Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Viewpoints: Advocates Make Doctor Visits Less Stressful For Patients; It's Time To Revamp The FDA
In the past couple of years, I’ve dealt with a few — melanoma, chronic migraines, debilitating tendonitis, a whole mess of dental troubles caused by missing adult teeth. I’m usually adept at finding answers and giving advice, but, because I’ve been dealing with so many issues at once, I’ve often felt inadequate advocating for myself. (Tyra Damm, 1/11)
The Food and Drug Administration last year failed repeatedly to keep the nation’s babies safe from tainted formula. The baby formula fiasco was the latest in a long line of food crises that the agency was slow to catch and handle. (1/10)
Our sophisticated emergency treatment is unrivaled even as the comprehensive U.S. patient care system remains the world’s most expensive and possibly the most dysfunctional. (Cory Franklin, 1/10)
After the shocking and emotional accident on the field that sent Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin into cardiac arrest on Jan. 2, we have recently learned that he is making a remarkable neurological recovery. (Bernice Fokum, 1/10)
The last two decades have been a period of declining economic influence for practicing physicians. Independent medical practice has been steadily eroded by hospital employment, as well as by private equity and corporate acquisitions, to the point where less than half of physicians in the U.S. work in private practices. (Jeff Goldsmith, 1/11)
In China’s binary view of the pandemic, there can be only zeros and ones — that is, Covid Zero or Covid for Everyone. (Gearoid Reidy, 1/10)
Three years after news of the first cases of Covid-19 infections and deaths began to appear, the global response to pandemics remains in a sluggish, reactive mode, waiting until dire threats emerge before initiating action. Take the latest Ebola outbreak in central Uganda. (Jerome H. Kim, 1/11)
