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Health news roundup: Here are the latest developments affecting patients and practitioners, from medical research to health policy issues. Articles here address fentanyl, miscarriage, Covid-19, genetic testing, gender-affirming care, and obesity.

Morning Rounds Newsletter

First Opinion Jennifer Beam Dowd

Yes, everyone should get an updated Covid-19 vaccine

Some prominent public health voices are questioning the value of the updated XBB.1.5 vaccine for everyone. They’re wrong.

Health Devi Shastri - Associated Press

Say goodbye to the Covid-19 vaccination card. The CDC has stopped printing them

Health Bob Tedeschi

Watch: How George Washington’s teeth — from animals and maybe slaves — became an American legend

Health Eric Boodman

The ‘abortion queen’ wants patients to have ‘skin in the game.’ Is that restricting access?

Health Elizabeth Cooney

Does the risk of getting long Covid increase each time you get reinfected?

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Health Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: Medicare to cover more brain scans related to Alzheimer’s drugs

A STAT Documentary Hyacinth Empinado

Treating Rural America: The new country doctors

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Health Andrew Joseph

Major biomedical research funder Wellcome Trust names Røttingen as its new CEO

Health Anika Nayak

Chronic kidney disease raises risk of sudden cardiac arrest among Hispanics and Latinos

Health Nicholas St. Fleur

‘What I’m most proud of’: Nick Jonas talks about managing diabetes, his career, and building community

Health Felice J. Freyer — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: A fraught question for the children of Alzheimer’s: Is it coming for us?

Health Elaine Chen

Stroke deaths, despite advances in prevention, are set to near 10 million globally by 2050

Health Angus Chen

STAT Plus: Long underappreciated, gamma-delta T cells may be key to colon cancer defense, study says

First Opinion Wayne C. Koff, Eric E. Schmidt and Peter C. Doherty

The next frontier in biomedicine: AI models of the human immune system

Health Helen Branswell

Access to new tools to combat RSV in babies likely to prove challenging

Health Helen Branswell

FDA expert panel endorses idea of removing a component from flu vaccine

Health Elizabeth Cooney

Cancer drug shortage eases slightly, but it’s still ‘living from paycheck to paycheck’

First Opinion Michael H. Bernstein and Grayson L. Baird

Phenylephrine is no better than a placebo. What if that’s still better than nothing?

Health Matt Stout — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: Federal bill would keep addiction medication from triggering a child abuse investigation

Health Lev Facher

FDA calls for treatments for meth and cocaine addiction

The Readout Damian Garde

STAT Plus: The major biotech news updates you need to read today

Health Helen Branswell

FDA authorizes Novavax’s updated Covid-19 vaccine

First Opinion David Scales, Sara Gorman and Kathleen Hall Jamieson

How headlines about the RSV antibody injection could cloud parents’ decision-making

Health Annalisa Merelli

WHO recommends second malaria vaccine, hoping to address supply issues

Health Tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: Verily lands $38 million deal with CDC for wastewater surveillance

Health Helen Branswell

CDC proposes new antibiotics policy aimed at reducing STIs

Health Andrew Joseph

Bracing for rough respiratory virus season, European officials urge vaccination

Health Annalisa Merelli

Dianne Feinstein’s struggle with shingles reflects the long increase in cases

Health Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: FDA seeks to regulate lab-developed tests, closing the ‘Theranos loophole’