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What is Adam doing in Spain? How did doctors react to detailed data on Merck and Moderna’s mRNA cancer vaccine? And what are the next big advances in oncology?

Our colleague Helen Branswell was a renowned infectious disease reporter who earned the respect and admiration of experts and public health officials with her authoritative, prescient reporting on the flu, polio, Ebola and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Longevity medicine is now estimated to be a multitrillion dollar industry. But what are people paying for, and does it work?

On this week’s episode of “The Readout LOUD”: Why have so many Americans lost trust in science? And how have our policy leaders fueled that mistrust? We speak to STAT’s new trust-in-science reporter Nicholas Florko about the impact of Americans’ growing skepticism of science. 

STAT’s Jason Mast joins the podcast from Shanghai, where he’s digging into what the rise of Chinese drug development means for the biotech industry. The hosts also speak to colleague Margaret Manto about Heidi Overton, the president’s pick to be commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. Will the new nominee bring some needed stability…