Dianne Feinstein Dies; Prison for Alzheimer’s Fraudsters; Kaiser Strike Looming

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the Senate’s longest-serving woman, has died at age 90.

Each year, employed women pay an estimated $15 billion more in out-of-pocket medical expenses compared with employed men, a Deloitte report found.

Meanwhile, the U.S. government is expected to pay almost three times more for each dose of this year’s COVID vaccine. (STAT)

Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) said she tested positive for COVID-19. (The Hill)

Takeda announced FDA approval of a subcutaneous form of vedolizumab (Entyvio) for maintenance therapy in adults with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis.

A former director of an Ohio memory-loss clinic and her doctor husband were sentenced to years in prison for falsely diagnosing patients with Alzheimer’s disease. (AP)

As weight-loss medications become more widespread, what will happen to the body positivity movement? (The Atlantic)

The FDA filed complaints against 22 retailers illegally selling e-cigarettes that appeal to kids.

A federal appeals court upheld bans on gender-affirming care for minors in Kentucky and Tennessee. (Washington Post)

More and more early-career scientists are leaving academia behind for industry. (STAT)

A Michigan woman is facing up to 20 years in prison for allegedly posing as a registered nurse. (CBS Detroit)

A Washington state doctor charged with manslaughter for the poisoning of his wife allegedly once gave her so many painkillers that she hallucinated frogs crawling across her bedroom walls, according to court testimony. (New York Post)

Rates of substance use-related emergency department visits increased 38% to 42% among adults from 2018-2019 to 2020-2021, the CDC reported.

No surprise here: kids of regular and heavy drinkers were more likely to drink themselves. (Journal of Adolescent Health)

How Philips kept profiting while staying quiet about the mounting complaints on their breathing devices. (ProPublica)

Roughly 75,000 Kaiser healthcare workers may go on strike next week because of understaffing concerns. (NPR)

HHS launched a tool to better pinpoint counties at risk of climate-related health hazards.

Researchers in Japan are working to make artificial eggs and sperm from any cell in the body, allowing for virtually anyone to have their own genetically related offspring. (NPR)

Eli Lilly settled a whistleblower lawsuit involving a former worker who said she was fired after pointing out manufacturing problems and data falsification at a plant where dulaglutide (Trulicity) was made. (Reuters)

In a phase III trial, amivantamab (Rybrevant) plus lazertinib significantly improved progression-free survival compared with osimertinib (Tagrisso) for the first-line treatment of EGFR-mutated non-small cell lung cancer, said Janssen.

A wearable device equipped with machine learning used to track physical activity and sleep patterns may help predict premature birth during pregnancy. (npj Digital Medicine)

Can more patients with acute kidney injury go off dialysis? (STAT)

In Brazil, a woman was paralyzed for months from botulism after eating expired pesto from a farmer’s market. (The Independent)

The Canadian government won’t pursue a criminal investigation into a recent case of a doctor sterilizing an Indigenous woman. (AP)

A whopping 357,000 cases of conjunctivitis since the start of the year spurred more than 50,000 Pakistan schools to close. (Medical Xpress)

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