Nasal Sprays Recalled; 75,000 Kaiser Workers Strike; Healthcare AI May Run Amok

— Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by staff

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Biomic Sciences issued a nationwide recall of all lots of its after FDA testing discovered microbial contamination.

Some 75,000 health in Virginia, Washington, D.C., California, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington state over wages and staffing levels. (AP)

Previously undisclosed documents revealed an into WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, which he called a "smear campaign." (Bloomberg)

Nobel prize winner Katalin Karikó, PhD, said the 10 years ago because she couldn't get financial support to continue her mRNA research. (The Hill)

What's technology? (Nature)

Survey data showed the most common last fall was prior SARS-CoV-2 infection, followed by concern about vaccine side effects. (Vaccine)

We're about to let , a physician argued. (Fortune)

From January 2019 to August 2022, rose by 22% in the U.S. (JAMA Network Open)

Trans hospital patients in England will be in female-only and male-only wards under plans announced by the health secretary. (The Guardian)

U.S. officials announced and executives accused of supplying precursor chemicals to illegally make fentanyl and other drugs. (AP)

The CDC is COVID-19 vaccination cards. (CNN)

The is "anti-human," Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, MD, PhD, told Fox News.

The nine-banded armadillo may be behind a rise in , experts maintained. (USA Today)

Machine learning models predicted who might need . (PLOS Medicine)

Takeda said it will voluntarily (Exkivity) in the U.S. after a phase III trial did not meet the confirmatory data requirement for accelerated approval.

The Washington Post studied premature death in the U.S., analyzing county-level death records from the past 5 decades. Here's .

A New Jersey appeals court against Johnson & Johnson awarded by a jury to four plaintiffs who said they developed cancer after being exposed to asbestos in the company's talc powder products. (Reuters)

Intakes of rose globally between 1990 and 2018, with the largest increase in Sub-Saharan Africa. (Nature Communications)

A new book explored how medical research bodies. (NPR)

  • Judy George covers neurology and neuroscience news for , writing about brain aging, Alzheimer’s, dementia, MS, rare diseases, epilepsy, autism, headache, stroke, Parkinson’s, ALS, concussion, CTE, sleep, pain, and more.