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🫶 Journalist Katie Couric talked to Axios' Erica Pandey about losing loved ones to cancer, including her late husband Jay Monahan, who died in 1998. Through those experiences, she felt more informed when she got her own early-stage breast cancer diagnosis in 2022.
She urged women to find out if they have "dense breasts" and explore which screenings beyond mammograms — including ultrasounds or MRIs — can best detect abnormalities, which can be like "looking for a snowball" in a snowfield.
💼 Oscar Health CEO Mark Bertolini talked to Axios' Tina Reed about conveying his priorities under the Trump administration: "You don't use certain words, like DEI, bad word ... I sit on the Verizon board, I chair their finance committee, our DEI effort is alive and well, it's just not called that anymore."
🩺 Dr. Anthony Sandler of Children's National Hospital told Axios' Alison Snyder that he is hopeful about the promise of personalized medicine. "I think we'll get smarter" about it, but the challenge will be creating a business model around it.
👀 Calley Means, a former health influencer turned White House adviser, told Axios' Maya Goldman that there is "a war on the American public having transparency" about their health and their treatment.
💊 Zocdoc CEO Oliver Kharraz told Axios' Tina Reed that the next stage of technology in medicine could incorporate "superhuman" augmentative artificial intelligence.
🧮 Rep. Greg Murphy told Axios' Victoria Knight the one word he would pick to describe the GOP health care agenda in the Trump administration so far is "accountability."
🏛️ Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wi.) slammed RFK's testimony before Congress earlier Wednesday in an interview with Axios' Peter Sullivan. She said it was "deeply troubling" that he was confirmed for his position.
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