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Elaine Chen
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reporter @statnews, ✉️ [email protected] | signal: elaineywchen.70
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    Elaine Chen
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    Apr 12, 2024
    Job update: Starting next week, I’ll be moving onto the biotech team at STAT. As a national biotech reporter, I’ll still be covering obesity, diabetes and heart drugs, but also many other drugs and the biopharma industry as a whole. Send ideas, tips to [email protected]
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    Elaine Chen
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    Nov 28, 2022
    Some news: today is my first day @statnews! I'll be developing a new beat as their first cardiovascular reporter, covering all aspects of heart and metabolic conditions (including diabetes and obesity). SO excited to join a newsroom I've long admired
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    Elaine Chen
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    Jan 11, 2021
    Some professional news: after interning in the fall @business, I’m joining as a full time reporter! Today’s my first day. So excited to be back in such an amazing newsroom
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    Elaine Chen
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    Oct 30, 2019
    The entire intersection of Roosevelt and Delano Ct filled with red as @CTULocal1 members and supporters continue to rally
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    Elaine Chen
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    Sep 14, 2020
    I started a new internship with @business, today's my first day reporting on the finance team! I'll be covering banks and other financial services companies. Send ideas and tips to [email protected]
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    Elaine Chen
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    Oct 30, 2019
    The @CTULocal1 rally is now in the intersection of Roosevelt and Delano, cars are parked in the middle of Roosevelt
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    Elaine Chen
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    Nov 28, 2023
    It’s been one year since I joined @statnews! Very grateful to be working in this newsroom with the most supportive colleagues
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    Elaine Chen
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    Jul 26, 2023
    “I’ve been told many times I have all the talent and the whole package, but I’m just ‘not the right person.’” Though Asian American doctors are overrepresented in medicine, they're largely invisible in leadership. via @ushamcfarling
    Asian American doctors, overrepresented in medicine, are largely left out of leadership
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    Elaine Chen
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    Jun 14, 2020
    At virtual grad, one RD called out UChicago: “In Chicago’s dedication to ideas…it is easy to take for granted a hierarchy in which ideas are on top and the community is below existing only for the sake of ideas…but the pandemic has given a shock to this means/end hierarchy.”
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    Elaine Chen
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    Sep 27, 2023
    NEW: A key female chemist has been edged out of the Ozempic origin story. Svetlana Mojsov's experiences expose a disciplinary bias against chemists in favor of MDs and show how narratives of scientific discovery get passed down. From me and @MeganMolteni
    The Ozempic revolution is rooted in the work of Svetlana Mojsov, yet she’s been edged out of the...
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    Elaine Chen
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    Apr 24, 2024
    Novo is discontinuing an insulin after cutting its price, highlighting a key gap in policy efforts: Even if officials get pharma to lower prices, companies can choose to just pull the drug, without guaranteeing someone else continues to make the compound
    Novo Nordisk’s move to discontinue an insulin leaves patients to ‘pick up the pieces’
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    Elaine Chen
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    Mar 5, 2023
    NEW: Blockbuster obesity drugs are changing the narrative on what it means to be diseased, spurring one of the biggest pharma battles ever while raising questions of cost, equity and cultural bias. The first in a new @statnews series, w/ @matthewherper: statnews.com/2023/03/05/wei…
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    Elaine Chen
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    Sep 20, 2019
    “Oceans are rising, so are we,” @climatestrikeil marchers shout louder and louder as their chants echo off the buildings, as they head west on Van Buren
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    Elaine Chen
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    Feb 29, 2024
    Novo is thinking about a "vaccine-like" version of Wegovy, a long-lasting obesity drug taken perhaps annually, the chief scientific officer told me in an interview.
    A ‘vaccine-like’ version of Wegovy is on the drawing board at Novo Nordisk
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