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The CDC is investigating an outbreak of 35 COVID-19 cases linked to its recent Epidemic Intelligence Service conference. (Washington Post)
The investigational anti-amyloid drug donanemab met its primary and all secondary endpoints measuring cognitive and functional decline in a phase III study, slowing clinical decline by 35% compared with placebo in people with early Alzheimer's disease, Eli Lilly announced.
From 2011 to 2020, the proportion of pediatric mental health emergency department visits nearly doubled and suicide-related visits increased fivefold. (JAMA)
The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that hospitals should not be forced to prescribe ivermectin to COVID-19 patients. (AP)
A Florida woman who was unable to get an abortion carried a baby without kidneys to term; the baby died shortly after he was born. (CNN)
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit against a Trinity Health hospital in Michigan for allegedly rescinding an employment offer to an applicant who refused to get a flu shot for religious reasons.
Survey data from AMN Healthcare showed 30% of nurses said they were likely to leave their career due to the pandemic, up 7 points since 2021.
Divers found the remains of a 19th-century hospital and cemetery on a submerged island in Dry Tortugas National Park near Key West, Florida. (ABC News)
Jonathan Sugarman, MD, MPH, a public health physician from Seattle, died while climbing Mount Everest. (NBC News)
The quality of high school education was linked with cognition nearly 60 years later. (Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment, and Disease Monitoring)
The FDA released a new draft guidance about decentralized clinical trials -- studies in which some activities occur at places other than traditional clinical trial sites.
The risk of rehospitalization in younger women after acute myocardial infarction was nearly twice that of young men. (Journal of the American College of Cardiology)
A link to an unsecured Google Drive on the American College of Pediatricians website exposed sensitive data including financial records, membership rolls, and emails spanning a decade. (Wired)
More than 5,000 tons of volatile organic compounds, some of which may be harmful to human health, were released in California in 2020, an analysis showed. (CNN)
Vermont became the first state to change its medically assisted suicide law to let terminally ill people from out of state use the law. (CBS News)
Sarepta's investigational gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, which faces an FDA advisory committee meeting next week, is stirring hopes and controversy. (NPR)
Vanda Pharmaceuticals sued the federal government over accusations that the FDA revealed trade secrets about its schizophrenia and sleep-disorder medications to the company's competitors. (Reuters)
Adults ages 50 to 65 who used the internet regularly were less likely to develop dementia. (Journal of the American Geriatrics Society)
Could a contraceptive vaccine work? (The Atlantic)