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NP Convicted; U.S. Plans to Ban Medical Debt From Credit Reports; NFL Doc Retiring

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A Florida nurse practitioner was convicted for that racked up $200 million in claims for expensive genetic testing and medical equipment that beneficiaries did not receive, the Department of Justice announced.

The Biden administration is starting the rulemaking process to from Americans' credit reports. (KFF Health News)

California's attorney general for fraud over claims that they can reverse the abortion pill, mifepristone. (Reuters)

Cardiology organizations including the American College of Cardiology are looking to for their specialty.

Travere Therapeutics said its phase III trial of sparsentan (Filspari) for proteinuria in IgA nephropathy narrowly ; the drug was approved under the accelerated approval pathway earlier this year.

A who escaped from a Missouri hospital on foot earlier this week has been recaptured, police said. (NBC News)

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that half a million children and other individuals disenrolled from Medicaid in error will .

The include scientists who pushed forward advancements in retinal imaging and protein structures. (Forbes)

HHS plans to dole out to long-COVID clinics. (Reuters)

A federal appeals court is considering for individuals with public insurance, cases that will likely wind their way to the Supreme Court. (AP)

Two Senators are urging the FDA to for chronic pain. (STAT)

U.S. military members who received the smallpox vaccine around a decade earlier had . (New England Journal of Medicine)

SGLT2 inhibitors and GLP-1 receptor agonists may be with type 2 diabetes when it comes to cardiovascular and kidney outcomes. (Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine)

The Federal Trade Commission sued U.S. Anesthesia Partners and its private equity owner, to inflate prices. (STAT)

, PhD, died at age 99, Stanford University announced. He once told the New York Times, "If we solve our healthcare spending, practically all of our fiscal problems go away."

Nine deputies in Tennessee were in the throes of a mental health crisis. (USA Today)

An Arizona-based transgender doctor filed against a hospital, which alleged sex/gender discrimination. (Bloomberg Law)

Doctor and former Kansas City Chiefs offensive lineman from the NFL. (CNN)

A New York City hospital system reported a concerning . (Emerging Infectious Diseases)

A 2014 Olympic bobsled bronze medalist , alleging almost a decade of sexual abuse. (ESPN)

"Euphoria" star Angus Cloud of methamphetamine, cocaine, fentanyl, and benzodiazepines, a California coroner said. (AP)

Over in Belgium, in the Flanders region are no longer required to skip school. (The Brussels Times)

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    Kristen Monaco is a senior staff writer, focusing on endocrinology, psychiatry, and nephrology news. Based out of the New York City office, she’s worked at the company since 2015.