Trump Vows to Veto Abortion Ban; Breast Cancer Climbs; Diagnostic Errors for 1 in 14

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Former president Donald Trump vowed to veto a federal abortion ban if re-elected. (Politico)

Vice President Kamala Harris has a surge of support from Black women voters, in part due to her attention to maternal mortality, reproductive rights, and gun control. (KFF Health News)

Rescuers are still searching for people in the Carolinas, where Hurricane Helene killed at least 166. (AP)

Dialysis solution maker Baxter International said its North Cove, North Carolina, plant is temporarily closed as the company assesses damage caused by Helene.

Breast cancer incidence continued to climb each year from 2012-2021, especially among younger and Asian American/Pacific Islander women, the American Cancer Society reported. (CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians)

NBC News published the names of more than 1,800 people whose unclaimed bodies were given to the University of North Texas Health Science Center.

Swiss surgeons remotely performed an endoscopy on a pig 5,780 miles away in Hong Kong using a PlayStation controller. (Fox News)

Over 73 days at Detroit Receiving Hospital, two patients were reportedly victims of sexual assaults, according to police, and a third committed suicide. (WXYZ)

Steward hospitals in Massachusetts are now being operated by three local hospital groups. (WCVB)

NPR profiled husband and wife researchers Salim Abdool-Karim, MD, PhD, and Quarraisha Abdool-Karim, PhD, who won a Lasker Award for their public service work in HIV.

Also on NPR, a Johns Hopkins immunologist and new book author discussed the pathogenic powers of fungi.

The proportion of female residents entering high-paying surgical specialties rose considerably from 2009 to 2022. (JAMA)

The Washington Post looked at pregnant women and young mothers in Kentucky struggling with addiction.

While the New York Times brought readers up to speed on metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD).

Who should pay for Alzheimer’s blood tests? (JAMA)

Whether marijuana use should prohibit patients from receiving an organ transplant is a complicated question. (STAT)

Harmful diagnostic errors occurred in one in every 14 hospitalized general medicine patients, a single-center U.S. study showed. (BMJ Quality & Safety)

The FDA’s unified Human Foods Program and a new model for field operations went into effect as part of the agency’s reorganization.

In the past year, HHS said it expanded access to syphilis testing and treatment, enhanced syphilis surveillance, and increased awareness of the disease.

Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) urged the Federal Trade Commission to look at “co-manufacturing” agreements that pharmacy benefit managers may be using to create barriers to competition.

And Sen. Bill Cassidy, MD (R-La.), asked the FDA why it hasn’t clarified how drug manufacturers should list their products’ patents in the agency’s Orange Book.

Philips Respironics issued mandatory software corrections and updated instructions for its Trilogy Evo, EV300, EvoO2, and Evo Universal ventilators to resolve previously reported and new safety issues. The devices may cause serious injury or death without correction.

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