Illegal Ketamine Seizures; Doctors’ Strike Ends; Arsenic in Drinking Water

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Ketamine’s increasing popularity as a mental health treatment has been accompanied by a rise in the number of seizures of illegal ketamine by federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies. (Washington Post)

The House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced health care measures to promote price transparency and overhaul regulation of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). (Axios)

The FDA is delaying its decision about SRP-9001 (delandistrogene moxeparvovec), an investigational gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, until June 22, Sarepta Therapeutics said.

Resident doctors at ended a 3-day strike at Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens after reaching a tentative deal they said will bring their salaries closer to parity with their Manhattan colleagues. (New York Times)

Planned Parenthood intends to layoff between 10% and 20% of its workforce. (NPR)

Brain and spine implants enabled a man paralyzed from the waist down to stand, walk, and ascend a steep ramp with the aid of a walker. (New York Times)

We still don’t have enough evidence to determine how the COVID-19 pandemic began, experts said. (The Atlantic)

Lower water levels in Colorado appear to be increasing arsenic levels in drinking water (KFF Health News)

The CDC said 224 people in the U.S. who had surgical procedures at clinics in the border city of Matamoros, Mexico, may be at risk for fungal meningitis. Two deaths have occurred.

South Africans in Hammanskraal, an area in the city of Tshwane, are blaming their local government for a cholera outbreak that has killed 15 people so far. (Reuters)

Food insecurity is associated not only with unhealthy diets, but behaviors like emotional eating among adolescents. (PLOS One)

Former President Jimmy Carter’s faith is “grounding” him 3 months after he began receiving hospice care, his grandson said. (AP)

China is preparing for a new wave of COVID infections from XBB variants. (Washington Post)

A Federal Reserve survey reported that 28% of U.S. adults went without some form of medical care in 2022 because of the cost.