Death by Gila Monster; Alabama Hospital Halts IVF Treatments; E-Bike Head Traumas

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A Colorado man died after being bitten by his pet Gila monster. (CNN)

Alabama’s largest hospital paused IVF treatments in wake of the state Supreme Court ruling that frozen fertilized eggs are children. (AP)

How will the 2024 presidential election affect health insurance coverage? (NBC News)

Nearly 70% of voters believe President Joe Biden is too old to serve another term, according to results from a Quinnipiac University poll. (Politico)

Survey findings also showed that 42% of Americans know someone who has died of a drug overdose. (American Journal of Public Health)

Phase III interim trial data indicated that long-acting antiretroviral therapy with cabotegravir and rilpivirine was effective in people with HIV who have trouble adhering to treatment, GSK said.

Best-selling author Alice Paul Tapper, daughter of CNN anchor Jake Tapper, is publishing a picture book based on a near-fatal misdiagnosis and health emergency she experienced. (AP)

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) said he would not sign a bill addressing pollution from so-call forever chemicals because it scales back regulators’ enforcement authority. (AP)

A woman’s bad cough turned out to be idiopathic subglottic stenosis blocking 75% of her airway. (NPR)

Now that Flovent is no longer produced in the U.S., parents of children with asthma are looking for alternatives. (USA Today)

While union leaders are continuing contract negotiations with management, nurses at UChicago Medicine authorized them to call a strike. (CBS News)

First Lady Jill Biden announced $100 million in federal funding for research and development into women’s health as part of the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research. (AP)

Transitioning to electric cars and clean power could prevent nearly 3 million asthma attacks in children by 2050, a report from the American Lung Association suggested.

The number of e-bike head trauma cases rose in recent years and only 44% of injured e-bicyclists wore helmets. (JAMA Surgery)

U.S. Olympic skating champion Scott Hamilton explained why he’s not treating his third brain tumor. (People)

A JAMA feature story examined why many rural hospitals no longer offer birthing services.

Medtronic issued updated information about some of its electromyogram endotracheal tubes and risks of airway obstruction.

Hydeia Broadbent, an HIV/AIDS activist who rose to prominence as a child living with HIV, died at age 39. (NBC News)

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