Zika epidemic ... over? Colombia's vice health minister said so on Monday. Meanwhile, Spanish authorities reported the first birth defect in Europe attributed to Zika. (Reuters)
The Philadelphia Inquirer's online site has a rundown on Trump vs. Clinton on healthcare.
Unhappy with the VA's proposal to give full practice authority to advanced practice nurses, the American College of Physicians sent the agency a long letter detailing an alternative centered on "dynamic clinical care teams" that does not preempt state regulations.
High-dose fentanyl patches and other potent opioid painkillers will no longer be available from the government health plan in Canada's Ontario province. (VICE News)
What's better than a needle to draw fluid for drug-level monitoring? Nineteen itty-bitty needles. (Medgadget)
Bacterobots? Nanoscale devices mimicking bacteria are under study as targeted drug-deliverers. (Tech Times)
A synthetic messenger RNA molecule, intended to induce VEGF-A production for treating heart failure and diabetic complications, may soon enter clinical trials, according to the drug's developers.
Want to see real-life examples of HIPAA violations? ProPublica is posting government files detailing alleged and real breaches.
Visitors to one Caribbean island account for one-fifth of all the Zika cases seen to date in U.S. residents. (Kaiser Health News)
A new book argues that antidepressants really do work; Psychiatric Times has a review.
Shared decision-making: patient perspective. (Cartoon Bank)
Ed Silverman, the Pharmalot blogger, reports on accusations that the U.S. State Department has been on the wrong side of an affordable-medicines initiative for poorer countries. (STAT)
The CDC issued a new status report on E. coli infections from contaminated wheat flour products.
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Morning Break: Zika Kaput in Colombia; ACP on VA RNs; Bacterobots
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