Biden Health Update; RFK Jr. Floated White House Job; Nurses Opt to Strike

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President Joe Biden accomplished his tenth dose of nirmatrelvir-ritonavir (Paxlovid) Monday morning and his COVID signs have nearly fully resolved, his doctor reported.

Vice President Kamala Harris might reinvigorate the trouble to border the election round abortion rights. (Washington Submit)

Veterans Affairs division officers stated they’ll research how eradicating race from lung operate checks might have an effect on incapacity advantages for veterans, noting they anticipate a a lot smaller affect than predicted in a research revealed earlier this 12 months. (STAT)

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. floated a job in a Trump White Home overseeing a portfolio of well being and medical points as he thought of endorsing the previous president. (Washington Submit)

Regardless of authorized limitations, California lawmakers are pursuing laws geared toward defending youngsters from the potential risks of social media. (KFF Well being Information)

In San Diego, nurses at Rady Kids’s Hospital rejected a last-minute contract supply to up their pay by 25% over three years, and opted to strike as a substitute. (San Diego Union-Tribune)

The American School of Physicians issued a place paper outlining a regulatory framework for hashish. (Annals of Inside Drugs)

In Massachusetts, a lady was sentenced to three years of probation for calling in a hoax bomb risk at Boston Kids’s Hospital because the hospital was dealing with harassment over its surgical program for transgender youths. (AP)

At the least six individuals had been killed when a gunman entered a Croatian care dwelling and started capturing, in keeping with the nation’s public broadcaster. (CNN)

Haleon settled a shopper lawsuit that alleged its “non-drowsy” Robitussin cough and flu drugs triggered drowsiness, agreeing to pay $4.5 million and take away the declare from packaging and advertising and marketing. (Reuters)

In the meantime, a discontinued bronchial asthma treatment has left some sufferers scrambling, together with to the emergency division. (NPR)

The FDA authorized eculizumab-aagh (Epysqli) as a biosimilar to eculizumab (Soliris) to deal with sufferers with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria and atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome, Samsung Bioepis stated.

Abdul ‘Duke’ Fakir, the final surviving member of the 4 Tops, died at age 88 from coronary heart failure. (New York Instances)