Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Longer Looks: Interesting Reads You Might Have Missed
The New York Times: A Former Hotelier Wants To Make Senior Co-Living Mainstream
The founder of Modern Elder Academy is on a mission to make “Golden Girls”-style living mainstream. (Cheney, 3/30)
The New York Times: He Studied How To Transport Blood To Wounded Marines
Peter Frazier’s lab at Cornell worked to improve how blood was stored and transported for armed forces. Then he received a stop-work order. (Robles-Gil, 4/2)
High Country News: The Nuclear Safety Protections In Federal Crosshairs
President Trump’s sweeping nuclear energy and weapons agenda has prompted revisions of longstanding radiation standards. (Guzmán, 3/31)
The New York Times: A Secret History Of Psychosis
When Cohen Miles-Rath walks into his father’s house, the history of his psychosis is right there in front of him. There is the place where he was standing when he received a cryptic message on his phone: The devil had entered his father’s body. There is the drawer where he spotted a knife whose handle was white — the color of God! (Barry, 3/29)
The New York Times: How The Internet Became The ‘Cookbook’ Of The Drug Trade
A baffling overdose death took investigators to the frontier of ultra-potent synthetic drugs. The clues were hauntingly familiar. (Richtel, 3/31)