Morning Briefing

In a letter (.pdf) published Wednesday in the Lancet, officials from the CDC refute "point by point" three letters previously published in the journal that were critical of the agency's Center for Global Health, ScienceInsider reports. Lancet Editor Richard Horton on February 11 "published criticisms of the institution's Center for Global Health that he received from an anonymous letter writer" and then "ran complaints made by two more unnamed critics of the CDC center on March 3," the news service states, adding, "As Horton noted, the letters 'raise questions about leadership, management of resources, proper use of the CDC's authority and power, and the scientific rigor of CDC research.'"