Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Longer Looks: Interesting Reads You Might Have Missed
鈥淗eartbreaking.鈥� 鈥淒evastating.鈥� 鈥淒ifficult and challenging.鈥� Such are the words used by health care workers, government officials and former U.S. Agency for International Development employees to describe the impact of the agency鈥檚 dissolution last year. (Baram, 3/11)
As "political depression" enters public discourse, therapists are encouraging people to engage with their communities. (Sanders, 3/8)
Eccentric though it might seem for a clinician to send someone out fishing, this kind of social prescribing, as it鈥檚 known, has become an important trend in health care around the world. (Dickson, 3/12)
With longevity comes the opportunity for an extended sex life, which some seniors find by staying active and open-minded. (Pearson, 3/6)
鈥淜eep the family healthy.鈥� Those were some of the last words Clifford Thomas鈥� mother said to him. But in Albany, a town with a health care monopoly and no Medicaid expansion, staying healthy is a luxury that many are priced out of. (Campbell, Toral and Rodr铆guez Pons, 3/9)