
Caitlin Gilbert
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NEW: Desmond Butler Caitlin Gilbert and I dove deep into the financial ties between Dr. Oz's media business and companies whose fortunes he would have a hand in influencing if confirmed as Trump's pick to run Medicare First up? Weight-loss drugs washingtonpost.com/health/2024/12…


Breaking: AG Paxton has filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit targeting a New York based abortion provider he says mailed abortion pills into Texas. This tees up a legal challenge to the shield laws, which protect blue state abortion providers from prosecution.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/…


NEW: RFK Jr. has repeatedly disparaged vaccines, falsely linked them to autism and argued that White and Black people should have separate vaccination schedules, Caitlin Gilbert and I found for The Washington Post Listen to the HHS nominee's comments: washingtonpost.com/health/2025/01…

At RFK Jr.'s second Senate hearing today, Senator Angela Alsobrooks read the below quote, which was surfaced by our The Washington Post examination of Kennedy's past remarks. She's the third senator to reference statements from the story by Caitlin Gilbert & me. Read it here:

RFK Jr. has repeatedly claimed that vaccines are not tested rigorously enough and has called for an alternative type of testing that medical experts say would be unethical, according to Caitlin Gilbert and my The Washington Post review of his statements washingtonpost.com/health/2025/02…

Oz would lead an agency that could directly influence how much money hospitals - & companies like ZorroRX that he co-founded - make from the federal drug pricing program, entangling him in a potential conflict of interest My latest w/ Caitlin Gilbert washingtonpost.com/health/2025/03…

Proud to announce that my brilliant colleagues Caitlin Gilbert, Jacqueline Alemany and I won 1st place in the Katherine Schneider Journalism Contest for Excellence in Reporting on Disability. It was for our 3-part series on disabled workers & subminimum wage. cronkite.asu.edu/news/2025/ncdj…




Want to know what's in the MAHA Report? We're covering over The Washington Post Fenit Nirappil Caitlin Gilbert Amudalat Ajasa Walk through the Trump admin internal tensions and scientific contradictions, as well as landmark statements on food here: washingtonpost.com/health/2025/05…

The White House has unveiled its 'diagnosis' for Americans' poor health -- but not its prescription. By Lauren Weber Fenit Nirappil Caitlin Gilbert and Amudalat Ajasa #MAHA washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

Some of the citations that underpin the science in the “MAHA Report” appear to have been generated using artificial intelligence, resulting in garbled scientific references and invented studies, AI experts told me & Caitlin Gilbert for The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/health/2025/05…

NEW: The Washington Post reviewed the more than 500 citations in the WH #MAHA Report. Here are the patterns of AI use we found. By Caitlin Gilbert Emily Wright margaret kelliher and Lauren Weber Edited by Lenny Bernstein Joe Moore Gaby Morera Di Nubila (and me) washingtonpost.com/health/2025/05…

Latest in a string of stories you can read only/first from the The Washington Post: The federal government is paying more than 154,000 people not to work right now, under the Trump admin's resignation program w/ Meryl Kornfield Laura Meckler wapo.st/3IRXIlK