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COVID Hospitalizations Rise; DeSantis Targets Obamacare; Why Docs Are Unionizing

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

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COVID hospitalizations , surpassing 19,000 admissions in the most recent week reported. (U.S. News & World Report)

Meanwhile, health officials in Ohio are sounding in children, but experts say the cases are not related to outbreaks in China or a novel virus; CDC Director Mandy Cohen, MD, MPH, said the U.S. is currently experiencing . (CBS News, Axios)

Healthcare-associated in 2022, according to a new CDC report.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) says he if elected president. (CNN)

The Supreme Court will hear settlement plan to compensate victims of Purdue Pharma's addictive painkiller OxyContin, a settlement that shields members of the Sackler family from future opioid lawsuits. (NPR)

A Tennessee law that violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Department of Justice announced.

During the first year of the pandemic, increased 77% nationwide. (Science)

Two scientists who solicited millions from alcohol distributors for an NIH-funded study on the health effects of alcohol consumption from a committee producing federal alcohol guidelines. (New York Times)

A long-awaited could be delayed until 2024, according to two anonymous officials from public health groups. (NBC News)

Black kids and children enrolled in Medicaid may be for drug-resistant epilepsy. (STAT)

As U.S. smoking rates decline in most age groups, . (JAMA Health Forum)

Here's why some physicians and pharmacists are. (New York Times)

Most states don't warn residents when . (KFF Health News)

Lesbian, gay, and bisexual survivors of cancer in adolescence or young adulthood are compared with their straight counterparts. (Cancer)

A died after going into cardiac arrest following a team workout. (NBC News)

Medical innovations have allowed people with congenital heart disease to live longer, but more than doubled in recent years. (STAT)

Speaking of medical advances, when a South Dakota rancher was , an emergency physician 140 miles away helped guide paramedics to treat the wound. (KFF Health News)

Because of a shortage of home health workers and the high cost of care, themselves. (New York Times)

Pfizer danuglipron for weight-loss due to high rates of nausea, and will go back to early trials with a once-daily version of the oral GLP-1 agonist. (CNBC)

Could a panic attack? (USA Today)

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    Shannon Firth has been reporting on health policy as Ƶ's Washington correspondent since 2014. She is also a member of the site's Enterprise & Investigative Reporting team.