‘Bob’s Burgers’ Actor Hospitalized; COVID Vax Trial Halted; Utah Measles Cases Rise

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Comedian and “Bob’s Burgers” voice actor Eugene Mirman is recovering after being involved in a flaming car crash. (TMZ)

Pfizer/BioNTech halted a large trial on an updated COVID-19 vaccine in healthy adults ages 50-64 due to low enrollment. (Reuters via MSN)

Experts are watching the new “cicada” variant of COVID-19 even if it doesn’t seem to cause especially severe illness. (WBNS)

A visa renewal pause has foreign doctors from 39 countries forgoing jobs and missing deadlines for fellowships. (Politico)

The amount of federal funding received by crisis pregnancy centers is murky, according a Government Accountability Office report, but the agency did trace $34 million awarded by HHS to 16 such centers.

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture to label processed meat as “carcinogenic to humans” because of links to colorectal cancer.

On Wednesday, Utah health officials confirmed 56 total measles infections in Uintah, Duchesne, and Daggett counties as part of the ongoing outbreak. (FOX 13)

The FDA expanded the indication for vanzacaftor/tezacaftor/deutivacaftor (Alyftrek) and elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor and ivacaftor (Trikafta) to treat cystic fibrosis in people with any variant that results in production of CFTR protein, Vertex Pharmaceuticals announced.

Rapper Megan Thee Stallion was taken to the hospital during a performance of Broadway’s “Moulin Rouge! The Musical.” (New York Times)

An investigational nitazene showed promise as a nonaddictive painkiller in a rodent study. (Nature)

There is growing acceptance that a male version of polycystic ovary syndrome exists. (STAT)

In mid-Michigan, one physician is left operating the only private primary care practice in Shiawassee County. (WJRT)

The Texas Medical Board disciplined an emergency doctor for not appropriately treating the infection of a pregnant woman who ultimately died. (12NewsNow)

New tobacco products are still pending FDA authorization due to caution by agency reviewers. (Reuters via MSN)