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01 They pulled out the gas stoves. Asthma emergencies fell 70%
Gas stoves have been tied to worse asthma for years, but nobody had tested what happens when you take one out. Researchers finally did, giving free induction ranges to 85 adults and kids with poorly controlled asthma. Emergency visits and hospitalizations fell 70%, missed work and school dropped about 80%, and indoor nitrogen dioxide fell 70%.
02 Alpha gal moved north
You already know about the tick that makes people allergic to red meat. Here is what changed: 69% of cases now come from the Northeast, not the South, and positive tests are up 100 fold since 2013. The lone star tick is not staying in hunting country. Congress started asking questions about it last week.
03 Fauci is back in the chair on Wednesday
Anthony Fauci testifies on Wednesday, July 29 in front of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, under subpoena, with Rand Paul running the hearing. Paul has spent six years arguing that Fauci lied to Congress about gain of function research, and he wants him indicted for it. What to expect: a great deal of heat and very little consequence, because Biden pardoned Fauci preemptively on his way out the door. The thing actually worth watching is whether Paul puts a document on the table that we have not already seen.
04 The FDA cannot say what is in the vial
An FDA advisory panel voted to let pharmacies start compounding four peptides, including BPC 157 and TB 500, over the objection of the agency's own scientists. Their objection was not that the peptides are dangerous. It was that these compounds have no agreed chemical formula, so nobody can confirm what is in the bottle. That matters, because nearly half of doctors surveyed had a patient admit to taking peptides this year. Expect no legal change for eight to twelve months.
✿ QUICK HITS — ON OUR RADAR
The Senate advanced Bernie Sanders' bill for warning labels on ultra-processed foods by 12 to 10, with Bill Cassidy and Roger Marshall crossing party lines (STAT).
Check your egg carton tonight. Nearly 100 people across 17 states are sick with salmonella linked to shell eggs, and 26 have been hospitalized (CDC). Midwest Poultry recalled 1.6 million dozen sold as Kroger, Simple Truth, Brookshire's, Country Morning and Sunups. Look for plant code P-1950 or 0840962 and sell by dates from July 20 to August 17 (FDA).
Hemp THC products sold in gas stations get federally recriminalized in November unless Congress moves, a deadline buried inside Fetterman's new legalization bill.
✿ WILD STORY
Two North Dakota men learned at 38 that they went home from the hospital with each other's families. The 1988 swap at Unity Medical Center surfaced only because Kyle Bylin got a DNA kit as a gift and matched nobody he grew up with. The hospital says no records survive from that year. It does not dispute that it happened.
✿ ONE GOOD THING
To end on a good one: five years ago Dr. Kelley Hitchman, who runs the transplant institute at University Health in San Antonio, gave one of her own kidneys to a patient she had never met. Last week Joel Gonzalez walked into her lab with flowers to surprise her on their fifth kidney anniversary. "Thank you for saving my life," he told her. Her take: "It's his kidney. Clearly, it was always meant for him." She climbed Kilimanjaro three years after donating, just to show donors can.