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Former
President
Joe
Biden’s
prostate
cancer
metastasized
to
the
bone
and
has
become
painful
and
debilitating,
his
son
said.
(AP)
During
his
acceptance
speech
for
the
NFL’s
Pro
Football
Hall
of
Fame,
former
49ers
running
back
Roger
Craig
revealed
he
has
vascular
dementia.
(ESPN)
President
Trump
suggested
support
for
the
prosecution
of
Anthony
Fauci,
MD,
shortly
after
Sen.
Rand
Paul,
MD
(R-Ky.),
asked
the
Justice
Department
to
take
action
for
contempt
of
Congress.
(Reuters
via
AOL)
The
New
York
Times
examined
whether
Fauci
was
indeed
eligible
to
plead
the
Fifth
while
the
Washington
Post
suggested
any
prosecution
attempt
would
face
court
challenges.
Meanwhile,
Sen.
Bill
Cassidy,
MD
(R-La.),
and
Sen.
Bernie
Sanders
(I-Vt.)
requested
an
update
from
the
Justice
Department
on
the
criminal
contempt
referral
for
Ralph
de
la
Torre,
MD,
the
former
CEO
of
Steward
Health
Care.
(Becker’s
Hospital
Review)
“You
can’t
just
trust
a
scientist,
because
scientists
have
biases,
too,”
Health
Secretary
Robert
F.
Kennedy
Jr.
told
CDC
employees
during
an
in-person
visit
Friday,
a
year
after
the
fatal
shooting
at
the
agency’s
campus.
(Washington
Post)
The
FDA
said
it
will
hold
an
advisory
committee
meeting
in
September
to
review
Grail’s
investigational
blood
screening
test
that’s
intended
to
detect
multiple
cancer
types.
An
extra
$3
billion
in
administrative
costs
each
year
at
U.S.
hospitals
can
be
attributed
to
mandatory
value-based
payment
programs,
researchers
estimated.
(JAMA
Health
Forum)
Judy
Cho,
MD,
has
been
tapped
to
lead
the
National
Human
Genome
Research
Institute,
the
NIH
announced.
Hypertension
during
pregnancy?
An
intervention
combining
postpartum
health
coaching
and
self-measured
blood
pressure
monitoring
could
help
lower
the
risk
of
long-term
uncontrolled
hypertension,
according
to
a
randomized
trial.
(JAMA
Network
Open)
Rep.
Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez
(D-N.Y.)
is
freezing
her
eggs.
(The
Hill)
Is
social
media
misinformation
on
the
birth
control
pill
behind
rising
abortion
rates?
(NPR)
Dozens
of
House
Democrats
sent
a
letter
to
Veterans
Affairs
Secretary
Doug
Collins
after
an
investigation
showed
worsening
access
to
mental
health
care
for
veterans.
(ProPublica)
A
New
Mexico
court
ordered
Instagram
and
Facebook
parent
company
Meta
to
pay
$567
million
to
address
mental
health
harms
to
young
people
from
its
platforms.
(AP)
As
health
officials
in
Congo
tallied
more
than
4,000
confirmed
Ebola
cases,
including
over
1,850
deaths,
experts
raised
concerns
the
Bundibugyo
virus
involved
in
the
massive
outbreak
may
be
mutating.
(Reuters
via
AOL,
The
Guardian)
A
new
concern
amid
the
cyclosporiasis
outbreaks,
horrible
rebound
symptoms
after
antibiotic
treatment.
(New
York
Times)
Taylor
Farms,
the
company
whose
iceberg
lettuce
has
been
linked
to
the
large
multistate
Cyclospora
outbreak,
said
it
recalled
some
of
its
salsa
and
guacamole
over
potential
Salmonella
contamination
from
jalapeños.
And
in
Maryland,
Cunningham
Falls
State
Park
had
to
be
closed
after
rabid
beavers
attacked
park-goers.
(Washington
Post)
NPR
looked
at
a
promising
live-attenuated
vaccine
candidate
for
Shigella
sonnei
currently
in
trials.
Researcher
Maura
Gillison,
MD,
PhD,
credited
for
proving
the
link
between
human
papillomavirus
and
head
and
neck
cancers,
died
at
age
61
of
a
small
intestine
cancer.
(New
York
Times)
Texas
Children’s
Hospital
will
open
the
nation’s
first
detransition
clinic
for
transgender
youth
in
October,
Attorney
General
Ken
Paxton
said.
Yet
another
study
is
questioning
the
Lancet
Commission’s
more
complicated
obesity
definition.
(JAMA
Network
Open)
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