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Former White House Chief Medical Adviser and NIAID director Anthony Fauci, MD, will testify before Congress about COVID-19’s origin and the government’s response. (Washington Post)
A U.S. Senate committee launched an investigation into how Novo Nordisk prices its semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) in the U.S. (Reuters)
After the detection of Type A H5N1 virus remnants in milk, U.S. agriculture officials ordered that dairy cattle must be tested for bird flu before moving between states. (AP)
Schools can continue serving chocolate milk under newly finalized U.S. Department of Agriculture rules that otherwise allow less sugar in school lunches. (CBS News)
A medical plane from UNC Health crashed at Raleigh-Durham International Airport. The pilot and doctor on board survived. (WITN)
Researchers shared their progress studying the potential for off-target editing with a cellular therapy approved to treat severe sickle cell disease and transfusion-dependent β-thalassemia. (New England Journal of Medicine)
Former Rep. Donald Payne, Jr. (D-N.J.) died at age 65 following a “cardiac episode” related to complications from diabetes. (The Hill)
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center laid off approximately a thousand workers throughout its system on Wednesday morning. (WTAE)
Progress in heart failure mortality has reversed to become worse than it was in 1999. (JAMA Cardiology)
Research suggested antisense oligonucleotide therapy is possible for Timothy syndrome, a rare neurodevelopmental disorder. (Nature)
Amneal Pharmaceuticals announced FDA approval of its generic over-the-counter naloxone nasal spray for emergency treatment of an opioid overdose.
Emerging research links fish deaths to toxic car tire emissions. (KFF Health News)
The Missouri Senate will soon vote on legislation that could protect Bayer from future failure-to-warn lawsuits related to its Roundup pesticide and cancer claims. (AP)
Lab experiments showed that the artificial sweetener neotame causes cell death and bacterial imbalance in intestinal cells. (Frontiers in Nutrition)
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