Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Viewpoints: To Better Protect Our Kids, We Need Solid Guidance When Wildfire Smoke Streams In; How Are Cities With Clean Needle Programs Faring?
With no statewide standard in Illinois for children's outdoor activity in poor air quality, program policies represent a patchwork. (Victoria Johnson and Sheetal Khedkar Rao, 7/31)
Policies that gave addicts clean needles and places to use drugs were intended to reduce harm. They created a 鈥渮ombie apocalypse.鈥 (Michael Powell, 7/30)
When I was first diagnosed with limb girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD), I was devastated to learn there wasn鈥檛 any treatment or cure. For those of us living with progressive diseases, time is not neutral. Every month a promising therapy is delayed, we will have irreversible loss of muscle function. (Kat Bryant Knudson, 7/31)
If you have the wherewithal, money can buy you all sorts of purported roadmaps to optimal health. But will your wealth be enough to gatekeep your wellbeing? (Howard Chua-Eoan, 7/30)
Nine years ago in these pages, we 鈥 columnists for STAT at the time 鈥 praised the American Diabetes Association for standing up to a researcher in Brazil who had sued the group in U.S. federal court for issuing expressions of concern on four of his published articles. We even named the ADA the inaugural winner of our Doing the Right Thing award.聽(Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky, 7/31)
