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title: "Boycott Targets American Diabetes Association After Editors Withdraw from Diabetes Care Review"
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# Boycott Targets American Diabetes Association After Editors Withdraw from Diabetes Care Review
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- **Published At:** 2026-09-11T11:43:20.000Z
- **Evidence Rating:** Verified Feed
## Executive GIST (TL;DR)
- STAT Morning Rounds summarises multiple health and policy developments reported Sept. 11, 2026, including a member-led boycott of the **American Diabetes Association** (ADA) that involves editors of its flagship journal. - Four editors of the ADA journal **Diabetes Care** — Steven Kahn, Cheryl Anderson, John Buse, and Elizabeth Selvin — will stop reviewing manuscripts as part of a boycott over the ADA’s handling of the removal of members from a June meeting. - The editors were among members who were ousted from an ADA conference center in New Orleans after distributing an editorial about federal research funding cuts; the expulsions and ADA leadership’s immediate response prompted the boycott and a summer-long review. - An ADA spokesperson said the organization is aware of the boycott and remains focused on its mission to serve people with diabetes. - The newsletter covers additional items: President Trump’s $500 refund checks to some Affordable Care Act enrollees in federal marketplace states, with unclear eligibility and legal questions. - The FDA granted a de novo classification to an algorithm by Powerful Medical called **Queen of Hearts**, designed to detect patterns of the most severe heart attack (ST-elevation myocardial infarction) on EKGs to help triage patients with chest pain. - A Science study found that platinum-based chemotherapy given to children with hepatoblastoma caused hundreds of mutations in exposed liver tissue, effectively aging the cells and raising concerns about long-term cancer risk and monitoring. - An outbreak investigation in eastern Ireland linked community-acquired **MRSA** infections among children to time spent in bouncy castles at a community party; about four dozen children developed skin lesions and some had systemic symptoms, with four hospitalizations and full recoveries. - The round-up lists related reading links and notes the STAT team authors and their beats. Details such as legal interpretations of the ACA payments and some eligibility specifics were not reported in full in the source.
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While I was too young to have many recollections of the attack, I did grow up in New York and vividly remember the impact it had on the people around me. So, I always take the time each year to reflect. Advertisement Today, we’ve published a [_First Opinion essay_](https://www.statnews.com/2026/09/11/sept-11-25th-anniversary-ground-zero-exposure-cancer-moment-of-silence/) by a thoracic surgeon in New York City who treats first responders still facing extraordinary health challenges after being exposed to the toxic aftermath of ground zero. I hope you spend time with it, too. ## Trump’s $500 Obamacare promise President Trump has promised to send $500 refund checks to nearly 1 million Americans on Affordable Care Act plans, who also happen to live mostly in swing states, with checks arriving ahead of the midterms. The checks will only go out to people who don’t receive federal subsidies for their insurance plans — after Republicans declined to extend enhanced ACA premiums that expired at the end of last year. Advertisement The White House said the money will help “Americans most exposed to the higher costs imposed by the Biden administration’s gross mismanagement of Obamacare.” People are eligible for the $500 if they live in one of the [_30 states_](https://www.kff.org/state-health-policy-data/state-indicator/medicaid-and-health-insurance-marketplace-coordination/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D) that use the federal government’s ACA marketplace, such as Ohio and Florida. It’s unclear whether only people with current coverage qualify, or whether people who had plans in the past may also get checks. My colleagues Bob Herman and Tara Bannow have [_more on the unclear legality_](https://www.statnews.com/2026/09/10/trump-affordable-care-act-refund-checks-who-is-eligible/) of the move. ## Can AI catch a heart attack? The FDA thinks so A number of artificial intelligence algorithms have promised to help identify and treat heart conditions early, but how about when a patient is actively having a heart attack? Last week, the Food and Drug Administration issued a rare [_de novo classification_](https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfpmn/denovo.cfm?id=DEN250044) to an algorithm from Powerful Medical that aims to help triage patients to the right care when they’re having chest pain. The vast majority of AI devices go to market through the FDA’s 510(k) clearance pathway; fewer than 10 each year receive de novo classification, which typically requires more clinical evidence. **Here’s how the new algorithm, Queen of Hearts, works:** It can detect patterns indicating a patient is experiencing the most severe kind of heart attack, when a coronary artery, which supplies blood to the heart, is completely blocked off. In doing so, it can help doctors make sure a patient gets treatment as soon as possible to open up the blockage and restore oxygen to the heart. My colleague Katie Palmer [_has more on what it means for patients and doctors_](https://www.statnews.com/2026/09/11/fda-new-ekg-heart-attack-detection-algo-queen-of-hearts/) if we can more quickly detect these ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction patterns with an EKG. ## A valuable childhood cancer treatment with long-term implications A platinum-based treatment for children with certain cancers can be a lifeline, but it can also cause healthy cells to mutate, potentially increasing the risk of new cancers later in life, my colleague Annalisa Merelli reports. That’s according to a new study [_published Thursday in Science_](http://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady0339), seeking a clearer understanding of the long-term impact of platinum agents in children treated for hepatoblastoma, a rare cancer of the liver that is most commonly diagnosed in childhood. Advertisement The study looked at children who had received platinum therapy followed by surgery to remove the tumor. Researchers sampled both healthy and cancerous liver tissue and blood from the patients and compared the results to samples from children given different treatments. What they found were hundreds of mutations in the samples exposed to platinum, usually found in adult livers. In other words, platinum aged the liver cells of treated children, making them look more like adult liver cells. [_Read on_](https://www.statnews.com/2026/09/10/childhood-chemotherapy-cisplatin-carboplatin-new-study-liver-impact/) for what this means for long-term monitoring and treatment. ## Sorry to burst your (bouncy castle) bubble What kid doesn’t love getting to carom around in a bouncy castle? But the inflated structures could be the source of skin infections, an investigation into a large outbreak of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus — more commonly known as MRSA — in eastern Ireland reveals. About four dozen children who attended a community party in August 2025 later developed skin and soft tissue lesions and abscesses caused by the bacterium, Irish public health officials reported Thursday in the[ online journal Eurosurveillance](https://www.eurosurveillance.org/docserver/fulltext/eurosurveillance/31/36/eurosurv-31-36-4.pdf?expires=1789051345&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=5D520EA25F0871866E3E5E7B17A03C84). The event, attended by about 120 adults and children, featured three bouncy castles. Many of the kids reportedly spent considerable time — hours, even — playing in them. About a quarter of the cases had symptoms beyond skin lesions, such as fever, nausea, or vomiting. Four of the infected kids were admitted to the hospital, though all recovered. One of the infected children hadn’t attended the party but had close contact with a child who had. The MRSA outbreak is the largest on record in Ireland. — _Helen Branswell_ ## Boycott launched against Diabetes Association includes journal In the latest escalation of members protesting how the American Diabetes Association has [handled the removal of members](https://www.statnews.com/2026/06/09/american-diabetes-association-uproar-over-expulsion-of-members/) from its June meeting, four editors of the ADA’s flagship journal will no longer review manuscript submissions. Their move is part of a [boycott announced Thursday](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7503719378425659392/) against the professional organization. Steven Kahn, the editor-in-chief of [Diabetes Care](https://diabetesjournals.org/care), is one of the five members who were ousted from the conference center in New Orleans for handing out copies of an [editorial](https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article/49/6/901/164764/Misguided-Brushes-of-a-Pen-Continue-to-Dismantle) published in the journal about federal cuts to research funding. The other editors are Cheryl Anderson of UC San Diego, John Buse of the University of North Carolina, and Elizabeth Selvin of Johns Hopkins. At issue are the expulsions, the immediate response by ADA leadership, and the summer-long review of what happened. Advertisement “We are aware of the efforts taking place,” an ADA spokesperson said. “We remain focused on serving the millions of people counting on us to deliver on our mission.” Kahn told STAT their actions are effectively “a strike against a major corporation.” “Except we’re seeing this now as a boycott by members of a nonprofit organization, where the leadership of the organization is operating like a corporate board, rather than leadership of a membership organization, and the membership has said, ‘We’ve had enough,’” he said. — _Elizabeth Cooney_ ## What we’re reading * Opinion: I’m a public health communications consultant. 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