FDA PROBES RSV DRUG SAFETY; WHY SOME CANCERS SHOULDN'T BE TREATED; NEW MPOX STRAIN

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The FDA reportedly told drugmakers that approved monoclonal antibodies to protect infants against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) would be subject to new safety scrutiny following concerns from vaccine skeptics, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) member Joseph Hibbeln, MD, said in an interview that this past Friday's vote against an existing recommendation that every newborn get the hepatitis B vaccine "wasn't based on data." (The Hill)

The Trump administration's elevation of Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD, who has been critical of vaccines, to a high profile office within the FDA reportedly raised alarm among multiple senior agency officials. (CBS News)

Here's why some doctors contend there are cancers that should not be treated. (New York Times)

Two Senate Republican chairmen floated a healthcare plan that would not extend Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits at the end of the year, but would provide funds to enrollees in health savings accounts. (Axios)

However, this is why Senate Republicans are not uniting behind a healthcare plan. (Politico)

Political independents pushed approval of the ACA to a new high of 57%, according to polling from Gallup.

A new strain of mpox was detected in a person in England who had recently returned from a trip to Asia, according to U.K. health officials. (BBC)

Amid a loss of funding and fear, early-career transgender researchers are reconsidering their futures. (STAT)

In the wake of NIH grant cuts, breast cancer research slowed at Harvard. (NPR)

Cuts at NIH also thwarted hundreds of young scientists from starting their own labs. (STAT)

The proportion of U.S. newborns who did not receive intramuscular vitamin K jumped from 2.92% to 5.18% from 2017 to 2024, researchers reported in JAMA.

The FDA approved omidubicel-onlv (Omisirge), the first hematopoietic stem cell transplant therapy to treat severe aplastic anemia.

In Spain, the Catalonia regional government said it would investigate a research facility outside Barcelona after the country's agriculture ministry contended a recent swine fever outbreak could have been caused by a laboratory leak. (Reuters)

Rural America relies on foreign doctors, but the Trump administration's visa fee may make their hiring more challenging. (Washington Post)

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