Murder-Suicides Peak; Plan to Eliminate Hep C; Avoiding Daylight Saving ‘Hangover’

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Murder-suicides in the U.S. have reached a record-high. (Newsweek)

A federal judge ruled that federally funded family planning clinics that provide contraception to minors without parental consent violate Texas law. (NPR)

As the death toll mounted among children who consumed contaminated cough syrup, doctors in Gambia tried unsuccessfully to sound the alarm, and India drugmakers and other officials denied responsibility. (Reuters)

Medical malpractice lawsuits have surged in Pennsylvania following implementation of a state law that allows cases to be filed in counties other than the one where the alleged injury occurred. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

How sophisticated criminals defraud Medicare and Medicaid. (CNBC)

President Biden’s 2024 budget proposal asks for $11 billion for a national program to eliminate hepatitis C, and former NIH director Francis Collins, MD, PhD, coauthored an article encouraging the adoption of a such a program. (STAT, JAMA)

Voters in Missouri may get a chance to vote on a proposal to amend the state constitution to restore abortion rights. (AP)

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a safety warning against use of TureClos bicycle helmets, sold online by Walmart, because of noncompliance with federal safety standards.

Immigration activists and others protested outside a Pennsylvania hospital, vowing not to allow the hospital to send an undocumented immigrant — who has been in a medically induced coma since late December following an aneurysm and stroke — back to the Dominican Republic. (Morning Call)

A mother of four from Mississippi received a standing ovation at the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing in London after telling her story of how treatment that involved CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing had relieved lifelong pain caused by sickle cell disease. (CNN)

As the shift to Daylight Saving Time approaches this weekend, here’s some advice about how to avoid the sleep deprivation “hangover” that many people feel after the 1-hour time change. (NPR)

Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) inhabiting New York City have tested positive for multiple strains of the COVID virus, suggesting transmission from humans and the potential for the rats to transmit the virus back to humans. (mBio)

“Nano silver” supplements falsely marketed as COVID treatments are being recalled. (USA Today)

The CDC reported that approximately 14 million men in 13 African countries have undergone voluntary medical circumcision — which reduces the risk of female-to-male HIV transmission by 60% — since 2010 as part of an AIDS relief program.

California has suspended a $54 million contract with Walgreens after the company announced it would not sell the abortion pill mifepristone in more than 20 states where Republican attorneys general threatened legal action. (Bloomberg)

In Montana, lawmakers are considering new legislation that would loosen rules on childhood vaccination. (KHN)