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Anthony Fauci, MD, on Wednesday invoked the 5th Amendment and declined to answer questions from senators in a Republican-led committee hearing about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP)
Major Pharmaceuticals issued a nationwide recall of multiple doses of levothyroxine sodium tablets due to subpotency. (USA Today)
Citing a debunked link to autism, President Trump has been pushing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be more aggressive on curtailing vaccinations for kids. (The Guardian)
Meanwhile, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said the State Department will dole out the $600 million to Gavi, the global vaccine alliance, that was held up by Kennedy. (Politico)
CMS announced it will end a subsidy program aimed at keeping down Medicare Part D premiums.
The agency also said its “Medicaid Fraud War Room” stopped more than $203 million in improper payments in its first 88 days.
A for-profit hospital company in Illinois began cutting costs. Then a patient froze to death on its roof. (Mother Jones)
The FDA issued new draft guidance for making generics of blockbuster diabetes and weight-loss drugs such as semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound) plus other approved peptides.
Binge drinking and heavy drinking increased from 2011 to 2024 among pregnant women, a study in JAMA found.
The U.S. blood supply is alarmingly low and could put patient care at risk, according to the American Red Cross.
Michigan’s cyclosporiasis outbreak has reached 9,680 cases, including 160 hospitalizations, according to the state health department.
Yet a top FDA official insisted the U.S. food supply was safe. (New York Times)
Ron Duguay, a former hockey star of the New York Rangers who is being treated for stage IV colon cancer, collapsed at home and was hospitalized. (USA Today)
Colorectal cancer is also on the rise in an often-overlooked group: pregnant and postpartum women. (Washington Post)
Another kind of cancer — ovarian cancer — most often begins in the fallopian tubes, and knowing that can save lives. (New York Times)
The U.S. reported 62 new measles cases in the past week, according to the Yale School of Public Health. Here’s where they were.
A sixth person in New York City has died from Legionnaire’s disease. (ABC News)
Confirmed cases in Congo’s ongoing Ebola outbreak have reached 3,262, nearly the same as the 2018-2020 outbreak that is the largest ever recorded in the country. (AP)
Hotter summer nights are costing people an average of 56 hours of sleep per year. (NPR)
