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Former President Joe Biden’s prostate cancer metastasized to the bone and has become painful and debilitating, his son said. (AP)
During his acceptance speech for the NFL’s Pro Football Hall of Fame, former 49ers running back Roger Craig revealed he has vascular dementia. (ESPN)
President Trump suggested support for the prosecution of Anthony Fauci, MD, shortly after Sen. Rand Paul, MD (R-Ky.), asked the Justice Department to take action for contempt of Congress. (Reuters via AOL)
The New York Times examined whether Fauci was indeed eligible to plead the Fifth while the Washington Post suggested any prosecution attempt would face court challenges.
Meanwhile, Sen. Bill Cassidy, MD (R-La.), and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) requested an update from the Justice Department on the criminal contempt referral for Ralph de la Torre, MD, the former CEO of Steward Health Care. (Becker’s Hospital Review)
“You can’t just trust a scientist, because scientists have biases, too,” Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told CDC employees during an in-person visit Friday, a year after the fatal shooting at the agency’s campus. (Washington Post)
The FDA said it will hold an advisory committee meeting in September to review Grail’s investigational blood screening test that’s intended to detect multiple cancer types.
An extra $3 billion in administrative costs each year at U.S. hospitals can be attributed to mandatory value-based payment programs, researchers estimated. (JAMA Health Forum)
Judy Cho, MD, has been tapped to lead the National Human Genome Research Institute, the NIH announced.
Hypertension during pregnancy? An intervention combining postpartum health coaching and self-measured blood pressure monitoring could help lower the risk of long-term uncontrolled hypertension, according to a randomized trial. (JAMA Network Open)
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is freezing her eggs. (The Hill)
Is social media misinformation on the birth control pill behind rising abortion rates? (NPR)
Dozens of House Democrats sent a letter to Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins after an investigation showed worsening access to mental health care for veterans. (ProPublica)
A New Mexico court ordered Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta to pay $567 million to address mental health harms to young people from its platforms. (AP)
As health officials in Congo tallied more than 4,000 confirmed Ebola cases, including over 1,850 deaths, experts raised concerns the Bundibugyo virus involved in the massive outbreak may be mutating. (Reuters via AOL, The Guardian)
A new concern amid the cyclosporiasis outbreaks, horrible rebound symptoms after antibiotic treatment. (New York Times)
Taylor Farms, the company whose iceberg lettuce has been linked to the large multistate Cyclospora outbreak, said it recalled some of its salsa and guacamole over potential Salmonella contamination from jalapeños.
And in Maryland, Cunningham Falls State Park had to be closed after rabid beavers attacked park-goers. (Washington Post)
NPR looked at a promising live-attenuated vaccine candidate for Shigella sonnei currently in trials.
Researcher Maura Gillison, MD, PhD, credited for proving the link between human papillomavirus and head and neck cancers, died at age 61 of a small intestine cancer. (New York Times)
Texas Children’s Hospital will open the nation’s first detransition clinic for transgender youth in October, Attorney General Ken Paxton said.
Yet another study is questioning the Lancet Commission’s more complicated obesity definition. (JAMA Network Open)
