Canada Ends Restrictions; Florida Hospitals Start to Evacuate; FDA’s ‘Unholy Birth’

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Canada will lift all COVID-19 restrictions for travelers beginning October 1. (Reuters)

In some lactating women, trace amounts of mRNA from COVID vaccines were detected in the breast milk, mostly within the first 48 hours of vaccination. (JAMA Pediatrics)

Will a Supreme Court case looking at Medicaid recipients’ ability to sue providers potentially erode the program’s benefits? (Axios)

The White House on Tuesday released its national strategy for ending hunger in the U.S. by 2030.

Hospitals and nursing homes in the Tampa Bay area have started to evacuate patients as Hurricane Ian approaches the Florida coast. (Tampa Bay Times)

In related news, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra declared a public health emergency in the state in advance of Ian’s impending landfall.

The World Health Organization has counted 23 deaths in Uganda related to the latest Ebola outbreak.

In Syria, the death toll from cholera has risen to 29, the country’s worst outbreak in years. (Reuters)

Montana health officials are calling for more oversight of nonprofit hospitals, including setting standards for charitable contributions made in their communities each year. (NPR)

Clinics for sexually transmitted infections were already stretched thin, then monkeypox arrived. (STAT)

Biogen has finalized a $900 million settlement that resolves a whistleblower lawsuit alleging the company paid doctors kickbacks for prescribing multiple sclerosis drugs, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced.

A federal jury convicted the former CEO of St. Gabriel Health Clinic in Louisiana for defrauding the state’s Medicaid program for years, according to the DOJ.

The FDA approved omidenepag isopropyl ophthalmic solution (Omlonti) 0.002% eye drops for the reduction of elevated intraocular pressure in patients with primary open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension, drugmaker Santen announced.

In a new report, Fair Health looks at substance use disorders and overdoses before and during the pandemic.

A new book recounts the FDA’s “unholy birth.” (Washington Post)

And in a new Q&A, the agency’s new director of the Center for Tobacco Products breaks down the challenges of regulating the vaping industry. (AP)

This teenager tried to block eating-disorder content on TikTok, but it continued to pop up daily. (Wall Street Journal)

More and more transgender teens are choosing top surgery, the New York Times reports.

Singer Meghan Trainor said that nurses implied antidepressants contributed to why her son was in the intensive care unit. (People)

North Dakota health officials issued a rabies alert after a woman there brought a wild raccoon into a local bar; the woman has been criminally charged with unlawful possession of furbearers, among other counts. (NBC News)