Expunge Nazi-Era Medical Terms? Off-Brand Wegovy Clinics Sued; Copy and Paste Bloat

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Names of doctors from the Nazi era can still be found in medicine: should “eponymous” disorders be expunged? (New York Times)

One in five office-based ob/gyns (20%) say they have been personally constrained in their ability to provide care for miscarriages and other pregnancy-related medical emergencies since the Dobbs decision, a Kaiser Family Foundation poll found.

A Missouri judge has broken a standoff in the state, allowing supporters of a proposed constitutional amendment legalizing abortion to start collecting signatures to put the measure on the ballot. (AP)

Meanwhile, the New York State Legislature passed a bill that protects providers who send abortion medications to states where the practice is banned. (CNN)

Outgoing CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, cites a sense of accomplishment and exhaustion in her decision to resign. (AP)

A prominent U.S.-funded researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology was one of three scientists who fell sick with an unspecified illness early in the COVID outbreak in China, according to former and current U.S. officials. (Wall Street Journal)

The FDA rejected approval of F2G’s olorofim, an investigational treatment for invasive fungal infections, the company announced; the agency said it needed more data.

Meanwhile, Premia Spine announced that FDA approved the company’s Total Posterior Spine (TOPS) facet joint replacement system.

States that have banned abortion are also losing the next generation of ob/gyns. (Wired)

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration should work harder to develop standards to help protect meat and poultry workers from infectious diseases, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office.

Novo Nordisk is suing clinics and spas allegedly selling unauthorized products containing semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy), the company’s drug for type 2 diabetes and weight loss. (CNBC)

A federal judge has struck down a law in Arkansas that bans transgender care for minors. (Fox News)

The New Yorker dives into the world of dying patients who want to try unproven drugs.

The tranquilizer xylazine seems to worsen the life-threatening effects of opioids when given to rats, NIH researchers found.

Electronic health records continue to suffer from “copy-and-paste” bloat. (STAT)

Widespread screening for severe combined immunodeficiency disorder, followed by early treatment, increased the 5-year survival rate of children with the disorder from 73% prior to instituting screening to 87% afterward, investigators found. (The Lancet)

A new film takes a close look at chronic Lyme disease. (STAT)