Tune In: Our ‘Silence In Sikeston’ Project Is Now Available
September 17, 2024
Morning Briefing
A multimedia reporting project from KFF Health News, Retro Report, and GBH’s WORLD explores the impact of a 1942 lynching and a 2020 police shooting in the same rural Missouri community.
Mom Brain: Few Areas Of The Brain Are ‘Untouched’ By Pregnancy
September 17, 2024
Morning Briefing
CNN reports on a new study that maps brain changes during pregnancy. Also in research news: the chemical toll of food packaging on our bodies; microplastics at the base of the brain; and more.
Instagram Unveils Changes To Improve Child Safety, Mental Health
September 17, 2024
Morning Briefing
The Meta-owned app will make accounts private for its users who are younger than 18. The company also will halt notifications during typical nighttime rest hours and limit sensitive content.
Bill Aims To Remove Weapons From Service Members Deemed A Threat
September 17, 2024
Morning Briefing
The measure, sponsored by Republican Sen. Susan Collins, was introduced after a mass shooting in Maine and would require the Army to take action using state crisis intervention laws. Separately, AP says police have increased use of Maine’s “yellow flag” law to seize weapons.
Report: Top Republicans Want To Halt Medicare Drug-Price Negotiations
September 17, 2024
Morning Briefing
Axios reports that multiple high-ranking GOP lawmakers said that if Donald Trump wins the election, Republicans might attempt to dismantle the popular price reductions over concerns about pharmaceutical innovation.
Senate Expected To Vote Today On IVF Bill
September 17, 2024
Morning Briefing
The Democrat-led measure is in line with what GOP nominee Donald Trump has said he wanted: “Your government will pay for — or your insurance company will be mandated to pay for — all costs associated with IVF treatment.” Also in women’s health news: hormone therapy, STI rates, and more.
Newest Covid XEC Variant Is Already Here, Likely Will Drive Winter Surge
September 17, 2024
Morning Briefing
As health officials urge Americans to vaccinate themselves against the highly transmissible virus, a survey finds that fewer than half of respondents plan to take the jab. Separately, after last year’s supply problems, drugmakers got the green light to expand capacity for making RSV therapy.
Industrial Chemical BTMPS Found In Fentanyl Across US, Raising Alarm
September 17, 2024
Morning Briefing
The rapid infusion of the chemical, used in plastic products, into the fentanyl supply is raising significant concern among health researchers. Also: The Washington Post examines how Purdue’s global counterparts are still profiting from the sale of opioids, and more.
Global Antibiotic Resistance Predicted To Get Worse By 2050
September 17, 2024
Morning Briefing
An estimated 39 million people might die because superbugs are able to evade medications designed to save them from disease, researchers say. Could phage therapy be the cure we need?
First Edition: Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024
September 17, 2024
Morning Briefing
Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Watch: New Documentary Film Explores a Lynching and a Police Killing 78 Years Apart
By Cara Anthony
September 17, 2024
KFF Health News Original
The “Silence in Sikeston” documentary film explores how the nation’s first federally investigated lynching and a police killing 78 years apart haunt the same rural Missouri community. The film from KFF Health News and Retro Report explores the lasting impact of such trauma — and what it means to speak out about it.
Historic Numbers of Americans Live by Themselves as They Age
By Judith Graham
September 17, 2024
KFF Health News Original
Longer life spans, rising rates of divorce, widowhood, and childlessness, and smaller, far-flung families are fueling a “gray revolution” in older adults’ living arrangements. It can have profound health consequences.
Silence in Sikeston: Hush, Fix Your Face
By Cara Anthony
September 17, 2024
Podcast
In Episode 2 of the “Silence in Sikeston” podcast, host Cara Anthony speaks with Sikeston, Missouri, resident Larry McClellon, who grew up being told not to talk about the 1942 lynching of Cleo Wright. He is determined to break the cycle of silence in his community. Anthony also unearths a secret in her own family and grapples with the possible effects of intergenerational trauma.
La vejez en soledad, así vive un número histórico de estadounidenses
By Judith Graham
September 17, 2024
KFF Health News Original
Más de 16 millones de estadounidenses viven solos mientras envejecen. Sorprendentemente, se sabe muy poco sobre sus experiencias.
A Possible Downside to Limits on Teens’ Access to Social Media
By Daniel Chang
September 16, 2024
KFF Health News Original
In 1982, then-Surgeon General C. Everett Koop warned that video games might be hazardous to young people’s health, a statement he later walked back, acknowledging it had no basis in science. These days, state and federal policymakers are sounding alarms about the need to protect children from the harmful effects of social media platforms such […]
Décadas de programas nacionales contra el suicidio no han frenado estas muertes
By Cheryl Platzman Weinstock
September 16, 2024
KFF Health News Original
Durante los últimos 20 años, funcionarios federales han lanzado tres estrategias nacionales de prevención del suicidio, incluida una anunciada en abril.
Tennessee Confirms Measles Case In Traveler; West Nile Spreads In Mass.
September 16, 2024
Morning Briefing
In other news from around the country: Oklahoma ditches naloxone vending machines; medical waste is washing ashore in Maryland and Virginia; and more.
