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Apple Halts Watch Sales; FDA Database May Miss Red Flags; Babies' Tongues Cut

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Apple halted sales of certain versions of the Apple Watch in the U.S. and its blood oxygen feature. (CNN)

Americans' confidence in the U.S. medical system may be the lowest it's been in a decade, but 82% rated care provided by nurses as excellent or good, .

The Biden administration is after millions of kids have lost Medicaid coverage. (Politico)

In Boston, Steward Health Care System is alleging that its facilities violated physician self-referral regulations (the "Stark Law") and submitted false claims and statements to the Medicare program, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

An FDA database that tracks heart device-related harms may . (CBS News)

Lawyers for Planned Parenthood and other groups said they challenging Kentucky's near-total abortion ban. (Reuters)

Breastfeeding at 6 months was tied to higher during early childhood. (JAMA Network Open)

Amid a maternal healthcare crisis in rural America, ? (KFF Health News)

Here's a look behind the cancer drug shortage that's . (New York Times)

Journal paywalls might be , an executive at Frontiers journals said. (Time)

In 2024, all immigrants in California . (KFF Health News)

Thiazide diuretics may beyond what's indicated by drug labeling. (Annals of Internal Medicine)

Following a four-month strike, nurses at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey, . (Becker's Hospital Review)

In Europe, at least 215 million doses of COVID vaccines purchased during the height of the pandemic . (Politico)

This is why Oprah and WeightWatchers are . (NPR)

What is behind the "booming business" of ? (New York Times)

After performing for a crowd of doctors, a singer-songwriter . (Newsweek)

Pioneering transgender psychiatrist , died at age 85. (New York Times)

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    Jennifer Henderson joined Ƶ as an enterprise and investigative writer in Jan. 2021. She has covered the healthcare industry in NYC, life sciences and the business of law, among other areas.