Rabbit Fever Alert; Med School Faces Bias Claim; TAVR Program Still Under Fire

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Health officials sounded the alarm on the presence of tularemia, or “rabbit fever,” in northern Colorado. (USA Today via Yahoo!)

The number of ​confirmed ​Ebola ⁠cases ​in ​Congo rose to 635, ​including ​127 ⁠deaths. (Reuters via MSN)

In Congo, motorcycle taxi drivers engage the skeptical public with an Ebola awareness caravan. (AP)

Acting CDC Director Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, doubled down on the travel ban to stop Ebola from spreading to the U.S. (News Nation)

An American doctor completed quarantine in Prague after having been exposed to an Ebola patient last month. (Reuters via MSN)

The Department of Justice said it determined that the University of California Davis School of Medicine discriminated based on race in its admissions process. The school stated that the report is not accurate.

For patients with severe burn injury, high-dose IV vitamin C leaned toward more harm than benefit in the VICTORY randomized trial. (JAMA)

Organon said that tocilizumab-bavi (Tofidence), a biosimilar to tocilizumab (Actemra), received FDA approval for new indications to treat CAR-T cell-induced severe or life-threatening cytokine release syndrome and severe COVID-19 in adults and children.

Regardless of insurance type, nearly half of working-age adults in the country struggled to afford healthcare for their families in 2025, according to a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation survey.

The American Medical Association adopted a new policy that takes a stronger stance against physician practices being anything other than owned and governed by licensed physicians.

There was no improving the survival of unresponsive adults on mechanical ventilation after cardiac arrest by being more conservative with oxygen therapy, a randomized trial showed. (New England Journal of Medicine)

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is laying off 200 employees and eliminating 300 open positions. (USA Today)

Questions continue to surround a troubled transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) program in Montana that was ultimately terminated in 2025. (Montana Free Press)

Primary care patients can have difficulty remembering the specifics of their diagnosis and their prescription information, a cross-sectional study found. (CNN, Journal of General Internal Medicine)

“X-Men” actor Tyler Mane said he has a “super rare” breast cancer diagnosis as a man. (USA Today)

French sailor Charlie Dalin, who won the Vendee Globe race in record time last year, died from cancer at age 42. (AP)

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