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Cook County Circuit Judge Patrick Stanton announced Friday the plan to assign a receiver to get the hospitals "under control" after months of court battles. Also making news: Maryland, North Carolina, Vermont, Florida, and Louisiana.
Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York will lead a panel hearing on the menopause care gap and intends to press for federal funding to research a topic that affects millions. "The lack of good treatments and medicines and options and attention is relevant to 75 million people," she said.
Although the study cannot prove that the medications caused the condition, researchers reported more cases of Wernicke encephalopathy in those taking GLP-1 medications than other drugs. Experts warn that while the drug shrinks your appetite, your body's requirements remain the same, which makes it easier for some people to suffer vitamin deficiencies, Fox News reported.
A 40-year-old woman died Saturday from measles complications. Of the at least 676 measles cases confirmed in Pennsylvania so far this year, less than 1% had been fully vaccinated, according to Pennsylvania health officials. Meanwhile, confirmed measles cases in the U.S. have reached 3,294, surpassing last year's numbers by 1,000 as of Friday, CIDRAP reported.
The shift by the Environmental Protection Agency is expected Monday, The New York Times reported, and could also prevent future administrations from regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. The EPA has stopped estimating the public health benefits of reducing pollution in the cost-benefit analyses necessary for clean-air regulations, the Times wrote.
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The surrogate, McKenna West, traveled from Alaska to Texas in an attempt to gain custody of the medically fragile baby. Also: Nearly half of U.S. hospitals have closed maternity wards; a large donation aims to make childbirth safer; and more.
Among the bills Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law yesterday were two specifically focused on combating the teenage mental health crisis. One requires social media companies to either stop offering “addictive” tools to users younger than 16 or bar them from the platforms entirely. The other requires built-in mental health resources and imposes time limits for minors using AI chatbots.
The platinum-based chemotherapies in question can improve the prognosis for the most commonly diagnosed childhood cancer (a rare cancer of the liver) from a five-year survival rate of 20% to more than 80%. Unfortunately the drugs can cause DNA mutations in healthy cells, potentially raising the risk of new cancers later in life, Stat reported.
Judge Nicole Berner of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled there's no legal precedent to hold people in ICE detention without bond. “Mass detention of marginalized individuals without due process harkens back to some of the darkest moments in our country’s history,” the judge wrote.
The company said it can't be certain bad actors were using its models for nefarious reasons, but noted 35 “distinct research efforts” with potentially concerning activity, CNN reported. The company, which touts the benefits of AI in scientific research, said newer models have “stronger safeguards that restrict access to a wide range of dual-use biological research queries.”
More than 11,000 people across 20 states were sickened by the shredded lettuce sourced from central Mexico. Nearly 500 people required hospital treatment; two people from Michigan died. Other cyclosporiasis outbreaks are ongoing. Plus, health officials report new salmonella and Legionnaires’ disease outbreaks.
A seventh bell-ringing and moment of silence during today's ceremony at Ground Zero will honor the first responders and other survivors of the initial attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, who have since died of sickness connected to their exposure to toxic debris. The bell will ring at approximately 12:30 p.m., CNN reported. The attacks 25 years ago killed 2,977 people; since then, the families of more than 9,000 people who died after 9/11 have filed claims for compensation, U.S News & World Report said.
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According to a study published Tuesday, of the 8 million people who died in 2023 of smoking-related illnesses, almost 1.7 million were from secondhand exposure. The study stressed that there is no safe level of smoke inhalation, and that tobacco is a leading cause of disease globally.
New York City's fire unions call the lack of transparency over the health threats posed by the air quality a shocking betrayal, 6ABC Philadelphia reported. On Sept. 11, 2001, 343 firefighters died. Since then, 453 FDNY members have died from World Trade Center-related illnesses, and more than 12,000 others have been diagnosed with at least one illness linked to their exposure at Ground Zero.
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