The CDC is almost out of money to fight the Zika virus, the agency says. (NBC News) Meanwhile, Florida officials confirmed three more Zika cases in Miami-Dade County. (Miami Herald)
Frozen strawberries from Egypt appear to be the culprit in a Hepatitis A outbreak that began in Virginia, according to officials there; so far 51 people in five states have been sickened. (Food Safety News)
CMS said local Medicare contractors can continue to decide case by case whether or not to cover beneficiaries' gender reassignment surgery.
Beginning next year, California hospitals will be required by law to inform Medicare patients when they are being put on "observation" status under a bill passed by the state legislature; Gov. Jerry Brown (D) is expected to sign the measure. (California Healthline)
Harold Bornstein, MD, physician to Donald Trump, was a long-haired, irreverent medical student who excelled at his studies, according to his fellow students. (STAT News)
Not so fast for Enbrel biosimilar: despite yesterday's FDA approval, Novartis's Sandoz unit can't sell it until March 2017 and maybe not then. (Reuters)
In other FDA news, the agency approved ofatumumab (Arzerra) as a treatment for relapsed chronic lymphocytic leukemia, said manufacturer Genmab.
Abortion complications nearly tripled following passage of an Ohio law restricting the way medical abortions could be performed, a study found. (Los Angeles Times)
St. Jude Medical, fighting an investment firm's charges that its cardiac devices are vulnerable to lethal hacking, got a boost from independent academic researchers who couldn't replicate the supposed hacks. (Reuters)
The World Health Organization's new treatment guidelines for gonorrhea warn that the disease is becoming untreatable; the guidelines eschew use of quinolones in favor of cephalosporins. (NPR)
The Drug Enforcement Agency announced it is temporarily banning use of the chemicals in kratom, a plant often made into an herbal supplement to self-treat chronic pain.
The Department of Health and Human Services is issuing $53 million in grants to help communities respond to the opioid abuse epidemic. (Morning Consult)
Nurse practitioners will soon be able to certify patients as needing medical marijuana under an expansion of New York state's medical marijuana program. (WIVB)
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