Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Viewpoints: Mifepristone Ruling Makes Drug Development Tricky; Hantavirus Outbreak Shows Risk Of WHO Absence
The biotech industry has long operated on a simple premise: FDA-regulated, evidence-based science determines how medicines reach patients, not litigation. That premise was already tested in an earlier Texas case challenging mifepristones Food and Drug Administration approval an unprecedented effort to unwind decades of scientific review through the courts. It is now, once again, under strain. (Grace Colon, 5/4)
Three passengers are dead. Seven people are ill. The ship is anchored off Cape Verde, passengers cannot disembark, and the World Health Organization is coordinating the response. (Krutika Kuppalli, 5/5)
George H.W. Bush showed how Republicans can be disabled Americans greatest allies. Why isnt Donald Trump honoring his legacy? (Laurence Jurdem, 5/4)
About 10 years after a breast surgeon we interviewed returned to Dubai to practice, a colleague stopped her in a hospital corridor to tell her: Its great since you came back I no longer see those advanced cases of breast cancer. (Maia Chankseliani, 5/5)
Prices at hospitals have grown faster than prices in virtually any other sector of the economy. (Zack Cooper, 5/4)
