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After a top aide to former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci, MD, was grilled by Congress, questions emerged about whether other agency employees tried to evade transparency about the COVID-19 pandemic. (The Nation)
Nurses threatened to strike at three hospitals in New Jersey, demanding that mandatory staffing ratios be placed in their contracts. (northjersey.com)
The USDA said H5N1 bird flu was detected in alpacas for the first time.
Letting addiction doctors prescribe methadone directly to patients is “not a good idea,” a longtime methadone clinic industry leader said. (STAT)
Compared with white people in Pennsylvania, Black individuals who died of drug overdoses were less likely to receive naloxone, 2019-2021 data showed. (Addiction)
A 4,600-year-old Egyptian skull had cut marks surrounding several lesions that appeared to be metastasized brain cancer, suggestive of a surgical attempt at treatment or postmortem exploration. (Frontiers in Medicine)
Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto in Mississippi, which does not have a psychiatric unit, sometimes sends patients to the county jail while they await mental health care services at other facilities. (ProPublica)
Two blood pressure drugs (metoprolol and atenolol), methamphetamine, methadone, or a cocaine metabolite were found in more than 60% of water samples across New York City’s Hudson and East Rivers in 2021 and 2022. (Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry)
Novo Nordisk defended its $1,000 list price for a monthly supply of semaglutide (Ozempic) to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), saying the development of GLP-1 drugs required billions in upfront investment. (Becker’s Hospital Review)
Virginia-based Riverside Regional Medical Center is reviewing its safety protocols after a husband and wife died in an apparent murder-suicide at the hospital. (WTKR)
The FDA approved Amgen’s eculizumab-aeeb (Bkemv) — the first interchangeable biosimilar to eculizumab (Soliris) — to treat paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria and atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome.
Post-acute respiratory complications were more common in COVID-19 patients in South Korea and Japan than in the general population, though vaccination attenuated the risk. (Nature Communications)
Dengue fever threatens the U.S. as the mosquitoes that carry the disease move north. (NBC News)
Penn State Health is discontinuing its kidney and liver transplant programs at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. The hospital’s liver transplant was paused last month. (Fox 43)
Stanley Goldstein, who helped start the CVS drugstore chain in the 1960s, died of cancer at age 89. (New York Times)
The changing composition of kush — a cannabis derivative often mixed with fentanyl, tramadol, and formaldehyde — makes it difficult for public health officials to help people in Sierra Leone who are addicted. (AP)
Virtual reality may improve empathy among health providers by helping them experience situations from a patient’s perspective. (Times of Israel)
Roughly 15% of the 160,000 participants in the Apple Hearing Study experience tinnitus daily, University of Michigan researchers said.
Is the armadillo spreading leprosy in Florida? (KFF Health News)
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