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Actor Noah Wyle, who played an emergency department physician in “The Pitt” and “ER,” was named People‘s Sexiest Man Alive.
Jennifer Shuford, MD, MPH, the CDC’s deputy director and chief medical officer, is leaving the Trump administration after a short tenure of 6 months, she confirmed to The Washington Post.
Four leading medical societies released first-of-its-kind guidance to help clinicians identify cardiovascular risk in girls and women early, the American Heart Association announced.
A Swiss woman being treated for Ebola in Nigeria was medically evacuated to Switzerland with her husband, officials said. (AP)
A national survey found two-thirds of adults were unaware of medications for alcohol use disorder (MAUD), and 16.4% said it was inappropriate to use MAUD as part of treatment. (JAMA Internal Medicine)
The University of New Mexico Health System faced a cybersecurity issue that forced it to divert ambulances and close its clinics. (AP)
Since 2009, the FDA has inspected only 7.6% of facilities abroad that account for 90% of fruit and vegetable shipments to the U.S., a Washington Post investigation found.
HHS said more than 250 hospitals signed a pledge to serve more nutritious food and strengthen nutrition education.
The agency also finalized a rule to reduce federal health IT certification criteria with over $1.5 billion in projected savings.
Lawmakers in at least 32 states have introduced legislation to limit or eliminate ultra-processed foods in school meals, according to Healthy Eating Research. (Washington Post)
Experts said that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s changes to the advisory committee on immunization practices are placing new vaccines in limbo. (The Guardian)
Cross-sectional data showed that transient ischemic attack care shifted away from inpatient hospitalization toward more intensive emergency department-based outpatient evaluations from 2013 to 2021. (JAMA Neurology)
A border crossing in New Mexico that had been closed for nearly 2 years over concerns about the flesh-eating New World screwworm was reopened. (AP)
Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is poised to lead the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee if Democrats flip the Senate in the midterms. (Politico)
The FDA approved talazoparib (Talzenna) in combination with enzalutamide (Xtandi) to treat metastatic androgen pathway modulation-naïve or -sensitive prostate cancer with HRR gene mutations.
An Illinois man faces federal charges for allegedly sending threatening letters containing a white substance to four members of Congress. (NBC News)
