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Another side effect of GLP-1 drugs? Anecdotal reports from doctors and patients suggest the blockbuster diabetes and weight-loss drugs may cause a type of emotional flattening<\/a> dubbed “Ozempic personality.” (Washington Post)<\/p>\n Pharmaceutical companies raised prices on hundreds of drugs<\/a> despite making “most favored nation” deals with the Trump administration, a report from Senate Democrats found. (NBC News)<\/p>\n CMS abandoned a proposal that aimed to help Medicare Advantage patients whose doctors leave their plan in the middle of the year change their coverage more easily<\/a> in order to stay with their physician. (New York Times)<\/p>\n Ahead of the mid-terms, HHS appointed Casey Mulligan to advise Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other agency leaders on affordability issues<\/a>. (Axios)<\/p>\n Physician burnout declined to 41.9%<\/a> in 2025, according to survey data from the American Medical Association, but rates were higher in emergency medicine, urological surgery, hematology\/oncology, ob\/gyn, radiology, family medicine, general surgery, cardiology, and gastroenterology.<\/p>\n Three of eight liver transplant patients in an early trial of donor-derived regulatory dendritic cell therapy were able to stop taking immunosuppressive drugs<\/a>. (Nature Communications)<\/p>\n Two CDC reports warned about a cluster of invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b<\/a> disease among homeless people and on tetanus cases requiring extended hospitalizations<\/a> in four kids who had not completed their primary series. (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)<\/p>\n Emergency department visits for tick bites hit their highest level in nearly a decade<\/a> for this time of year, at 71 per 100,000 visits, according to recent CDC data. (ABC News)<\/p>\n Amid an investigation into an E. coli outbreak that has sickened nine people, an FDA inspection of Raw Farm-brand cheddar cheese products detected another E. coli strain<\/a> linked to a different outbreak.<\/p>\n Sewage from Mexico in the Tijuana River is making the air toxic and sickening thousands of people in California<\/a>. (AP)<\/p>\n The top 10 healthiest places to live in the U.S.<\/a> (Newsweek)<\/p>\n Amid the new trend in social-connection prescribing<\/a>, physicians are sending patients to choirs, art studios, and walking clubs. (Axios)<\/p>\n An executive order is in the works from the Trump administration that would open the door for more research into ibogaine<\/a>, a psychedelic used in some countries for post-traumatic stress disorder. (CBS News)<\/p>\n A Colorado hospital that launched a program to increase language interpreters<\/a> has seen a spike in Spanish-speaking patients. (NPR)<\/p>\n