The Centers for Disease Control restated their recommendation Tuesday that travelers should still wear masks while traveling on planes, trains and other forms of public transportation, despite a federal administration mask mandate being struck down last month.
Why it matters: Health officials say American travelers aged two and up should still wear a properly fitting mask or respirator over their nose and mouth when commuting and while indoors at transportation hubs such as airports or bus stations.
Why it matters: Oklahoma is the second state to pass a law modeled after Texas’ six-week abortion ban, which encourages private citizens to sue anyone they suspect has helped a person receive an abortion.
Patients who suffer a relapse in COVID-19 symptoms after taking Pfizer's COVID-19 pill Paxlovid should take more of the treatment, Pfizer's chief executive told Bloomberg in an interview.
Why it matters:Paxlovid is a drug authorized to help treat those at high risk for severe COVID-19 symptoms. But some patients are relapsing and experiencing symptoms again.
Recent opioid settlement agreements Teva Pharmaceuticals struck with three states could create shortages of treatment and opioid reversal drugs in the rest of the country, a pair of House lawmakers warned Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Why it matters: Letting a single company provide free treatments to entire patient populations could limit competition and undercut physicians.
House Republicans are dialing back their drug pricing goals and abandoning direct government negotiations and other signature policies from the Trump years.
The big picture: A new GOP plan to lower drug costs won't become reality as long as Democrats are in charge but sets key parameters with Republicans poised to flip control of the House in the mid-term elections.
The temporary expansion of the Child Tax Credit during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021 coincided with greater food security and may also have reduced children's consumption of sugary foods and beverages, according to a study in Health Affairs.
Zoom in: The observational study, led by the University of South Carolina, used surveys from nearly 600 households, as well as one taken three months later, to see how the monthly tax credits were being used.
Wildfires driven by strong winds continued to threaten northern New Mexico, forcing thousands to evacuate.
Driving the news: The Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak fire, which began as two fires that later merged, had burned 120,653 acres east of Santa Fe as of Monday afternoon. The blaze was about 20% contained, according to data from InciWeb, an interagency website that tracks wildfires.
Three abortion rights groups on Monday announced they plan to spend $150 million on the upcoming 2022 midterms "to ensure the election of reproductive freedom champions."
Driving the news: Planned Parenthood Action Fund, NARAL Pro-Choice America and EMILY's List said the investment will be used to fund voter outreach, advertising, mobilization efforts, polling and more to elect officials "up and down the ballot, from state legislatures, to [attorneys general] and governors, to U.S. congressional races."
Moderna's request for authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine in children under six years is amping up pressure on the Food and Drug Administration to act quickly on the shots.
Why it matters: Thursday's request from the vaccine maker threw another wrinkle in the delicate regulatory dance over when kids under 5 can be vaccinated at a time when plenty of parents are expressing growing frustration with the wait.
