Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Viewpoints: Dr. Oz Is The Face Of America's Healthcare Cuts; What We Get Wrong About Men's Mental Health
Despite Mehmet Oz not formally endorsing Donald Trump in the 2024 Republican primaries, Trump has now put him in charge of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and he is using that perch to dismantle the health care that working-class families actually depend on. (Al Sharpton, 7/1)
When we talk about men鈥檚 mental health, we tend to focus on what men are not doing: Not going to therapy. Not opening up. Not doing the work. If the hope was to shame men into better mental health, it has not worked. (Wes Moore, 7/1)
A few weeks ago, I posted on social media what I called 鈥渦nhinged鈥 advice I鈥檝e given to families. I鈥檓 a pediatrician and a mom of two, and I chose that word deliberately 鈥 it鈥檚 half sarcasm and half scroll stopper, but the point is that many parents have lost the plot when it comes to children needing to be comfortable with discomfort. (Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, 6/30)
As the ongoing Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak spreads across the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, global attention has understandably focused on the absence of licensed vaccines and therapeutics for this rare species of Ebola virus. Yet one of the outbreak鈥檚 most consequential failures has received far less attention: our inability to rapidly and reliably diagnose the pathogen in the first place. (Krutika Kuppalli and Placide Mbala, 7/1)
In upholding trans athlete bans, the Supreme Court leaned on unsupported claims about fairness and safety. (Kimberly Atkins Stohr, 6/30)