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The shot, initially approved for people 50-64, "will allow us to rapidly adjust to rapidly emerging new flu strains, a capacity we have not had before,” said Dr. Georges C. Benjamin of the American Public Health Association.
Schwartz, who is the second permanent leader of the agency since the second Trump administration took office, faces public health challenges and political headwinds, news outlets reported. Other administration news is on immigration, clinical AI, and more.
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Researcher Sabrina Gravel said the findings point to the need to lower pesticide exposure for farmers, landscapers, and others who handle the chemicals regularly, NBC News reported. Other public health news is on asthma, wildfire smoke, microplastics, and more.
According to newly released data, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) found that rates of pneumoconiosis, or black lung, in the miners are the highest they have been since 1978. Also making news: Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Wyoming, New Hampshire, Maryland, North Carolina, and New York.
The authorization came as part of a pilot program created last year to streamline the marketing authorization process for tobacco products, The Hill reported. The director of federal advocacy at the American Lung Association pushed back, saying: “Every new flavored tobacco product authorized by FDA is another gamble with kids’ health."
Phone lines, internet, and computer systems have been hobbled at several sites, Modern Healthcare reported, and a forensic investigation is underway to determine, among other things, whether patient data has been compromised.
Minnesota has reported at least 110 cases of salmonella. Chipotle said it has removed jalapeños from select restaurants but noted that the peppers are distributed to several food service retailers across multiple states, ABC News reported. "It is possible that the outbreak is ongoing if the contaminated food item is being served elsewhere," said an epidemiologist at the Minnesota Department of Health Foodborne Diseases Unit.
Steven Quay, who does not have formal infectious disease training, made the short list to become director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases after NIH staff declined to advance his application, Politico learned. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. selected Quay as a finalist over those who did advance to the interview stage.
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According to the Minnesota Regional Poison Center, kratom-related calls — often involving withdrawal symptoms, bad reactions, and overdoses — more than doubled from 2024 to 2025, and the trend is similar for 2026, MPR News reported.
To qualify for retatrutide special use, patients must be at least 18, unable to take part in a clinical trial, have refractory obesity and two or more serious obesity-related complications, and have discussed all standard treatment options, Stat reported. Plus, two studies found no evidence linking MMR shots or circumcision to autism.
U.S. News & World Report made some changes this year, MedPage Today reported, notably by increasing the statistical weight of risk-adjusted patient outcome measures like survival and complication rates. The facilities that earn the top spots are listed alphabetically.
Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, 41, was detained at Delaney Hall Detention Facility before being taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead on Aug. 1, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Separately, The Washington Post reported that the Trump administration is putting ankle monitors on Haitian immigrants.
As Reuters reported, the case addressed whether drugmakers should sacrifice profit on successful products by being required to spend money to develop and quickly commercialize alternative products, sometimes called a "duty to innovate." The California Supreme Court ruled 6-1 in favor of the drugmaker.
Medicare has announced its intention to remove a pathway that had allowed devices the FDA designated as "breakthrough" to qualify for supplemental payments without proving their novelty or substantial clinical improvement over alternatives, Stat reported. In other news: The Trump administration is planning an overhaul of Head Start, which was established in the 1960s to help fight poverty, AP said.
They are the first deaths linked to the outbreak; state health officials said both people had underlying health conditions. Although officials aren't disclosing details, one infectious disease expert noted that people with underlying health conditions "might not be able to withstand the dehydration that can come with severe cyclosporiasis.”
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