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Whole Foods Hepatitis; Plane Crash Kills Physician; Docs Criticize Mask Ban Proposal

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Health officials warned that an employee at a may have exposed customers to hepatitis A. (NBC News)

may finally be easing, but the struggle for patients may not be over. (NBC News)

Children who ate more had higher measured cardiometabolic risk factors. (JAMA Network Open)

A Louisiana plastic surgeon and his two college-age children were killed in a in Tennessee last week. (USA Today)

Virginia inmates were hospitalized at least 13 times over 3 years for . (AP)

The . held steady at 7.7%, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said.

The CDC released for preventing the spread of infection in K-12 schools.

The agency will for uninsured people early due to a lack of funding. (The Hill)

Louisiana lawmakers are considering two bills that would as controlled substances. (NPR)

in Colorado and South Dakota received enough signatures to appear on their ballots this fall. (AP)

Meanwhile, about half of Americans said they support an condition for obtaining abortion medication. (Reuters)

Almost a third of the most highly recommended facilities on a site have been cited for neglect or substandard care. (Washington Post)

Moderna gained a win against Pfizer-BioNTech in Europe in a technology used in COVID-19 vaccines. (Reuters)

Doctors criticized a legislative proposal to in North Carolina. (NC Health News)

The Senate Finance Committee to reform Medicare's physician fee schedule.

A child in Ontario , the first death of its kind in over a decade. (Reuters)

The European Union's health regulator may pull its approval for a over a possible risk for cancer. (Reuters)

A nail condition known as onychopapilloma may that predisposes people to BRCA1-associated protein (BAP1) tumor predisposition syndrome. (JAMA Dermatology)

A mouse study showed that a long-term ketogenic diet led to in normal heart and kidney tissues. (Science Advances)

One teen found out the hard way: getting an while on topical retinoids can leave a burn. (People)