Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Longer Looks: Interesting Reads You Might Have Missed
CNN: The September 11 Cancer Wave Ahead
After the collapse came the dust. It billowed across Lower Manhattan in the wake of the 2001 World Trade Center terror attacks, turning people into ghosts as they trudged to safety. It blew into buildings through broken windows and air intakes, settling into carpets, curtains and upholstery and leaving a fine powder on surfaces. People wrote messages in the dust coating the windows of buildings. (Goodman, 9/19)
The Examination and Stat: How Big Tobacco Flooded The FDA With Public Comments To Kill A Menthol Cigarette Ban
Sometimes you can win an argument just by repeating yourself over and over. That’s a lesson from the tobacco industry’s battle with the Biden-era Food and Drug Administration over its proposed ban on menthol cigarettes. (McLure, 9/25)
The Wall Street Journal: The Peptide Boom That Isn’t About Your Muscles
The real opportunity is pill-form peptides that could hit big pharma’s most profitable franchises. (Wainer, 9/25)
The Washington Post: ‘Toxic Multitasking’ Is Breaking Your Brain. Here’s How To Take Control.
Doing more than one thing at once, especially on screens, can become addictive, which harms the functioning of our brain and nervous system. (Kerr, 9/21)
CIDRAP: ‘I Really Started To Doubt Myself’: Young Woman’s Decade-Long Struggle With C Diff Might Serve To Help Others
For as long as she can remember, Minnie Hatch has experienced tons of infections, including those of the urinary tract, sinuses, skin, and ears. Doctors frequently treated her with antibiotics. When she was about 19, she began having distressing gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms, including diarrhea and vomiting. (Holohan, 9/24)
The New York Times: Violinist Jennifer Koh On Her Decade-Long Struggle With A Rare Neurological Disorder
It began with numbness. The violinist Jennifer Koh was giving a solo recital in Santa Fe 10 years ago when, early in the first piece, she realized she couldn’t feel her right hand. She got through the performance, thanks to muscle memory. When she returned home to Manhattan from New Mexico, the problem went away after about a week. But the numbness came back three months later, and then nine months after that, lingering for weeks before disappearing as mysteriously as it arrived. (Barone, 9/24)
