Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Viewpoints: How A Brazilian Doc Managed To Vaccinate Her City; 15-Week Abortion Ban Not The Answer
It's one of the most impressive COVID vaccination campaigns in the world. And it began with a text message out of the blue. (Nurith Aizenman, 10/12)
When U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., recently proposed a 15-week federal abortion ban, he suggested that it could provide a reasonable compromise in the national debate over abortion. While Graham may speak of his ban as some form of political compromise, the only thing it actually would compromise is the health care of millions of women. (Elizabeth Weldon And Matangi Bala, 10/11)
Ihad my first abortion when I was 11 years old, and another five or six between the ages of 12 and 21. (Lora-Ellen McKinney, 10/12)
In the numbers game of disease statistics, type 1 diabetes takes a back seat to type 2 diabetes, which accounts for more than 95% of diabetes cases around the globe. But the impact of type 1 diabetes (T1D), which tends to emerge earlier in life and can quickly kill an individual if it goes unrecognized or untreated, is huge. Its global burden, however, hasn’t been well understood — until now. (Aaron J. Kowalski, 10/13)
In 2016, the American Medical Association declared gun violence a public health crisis. (Michael Dowling, 10/12)
