Doc Punished for Resident Sex; ‘I Will Never Arrest a Doctor’; Monkeypox Blindness?

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Nashville physician Ira Ellis, MD, was reprimanded for having successive sexual relationships with two resident physicians under his supervision. (WZTV)

The White House released its new national biodefense strategy to help the country prepare for future public health emergencies. (STAT)

Providers are frequently on the receiving end of racist-related comments, according to results from an ECRI report of 500 patient safety incidents related to race.

Infants of Black women were four times more likely to die when conceived through in vitro fertilization or other fertility treatments compared with babies born to white mothers, according to a study in Pediatrics.

Patients needing abortions are flocking to several clinics in Illinois now that neighboring states have outlawed the procedure. (St. Louis Public Radio)

The FDA issued an emergency use authorization to the first at-home COVID-19 test that includes a saliva sample.

Could the Omicron variant have originated in mice? (PNAS)

Researchers are hoping naltrexone, a drug commonly used for addiction treatment, can offer help for patients with certain long COVID symptoms like fatigue and brain fog. (Reuters)

A poison control center serving Delaware and parts of Pennsylvania is seeing a spike in severe cases of mushroom-related poisonings. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Wisconsin Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels said “I will never arrest a doctor” in relation to a Wisconsin law making it a felony for a physician to perform an abortion; his spokesperson later tried to walk back his comments. (AP)

A 51-year-old man in Brownsville, Texas who said he was hungry and had no place to go refused to leave the hospital and assaulted a nurse. (KVEO-TV)

Doctors are making their voices heard in midterm election campaigns, both as candidates and as activists. (Axios)

And speaking of making their voices heard, Pennsylvania doctors are speaking out against Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate Mehmet Oz, MD, saying that his history as a television physician undermines peoples’ trust in the medical profession. (WESA)

Blindness, scarring, secondary infections: Will some monkeypox infections hold long-term consequences? (STAT)

The Justice Department, on behalf of the FDA, filed complaints in federal court seeking permanent injunctions against six e-cigarette companies that are selling their products illegally despite prior warnings, the FDA announced.

An elementary school in Missouri has been closed indefinitely after the detection of “unacceptable” levels of radioactive waste that dates back to the creation of the first atomic bomb. (CNN)

Suicides in prisons and jails rose sharply during the pandemic. (Wall Street Journal)

The panic over “rainbow fentanyl” is obscuring the discussion over the drug’s bigger dangers, authorities say. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

The avian flu has killed a near-record number of chickens and turkeys — more than 47 million. (Reuters)