Car Crashes Into ICU; Leg Amputations After Risky Procedure; CDC Funding Slashed

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A car crashed into a Fort Washington, Maryland medical center on Sunday, disrupting ICU services to the degree that patients needed to be transferred. (Washington Post)

Anti-vax presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. disputed a report that he implied COVID-19 was "ethnically targeted" to spare Jewish people. (CNBC)

Britain's National Health Service is in crisis. (New York Times)

Canada's expanded criteria for medically assisted death will include those with incurable conditions, including anorexia. (Reuters)

Federal investigators have arrested members of what they say is a national network for buying and selling human remains stolen from Harvard Medical School and a mortuary in Arkansas. (AP)

Mississippi will now allow childhood vaccination exemptions for religious reasons. (AP)

In Kentucky, a ban on gender-affirming care in youth will now take effect after a judge lifted an injunction. (The Hill)

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) signed into law a bill that bans abortions as early as 6 weeks into pregnancy. (CNN)

The FDA has expanded the approval of remdesivir (Veklury) to include COVID-19 patients with severe renal impairment, Gilead Sciences announced.

Health insurance plans may not cover norgestrel (Opill) -- now approved as an over-the-counter birth control pill -- without a prescription. (CNBC)

Fueled by device companies, doctors are performing more risky atherectomies than ever, costing some patients with peripheral artery disease their legs. (New York Times)

Did U.S. hospitals take more COVID relief funds than they needed? (JAMA Health Forum)

Indiana police are asking the state to revoke the license of a new addiction treatment center after three patients died within a week. (AP)

A Maryland doctor is pleading guilty to charges of fraud and conspiracy over a kickback scheme involving bribes to Medicaid beneficiaries in exchange for visits to her mental health clinic, the U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Maryland announced.

The CDC expects a $1.3 billion slash to their funding following debt ceiling negotiations, a move expected to strain many public health departments, according to CNN.

Though perhaps not in Indiana, which just boosted funding to local health departments by 1,500%. (Politico)

Potentially deadly temperatures put a third of Americans under extreme heat advisories Saturday, many in the Southwest and California. (AP)

New research on celiac disease uncovers possible explanation for gluten's effects on the immune system. (Science Immunology)

Researchers in Africa, Asia, and South America continue their push to share mRNA technology after being denied enough COVID-19 vaccines while wealthier nations stocked up. (Washington Post)

Nearly half of tuberculosis cases in prisons globally go undetected, according to new research in Lancet Public Health.

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