science; Onyx Collective, ABC News Studios, Hulu; The American Economic Review
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19 Apr 2023
Announcing the winners for the 2023 #NIHCM Awards in Journalism and Research! bit.ly/2023NIHCMAwards
#NIHCMAwardsJournalism #NIHCMAwardsResearch
@KFFHealthNews @NPR @CBSNews @Reuters @NewsfromScience @aftershockdoc @OnyxCollective @abcnews @hulu @AEAjournals
ALT 29th Annual NIHCM Award Winners; KFF Health News, NPR, CBS News; Reuters; Science; Onyx Collective, ABC News Studios, Hulu; The American Economic Review
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22 Mar 2023
This was farmland in the southern San Joaquin Valley (Kings County, south of Corcoran). #flooding
It’s now more of an ocean
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10 Mar 2023
As African kids died, doctors fought for ban on toxic Indian syrup. A haunting special report by @Reuters reuters.com/investigates/spe…
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3 Feb 2023
INSANE conditions on Mt Washington, NH. 120mph winds and -95°F wind chill. It is above the tropopause, meaning that these are stratospheric winds.
Footage from the summit live stream 2:30-2:40pm. #nhwx
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19 Jan 2023
My baby's cancer may have returned and my insurance, @Cigna, is refusing to help cover a PET scan so we can find out if it has, and if needed, continue our work to save his life. No qualms about putting my child's life on the line for their bottom line. He is not even 2 years old
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22 Dec 2022
Our latest story about why detransitioners are crucial to the science of gender care, with @chadterhune @michelleconlin reuters.com/investigates/spe…
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15 Dec 2022
Demand for care among England’s trans teens is growing. So are obstacles to treatment reuters.com/investigates/spe… with @chadterhune @RobinRespaut
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18 Nov 2022
Adolescents assigned female at birth account for a significant majority of minors receiving gender-affirming care, including top surgery, fueling debate about the influence of peer groups and social media reut.rs/3Gsmdm5 via @specialreports
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