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Masks, Pandemic Gear Ditched; COVID Vocal Cord Paralysis; How Bruce Willis Coped

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

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As stockpiles expire, states are ditching in droves. (AP)

JN.1 is now the in the U.S., causing about 21% of new SARS-CoV-2 infections, according to CDC estimates.

A federal judge barred expert witnesses from (Tylenol) can cause autism or attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) if mothers take it during pregnancy, citing a lack of scientific support for the claims. (Reuters)

Here are solutions lawmakers, government officials, and industry experts to ease generic drug shortages. (New York Times)

The FBI to help healthcare facilities and other victims of the BlackCat ransomware group restore their systems.

The U.S. government in 2022 than Germany, the U.K., Italy, Spain, Austria, and France spent combined to provide universal healthcare coverage for all 335 million people in their countries. (STAT)

Scripps Clinical Medical Group in San Diego agreed to pay nearly $6.9 million to resolve allegations that it at age 75. (Reuters)

Interim trial data showed that omalizumab (Xolair) significantly increased the amounts of several common foods that could consume without a reaction, the NIH said.

Fatal occupational injuries from 2021 to 2022, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.

The FDA found at more than 2,000 times the agency's maximum level at a plant in Ecuador that made fruit puree pouches. (AP)

Many presumed cases of anthrax in Uganda , suggesting a second disease might be circulating. (New York Times)

Researchers reported the first known case of after SARS-CoV-2 infection in a teenager. (Pediatrics)

Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia to take over Pennsylvania-based Lehigh Valley Health Network. (CBS News Philadelphia)

A federal judge said the U.S. government will not be forced to turn over an unreviewed draft of a to attorneys representing people allegedly harmed by tainted water on the base. (Reuters)

The Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights coalition urged a prosecutor to against a woman who miscarried at home. (AP via The Hill)

Scientific American highlighted its stories of 2023.

Gamma brain wave stimulation showed promise in , according to a review in the Journal of Internal Medicine.

Here's a look at and his family coped with his frontotemporal dementia this year. (Fox News)

New research revealed how retrograde cricopharyngeus dysfunction -- the -- can affect quality of life. (Neurogastroenterology & Motility)

The SEC charged the former CEO of Stimwave Technologies with out of about $41 million by making false statements about one of the company's medical device products that included a fake, non-functional component.

"Trip killers" -- benzodiazepines or antipsychotics that people take to end a -- are a challenge for emergency physicians. (Emergency Medicine Journal)

The World Health Organization will close its equitable-access at the end of the month.

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