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1. Cyclospora Boosts Fears That Deadlier Foodborne Outbreaks Are Ahead The recent outbreak of a foodborne parasite sickened thousands and hospitalized hundreds across the U.S. before federal investigators identified the suspected source. Food safety experts say cuts to the public health system hobbled the response — and that the next outbreak could be much worse. (Kate Wells and Stephanie Armour, 7/28)
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Outbreaks and Health Threats
4. Cyclospora Outbreak Prompts Inquiry Into Lettuce Supplier's Ties To White House
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) has requested documents from Taylor Farms, the White House, the FDA, and the CDC that could shed light on reports that company executives and government officials sought "to distance the company from the outbreak and cast doubt on the officials’ conclusion," The Hill reported.
The Hill: Lawmaker Seeks Records On Taylor Farms And White House Connections Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, on Monday called on Taylor Farms to provide information about its connections with the White House amid a parasitic outbreak potentially linked to the company’s lettuce supply. Garcia wrote a letter to Taylor Farms CEO Bruce Taylor questioning whether the company used its influence on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) investigation into the outbreak. (Mancini, 7/27)
The Hill: Survey Finds Cyclospora Outbreak Changing Food Habits, Less Trust In FDA A poll released Sunday shows that 40 percent of U.S. adults are buying or eating less produce after the cyclospora outbreak. Comparatively, according to survey results from CBS/YouGov, 4 percent of people said they are eating more produce. Among respondents, 56 percent said there has been no change in their diet. Earlier this month, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched an investigation into the outbreak. (Fields, 7/27)
CNBC: Cyclospora Outbreak Shows Risks Of Consolidated Food Supply The cyclospora outbreak that has sickened thousands in the U.S. is drawing renewed attention to a decades-long shift in how fresh food moves through the country. While investigators work to identify the original source of contamination, some food safety experts say the industry’s centralized sourcing and distribution networks after a wave of consolidation can help turn what once may have been an isolated contamination event into a multistate outbreak. (Gomez, 7/27)
KFF Health News: Cyclospora Boosts Fears That Deadlier Foodborne Outbreaks Are Ahead The next foodborne illness outbreak could be much worse. That’s the concern of food safety leaders across the U.S. who are raising alarms over federal cuts they say have made it harder to detect and stop the spread of foodborne illnesses, such as the recent outbreaks of cyclospora, which has sickened thousands in dozens of states. And they’re especially worried the next pathogen will be much more deadly. (Wells and Armour, 7/28)
On salmonella —
CIDRAP: Egg-Related Salmonella Outbreak Sickens Nearly 100 In 17 US States Midwest Poultry Services has recalled 1.6 million cartons of eggs, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a food-safety alert about a 98-case Salmonella outbreak in 17 states. The CDC, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and public health authorities are investigating the outbreak, which has led to 26 hospitalizations. Among the 44 patients interviewed, 91% said they ate eggs before symptom onset. The FDA traced the cases to Midwest Poultry Services. (Van Beusekom, 7/27)
On vaccine exemptions and long covid —
HR Dive: Previous Vaccinations Shouldn’t Bar Worker’s Religious Vaccine Exemption Request, 9th Circuit Says The 9th Circuit’s analysis turned upon the question of whether the plaintiff had sufficiently communicated to her employer how her sincerely held religious belief conflicted with its vaccine mandate. Under both Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act, religious discrimination plaintiffs must show that they have a “bona fide religious belief” that conflicts with an employment duty, the court said. The plaintiff also must have informed the employer of the conflict and be able to show that the employer threatened the employee with, or subjected them to, discriminatory treatment because of that conflict. (Golden, 7/27)
CIDRAP: Many Black US Patients With Long COVID Being Missed, Analysis Reveals A new study suggests that Black patients with acute COVID-19 infection are less likely to be diagnosed as having long COVID than White patients, despite no significant difference in long-COVID symptom burden between the two groups. For the study, published this month in Health Affairs, researchers led by a team at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley analyzed electronic health records for roughly 2.4 million US patients diagnosed with acute COVID from January 1, 2022, to March 31, 2023. The researchers identified six race and ethnicity categories and 222 symptoms within one year after infection. (Bergeson, 7/27)
The latest on the Ebola outbreak —
CIDRAP: First Volunteer Vaccinated In Ebola Vaccine Trial The first volunteer has been vaccinated in a phase 1 trial of an investigational vaccine that targets the Bundibugyo virus. The trial is assessing the safety and immune response of ChAdOx1 BDBV in 50 healthy volunteers aged 18 to 55 years. The vaccine was developed by researchers with the Oxford Vaccine Group, which is conducting the trial with support from the Serum Institute of India and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness. (Dall, 7/27)
Medical Xpress: Stockpiled Ebola Vaccines Trigger Antibody Response Against Bundibugyo Virus In Lab Tests Because there was no licensed vaccine designed specifically for the virus, researchers wanted to know whether vaccines already used for the more common Zaire ebolavirus could be repurposed to help protect people against Bundibugyo virus. Although existing vaccines were designed specifically for the Zaire strain of Ebola, they still activated immune mechanisms that helped the body build a defense against the related Bundibugyo virus. (7/27)
Reuters: Uganda's Health Minister Declares Country Free Of Ebola Uganda's health minister declared the country Ebola-free on Tuesday following the East African nation's latest outbreak of the viral haemorrhagic disease that infected 20 people and killed two of them. Fifteen people in the latest outbreak, declared in mid-May, were infected in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo - the epicentre of the epidemic where the number of confirmed cases now stands at more than 3,000. (7/28)
Administration News
5. Ahead Of Fauci Hearing, Diary Entries Reveal Frustration Over Faltering Covid Response
Former NIH scientist Anthony Fauci wrote about President Donald Trump's insistence to put a positive spin on the coronavirus outbreak that began in 2020 and his own challenges in handling the public health crisis. He is set to testify Wednesday on Capitol Hill, where Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is expected to grill him about the origins of the outbreak.
The Washington Post: Fauci’s Diary Released, Revealing His Thoughts On Fame And ‘Rambling’ Trump Anthony S. Fauci, the National Institutes of Health scientist who helped lead the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic before stepping down in late 2022, privately complained about President Donald Trump’s “rambling” and reveled in media coverage of his role, according to personal diary entries released this weekend by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky). Paul, who is investigating the origins of covid-19, has called Fauci to testify on the pandemic before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday. (Westfall and Diamond, 7/27)
More about the Trump administration —
Politico: Trump And Democratic States Clash In Court Over Who’s Too Sick To Work Democratic attorneys general and the Justice Department are facing off for the first time in court Tuesday over the fine line between being sick and being “medically frail,” a distinction that could cost Medicaid recipients their health benefits. At stake is a key part of a new Trump administration rule imposing work requirements on Medicaid, the state-federal health insurer for low-income people, starting in January. How a Boston judge comes down will determine who in Medicaid’s expansion population — typically low-income people without young children — must work, volunteer or go to school for 80 hours a month to keep their benefits. (Ollstein and King, 7/28)
The Hill: Trump Aid Cuts Put HIV Response At Risk, Reports Show Funding for the global HIV response plunged in 2025, entirely due to a steep decline in U.S. support, according to reports from KFF and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). Taken together, the reports, released at the International AIDS Conference, show decades of progress to combat HIV is at risk. The current HIV response is fragile, and the world is not on track to achieve the 2030 goal of ending AIDS as a public health threat. (Weixel, 7/27)
ProPublica: New Trump Rule Could Exclude U.S. Scientists From Critical Discoveries For decades, physicists wrestled with a fundamental mystery of the universe. They wanted to know why certain particles — like the protons in atoms — have mass, while particles of light do not. Whatever the reason was, it was crucial to understanding the origins of planets, galaxies and life itself. ... Doing so would require one of the most ambitious international collaborations in scientific history. Starting decades ago, thousands of scientists from dozens of countries worked side by side, even though some of their nations considered one another adversaries. The United States contributed a quarter of the workforce and hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. (Song, 7/27)
Stat: CMS Assesses Health Tech Progress, Reveals New Pledges It was a skit worthy of an Agatha Christie whodunit reveal: Against the perhaps-too-joyous strains of a jazzy “When The Saints Go Marching In,” a gaggle of health IT professionals and Medicare staffers accompanied a Spirit Halloween-style coffin prop onstage at Health and Human Services headquarters on Monday. Some wore black veils, some held white roses. The coffin read, “RIP CLIPBOARD,” referring to the decades-old information-gathering staple of health care provider waiting rooms. (Trang, 7/28)
Modern Healthcare: Why CMS' Medicare Enrollment Crackdown Is Alarming Providers A plan to toughen the Medicare provider enrollment process is fomenting frustration and anxiety among providers who worry the purported anti-fraud measure would capture law-abiding practitioners and tangle all of them in red tape. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published a proposed rule this month that would broaden its authority to bar new and existing providers suspected of fraud from Medicare reimbursement starting next year. The policy is tucked inside a draft regulation to set home health payments for 2027, but would apply to all providers and suppliers. (Early, 7/27)
On school nutrition —
The Washington Post: Big Banana Shortage Avoided In School Cafeterias This Year The back-to-school banana shortage has been averted … at least for now. School cafeterias will still be able to buy as many bananas and other foreign products as they need this year, despite new “Buy American” restrictions. (Wallack, 7/28)
Lifestyle and Health
6. Youth Mental Health, Drug Use Improving On Multiple Fronts, Federal Data Show
The AP reported on the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, which showed hopeful trends related to adolescents' substance use, depressive episodes, suicidal thoughts, and more. Also: protections for neurodivergent kids, the impact of cellphones on kids' reading comprehension, how financial stress can damage the brain, and more.
AP: Federal Survey Shows Promising Youth Mental Health Trends A key U.S. government report on mental health, substance use and addiction showed continued improvements in several metrics, especially among young people. There was some uncertainty about the future of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health last year, when the entire 17-member team responsible for it was laid off by the Trump administration. But the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration released the latest report Monday, with data that lets researchers look at trends from 2021 to 2025. (Shastri, 7/27)
Los Angeles Times: Neurodivergent Kids Face Special Mental Health Risks. New Initiative Seeks Ways To Protect Them Like many young people with a diagnosis of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, Jacob Schreiber was creative, empathetic and endlessly curious. He found deep satisfaction in composing music and studying the stars. He took solace in understanding how and why the world worked as it did. His 2024 death from suicide at age 19 devastated his loved ones. In their grief, Schreiber’s family has turned to the questions Jake grappled with his whole life. (Purtill, 7/24)
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In other health and wellness news —
Phys.org: Kids Who Own Cellphones Have Poorer Reading Comprehension Scores Than Those Who Don't, Researchers Find School cellphone bans might seem like a good way to improve learning for elementary school children, but new research published in Behavioral Sciences shows that simply owning a cellphone correlates with worse reading comprehension. Whether a child brings the phone to school made no difference in reading comprehension, the team of UCLA psychologists and researchers found. (Ober, 7/27)
The Washington Post: How Financial Stress Can Affect The Brain Over The Long Term The stress of being poor can cause long-term damage to your brain, according to a new study. British scientists examined a group of more than 2,700 people who were all born in March 1946, meaning they are now 80 years old, who agreed to have their health and social circumstances tracked for years. (Weil, 7/27)
MedPage Today: Brain Worm Culprit In Woman's Hallucinations, Incoherent Speech A previously healthy 52-year-old woman entered the emergency department with a 4-month history of headaches and visual hallucinations. For the past month, her speech was incoherent. When she reached the hospital, the patient was awake and alert, but unable to follow simple commands. Her speech was fluent but nonsensical, with paraphasic errors and impaired naming and repetition, reported Rolter Lorenz Lee, MD, of the University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, and Bonifacio Pedregosa II, MD, of the Jose R. Reyes Memorial Medical Center in Manila in the Philippines, in the New England Journal of Medicine. (George, 7/27)
The New York Times: Hiker Trekked 10 Miles To Safety After Impaling Himself On Pole David Cifaldi was hiking up Granite Peak, Montana’s tallest mountain, last week when he slipped and fell on one of his trekking poles. A wound nurse, he went into survival mode. (Tumin, 7/27)
In celebrity news —
Yahoo Entertainment: Carly Simon Reveals She's Been Diagnosed With Parkinson's Disease Carly Simon is opening up about her health, revealing she has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Simon, 81, shared the diagnosis in a statement to ABC News on Monday, explaining that she has spent time learning to live with the progressive neurological disorder and deciding whether to discuss it publicly. (Najib, 7/27)
Pharma and Tech
7. FDA Approves Pill That Offers New Way To Treat ADHD In Those As Young As 6
Centanafadine is a once-daily, extended-release capsule and the first and only norepinephrine, dopamine, and serotonin reuptake inhibitor (NDSRI) approved for the treatment of ADHD, said Otsuka, which developed the drug and will market it under the name Simtriyo. Also in the news: oral antibiotics for kids with pneumonia; AI to help with gene editing; and more.
MedPage Today: First-In-Class Drug For ADHD Wins FDA Approval The FDA approved oral centanafadine (Simtriyo), a first-in-class triple reuptake inhibitor for attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Otsuka announced late last week. The once-daily extended-release capsule -- a norepinephrine, dopamine, and serotonin reuptake inhibitor that functions as a central nervous system stimulant -- is indicated for patients ages 6 years and older who weigh at least 20 kg (44 lb). "By inhibiting the reuptake of norepinephrine, dopamine, and serotonin, Simtriyo increases the availability of these neurotransmitters in pathways involved in attention and behavioral regulation," the drugmaker explained. (Monaco, 7/27)
More pharma and tech developments —
Stat: FDA Questions The Efficacy Of Capricor's Duchenne Drug The Food and Drug Administration said Monday that Capricor Therapeutics’ stem cell treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy did not meet the objectives of a Phase 3 trial — contrary to the company’s claims last year. (Mast, 7/27)
CIDRAP: Trial Supports Switch From IV To Oral Antibiotics For Kids With Severe Pneumonia A trial of young children in sub-Saharan Africa with severe pneumonia found that switching from intravenous (IV) to oral antibiotics after clinical improvement is safe and effective, a finding that could allow for earlier release from the hospital, researchers reported last week in The Lancet. Although severe pneumonia is not as deadly as it once was in children, it’s still a leading cause of childhood mortality and hospitalization worldwide, particularly in resource-limited regions. (Dall, 7/27)
Stat: How A Single Rare Disease, AATD, Sparked A Biotech Gold Rush Biotechs are spending billions to cure a rare liver disorder most Americans have never heard of. The contentious race features dueling technologies, patent wars, a broken alliance, and a boiling competition between the U.S. and Chinese drug industries. (Mast, 7/28)
Medical Xpress: Scientists Decipher How T Cells Sense Enemies—Such As Cancer—At Point Of Contact Every encounter between a T cell and a potential target—especially when that target is a developing tumor—begins with a rapid series of molecular decisions. Within seconds, the immune cell must determine whether to launch an attack or stand down. T cells are so potent, so potentially devastating, that misreading the situation can cause serious tissue injury. But cancer cells come equipped with a bag of tricks that allows them to disarm these powerful warriors of the immune system. All of these activities, whether mediated by T cells or their targets, occur at split-second speed and unfold at the point of cell-to-cell contact. (Ricks, 7/27)
Phys.org: AI Finds Tiny Gene Editor Changes That Reduce Unintended DNA Edits Gene editing is a highly precise and powerful technology that allows scientists to insert, delete, modify or replace DNA bases in living organisms. It has a variety of uses, including correcting disease-causing mutations and improving crops. Tools like CRISPR act as molecular scissors that target specific places in a genome to make these changes. But the technology is not perfect and can accidentally edit the wrong pieces of DNA or RNA. (Arnold, 7/27)
State Watch
8. Southwest Missourians Have Access To Abortion For The First Time In Over 20 Years
This week, the Springfield Planned Parenthood location again began offering medication abortion after courts ruled several of the state's abortion regulations were unconstitutional. Also in the news: Weill Cornell Medicine has reached a voluntary compliance agreement with the federal government.
Missouri Independent: Abortion Returns To Southwest Missouri After More Than Two Decades Without Access It’s been nearly 21 years since Missourians living in Springfield could access abortion without driving at least a couple hours. That ended Monday. (Spoerre, 7/27)
More reproductive health news —
AP: Lindsay Clancy Trial Begins In Test Of Postpartum Psychosis Defense In the months after the birth of her third child, Lindsay Clancy ‘s mental health collapsed. Unable to sleep and stricken with thoughts of harming herself, she sought care from experts in postpregnancy mood disorders, was put on multiple psychiatric medications, and when nothing worked, checked in to a psychiatric hospital. Nineteen days after she was discharged, she strangled her three children at their Massachusetts home. (Casey and Willingham, 7/28)
Stat: For Black And Latina Women, Renaming PMOS Is Just The Start Bontle Moka-Moliki starts and ends every day in pain. The 32-year-old Atlanta resident was diagnosed with endometriosis in 2019. A year later came fibroids. Then in 2024 she was diagnosed with a condition now called polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome. “If someone is at a zero, my pain is at a three every day, and then it’s only up from there,” she said. (Durham, 7/28)
On the gun violence epidemic —
AP: Psychologist Says Georgia School Shooter Had A Chaotic Childhood The teenager who killed two students and two teachers in a 2024 shooting at Georgia’s Apalachee High School had a chaotic, lonely upbringing and immersed himself in an online community of people interested in mass shootings, a psychologist testified Monday. Colt Gray, 16, pleaded guilty Friday to 55 counts, including murder, in the Sept. 4, 2024, shooting that also left several others wounded at the school about 45 miles (73 kilometers) northeast of Atlanta. (Brumback, 7/27)
The Washington Post: Schools Are Adding Pepper-Spraying Drones To Help Combat Active Shooters Schools in at least three states will be equipped with drones this year that can zoom through halls, smash windows and pepper-spray active shooters if teachers report a threat. At least nine schools — three in Florida, five in Georgia and one in Colorado — will have storage boxes that house the plastic, nonlethal aircraft made by Austin-based Mithril Defense. The drones, which can be activated by teachers, are capable of reaching a shooter within 15 seconds. The aircraft are designed to distract their targets by flashing strobes, blaring sirens, spraying them with pepper gel, or ramming into them at 60 mph. (Reynolds, 7/28)
In other health news from across the U.S. —
AP: New York Medical Institution Agrees To Boost Sexual Abuse Prevention Program In a deal that ends a criminal investigation, a prestigious New York City medical institution agreed to boost its sexual abuse prevention program after one of its star doctors was convicted of abusing patients during a decade-long span and was sentenced to life behind bars, authorities said Monday. Weill Cornell Medicine, whose faculty treats patients at several New York-area hospitals, reached a voluntary compliance agreement with the federal government that calls for it to spend $30 million to create the Institute for Safe Patient Care and Patient Empowerment. (Neumeister, 7/27)
KFF Health News: Newsom Reverses On Long-Sought Paid Leave Benefit For Teachers In California California public school teacher Mollie Blustein planned her pregnancy so that her daughter would arrive during summer break. But when the elementary school teacher went into premature labor and delivered her baby two weeks before the end of school, she faced another stressor: a huge pay cut. The majority of California’s roughly 300,000 teachers don’t have access to the state-funded paid leave program that most new parents in the private sector do. Instead, many local school districts deduct the cost of a substitute teacher from educators’ pay during parental leave. (Sciacca, 7/28)
Verite News: Homeless New Orleanians Swelter Amid Scorching Heat Wave For people experiencing unsheltered homelessness like Victor Tate, shade is sometimes the only available relief from summer heat. Living in a makeshift shelter under the Pontchartrain Expressway, Tate told Verite News that he lost his shelter during 2025 Super Bowl sweeps, had his phone stolen and felt disrespected often by people passing by during the last 10 years that he’s been unsheltered on and off. With the heat index expected to reach as high as 115 degrees Fahrenheit (46 degrees Celsius) this week, full shelters and worsening climate conditions, Tate is bracing for the additional stress brought on by rising temperatures. (Perdomo, 7/27)
San Francisco Chronicle: ‘Significant Flea Infestation’ Closes Popular Marin Playground A popular Marin County playground has temporarily closed because of a “significant flea infestation,” leaving Fairfax officials to determine how to eliminate the pests without violating the town’s prohibition on pesticides on public property. The town closed Peri Park playground immediately and expected it to remain off-limits for approximately two weeks, according to a notice posted Friday. Officials had not announced a treatment plan or firm reopening date as of Monday. (Vaziri, 7/27)
Healthcare Personnel
9. 10,000 Attending Physicians In University Of California System Could Form A Union
Doctors United spokesperson Kayla Blado said the unionization effort is "in early stages" and is in the process of gathering representation cards from physicians who attest, "I want SEIU Doctors United to represent me," MedPage Today reported.
MedPage Today: Effort To Unionize 10,000 Attending Physicians Gets Underway Some doctors are pushing to organize the 10,000 attending physicians within the University of California system, setting in motion what could become the largest union of employed physicians, organizers say. Factors driving the organization effort include hiring freezes, increasing patient loads, long hours, and clinician burnout, some of the attendings said during a news conference at UCSF Medical Center late last week. Some of them had been members of the Committee of Interns and Residents through Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare. (Clark, 7/27)
The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer: Ohio Doctor Arrested On Rape Charges An Ohio doctor was arrested Monday after he was accused of sexually assaulting patients during medical examinations. Dr. Ali Ghasemzadeh, 63, is being held in the Brown County Jail without bond, according to jail records. He is charged with rape, sexual battery and gross sexual imposition, all felonies. (Pinckard, 7/28)
Becker's Hospital Review: WVU Medicine Gave $25K In Cash To Hundreds Of Aspiring Nurses. Did It Work? When WVU Medicine started handing aspiring nurses up to $25,000 in cash, the bet was that money for life’s expenses, not just tuition, would keep them in school. Early returns suggest it is. As of late July, the Morgantown, W.Va.-based system had signed 985 students to its Aspiring Nurse Program and expected to cross 1,000 within a month, said Jessica Huffman, DNP, RN, assistant vice president of system nursing services. (Twenter, 7/27)
KFF Health News: Federal Loan Caps Add Barriers — And Likely Debt — For Healthcare Students The federal government is capping the amount graduate students can borrow. The Department of Education says the new rules are designed to help curb student debt and pressure schools to lower tuition. But some loan experts fear those good intentions could leave many at the mercy of private lenders with higher interest rates. Saddling healthcare graduate students with pricier debt burdens can narrow their career choices. (Sausser, 7/28)
On the use of AI in healthcare —
The Guardian: Misleading AI-Generated Doctors Pose ‘Huge Danger To Public Safety’ Misleading health claims online pose a “huge danger to public safety”, experts have warned, after research has shown that AI-generated doctors are gaining millions of views on TikTok by spreading dubious health advice. The British Medical Association council deputy chair, Dr Emma Runswick, flagged the risks posed by AI accounts that “peddle medical myths and promote so-called miracle cures”. (Pinner, 7/27)
Fierce Healthcare: Current AI Scribe Evaluations Fall Short, Researchers Argue As adoption of AI ambient scribe technology rapidly grows, the healthcare industry's standard method for evaluating clinical AI notes may be fundamentally flawed, failing to detect significant errors or omissions in patient notes. That's the position among researchers at Suki based on a study of evaluation rubrics. Suki offers an ambient clinical artificial intelligence solution for providers, and it works with more than 400 health systems. (Landi, 7/27)
CIDRAP: Adoption Of Artificial Intelligence Outpaces Training In Field Epidemiology Programs, New Survey Finds A new study found that two-thirds of epidemiologists in specialized training programs used artificial intelligence (AI) in their work, despite only one in five having received AI training and one-quarter expressing ethical concerns about accuracy and bias. For the study, published in Eurosurveillance, researchers led by a team at the Public Health Agency of Canada surveyed 105 participants in Field Epidemiology Training Programs (FETPs), referred to as field epidemiologists, about their use of AI. The survey consisted of 20 open- and closed-ended questions written in a neutral tone to reduce response bias. The respondents hailed from Canada, Europe, and the United States. (Bergeson, 7/27)
In other healthcare industry updates —
Asheville Watchdog: HCA In 'Potential Noncompliance' With Mission Sale, AG Warns A report from the independent monitor tasked with supervising Mission Hospital has found two areas of “potential noncompliance” with the agreement HCA Healthcare signed when buying the hospital in 2019. (Clifford, 7/28)
Daily Herald: 3 Northwest Suburban Hospitals Accused Of Not Properly Providing Pricing Information Three behavioral health hospitals in the Northwest suburbs are among the medical facilities the Trump administration says have failed to provide the public with basic pricing information. (Lissau, 7/27)
The CT Mirror: CT Hospitals Are Redesigning ERs For Behavioral Health Crises Emergency rooms aren’t equipped to meet the needs of patients in the midst of a mental health crisis. The rush of people, beeping machines and bright, fluorescent lighting can all worsen anxiety, confusion and agitation. In many cases, hospital safety protocols also require removing all personal belongings from patients arriving with a psychiatric emergency and dressing them in paper gowns without strings or ties that could be used for self-harm. (Golvala, 7/28)
Editorials And Opinions
10. Viewpoints: Meet The Teen Challenging The Ultra-Processed Food Industry; Our Obsession With Mental Health Is Backfiring
Opinion writers tackle these public health topics.
The New York Times: This Teen Took On A $10 Trillion Industry. We Might All Be Healthier Because Of Him. A teenager’s lawsuit against the food industry shows us the path to a better food system. (Julia Belluz, 7/27)
The New York Times: Obsessing About Our Mental Health Is Part Of Our Mental Health Problem We need to support psychological well-being without fixating on it. (Clay Routledge, 7/26)
Stat: Cutting-Edge Dementia Research Sees The Brain As Infrastructure In the nine years since my last visit to the Docklands’ Excel conference center for the 2017 annual Alzheimer Association International Conference, or AAIC, little of London’s infrastructure has changed. I traveled via the same low-ceilinged, clattering trains with signs advising riders to “mind the gap” and “mind the step.” The center has the same weird jack-o’-lantern-esque façade and forgettable restaurants and hotels. I was even here for the same conference. Same meeting, in the same place, but what transpired was quite different. In just nine years, how we think about the aging brain has transformed. (Jason Karlawish, 7/28)
The Washington Post: As A Doctor, Here’s Why I Wear Sunblock Indoors I know that feels counterintuitive, but let’s start by pondering this question: Why do people in the United States tend to get more skin cancers on their left side, while people in Australia appear to get more sun damage on the right? The answer is UVA exposure while driving. (Trisha Pasricha, MD, 7/27)
The Marshall Project: I Spent 78 Days In A Violent Youth Jail. I Have PTSD For Life. In 2004, when I was 16 years old, I spent 78 days in Savannah Regional Youth Detention Center. Twenty-two years later, I am still reeling from the effects, most often in the form of violent flashbacks. (Joey Heilman, 7/24)
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