Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Viewpoints: Doctor Works To Make Vaccines Great Again; US Fertility Panic Isn't Actually About Families
Pediatrician and former state senator Richard Pan is on a mission—to make vaccines great again. (Anna Rogers, 4/30)
Coverage of the country’s declining birth rate reflects widespread unease: Families are struggling, young adults are delaying or forgoing parenthood, and the future labor force feels uncertain. (Sonya Borrero, Christine Dehlendorf and Rachel Logan, 5/1)
Women are clearly done being sidelined, shushed, gaslit and otherwise disregarded the moment their bodies pass child-bearing age. (Heidi Stevens, 5/1)
Flanked by one of psychedelics’ biggest celebrity cheerleaders, Joe Rogan, and a troupe of MAHA loyalists, President Trump recently signed an executive order aimed at accelerating psychedelic access for clinical research and treatment. (Jerel Ezell and Sugy Choi, 5/1)
A growing body of evidence indicates psychedelics can help treat serious conditions such as treatment-resistant depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, even as some advocates of these therapies want to establish a principle that consumers, not regulators, should decide which substances are beneficial. (Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, 4/30)