Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Viewpoints: Russia's Plague Scare And A Return To Secrecy; Florida's Dengue Outbreak Signals A Growing Threat
After an apparent lab accident in Siberia, Moscow is reverting to its old Soviet ways. (Tom Nichols, 10/6)
For a state whose government officially doesn鈥檛 believe climate change is real, Florida remains our nation鈥檚 busiest climate-change laboratory. (Mark Gongloff, 10/7)
When my term life insurance policy expired in 2013 and I had to get a new one, I thought my widow-maker heart attack in 2005 might be a sticking point. Instead, eight insurers turned me down because they said I had 鈥渦ntreated cancer.鈥 They were referring to the tiny amount of prostate cancer found three years earlier. (Howard Wolinsky, 10/7)
There must be some mistake. A company studies its cancer blood test in a randomized trial of 140,000 people using a suboptimal surrogate endpoint, fails to meet that endpoint, yet is recommended for approval by a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel. And because of the Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act passed earlier this year, the company appears to be on track to have taxpayers foot the bill.聽(H. Gilbert Welch, 10/6)
