Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Viewpoints: Ending Roe Has Had Terrible Repercussions; Will We Ever Figure Out Covid's Origins?
As my medical providers tried to counsel me on my options, they would stop mid-sentence looking for the right words. It was like they were afraid they would be arrested just for saying the word 鈥渁bortion鈥 out loud. (Lauren Miller, 3/7)
The news last week that the Energy Department had concluded with 鈥渓ow confidence鈥 that SARS-CoV-2 originated from a 鈥渓ab leak鈥 caused FBI Director Christopher A. Wray to remind Fox News viewers that his agency reached the same conclusion about the coronavirus in 2021. (Angela Rasmussen and Saskia Popescu, 3/7)
Recently, the Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence developed at the OpenAI research laboratory, passed or nearly met the passing threshold for all three medical exams without any specialized training, human input, or reinforcement. (Brian Rezel Carr, 3/8)
Approximately 1 million women experience the start of menopause every year, yet many are surprised and bewildered by its arrival, so much so that they can鈥檛 even help themselves. According to a 2021 survey of 1,000 U.S. women, more than 70% of women don鈥檛 treat their menopausal symptoms because they don鈥檛 even understand what鈥檚 happening to their own bodies. (Margena Christian, 3/7)
Teletherapy has made mental health care more accessible than ever before, making care possible for people who otherwise would never have been able to get it. But the antiquated system of licensure in the United States is creating a huge barrier to realizing the potential for telehealth. (Harry Ritter, 3/8)