Nurse Accused of Killing Babies; Mystery Carbon Monoxide Leak; Immune-Evasive XBB

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Neonatal nurse Lucy Letby, charged with murdering seven babies and attempting to kill 10 others at a hospital in England, was accused in court of injecting newborns with air and feeding them insulin. (Washington Post)

A mysterious carbon monoxide leak sent 32 children and daycare employees at a Pennsylvania daycare to local hospitals. (CNN)

Kids with respiratory illness are crowding emergency rooms, largely due to upticks in respiratory syncytial virus, enteroviruses, and rhinovirus. (NPR)

As hospitals close children’s units, where does that leave pediatric patients? (New York Times)

Poliovirus was found in Brooklyn and Queens sewage as New York extended its state of emergency. (NBC New York)

Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz, Jr., MD, who was accused of tampering with IV bags at a North Dallas surgical center, has been indicted on multiple federal charges. (Dallas Morning News)

A 1-year-old Spanish girl became the world’s first recipient of a successful intestine transplant from a donor who died of heart failure. (Reuters)

The Biden administration finalized a rule to strengthen the Affordable Care Act by fixing the “family glitch,” which would help about 1 million low-income Americans get coverage. (Fierce Healthcare)

Medical claims data may predict autism in young children. (BMJ Health & Care Informatics)

Glitazones were linked to a 22% reduced risk of dementia in U.S. veterans with type 2 diabetes. (BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care)

Here’s how a series of Twitter jokes about Yankee Candle reviews evolved into what one physician says may be a warning of surging COVID cases. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Is “medium COVID” the most dangerous COVID? (The Atlantic)

In the U.S., Omicron subvariant BA.4.6 — now responsible for 14% of cases — continues to slowly gain ground on BA.5, according to CDC data.

The XBB strain, a new COVID iteration driving cases in Singapore, may be the most immune-evasive yet. (Fortune)

Black women had less access to new mammography technology than white women within the same institution. (Radiology)

Researchers identified metformin as a possible drug that could be repurposed to treat atrial fibrillation. (Cell Reports Medicine)

A look at Rhode Island’s daring plan for supervised drug consumption sites. (New York Times)

The newly launched Walmart Healthcare Research Institute will help clinical research organizations, pharmaceutical companies, and academic medical centers recruit people for clinical trials, the company said.

A Pennsylvania woman was charged $50,000 for asthma medication and no one could explain why. (York Daily Record)

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will conduct an independent study about the role of seafood consumption in child growth and development, the FDA announced.

Vaccine trials on the Sudan strain of the Ebola virus that’s circulating in Uganda are set to start in the coming weeks, the head of the World Health Organization said. (Reuters)

Here’s why the Ebola outbreak in Uganda matters to the U.S. and Canada. (CBC News)