Public health
Every story tagged public health from the last 60 days of the digest, newest first.
13 stories · 12 days · latest Thu 17 Sept 2026
FilterFilters search the last 60 days
Themes32
Sports31
Sunday 6 September 2026
Business Insider
Scientists bet on "impossible" cancer treatments. It's paying off.Business Insider reports positive results on two long-shot cancer bets: a molecular glue for undruggable mutations and a personalized cancer vaccine.
Saturday 5 September 2026
The Washington Post
Inside the effort to contain Pennsylvania's measles outbreakPennsylvania public health workers are fighting the nation's worst ongoing measles outbreak substantially by word of mouth.
Sunday 30 August 2026
Business Insider
"HRT may reduce dementia risk if started early in menopause, study says"A large new study suggests HRT may lower dementia risk if started when menopause symptoms first surface.
Friday 21 August 2026
CNBC
"Moderna, Merck cancer vaccine shows initial late-stage melanoma data"Moderna and Merck reported an experimental mRNA vaccine prevented the return and spread of skin cancer in high-risk patients.
Thursday 20 August 2026
The Washington Post
"Cancer treatment could face landmark moment with promising vaccine"Moderna and Merck's personalized mRNA vaccine intismeran prevented the return and spread of cancer in high-risk melanoma patients.
Monday 17 August 2026
The Washington Post
HPV vaccines are tragically underusedFurther reading from the day's reading list.
Saturday 15 August 2026
Status
"The Media's Vaccine Hesitancy"Status argues much coverage framed Trump's childhood vaccine order, built on debunked science, as a partisan question rather than a factual one.
Thursday 13 August 2026
Semafor
"Not worth the risk"Eli Lilly filed six lawsuits against sellers of illicit retatrutide, its unapproved obesity drug.
Tuesday 11 August 2026
The Washington Post
Trump administration order would upend nation's childhood vaccine scheduleTrump signed an executive order reducing federally recommended childhood vaccinations and pushing parents to space remaining shots apart.
Semafor
Trump upends vaccine guidanceSemafor noted the scientific consensus that vaccines do not cause autism as Trump tied rising diagnoses to the childhood schedule.
Sunday 9 August 2026
The Washington Post
Unemployment improved, because thousands of workers disappeared. Where did they go?Unemployment fell because more than 260,000 people left the labor force, and prime-age participation is at its lowest level since the pandemic.
Thursday 30 July 2026
Semafor
"Londoners leave in droves"London's population shrank for the first time since the pandemic as more than 400,000 people left for elsewhere in the UK.
Monday 20 July 2026
The Washington Post
"Kratom is an opioid. The DEA should regulate it like one."The Washington Post's Week in Ideas carried a warning that kratom is functionally an opioid.
Where these stories come from
Each morning the Daily Newsletter Digest reads about fifty newsletters, groups them by theme and records an audio episode. These are the day’s most substantive stories from it, each with a direct link to the original article.
Links open the publisher’s own site, which may ask you to subscribe. The one-line summaries are ours; the reporting is theirs. A place tag links to that metro or country on this site, where the same story appears under In the news.