Fauci: Never Been as Sick in My Life; Badminton for Sexual Urges? Tattoo Ink Recall

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“I’ve never been as sick in my life,” said Anthony Fauci, MD, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, about his recent hospitalization from West Nile virus. (STAT)

Would compensating kidney donors help address the severe kidney shortage? Newly proposed federal legislation wants to pilot the idea. (NPR)

Two Massachusetts counties plans to spray for mosquitoes after the state’s first case of the deadly eastern equine encephalitis in 4 years was detected, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced.

A federal appeals court cleared the way for Florida to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for minors. (AP)

In other court news, Planned Parenthood is challenging a new Missouri law that banned Medicaid funding from going to its clinics. (AP)

Some farmworkers working with bird flu-infected cows haven’t received personal protective equipment beyond gloves. (KFF Health News)

More than 500 therapists told ProPublica about the myriad of factors that led them to go out-of-network.

In new sex education guidance, teens in Hong Kong are being encouraged to seek distractions like playing badminton to fight sexual urges. (New York Times)

The WHO says that mpox can be stopped. Meanwhile, Germany plans to donate 100,000 vaccines to fight the outbreak in Africa. (AP via ABC News, Reuters)

In other mpox news, a passenger at a Brazil airport suspected of having the virus likely just had chickenpox, hospital officials say. (Reuters)

Stop & Shop said it will cease selling tobacco products at its hundreds of grocery stores by the end of the month.

The Biden administration awarded $100 million for navigators to help underserved people sign up for insurance coverage on the Affordable Care Act’s federal marketplace, HHS announced.

Is vaccine hesitancy impacting back-to-school shots? Data suggest yes. (Axios)

“Real Housewives of Orange County” star Vicki Gunvalson revealed that she was recently hospitalized with pneumonia that turned into sepsis. (Newsweek)

People are increasingly treating COVID like the common cold, complicating the social dynamics of when to stay home. (New York Times)

Several Sierra Stain tattoo pigments have been recalled due to microorganism contamination, according to the FDA.

A type 1 diabetes patient talks about her successful treatment with an investigational stem cell therapy currently in trials; the patient hasn’t needed insulin since last August. (Washington Post)

Pfizer launched a new digital platform called PfizerForAll that will offer telehealth services for patients to access treatments like nirmatrelvir/ritonavir (Paxlovid) and the company’s migraine pill rimegepant (Nurtec). (Reuters)

One of the last functioning hospitals in Gaza is evacuating as Israeli forces get closer. (AP)

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