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WITH KILLING OF UNITEDHEALTHCARE CEO Authorities on Monday said they arrested a 26-year-old man carrying a gun and an anti-corporate manifesto in connection with the killing of

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Luigi Mangione was arrested in the Pennsylvania city of Altoona, about 280 miles east of New York City, on gun-related charges. The Associated Press

reported he had a handwritten manifesto that criticized the health insurance industry. Late Monday, New York prosecutors reportedly filed additional charges against Mangione, including

30,700 adults with asthma. The results showed that 12% of respondents skipped doses, 12% took fewer doses than prescribed, and 15% delayed renewing a prescription. This is especially

concerning given the results of another study, published yesterday in JAMA Network Open, which built on previous understanding about racial disparities in asthma. Researchers disaggregated

racial data from the California Department of Public Health to find an even greater disease burden among American Indian people, Black Alaska Native people, and Alaska Native people of

multiple races. To cite another great Usha story, we already know how the use of a broad “Asian American” category can obscure health disparities among different ethnic groups. WHAT

AMERICANS CAN LEARN FROM PORTUGAL’S HEALTH SYSTEM Portugal has a life expectancy of about 82, nearly four years longer than the U.S., despite spending just 20% of what the U.S. does on

health care per person. It wasn’t always that way. In 1950, the U.S. had a life expectancy of 70 years, while Portugal’s lingered at 60, among the lowest for developed nations. So what

changed? STAT’s Usha Lee McFarling spent two weeks reporting in Portugal earlier this year to find out, speaking with dozens of health care workers, patients, and policy experts. Usha told

me she’s obsessed with Portugal, and has visited quite a few times. “I wondered how does this little tiny country, far from rich, do so well?” she said in a DM. Central to Portugal’s success

is a focus on locally available primary and preventative care. It’s not a perfect system, but it may be better than ours. Learn more in Usha’s fantastic story. I read it yesterday and am

still thinking about an older woman that Usha spoke with at one clinic, who left, then came back to say one more thing. She was concerned about what might happen if something negative was

written about the national health system. “It’s the only chance the poor people get,” she said. After reading that story, check out the second one about what surprised Usha most in her

reporting: Like many European countries, Portugal does not collect information on race. This means there is no good understanding of how bad racial disparities there are. E-SCOOTER INJURIES

TRIPLE SINCE 2019 The number of injuries that people get while riding e-scooters and e-bikes in the U.S. has tripled since 2019, a jump fueled largely by alcohol and drug use, according to a

study published yesterday in the journal Injury Prevention. Researchers performed a retrospective analysis of emergency room data from the 2019-2022 National Electronic Injury Surveillance

System. There were about 4,000 total emergency department visits related to these accidents, the vast majority of which were from scooters. (Just 320 injuries were from e-bikes.) Alcohol use

was reported in 8.6% of e-scooter injuries, and younger males had higher odds of being in an accident related to alcohol or substance use. WILL CONGRESS REAUTHORIZE THIS GROUNDBREAKING

MENTAL HEALTH LAW? In 2022, two years after emergency physician Lorna Breen died by suicide, federal legislation was passed in her honor to protect the mental health of clinicians. The act

has helped develop suicide prevention resources tailored to health care workers, supported well-being programs at 45 local hospitals, and provided training for health care leaders to tackle

the root causes of burnout. The Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act expired this year, and has yet to be renewed. In a new First Opinion essay, two authors (including Breen’s

brother-in-law, Corey Feist) argue that without reauthorization, any progress that’s been made could stall or disappear entirely. Read more. And from the archives, you can listen to former

STAT editor Pat Skerrett interview Feist and psychiatrist Wendy Dean about mental health, burnout, and moral injury among health care workers when the act was first proposed. WHAT WE’RE

READING * Was this half-billion-year-old wrinkled sack with no anus, previously believed to be our earliest ancestor, actually a baby penis work? Defector * Spying on student devices,

schools aim to intercept self-harm before it happens, New York Times * The pharma industry isn’t lobbying against RFK Jr.’s nomination for a top health role, STAT * Yes, the number of food

recalls has been rising. Here’s what you need to know, NPR * Do GLP-1s work for Parkinson’s? A health tech startup pitches pharma on quick answers, STAT