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Paxlovid and Long COVID; State Bans 'Excited Delirium' Dx; Gaza in Health Crisis

— Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by ֱ staff

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Kaiser Permanente with the unions representing 75,000 healthcare workers who recently held a 3-day strike over wages and staffing levels. (AP)

Experts appear to agree that nirmatrelvir-ritonavir (Paxlovid) during the acute infection period , but it's often not prescribed. (NBC News)

Many community health centers are of the updated COVID shots, but despite the shortages, more than 7 million Americans . (NBC News, Reuters)

Preclinical data suggest a novel conditioning agent in patients undergoing gene therapy for sickle cell disease and other genetic blood disorders, according to NIH researchers. (Nature Communications)

And speaking of the NIH, here's a map from them you probably haven't seen before -- of the human and non-human primate brains.

The FDA to six Vuse Alto flavored e-cigarettes made by R.J. Reynolds, saying they don't meet public health standards.

a little more than a week after skydiving from 13,500 feet -- before Guinness World Records could determine whether she broke a record for being the world's oldest skydiver. (NPR)

The 2022-2023 flu season was for children and adolescents, according to the CDC.

California is now the first state from attributing deaths to "excited delirium." (KFF Health News)

And the American College of Emergency Physicians has , saying it should not be used by its members in civil or criminal cases. (AP)

Medicare Part B premiums , the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid announced. (The Hill)

Fourteen people in Utah ; 12 of them had recently consumed raw milk. (KSL.com)

Rudolph Isley, one of the Isley Brothers' founding members, ; no cause of death was reported. (USA Today)

The U.S. age-adjusted drug overdose death rate involving cocaine in 2021, with deaths highest in the Northeast, the CDC reported.

The health system in the Gaza Strip and desperately needs fuel and other supplies to avoid a humanitarian crisis, the World Health Organization said.

A phase III trial testing mirikizumab, an investigational interleukin-23p19 antagonist, in Crohn's disease , Eli Lilly said.

Responding to the positive trial news of semaglutide (Ozempic) in kidney disease, dialysis firm DaVita suggested that the GLP-1 receptor agonist . (Reuters)

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    Joyce Frieden oversees ֱ’s Washington coverage, including stories about Congress, the White House, the Supreme Court, healthcare trade associations, and federal agencies. She has 35 years of experience covering health policy.