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  1. 2. In medical parlance, ________ means important and urgent, and that’s what we’re all about — quickly and smartly delivering important journalism.
  2. 4. The type of dessert at the centerpiece of STAT's biggest annual employee cooking competition.
  3. 5. STAT’s staff has at least 3 employees who have identical twins – a statistical anomaly, considering monozygotic twinning occurs in birthing at a rate of about ____ in every 1000 deliveries worldwide.
  4. 7. Perhaps most known for his co-ownership of the Boston _____ baseball team, John Henry is also the co-founder of STAT.
  5. 10. Joe _____, the then-vice president, gave STAT an exclusive interview in 2016 about his dedication to cancer research.
  6. 11. STAT’s 2024 Pulitzer finalist team of Bob Herman and Casey Ross is affectionately referred to internally as this american painter, known for his great hair, and The Joy of Painting, an instructional television program. ____________.
  7. 12. _______ Rounds, the name of STAT's flagship newsletter, a play on what medical staff may complete first thing at work.
  8. 13. STAT’s multimedia team produces incredible videos each week, but for some reason, the most viewed video on YouTube asks: “Can ______ skin be used to bandage burns?” Doctors in Brazil used this fish’s skin to treat burn patients.
  9. 15. In journalism lingo, it’s the opening sentence or paragraph of an article.
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  1. 1. The STAT-produced full length documentary, “Augmented”, nominated for an Emmy, follows pioneering amputation surgery and new advances in brain-controlled _________, or artificial limbs.
  2. 3. In one of STAT’s newsletters, “Health Care, Inc”, reporter (and 2024 Pulitzer finalist) Bob Herman created a section called “The ______ Ward”, filled with these types of captioned pictures or videos that often spread widely via social media.
  3. 6. “Noisy” biotech-focused podcast, by name: The Readout ____
  4. 8. Often misattributed to famed astronomer Carl Sagan, the following quote is actually from STAT’s incredible senior science reporter, the late Sharon Begley: “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be ______”
  5. 9. STAT’s Helen Branswell is widely known as one of the first journalists to report on ______, when she ominously tweeted about "unexplained pneumonias" in December of 2019.
  6. 10. While reporting on H5N1, more wildly known as ______, STAT’s Nick Florko purchased a jug of raw milk out of a trailer in D.C. to explore the role of the FDA in interstate raw milk sales.
  7. 12. Each year, STAT hosts STAT Madness, a bracket-style contest to find the best innovation in science and medicine, modeled off of the famous basketball tournament, _____Madness.
  8. 14. Just a few weeks ago, STAT's Casey Ross and Bob Herman were named 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalists for their "Denied by __" investigative series on how Medicare Advantage plans use algorithms to cut off care for seniors in need