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The flu sent nearly 20,000 people to the hospital during Thanksgiving week — close to twice the admissions over the prior week — according to the latest CDC data. (CNN)
Pfizer/BioNTech are seeking emergency use authorization (EUA) for their Omicron-containing booster shot for kids under 5 years of age.
Children’s Tylenol, Children’s Motrin, and other fever-reducing medicines are getting harder to find, due to the nation’s “tripledemic,” but drugmaker Johnson & Johnson reports no shortages. (NPR)
Meanwhile, a shortage of pharmacists spurred CVS to test a remote system to fill prescriptions. (Wall Street Journal)
Poison center reports show an alarming spike in child and teen marijuana use over a 20-year period. (ABC News)
The former co-owner of a compounding pharmacy in Massachusetts was sentenced to 1 year in prison for his part in a 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak that sickened almost 800 people in 20 states. (CNN)
An Indiana judge said the state’s attorney general broke the law in publicizing his investigation of a physician who gave an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim; the judge stopped short of blocking the investigation, however. (The Hill)
HHS does not anticipate it will renew the public health emergency declaration for monkeypox, or mpox, when it ends Jan. 31, 2023.
As of Monday at 8:00 a.m. ET, the unofficial COVID toll in the U.S. reached 98,972,411 cases and 1,081,431 deaths, increases of 401,199 and 2,224 respectively, since this time a week ago.
Billions of dollars in COVID aid went to hospitals that didn’t need it. (Wall Street Journal)
A defense bill slated for release this week could undo the Pentagon’s policy of booting troops for refusing the COVID vaccine. (Politico)
The World Health Organization (WHO) warned that receding COVID precautions could lead to deadly new variants. (Reuters)
Local health departments in Central Ohio are working with the Ohio Department of Health and hospitals there to contain a measles outbreak with vaccines, treatments, and tests. (WBNS)
Drug overdoses killed eight friends one after another in this small North Carolina city. (Washington Post)
Daniel Davidow, MD, the former medical director of Cumberland Hospital for Children and Adolescents in Virginia, has been charged with felony sex crimes for abuse that happened at the facility, according to authorities. (AP)
The United Health Foundation and the American Nurses Foundation are launching a $3.1 million pilot program to address nurse stress and burnout. (Fierce Healthcare)
A healthcare marketing group is launching “Unf*ck Your Feelings,” a suicide prevention strategy that targets younger men. (Fierce Pharma)
Can a new gene therapy stop Alzheimer’s disease in its tracks? (New York Times)
Brazilian soccer legend, Pelé, who has colon cancer, stated on social media that he was feeling “strong” despite unconfirmed reports that he had been moved to palliative care. (The Guardian)
Jim Kolbe, a former Republican Congressman from Arizona and proponent of gay rights, died Saturday, at age 80. (AP via Politico)
Words for cancer surgeons to avoid? “We got it all.” (New York Times)
James Farms frozen raspberries have been recalled over concerns of possible contamination with hepatitis A, the FDA announced.
Source: MedicalNewsToday.com
