Brittany Trang
@brittanytrang.com
Health tech / AI reporter @ STAT News
AAAS MMF '21
PFAS PhD/water nerd
Buckeye/believer/sad indie rock concertgoer
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AAAS MMF '21
PFAS PhD/water nerd
Buckeye/believer/sad indie rock concertgoer
Signal: btrang.01
Read more in the newsletter, and click those links to the fantastic Chemical and Engineering News stories underlying the vanilla and "natural" food dye production facts:
What is a ‘natural’ dye, anyway?
And other health news from today's Morning Rounds newsletter
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February 6, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Read more in the newsletter, and click those links to the fantastic Chemical and Engineering News stories underlying the vanilla and "natural" food dye production facts:
Reminder: Everything is chemicals, no matter if we've decided that it is "natural" or "petroleum-based," and that has no bearing on how "healthy" it is.
(Remember that petroleum is also derived from natural sources! It's from delayed plant and animal matter! Everything is chemicals!)
(Remember that petroleum is also derived from natural sources! It's from delayed plant and animal matter! Everything is chemicals!)
February 6, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Reminder: Everything is chemicals, no matter if we've decided that it is "natural" or "petroleum-based," and that has no bearing on how "healthy" it is.
(Remember that petroleum is also derived from natural sources! It's from delayed plant and animal matter! Everything is chemicals!)
(Remember that petroleum is also derived from natural sources! It's from delayed plant and animal matter! Everything is chemicals!)
Note: Next week will be AI Prognosis' one-year anniversary. You won't want to miss it.
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Brittany Trang's subscriber-exclusive weekly newsletter unpacks the intersection of AI, health, and medicine.
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February 4, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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This is the most important story you haven't read about the Utah AI program.
@mariojoze.bsky.social has more about the law, the uncertainties, and the risks of the experiment, only @statnews.com:
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@mariojoze.bsky.social has more about the law, the uncertainties, and the risks of the experiment, only @statnews.com:
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AI could soon renew prescriptions without clinician help. Should the FDA make sure it's safe?
In a pilot, Utah is testing use of AI for renewing drug prescriptions. Experts ask if it should be regulated as a medical device.
www.statnews.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:41 PM
This is the most important story you haven't read about the Utah AI program.
@mariojoze.bsky.social has more about the law, the uncertainties, and the risks of the experiment, only @statnews.com:
🩺🖥️
@mariojoze.bsky.social has more about the law, the uncertainties, and the risks of the experiment, only @statnews.com:
🩺🖥️
Reposted by Brittany Trang
This is a targeted attack on science media.
Bhattacharya has slammed science media for what he calls biased coverage, but how are our readers — the global scientific community — supposed to understand his new agency priorities if we can't even get in the door?
Bhattacharya has slammed science media for what he calls biased coverage, but how are our readers — the global scientific community — supposed to understand his new agency priorities if we can't even get in the door?
January 30, 2026 at 6:08 PM
This is a targeted attack on science media.
Bhattacharya has slammed science media for what he calls biased coverage, but how are our readers — the global scientific community — supposed to understand his new agency priorities if we can't even get in the door?
Bhattacharya has slammed science media for what he calls biased coverage, but how are our readers — the global scientific community — supposed to understand his new agency priorities if we can't even get in the door?
And before you ask — yes, I report on AI for my job. And yes, I tried asking ChatGPT how to turn this off. It did not know. Who did? The blessed humans on Reddit.
You can read my 100% non-AI-written newsletter on AI in health care/medicine here:
www.statnews.com/category/ai-...
You can read my 100% non-AI-written newsletter on AI in health care/medicine here:
www.statnews.com/category/ai-...
AI Prognosis Archives
AI agents, bursting the AI drug hype bubble, how health and medicine uses artificial intelligence: These are the type of topics in STAT's new AI newsletter.
www.statnews.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:15 PM
And before you ask — yes, I report on AI for my job. And yes, I tried asking ChatGPT how to turn this off. It did not know. Who did? The blessed humans on Reddit.
You can read my 100% non-AI-written newsletter on AI in health care/medicine here:
www.statnews.com/category/ai-...
You can read my 100% non-AI-written newsletter on AI in health care/medicine here:
www.statnews.com/category/ai-...
What is the difference between those two things? I have no idea. But this made the AI summaries go away without nuking my whole inbox, so I'm not questioning it
January 29, 2026 at 6:15 PM
What is the difference between those two things? I have no idea. But this made the AI summaries go away without nuking my whole inbox, so I'm not questioning it
1. Go to the general settings of your Gmail account
2. Leave "Smart features" ON but click on "Manage Workspace smart feature settings"
3. Toggle "Smart features in Google Workspace" OFF
This does turn off "show events from Gmail in Calendar," so you may want to be cautious if you like that feature
2. Leave "Smart features" ON but click on "Manage Workspace smart feature settings"
3. Toggle "Smart features in Google Workspace" OFF
This does turn off "show events from Gmail in Calendar," so you may want to be cautious if you like that feature
January 29, 2026 at 6:15 PM
1. Go to the general settings of your Gmail account
2. Leave "Smart features" ON but click on "Manage Workspace smart feature settings"
3. Toggle "Smart features in Google Workspace" OFF
This does turn off "show events from Gmail in Calendar," so you may want to be cautious if you like that feature
2. Leave "Smart features" ON but click on "Manage Workspace smart feature settings"
3. Toggle "Smart features in Google Workspace" OFF
This does turn off "show events from Gmail in Calendar," so you may want to be cautious if you like that feature
Next up: Modernizing "The beginner’s guide to a career in science writing," which @bribarbu.bsky.social and I wrote 5 years ago and now is littered with dead links.
crosstalk.cell.com/blog/the-beg...
crosstalk.cell.com/blog/the-beg...
The beginner's guide to a career in science writing
Science writers Brittany Trang and Brianna Barbu walk you through the big questions you'll face when beginning your career in science communication.
crosstalk.cell.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Next up: Modernizing "The beginner’s guide to a career in science writing," which @bribarbu.bsky.social and I wrote 5 years ago and now is littered with dead links.
crosstalk.cell.com/blog/the-beg...
crosstalk.cell.com/blog/the-beg...
At the @sciencewriters.org conference in Nov, I met so many budding science writers who wanted to know what to do next and wished I had better resources to give them. This list isn't exhaustive, but I hope that writing down the knowledge I've internalized over the years helps others.
January 29, 2026 at 12:48 AM
At the @sciencewriters.org conference in Nov, I met so many budding science writers who wanted to know what to do next and wished I had better resources to give them. This list isn't exhaustive, but I hope that writing down the knowledge I've internalized over the years helps others.