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During a visit to Florida, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. also spoke about two recent measles deaths, claiming Pennsylvania health officials are withholding information about the cases. The state's health department confirmed to ABC News that an infant was one of the measles-associated deaths.
The drug, daraxonrasib, was approved Wednesday and will be sold under the name Rasonque. In clinical trials, patients who were given the drug showed nearly double the average survival time compared with those treated with chemotherapy.
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Turkish antitrust authorities this month launched the probe into whether Teva Pharmaceuticals manipulated the patent system to squash competition, Stat reported. Teva has denied any wrongdoing and agreed to cooperate with investigators.
The city and the state's Department of Housing are teaming up to build 47 affordable housing units across the street from Saint Mary’s Hospital and a couple miles from Waterbury Hospital. Connecticut is also in early-stage talks with two other hospitals about opportunities for affordable housing development, The CT Mirror reported.
U.S. Rep. Nikki Budzinski, D-Illinois, has sent an inquiry to the CEO of Gateway Regional Medical Center and to the head of Los Angeles-based American Healthcare Systems, which owns the facility, after reports of the hospital’s inability to pay employees, staffing issues, and disruptions in care for critically ill patients, St. Louis Public Radio reported.
For the past two decades, the country music icon — who died Tuesday at age 80 — donated millions of dollars to numerous medical and scientific establishments. Her gifts helped fund the Moderna covid vaccine, a pediatric cancer center, a women's health center, and more.
"There’s real-life consequences to scaring people and not relying on actual doctors, actual medical professionals, to provide unbiased information," the governor said, noting that not one person confirmed to have measles in the current outbreak has been fully vaccinated. Almost 400 cases of measles have been confirmed in Pennsylvania, nearly half of them in Lancaster County.
Nothing in federal law “contemplates conditions based solely on a perception that the programs are inconsistent with the President’s views on hot-button issues,” read the ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. The administration had sought to withhold grant funding from local entities whose policies didn't align with the government's.
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Although the administration has reduced costs for some medications used for in vitro fertilization, it has not taken other measures — such as making IVF free — to ease the burden for women seeking fertility options. Republicans have turned their attention elsewhere, NBC News reported.
Social Security may not be enough to cover the increase of food prices nationwide, leading many to cut back on buying fresh produce in favor of cheaper ultra-processed foods. According to AARP, 17% of adults over 50 rely on credit cards for basic living expenses, including food and healthcare.
MedPage Today reported that in regions of the U.S. with a high prevalence of tick-induced alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), researchers found that people with type O blood who received B or AB platelet or plasma units were nearly four times more likely to have an allergic transfusion reaction compared with those who received O units. Researchers said the findings would likely lead to a change in transfusion practices.
Researchers noted that the rate of actual chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, is likely higher given that not all players' brains were tested after they died. “I bet the real number is a lot bigger,” said former Tampa Bay Buccaneers center Randy Grimes, who lost two teammates who were found to have had CTE. Scientists hope this information leads to reforms to minimize the disease's occurrence.
Floridians have 21 days to comment about a proposed rule that would lift a requirement for children to be vaccinated against chickenpox, hepatitis B, Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib), and pneumococcal disease. In the private school sector, Catholic bishops say they will stand their ground in rejecting vaccine exemptions for their students.
The NIH's updated policy requires that manuscripts be publicly available as soon as they are published. In light of this, publishers require hefty open-access payments to compensate them for lost subscriptions caused by the new policy, MedPage Today reported. But NIH specifically disallows the use of its funds to pay for submissions.
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