Pizza Company’s Recall; Google’s Mosquito Plot; Grammy Winner Suffers Stroke

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Champion Foods voluntarily recalled some batches of Motor City Pizza’s five-cheese bread for potential Salmonella contamination from milk powder, according to an announcement posted on the FDA web site.

Brazil and Italy ruled out Ebola in suspected patients as global containment efforts intensify. (NBC News)

Congo re-opened its main airport in the province hardest hit by Ebola with procedures in place to manage travel risks. (Reuters)

A global health foundation will invest $50 million to support development and eventual manufacturing of Moderna’s investigational vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola. (The Hill)

Google is seeking approval from the federal government to release 32 million sterile mosquitoes in California and Florida in hopes of eliminating those that carry disease. (KTLA)

Florida filed a lawsuit against OpenAI claiming the artificial intelligence (AI) company knowingly concealed risks of the platform, including providing instructions to children considering suicide. (AP)

AI-powered medication monitoring software designed to detect missing drugs missed that a nurse at a Tennessee hospital had been stealing fentanyl for months; his colleagues flagged his slurred speech. (CBS News)

The U.S. reported 36 new measles cases in the past week, according to the Yale School of Public Health. Here’s where they were.

The New York Times reviewed how HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s emphasis on personal responsibility often deviates from years of work in the public space to move away from blaming and shaming.

FIFA launched a women’s health and performance project, involving online training, research, and education initiatives, to spread information and promote research on the needs of female athletes. (AP)

The FDA approved cipepofol (Cypsedo) injection to induce general anesthesia in adults undergoing surgery, the Haisco Pharmaceutical Group in China said.

The agency also missed a deadline to ban electric shock therapy to manage self-injurious behavior in people with disabilities and autism. (STAT)

The FDA plans to issue draft guidance this week on how cell and gene therapy companies can speed up the development process. (Axios)

Peabo Bryson, the Grammy-Award winning R&B singer behind classic Disney hits, is under medical care recovering from a stroke, according to his representative. (USA Today)

Another Grammy winner, 94-year-old producer Clive Davis, was hospitalized for an upper respiratory infection, his agent said. (USA Today)

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