Vanessa Trump’s Cancer; 3 Deaths Tied to Mystery Substance; Ebola Clinic Torched

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Vanessa Trump, 48, the former wife of Donald Trump Jr., announced she has breast cancer. (People)

Two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch died at age 41 after being hospitalized with a severe illness. (AP)

The Justice Department filed criminal charges against Minnesota autism therapy providers accused of $46 million in Medicaid fraud. (New York Times)

In a phase III study, patients with obesity treated with a 12-mg dose of the investigational triple-receptor agonist retatrutide dropped a mean 28% of their body weight over 80 weeks, Eli Lilly announced. Nearly half had weight loss of 30% or greater, levels typically only seen with bariatric surgery.

Planned Parenthood clinics in two states will begin providing “advanced provisions” of abortion medication for future use. (NPR)

The FDA will hold an advisory committee meeting next month to review Moderna’s novel mRNA flu vaccine, according to a notice in the Federal Register.

As vaccine policy at the federal level adopts a skeptical stance, here’s what Colorado is doing to maintain and even bolster access. (KFF Health News)

Investigators in New Mexico are trying to identify a mysterious substance that may have contributed to the deaths of three people and led to more than a dozen first responders being briefly quarantined. (AP)

In Tennessee, a death row inmate has been given a 1-year reprieve from his planned execution after a backup vein for the lethal injection could not be identified. (USA Today)

Actor Noah Wyle — who stars as Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch in “The Pitt” — told Congress that healthcare workers “should not have to beg for basic support from a system that they hold together.” (The Hill)

Citing 10 cases of locally acquired malaria in 2023, a CDC report warned that the U.S. is still susceptible to the reintroduction of malaria transmission.

Over a third of U.S. adults responding to the 2024 National Health Interview Survey said they experienced a sunburn in the prior 12 months, often despite sunscreen use, and 7.5% reported four or more sunburns. (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)

Radiologist Nicole Saphier, MD, the latest nominee for surgeon general, uses a tax break intended for farmers to shave dollars off her property taxes. (Politico)

A New York man who was a passenger on the hantavirus-hit cruise ship said the quarantine center in Nebraska feels like a prison. (NBC News)

People set fire to an Ebola treatment center in a town at the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo on Thursday after being stopped from retrieving the body of a local man. (AP)

The State Department ordered Americans returning from Ebola-affected countries to pass through Dulles airport in Washington, D.C., for enhanced screening measures.

Meanwhile, amid U.S. flight restrictions tied to the Ebola outbreak, an Air France flight bound for Detroit was diverted to Montreal after a passenger from the Congo boarded in Paris “in error.” (AP)