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 mifepristone鈥檚 Food and Drug Administration approval 鈥 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鈥 greatest allies. Why isn鈥檛 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: 鈥淚t鈥檚 great 鈥 since you came back I no longer see those advanced cases of breast cancer.鈥 (Maia Chankseliani, 5/5)
Prices at hospitals have grown faster than prices in virtually any other sector of the economy. (Zack Cooper, 5/4)