Pope's Illness; Docs Against Trump; Another Contact of Missouri H5N1 Case Fell Ill

— Health news and commentary gathered by staff

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The Pope canceled audiences on Monday . (AP)

FDA said that the controversial will no longer be sold. (CBS News)

Pennsylvania-based Lehigh Valley Health Network will to settle charges it failed to prevent hackers from accessing sensitive patient information, including nude photos. (Washington Post)

Delaware Gov. John Carney (D) vetoed a bill that would have allowed . (AP)

New York State confirmed its first case of mosquito-borne in close to a decade. (ABC News)

Following Texas's abortion ban, the state has seen a disproportionate spike . (NBC News)

A federal judge temporarily blocked Tennessee's law. (AP)

Physicians are fighting against a second Trump administration, as much money to campaigns for Democrats as compared to Republicans this cycle. (Politico)

A federal appeals court to the Biden administration's Medicare drug price negotiation program. (AP)

In other legal news, a U.S. appeals court alleging Merck failed to warn patients about an increased risk of thigh bone fractures with alendronic acid (Fosamax) for osteoporosis. (Reuters)

Another healthcare worker who had in Missouri became ill, but testing was not conducted before symptoms resolved, the CDC said.

Despite guidelines, are increasing, a cohort study from California suggested. (Blood)

Rates of are on the rise, and may be contributing to climbing overall maternal mortality. (NPR)

Women in severe pain . (The Hill)

The isatuximab (Sarclisa) with bortezomib (Velcade), lenalidomide (Revlimid), and dexamethasone for newly diagnosed transplant-ineligible multiple myeloma.

And the agency expanded the approval of bimekizumab (Bimzelx) to include psoriatic arthritis, non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis, and ankylosing spondylitis, .

Meanwhile, the FDA designated the due to loosened or detached patient outlet connector as class I, its most serious type; the issue has been linked to one death.

And Dynarex baby powder in at least 11 states is being recalled for potential asbestos contamination, .

American women are increasingly embracing . (New York Times)

John Clements, MD, whose breakthrough discovery of in infant deaths from respiratory distress syndrome helped save thousands of lives, died at age 101. (Washington Post)

The Navy said its highest ranking officer, Adm. Lisa Franchetti, was treated this summer. (AP)

"I don't want to die." The human . (NPR)

A number of players were hospitalized for a rare muscle condition after a team workout with a graduate who'd had Navy SEAL training. (AP)