Chocolate Recall Expanded; RFK Jr.’s Vast Vaccine Inquiry; Can NAD+ Boost Longevity?

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Spring & Mulberry expanded its voluntary recall of select chocolate bars because of possible Salmonella risk, the FDA posted.

While HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has toned down his public criticism of vaccines, he’s driving a vast inquiry into their relationship with neurologic and autoimmune diseases. (New York Times)

FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, MD, MPH, continued his work in the role, including public speaking engagements this week, despite an apparent White House plan to remove him from the position. (Politico)

A Dutch hospital quarantined 12 staff members after they breached protocol related to the handling of blood and urine from a hantavirus patient. (Reuters)

Scientific publisher Elsevier joined dozens of firms and individuals suing artificial intelligence (AI) companies over the alleged use of copyrighted works for training AI models. (Nature)

The Supreme Court extended a temporary pause on a lower court ruling, enabling abortion pills to be available via mail through at least Thursday. (The Hill)

The U.S. reported 49 new measles cases in the past week, according to the Yale School of Public Health. Here’s where they were.

More than 2,500 scientists sounded the alarm on President Trump’s dismissal of the National Science Foundation’s oversight board, writing in a letter to Congress that the “alarming attack” on research funding could place the U.S. at a disadvantage to rivals like China. (New York Times)

XD Investments is recalling Better Weather Fix Elixir products due to undeclared mitragynine (kratom) and mitragynine pseudoindoxyl, according to a notice on the FDA site.

The agency also announced it is soliciting input on drug repurposing efforts meant to help address unmet medical needs for a range of diseases and conditions.

Can nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) pills and infusions boost longevity? NPR looks at the evidence.

Findings from a registry study provided evidence for incorporating cardiac magnetic resonance and NT-proBNP to predict outcomes in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. (JAMA)

Charity care may be hard to come by at hospitals as the number of uninsured patients grows. (NPR)

Here is a look at rethinking suicide prevention as decades of research point to how lowering costs of living might help to move the needle. (KFF Health News)

Police continued their investigation after a Houston Methodist employee was stabbed inside a parking garage at the Texas Medical Center; the employee was recovering in the hospital and expected to soon be released. (KPRC Houston)

A Tennessee doctor aligned his practice of reproductive medicine with his Christian faith, limiting how many embryos his clinic creates, not discarding viable embryos, and not genetically testing embryos or donating them to science. (AP)

Could another circulatory system in the human body provide a link between Eastern and Western medicine? (New York Times)