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Teen emergency department (ED) visits related to thoughts of suicide have seen an unprecedented rise since 2016. (Pediatrics)

A federal judge in Texas ruled that the Affordable Care Act does not protect gay and transgender people from discrimination by healthcare providers. (Reuters)

Moderna said its BA.4/BA.5-directed bivalent COVID-19 booster shot works better against its intended targets than a dose of the original monovalent booster.

The U.S. public health emergency will stay in place until at least mid-January. (CNBC)

The latest Omicron subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 are more resistant to antibody treatments, putting the immunocompromised further at risk. (CNBC)

As of Monday at 8:00 a.m. ET, the unofficial COVID toll in the U.S. reached 97,997,438 cases and 1,074,485 deaths, increases of 255,642 cases and 1,891 deaths since this time a week ago.

San Diego hospitals put up overflow tents outside their EDs to manage an overflow of respiratory illness cases. (San Diego Union-Tribune)

And a Michigan children’s hospital is completely full thanks to the respiratory virus surge. (ABC News)

Meanwhile, a family waited a month for their baby to get heart surgery at a New York hospital because of the bed shortage brought on by a flood of respiratory viruses. (CNN)

Losses in Ohio and North Carolina state Supreme Court races may put abortion rights in those states in danger. (Politico)

Some students at Yale University are pressured to withdraw after bouts of depression or suicidality, and then made to reapply for admission. (Washington Post)

Particulate matter from wildfires, more frequent now than ever before, is putting the health of Americans at risk. (Washington Post)

Alzheimer’s drug candidate gantenerumab did not effectively slow dementia in two phase III trials, Roche said.

The SEC has charged a second executive at pharmaceutical company Viatris for an insider trading scheme that allegedly made them $7.2 million. (Fierce Pharma)

Thousands of experts hired during the pandemic to help out beleaguered public health agencies are losing their jobs. (Kaiser Health News)

A Pennsylvania health network will stop accepting Aetna because the insurer took steps to “delay or deny coverage,” according to Lehigh Valley Health Network. (Lehigh Valley Live)

A sculptor in Santa Fe, New Mexico is creating a 12-foot-tall monument as a tribute to nurses. (Santa Fe New Mexican)

Ukrainian doctors got a crash-course in heart and lung transplantation at Massachusetts General Hospital in order to be able to perform them back home. (NPR)

Genetic testing on two children focusing on a rare genetic variant linked with heart arrhythmias and sudden death may help absolve an Australian mother convicted of murdering them years ago. (AP)

The Clash guitarist and founder Keith Levene has died at age 65. Levene had liver cancer. (The Guardian)

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