Trump Vows to Veto Abortion Ban; Breast Cancer Climbs; Diagnostic Errors for 1 in 14

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Former president Donald Trump vowed to if re-elected. (Politico)

Vice President Kamala Harris has a from Black women voters, in part due to her attention to maternal mortality, reproductive rights, and gun control. (KFF Health News)

Rescuers are still searching for people in the Carolinas, where at least 166. (AP)

Dialysis solution maker Baxter International said its North Cove, North Carolina, plant is as the company assesses damage caused by Helene.

Breast cancer incidence each year from 2012-2021, especially among younger and Asian American/Pacific Islander women, the American Cancer Society reported. (CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians)

NBC News published the whose unclaimed bodies were given to the University of North Texas Health Science Center.

Swiss surgeons on a pig 5,780 miles away in Hong Kong using a PlayStation controller. (Fox News)

Over 73 days at Detroit Receiving Hospital, two patients were reportedly , according to police, and a third committed suicide. (WXYZ)

Steward hospitals in Massachusetts are by three local hospital groups. (WCVB)

NPR profiled Salim Abdool-Karim, MD, PhD, and Quarraisha Abdool-Karim, PhD, who won a Lasker Award for their public service work in HIV.

Also on NPR, a Johns Hopkins immunologist and new book author discussed the .

The proportion of female residents entering rose considerably from 2009 to 2022. (JAMA)

The Washington Post looked at in Kentucky struggling with addiction.

While the New York Times brought readers up to speed on (MASLD).

Who should pay for ? (JAMA)

Whether should prohibit patients from receiving an organ transplant is a complicated question. (STAT)

Harmful in one in every 14 hospitalized general medicine patients, a single-center U.S. study showed. (BMJ Quality & Safety)

The FDA's unified Human Foods Program and a new model for field operations went into effect as part of the .

In the past year, HHS said it expanded access to , enhanced syphilis surveillance, and increased awareness of the disease.

Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) urged the Federal Trade Commission to look at that pharmacy benefit managers may be using to create barriers to competition.

And Sen. Bill Cassidy, MD (R-La.), asked the FDA why it hasn't clarified how drug manufacturers should in the agency's Orange Book.

Philips Respironics issued and updated instructions for its Trilogy Evo, EV300, EvoO2, and Evo Universal ventilators to resolve previously reported and new safety issues. The devices may cause serious injury or death without correction.