Abortion Pill Fight Heats Up; Cancer Screening Still in a Slump; 5 Good Sleep Habits

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A lawsuit challenging FDA approval of the abortion drug mifepristone (Mifeprex) has the potential to undermine the entire drug approval process in the U.S. (STAT)

Could you repeat that? Health authorities said China's COVID epidemic is "basically over" but "not yet ended." (Reuters)

Too many people who are not obese are getting access to diabetes drugs that promote weight loss, creating problems for diabetics and the truly obese. (ABC News)

Cancer screenings for breast, cervical, and prostate cancer in 2021 remained lower than prepandemic trends. (Journal of Clinical Oncology)

States are scrambling to notify residents about the impending end of COVID-era support for food and groceries. (AP)

Moderna paid the NIH $400 million for a chemical technique key to its mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, but the dispute over which party invented the vaccine's central component remains unsettled. (New York Times)

Several major grocery retailers in England have limited customers' purchases of produce because of shortages resulting from weather-damaged crops in Southern Spain and Morocco. (NPR)

In a rare display of bipartisanship -- for a form of Medicare for all, no less -- Ohio lawmakers have asked the Biden administration to use an obscure provision of the Affordable Care Act to provide Medicare coverage for residents of East Palestine, Ohio in the aftermath of a train derailment and dispersal of toxic chemicals. (STAT)

The effects of climate change pose a growing threat to nursing home residents. (USA Today)

Following five good sleep habits added 2.5 to 5 years of life expectancy to adults. (CNN)

Regardless of political leanings, states increasingly have turned to Medicaid to improve healthcare for people released from prison. (NPR)

Indiana lawmakers voted to prohibit the use of state funds to support Indiana University's sexual research institute amid disputed allegations of child exploitation by institute founder and famed sex researcher Alfred Kinsey. (AP)

What's behind the recent wave of sadness among teenage girls: Here's what some of them had to say. (NBC News)

In response to growing use of ChatGPT and other AI-generated text, editors of many scientific journals now ask authors to disclose use of technology to produce manuscripts. (Science)

The West Virginia legislature overwhelmingly approved a bill that would allow concealed weapons on the state's college campuses. (NPR)

The FDA issued a safety alert advising restaurants, retailers, and consumers to avoid raw oysters harvested from Baynes Sound, British Columbia, because of possible norovirus contamination.

The agency also released a letter to healthcare providers, informing them of potential airborne chemicals from neonatal incubators.

The number of deaths during pregnancy or childbirth -- about 300,000 annually worldwide -- remains "unacceptable" despite a small decline in recent years, according to a report from the World Health Organization.

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