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White House chief medical advisor Anthony Fauci, MD, says he is experiencing rebound COVID symptoms following a course of nirmatrelvir-ritonavir (Paxlovid). (Daily Mail)
NIH has launched the first clinical trial of a universal flu vaccine.
Abortions in Texas can temporarily resume now that a judge has granted a temporary restraining order. (Washington Post)
Instagram and Facebook are scrubbing posts offering abortion pills by mail. (AP)
Brazil banned medication abortion, so women looked to drug traffickers. (New York Times)
In Georgia, a suspect has been arrested for allegedly setting fires at a local hospital and threatening to blow it up. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
The FDA warned parents and caregivers not to use neck floats on babies during water therapy, especially for those with developmental delays or special needs, as they could cause death or serious injury.
Another celebrity vaccinated against COVID-19: Elmo! (CNN)
And Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is not happy about it. (Washington Post)
As of Wednesday at 8:00 a.m. EDT, the unofficial U.S. COVID toll reached 87,202,954 cases and 1,015,785 deaths, increases of 116,346 and 746, respectively, since this time yesterday.
GE Healthcare recalled backup batteries — including replacement backup batteries — manufactured on or after April 1, 2019 for its CARESCAPE R860 ventilator; the batteries may run out sooner than expected, which could cause the ventilator to stop completely and prevent patients from receiving oxygen.
FDA extended the 18-month shelf life of AstraZeneca’s tixagevimab-cilgavimab (Evusheld) monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID-19 for an additional 6 months.
According to CDC data, Omicron’s BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants now account for the majority of U.S. cases.
Novartis plans to cut 8,000 jobs as part of a global reorganization. (Endpoints News)
Algorithms based on clinical notes in an electronic health record can predict a patient’s self-identified race, even when the data have been stripped of explicit mentions of race, according to researchers from MIT and IBM. (STAT)
Medicaid expansion in North Carolina is up against a surprising opponent: the hospital lobby. (Charlotte Observer)
Daily Harvest was sued Monday by a woman alleging that she was hospitalized and had to have her gallbladder removed as a result of eating the firm’s French Lentil Leek Crumbles. (NBC News)
A total of 15 Texas doctors agreed to pay $2.8 million to settle allegations involving kickbacks in exchange for ordering tests from three different commercial laboratories, the Justice Department announced.
Source: MedicalNewsToday.com
