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Dr. Caitlin Bernard is seeking an emergency injunction against Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, who wants medical records for her patients who received abortions, fueled by the high profile case of a 10-year-old Ohio girl who was raped. Bernard testified that publicity resulted in death threats against her.
News outlets cover diverse advice to reduce the risk of catching covid, flu, or RSV during this socially busy week. Plus, guidelines for avoiding food-borne illness and why washing a turkey is not a good idea.
News outlets explore the confluence of conditions — and, no, "immunity debt" is not one — that have created an unusually severe season of respiratory illnesses that are overwhelming hospitals and creating tensions in schools over kids showing up sick.
The infectious-disease expert who guided America through the pandemic is set to give what will likely be his final briefing from the White House.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Editorial writers discuss obesity, rural hospitals, and children's health care.
Media outlets report on a surge in anti-trans and other anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment and laws over recent years, including in Colorado Springs — the site of a deadly shooting over the weekend. Lead poisoning in kids, mental health in Missouri, racial bias in hospital algorithms and more are in the news.
Two people were hospitalized in Michigan and Nevada. CIDRAP says sequencing shows that the patients' samples are closely related and that they probably got sick from the same food. Separately, AP says schools are struggling to staff up to combat the youth mental health crisis.
The New York Times takes a look at the program, which is popular among participants but had stalled because Medicare wouldn't pay for it. The program found new life in 2020 because of reimbursement waivers tied to the pandemic public health emergency.
The drug teplizumab was approved by the FDA on Thursday for use on patients with stage 2 Type 1 diabetes to delay the disease, but maker Provention Bio has priced it at a level above some analysts' expectations. Treatments for osteoarthritis and more are also in the news.
A tentative agreement centered on a new four-year contract with provisions for 22.5% pay raises and more staffing, averting a strike that Fierce Healthcare says would have been the largest private sector nursing strike in U.S. history. Also: UnitedHealthcare and AARP, Wisconsin school nurses and more.
CIDRAP reports on what it says is the first global case study of monkeypox in female patients, which shows that as much as 25% of infections aren't related to sexual activity. The CDC also sent a warning to providers over resistance to the Tpoxx treatment.
News outlets cover data from Pfizer that show that its omicron-specific booster is better at tackling emerging covid subvariants than older shots are. Separately, the company's CEO Albert Bourla maintained that covid shots will remain "free" in the U.S. despite indirect costs.
Meanwhile, as RSV makes the rounds, health experts warn it's possible to get repeat infections, although a second infection is unlikely to occur immediately after a recent episode, Fox News reported.
The Alliance for Defending Freedom, which was involved with the landmark Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case, has asked a federal judge in Texas to overturn FDA approval of abortion medications up to the 10th week of pregnancy.
According to a New York Times story, an anti-abortion minister told Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts that he received advanced notice of a 2014 case related to contraception and religious rights. The news comes as part of the investigation into last spring's bombshell leak of the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. Justice Samuel Alito denies that he or his wife were involved in the alleged older leak.
In a letter to the Department of Veterans Affairs, U.S. Reps. Mike Bost, R-Ill., Mike Carey, R-Ohio, and Troy Balderson, R-Ohio, wrote that they had "grave concerns" about the rollout of Oracle Cerner EHR.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Editorial writers tackle IVF, ARPA-H, covid and more.
AP draws attention to what mental health advocates reportedly call a "cruel quirk" in some state abortion bans: Some medical exemptions exist where psychiatric ones don't. Meanwhile, a Texas bill would allow a fetus to count as a second passenger for HOV lanes.
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