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Good morning, happy Tuesday. My colleagues Isabella Cueto and J. Emory Parker have a great, meaty MAHA policy story for you today. Scroll down to read more, or just dive in.
The expert on presidential health weighs in
Lawrence Altman, a physician, professor, and former journalist, has reported on the health of every American president since Ronald Reagan. Last year, when President Joe Biden was still adamantly running for re-election, Altman wrote for First Opinion about an increasingly relevant question: How old is too old to be president of the United States? Yesterday, he pointed out in a new essay that much of the Monday-morning quarterbacking around former President Biden’s cancer diagnosis — and why it wasn’t detected earlier — is contrary to best-practice medical guidelines.
