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Bugged Doctors' Offices; $22M for Healthcare Hackers? What to Know About Ibogaine

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

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Ambient artificial intelligence (AI) listens to clinician-patient conversations and processes information, but are unclear. (Forbes)

The White House is planning to announce a new federal task force . (Politico)

Drugmakers involved in Medicare price negotiations have , President Biden said. (Reuters)

Did hackers behind the Change Healthcare ransomware attack ? (WIRED)

Meanwhile, calls mounted for as the attack froze medical payments. (Wall Street Journal)

And the AMA said that the attack .

A whistleblower accused Aledade, the nation's largest independent network of primary care medical practices, of . (KFF Health News)

From 2019 through 2021, the overall infant mortality rate for the U.S. was 5.48 infant deaths per 1,000 live births, the , with rates highest among infants of Black women and American Indian and Alaska Native women.

Novo Nordisk said semaglutide (Ozempic) in diabetes patients in the FLOW trial, lowering the risk of major cardiac events and death by 24%.

In France, lawmakers a constitutional right. (Reuters)

Brazil has . (NPR)

Most Americans said they have at least a fair amount of confidence in scientists, but since early in the COVID-19 pandemic. (PNAS)

The first U.S. over-the-counter birth control pill in stores and online. (New York Times)

This is how the U.S. may be in the opioid epidemic. (STAT)

Ivermectin for COVID-19 appeared unlikely to provide clinically meaningful improvements in recovery, hospital admissions, or longer-term outcomes, the showed. (Journal of Infection)

Some women with excess weight turned to . (New York Times)

The FDA expanded the indication of (Definity) as an ultrasound enhancing agent for use in pediatric patients with suboptimal echocardiograms, Lantheus announced.

And Hugel said it received FDA approval for (Letybo) to treat moderate-to-severe frown lines.

Six people incarcerated at prisons in Pennsylvania filed a federal class action lawsuit to end indefinite solitary confinement, saying it . (AP)

Here's what to know , which is illegal in the U.S. (New York Times)

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    Jennifer Henderson joined ֱ as an enterprise and investigative writer in Jan. 2021. She has covered the healthcare industry in NYC, life sciences and the business of law, among other areas.