Texas Abortion Ban Fallout; K-Pop Group Tests Positive; Anti-Vax Docs on Tour

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Late Thursday night, Planned Parenthood affiliates filed a court request in a district court for a temporary restraining order against Texas Right to Life in order to stop its abortion providers and health care workers from being sued under the new “sue thy neighbor” abortion ban.

And President Biden vowed to take action to “ensure that women in Texas have access to safe and legal abortions as protected by Roe…” (ABC News)

Austin, Texas-based dating platform, Bumble, joined with rival dating platform, Match, to create a relief fund for those affected by the Texas law. (CNN)

Possibly following in Texas’ footsteps, Florida Republican legislators said they’re now considering replicating the ban on early-stage abortions. (The Hill)

The owner of a COVID testing lab in Colorado made headlines for refusing service to anti-vaxxer Candace Owens. (Newsweek)

K-pop group, Enhyphen, had five of seven members of the boy band test positive for COVID-19. (Korea Herald)

Members of the group, America’s Frontline Doctors, including “vaccine skeptics” Simone Gold and Stella Immanuel, have joined allies of former President Trump on a “ReAwaken America” tour. (The Guardian)

Three inmates at an Arkansas jail were unknowingly given ivermectin to treat their COVID-19. (NPR)

As of 8 a.m. EDT today, the unofficial COVID-19 toll in the U.S. was 39,552,739 cases and 643,702 deaths, increases of 153,659 and 1,609, respectively, from the same time yesterday.

The World Health Organization put out a grave warning, predicting the number of people suffering from dementia is projected to rise to 78 million by 2030 and even up to 139 million by the year 2050. (Reuters)

Congress is demanding more data behind the FDA’s controversial approval of the new Alzheimer’s drug aducanumab (Aduhelm). (STAT)

The European Medicines Agency safety committee is reviewing cases of multi-system inflammatory syndrome following the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine (Comirnaty).

Impel NeuroPharma said its nasal spray for acute migraine treatment — dihydroergotamine mesylate (Trudhesa) — gained FDA approval based on results of the STOP 301 study.

President Biden said he would invest $2.7 billion in COVID-19 vaccine components to help the global vaccination effort. (New York Times)

One Canadian man’s response to being asked to wear a mask in Dairy Queen: pee on the counter. (Washington Examiner)

A Virginia Beach plastic surgeon was arrested last week, and was charged with three felony drug offenses and misdemeanor theft of medicine. (The Virginian-Pilot)

Louisiana state health officials are investigating the death of four nursing home residents who died after being moved to a different facility ahead of Hurricane Ida. (NBC News)

Disc Medicine said it raised $90 million to test the erythropoietic porphyrias treatment bitopertin, an oral GlyT1 inhibitor, in a phase 2 clinical program. (FierceBiotech)

Last Updated September 03, 2021