Axios PM

October 18, 2024
Happy Friday! Today's newsletter, edited by Sam Baker, is 444 words, a 2-min. read. Thanks to Sheryl Miller for copy editing.
1 big thing: AI fuels cancer breakthroughs
AI and other new technologies are ushering in a revolution in cancer care, Axios Future of Health Care author Caitlin Owens reports.
- AI tools are going to "start generating much more patient-specific insights," former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb said. "And that's really the future."
The big picture: The holy grail of cancer treatment is precision medicine β care tailored to a patient's unique manifestation of the disease.
- Getting there requires better insight into each patient's cancer, more sophisticated tools to help match it to the right treatment, and the ability to do that work at scale β and at a price patients and insurance companies can handle.
- All that is happening, or at least getting closer.
2. πΊ Vulnerable Dems embrace Trump

Some of the most vulnerable Democratic senators are using the closing stretch to boast about their ties to former President Trump, Axios' Stef W. Kight reports.
- Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.) both released ads today that include images of Trump β and not to bash him.
- Casey's ad brags that he "sided with Trump to end NAFTA and put tariffs on China to stop them from cheating."
- Baldwin's says she "got President Trump to sign her Made in America bill."

In Michigan, the Senate campaign of a third Democrat, Rep. Elissa Slotkin, spent more than $1 million on an ad saying she "wrote a law signed by President Trump forcing drug companies to show their actual prices."
- Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) have taken a similar tack.
3. Catch me up

- πΊπ¦ President Biden met with European leaders today in Germany, urging them to keep supporting Ukraine in its war against Russia. Go deeper.
- π» The Justice Department charged two Sudanese brothers with operating a hacking group that launched more than 35,000 attacks in the last year against hospitals, government offices and other major organizations. Go deeper.
- πΌ CVS Health today announced the sudden ouster of CEO Karen Lynch. CVS is reportedly weighing a breakup plan that could separate the company's Aetna insurance business and its retail pharmacy division. Go deeper.
4. π½ 1 for the road

An aerial view shows people on a bridge as they navigate one of the world's largest corn mazes, at Cool Patch Pumpkins in Dixon, Calif.
- The giant maze takes about two hours to complete, and has twice earned a Guinness World Record as the world's largest corn maze.
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