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Trump Cussed Out Fauci; Midwife Destroyed Vaccines; Ian McKellen Hospitalized

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Last Updated June 20, 2024
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Former NIAID director Anthony Fauci, MD, revealed that using expletives in their early COVID conversations. (The Hill)

An upstate New York midwife pleaded guilty to and handing out fake immunization cards. (AP)

Hunters are helping scientists by sending any ticks on the animals they kill to labs to be tested. (CBS News)

even though they live longer than men and face different challenges. (KFF Health News)

Actor Ian McKellen, known for playing Gandalf in "Lord of the Rings," was during a stage performance in London, but is expected to recover. (AP)

In 2023, 25 million people of all ages -- 7.6% -- , according to the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics.

Half of U.S. military bases making it difficult for their families to receive care. (NPR)

Several Muslims from Jordan while making the religious pilgrimage to Mecca in scorching 120 degree temperatures. (Washington Post)

California to translate health information into multiple languages. (KFF Health News)

Japan reported a spike in cases of , a bacterial infection with a 30% mortality rate that spreads into deep tissue and the bloodstream. (CNN)

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) teed up action for the , which would enshrine first and second trimester abortion protections. (The Hill)

A suspected in Moscow has hospitalized 120 people, with 30 in intensive care. (CBS News)

Povidone iodine was noninferior to chlorhexidine gluconate in alcohol as preoperative skin antisepsis to prevent surgical site infections after cardiac and abdominal procedures, (JAMA)

The intravenous immunoglobulin therapeutic Yimmugo was approved to , Grifols said.

Contraception is supposed to be free under the Affordable Care Act, but Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said and patients end up paying. (Washington Post)

Between April 2020 and March 2023, more than one in five adults within 3 months, a cohort study showed. Vaccination prior to infection was associated with shorter recovery times. (JAMA Network Open)

Johnson & Johnson from a decade-spanning case about off-label marketing of HIV medications. (Fierce Pharma)