Whole Foods Hepatitis; Plane Crash Kills Physician; Docs Criticize Mask Ban Proposal
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Health news and commentary gathered by MedPage Today staff
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MedPage Today Staff
May 20, 2024
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Health officials warned that an employee at a Beverly Hills Whole Foods may have exposed customers to hepatitis A. (NBC News)
ADHD drug shortages may finally be easing, but the struggle for patients may not be over. (NBC News)
The scandal that caused thousands of people in the U.K. to become infected or die from blood contaminated with HIV or hepatitis C was avoidable and inflamed by a “subtle, pervasive and chilling” cover-up, a public inquiry concluded. (The Guardian)
Children who ate more ultraprocessed foods had higher measured cardiometabolic risk factors. (JAMA Network Open)
A Louisiana plastic surgeon and his two college-age children were killed in a private plane crash in Tennessee last week. (USA Today)
Virginia inmates were hospitalized at least 13 times over 3 years for hypothermia from the same prison. (AP)
The uninsurance rate in the U.S. held steady at 7.7%, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said.
The CDC released updated guidelines for preventing the spread of infection in K-12 schools.
The agency will end its free COVID vaccine program for uninsured people early due to a lack of funding. (The Hill)
Louisiana lawmakers are considering two bills that would reschedule mifepristone and misoprostol as controlled substances. (NPR)
Abortion initiatives in Colorado and South Dakota received enough signatures to appear on their ballots this fall. (AP)
Meanwhile, about half of Americans said they support an in-person doctor’s visit condition for obtaining abortion medication. (Reuters)
Almost a third of the most highly recommended facilities on a popular senior living referral site have been cited for neglect or substandard care. (Washington Post)
Moderna gained a win against Pfizer-BioNTech in Europe in a legal battle over the mRNA technology used in COVID-19 vaccines. (Reuters)
Doctors criticized a legislative proposal to ban masking in public in North Carolina. (NC Health News)
The Senate Finance Committee released recommendations to reform Medicare’s physician fee schedule.
A child in Ontario died from measles, the first death of its kind in over a decade. (Reuters)
The European Union’s health regulator may pull its approval for a drug used to prolong gestation over a possible risk for cancer. (Reuters)
A nail condition known as onychopapilloma may signal a rare disorder that predisposes people to BRCA1-associated protein (BAP1) tumor predisposition syndrome. (JAMA Dermatology)
A mouse study showed that a long-term ketogenic diet led to cellular senescence in normal heart and kidney tissues. (Science Advances)
One teen found out the hard way: getting an eyebrow wax while on topical retinoids can leave a burn. (People)
