The Food and Drug Administration and Juul agreed Wednesday to suspend their court case while the governmental agency conducts a review of Juul's e-cigarettes.
Why it matters: The agreement between the two sides comes after the FDA on Tuesday temporarily paused its order banning Juul from marketing and selling its popular electronic cigarettes.
Jackson Women's Health Organization, which was the only abortion clinic in Mississippi, officially shut down on Wednesday, just a day before the state's trigger ban is set to take effect.
Why it matters: Without the clinic, Mississippi residents will have no other option but to travel out of state in order to access abortion care.
The big picture: The survey, which was conducted the week after the court's opinion was issued, highlights what we already knew — that most Americans support a person's right to choose to end their pregnancy.
The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it's allowing state-authorized pharmacists to prescribe Pfizer's antiviral treatment Paxlovid.
Driving the news: It's a win for pharmacies, which had been pushing for the FDA to allow them to prescribe the medication, saying that it would ultimately expand access to the antivirals.
Pregnant people who get routine prenatal screening may be at greater risk of prosecution in states with strict, new abortion bans, even if they plan to continue the pregnancy, bioethicists write in the journal Cell Reports Medicine.
The big picture: It's another way the overturning of Roe v. Wade is subsuming other forms of reproductive health care.
Whole Woman's Health, one of the leading abortion providers in Texas, announced Wednesday that it is closing down its four locations due to the near-total bans that have been enacted in the state.
Driving the news: Last week, the Texas Supreme Courtblocked an order allowing clinics to provide abortions by letting the state's 1925 pre-Roe ban — which makes performing the procedure punishable by 10 years in prison — be civilly enforced.
Medicare patients were readmitted to hospitals less frequently in communities with more nursing home beds and primary care physicians, a new Health Affairs study shows.
Why it matters: Hospitals can be penalized when patients cycle through their doors repeatedly under the federal Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. But that program does not account for the continuum of care within each community that hospitals rely on to take their discharged patients, the study authors write.
An intra-state bidding war has broken out for the chance to house the headquarters of a multibillion-dollar new science agency aimed at curing major diseases — before the agency's structure has even been finalized by Congress.
Why it matters: The Advanced Research Project Agency for Health, or ARPA-H, is a pet project of President Biden's that would focus on breakthrough health care and technology innovations, looking for and funding ways to cure cancer, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes and more.
COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020 and 2021, accounting for 1 in 8 lives lost, according to a new review of death certificate data in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Why it matters: The virus exacted a huge human toll even after vaccines became widely available and indirectly affected other causes of death like heart attacks and strokes, in part by discouraging some Americans from seeking care.
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