Federal officials are expanding their testing for bird flu in slaughterhouses, specifically focusing on removing infected dairy cattle that were being culled for consumption, they told reporters on Tuesday.
Why it matters: It's part of ongoing efforts to ensure the food supply remains safe as officials race to tamp down the spread of the virus among dairy herds and poultry farms.
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden are visiting New Orleans on Tuesday to promote his cancer "moonshot," which aims to "end cancer as we know it."
Why it matters: Biden now has about four months instead of four years to cement his health care legacy since he withdrew from running for a second term.
Thirty-two states are experiencing a summertime surge of COVID-19, with infections growing or likely growing based on emergency room visits, according to updated CDC estimates.
Why it matters: Emergency visits for COVID have crept upward since the first half of May, coinciding with a busy travel season and more people congregating indoors to avoid extreme heat.
Connecticut, Hawai'i and Nevada were the only states with rates declining or likely declining.
Southern states — including Georgia, Kentucky and South Carolina — had some of the highest probabilities that the outbreak is spreading, the CDC estimated.
Doctors at hospitals in large cities around India pledged to strike indefinitely and halt elective procedures after the rape and murder of a medic in a state-run hospital, CBS News reported.
Why it matters: While other labor actions among health care workers around the world have pushed for improved pay or labor conditions, this strike is calling for better workplace security as well as justice for the 31-year-old health care worker.
The demands included a specialized law protecting health care workers from violence on the job and security measures such as cameras in hospitals, CBS reported.
⚕️ More than 100 pregnant women in medical distress who went to emergency rooms were turned away or negligently treated since 2022, an analysis of federal hospital investigations found. (AP)
⚠️ Three articles detailing trial results of Lykos Therapeutics' MDMA-assisted therapy were retracted by a medical journal over the failure to disclose investigator misconduct. (Endpoints News)
🏥 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered hospitals in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program to report the costs they incur for treating undocumented immigrants. (USA Today)
More than two dozen commonly available lab tests couldn't help diagnose long COVID in a study of more than 10,000 adults, leaving doctors still having to rule out other health conditions to confirm whether someone has the condition.
Why it matters: Almost four-and-a-half years after the pandemic began, one of the biggest challenges still is understanding, diagnosing and treating long COVID.
Weight-loss drugs are so ubiquitous that some health systems are scaling back bariatric surgery centers and recalculating other investments as they grapple with the drugs' potential for changing the prevalence of chronic diseases.
Why it matters: The class of drugs known as GLP-1s could lead health systems to pivot away from massive hospital towers with cardiology clinics, dialysis beds and joint replacement centers to facilities focused more on lifestyle and metabolic health.
Universal free school lunches could lead to fewer cases of obesity, improved attendance and fewer suspensions, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.
Why it matters: School lunches are becoming fodder for partisan politics with the selection of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz — an ardent supporter of free school lunch programs — as Kamala Harris' running mate, Food Fix's Helena Bottemiller Evich pointed out.
