COVID Vaccine Paper Retracted; Pope Leo’s Recovery; Pennsylvania Measles Top 1,200

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A 2022 paper that found COVID-19 vaccination elicits broad neutralizing antibodies in mice was retracted by Science Translational Medicine for some fabricated data.

HHS declared public health emergencies for Florida and Alabama following Hurricane Isaias.

The Vatican said today that Pope Leo XIV had a “good” second night in the hospital after his surgery to remove a cancerous nodule on his lung. (New York Times)

The pope’s recovery could take “longer than expected,” according to the president of Peru. (NBC News)

In related news, Pope Leo’s older brother is battling multiple myeloma and is enrolled in a clinical trial at a Florida hospital. (CBS News)

IndyCar driver Jack Harvey, 33, also revealed a cancer diagnosis but didn’t disclose the type. (AP)

The FDA released four new videos aimed at helping clinicians treat opioid use disorder.

The agency also launched an initiative to build a tailored regulatory framework to accelerate rare disease drug development for small patient populations.

CMS said it will save roughly $1.5 billion over the next year by cutting Affordable ‌Care Act (ACA) subsidies for about 189,000 individuals identified as deceased or having duplicate government coverage.

Enrollment in ACA and other health insurance plans on the individual market dropped by over 4.5 million people in the past year, according to a KFF analysis. (The Hill)

Kenya confirmed its second Ebola case, a close relative of the first patient. (AP)

California’s Prop 40 would levy a 5% tax on billionaires to offset federal healthcare cuts, though opponents question how the revenue will be allocated. (KFF Health News)

Legalization of online sports betting was associated with an increase in outpatient and prescription mental healthcare use, according to a quasi-experimental study. (JAMA Psychiatry)

Over 1,200 measles cases have been confirmed in Pennsylvania. (WHYY)

Updates to the Medicare Plan Finder online tool will make it easier to search for Medicare Advantage providers, but it still isn’t perfect. (New York Times)

Most older adults spend less than an hour picking their Medicare coverage during open enrollment, a University of Michigan poll found.

The FDA said Par Health recalled 22 lots of argatroban injection, a thrombin inhibitor, due to presence of cellulose, polystyrene, polyethylene terephthalate, stopper material, and potential stainless steel.

The agency also approved an expanded indication for nogapendekin alfa inbakicept-pmln (Anktiva) for Bacillus Calmette-Guérin-unresponsive non-muscle invasive bladder cancer.

Gastrointestinal cancer researcher Rachna Shroff, MD, died at age 47 from the same cancer she spent her career trying to cure. (People)

Adverse event summary reports in the FDA’s manufacturer and user facility device experience database are often incomplete, inaccurate, and delayed, a cross-sectional study found. (The BMJ)

Guinea-Bissau’s minister of health said the country did not approve a controversial U.S.-funded hepatitis B study in newborns. (The Guardian)

Irish public sector workers, including nurses, staged a 24-hour strike to demand higher pay amid a rising cost of living. (AP)