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FDA Eyes Second Booster; The Queen Tests Positive; Paul Farmer Dies at 62

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The FDA has started reviewing data that could lead to of Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech's COVID vaccines in the fall. (Wall Street Journal)

Though new research is suggesting a single booster . (New York Times)

As most states drop or announce plans to drop their indoor mask mandates, Hawaii and Puerto Rico remain as the . (New York Times)

Access to COVID-19 pills may be in jeopardy over a . (Wall Street Journal)

As of Tuesday at 8 a.m. EST, the reached 78,529,492 cases and 935,991 deaths, up 610,440 cases and 13,938 deaths from this time a week ago.

Getting infected twice with two different Omicron variants is , according to a Danish study. (Reuters)

Family members of ICU patients with COVID-related acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) were compared to the family members of patients with ARDS from other causes. (JAMA)

Amid its worst COVID outbreak, Hong Kong for all 7.5 million of its residents. (AP)

As 95-year-old Queen Elizabeth for the virus, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson is , including that people with COVID-19 self-isolate. (AP)

Back here in the U.S., Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, announced that he and his family . (The Hill)

The FDA apparently learned of the foodborne illness linked to baby formula . (Politico)

an expanded approval for its Freezor family of focal ablation catheters to treat pediatric atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia.

While Abbott said it received an for its CardioMEMS pulmonary artery pressure monitoring device to include a broader population of people with heart failure, based on findings from the GUIDE-HF trial.

E25Bio , because they were unauthorized and may give false results, the FDA announced.

The agency also advised the public to steer clear of several FDA-regulated products at , which were subject to contamination and a rodent infestation at a distribution facility in Arkansas.

The Biden administration is facing backlash from conservatives over the at addiction treatment programs. (New York Times)

Around three quarters of parents think that when other medications don't work, and that it should require a prescription, a University of Michigan survey found.

Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, physician, activist, and co-founder of Partners in Health, from an acute cardiac event, the organization announced. He was 62 years old.

For , New York Times' personal health columnist Jane E. Brody, who joined the paper in 1965, takes a look back at the evolution of health advice over the past several decades.

  • Amanda D'Ambrosio is a reporter on Ƶ’s enterprise & investigative team. She covers obstetrics-gynecology and other clinical news, and writes features about the U.S. healthcare system.