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Death, Injuries After Turbulence; More Herds with H5N1; Water Cyberattack Warning

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One person died on board a Singapore Airlines plane that on a flight from London to Singapore; others were injured. (CNN)

Valisure, an independent lab in Connecticut, filed suit against GSK, claiming the drug company by failing to disclose the cancer risk of its profitable heartburn drug ranitidine (Zantac). (Reuters)

Three have been infected with H5N1, the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development reported.

The FDA to implant its brain chip in a second patient, after the company announced plans to correct a problem that occurred with the first patient. (Reuters)

A New Hampshire daycare owner and three employees after an investigation found they had laced children's food with melatonin. (USA Today)

STAT interviewed into undergoing sterilization despite wanting more children.

The Drug Enforcement Administration agency may not be on board with the Biden administration's . (AP)

The NIH's Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) launched a to help hospitals prevent cyberattacks.

The Environmental Protection Agency also to protect themselves from cyberattack threats.

A dozen cases of meningococcal disease were traced back to travel to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for Umrah, an Islamic pilgrimage, the CDC reported in.

Hims & Hers Health, a digital pharmacy startup, will develop weight loss injections, the company announced. (CNBC)

Microplastics were found in tissue from . (Toxicological Sciences)

An Ohio judge ruled that a from banning flavored tobacco products is unconstitutional. (AP)

Two Senate Republicans Ted Cruz (Texas) and Katie Britt (Ala.) plan to to protect access to in vitro fertilization nationally. (The Hill)

Several members of Congress traded in stocks in companies that that seeks to ban certain Chinese biotech suppliers. (Endpoint News)

Alasia Franklin, who was studying to be a nurse practitioner at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, was on campus. (People)

A version of a new , a parasitic disease, has been developed for preschoolers; who will pay for it? (NPR)

The FDA , rivoceranib paired with camrelizumab, for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma. (Endpoints News)

The agency approved belimumab (Benlysta) auto-injectors to treat children with systemic lupus erythematosus, GSK .