Day: June 26, 2024
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U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has been at the forefront of a movement to scrutinize the impact of social media and its potential harms. Last week, he called for placing tobacco-style warning labels on social media platforms to alert users that the platforms can harm children’s mental health.
Today, host Martine Powers talks to Murthy about what social media is doing to children and what type of effect warning labels could have on the issue. Plus, we talk about his latest advisory declaring gun violence a public health crisis.
Today’s show was produced by Elana Gordon. It was edited by Ariel Plotnick and mixed by Sean Carter. Thank you to Stephen Smith.
If you liked this episode, check out this week’s episode of “Impromptu”; journalists on the Post’s Opinions desk talk about smartphones, anxiety about teen mental health, and whether warning labels on things like social media could actually work.
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The COVID-19 pandemic and chronic U.S. drug shortages highlight the health security and strategic importance of U.S. pharmaceutical and biotechnology capabilities during and between pathogenic crises. Geopolitical competition and interest in industrial policy for biotechnology further underscore the national security role of domestic biopharmaceutical infrastructure. Policymakers confront competing health, economic, and strategic priorities in maximizing innovation in technology, business models, and health-care systems in facilitating safe, accessible, secure, and sustainable products, services, and supply chains.
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The Ministry of Health in Gaza says nearly 38,000 people have been killed in the last 264 days of conflict with Israel. The Federal Reserve’s annual stress test finds that America’s biggest banks are well positioned to survive a severe recession. In the two years since Roe v Wade was overturned, women in states with restrictive abortion bans have become less likely to access prescription birth control. The International Criminal Court has convicted an al Qaeda-linked leader of committing crimes against humanity and war crimes in Mali. Plus, Denmark is set to enact the world’s first carbon tax on agriculture.
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President Ruto of Kenya has abandoned planned tax rises in response to deadly protests on Tuesday. Newshour gets reaction from a young protestor.
Also in the programme: the US Supreme Court’s accidental abortion leak; and an astronaut on when things go wrong in space;
(Picture: Kenyan President Ruto withdraws controversial tax bill in the wake of violent protests, Nairobi, Kenya – 26 Jun 2024 leak. Credit: handout)