Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Viewpoints: Government Has No Power To Fix Falling Birth Rates; The EPA Took Public Health Back A Century
Governments can’t increase birth rates. Instead, learn to cope with a shrinking population. (Matthew Lynn, 2/2)
What is the value of a human life? According to the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency, the answer is zero dollars. (Michelle A. Williams, 2/2)
Google DeepMind's AlphaGenome platform seeks to connect genetic typos to a particular function, which could have applications in predicting the impact of rare genetic diseases and determining which mutations drive cancer. (Lisa Jarvis, 1/30)
Most drug trials are designed to keep personal experience out of the room. Psychedelic research is the exception. Walking into a psychedelic trial site, you will encounter clinicians, statisticians, and facilitators who often first became interested in this work through their own psychedelic experiences. (Ian Reardon, 2/2)
Nearly 50,000 people in the United States die each year because there are not enough kidneys for transplant, which adds up to more than double the number of annual murder victims. (German Lopez, 2/2)
