Trump Cussed Out Fauci; Midwife Destroyed Vaccines; Ian McKellen Hospitalized

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Fauci revealed that Trump yelled at him using expletives in their early COVID conversations. (The Hill)

An upstate New York midwife pleaded guilty to destroying 2,600 COVID vaccines and handing out fake immunization cards. (AP)

Hunters are helping scientists track the spread of tick-borne diseases by sending any ticks on the animals they kill to labs to be tested. (CBS News)

Older women’s health is understudied even though they live longer than men and face different challenges. (KFF Health News)

Actor Ian McKellen, known for playing Gandalf in “Lord of the Rings,” was hospitalized after falling during a stage performance in London, but is expected to recover. (AP)

In 2023, 25 million people of all ages — 7.6% — were uninsured, according to the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics.

Half of U.S. military bases are in healthcare deserts making it difficult for their families to receive care. (NPR)

Several Muslims from Jordan died of heatstroke while making the religious pilgrimage to Mecca in scorching 120 degree temperatures.

California plans to use artificial intelligence to translate health information into multiple languages. (KFF Health News)

Japan reported a spike in cases of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome, a bacterial infection with a 30% mortality rate that spreads into deep tissue and the bloodstream. (CNN)

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) teed up action for the Reproductive Freedom for Women Act, which would enshrine first and second trimester abortion protections. (The Hill)

A suspected outbreak of foodborne botulism in Moscow has hospitalized 120 people, with 30 in intensive care. (CBS News)

Povidone iodine was noninferior to chlorhexidine gluconate in alcohol as preoperative skin antisepsis to prevent surgical site infections after cardiac and abdominal procedures, a clinical trial found. (JAMA Network Open)

The intravenous immunoglobulin therapeutic Yimmugo was approved to treat primary immunodeficiencies, Grifols said.

Contraception is supposed to be free under the Affordable Care Act, but Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said health plans often flout the law and patients end up paying. (Washington Post)

Between April 2020 and March 2023, more than one in five adults did not recover from SARS-CoV-2 infection within 3 months, a cohort study showed. Vaccination prior to infection was associated with shorter recovery times. (JAMA Network Open)

Johnson & Johnson appealed a $150 million verdict from a decade-spanning case about off-label marketing of HIV medications. (Fierce Pharma)