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Man Gets 217 COVID Shots; 'Parrot Fever' Deaths; Biden Graded on Health Issues

— Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by 鶹ý staff

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No needle phobia here: a 62-year-old German man over 29 months "deliberately and for private reasons," researchers said. (Lancet Infectious Diseases)

An FDA advisory panel for the fall, saying the Yamagata strain should be dropped now that the virus has vanished. (CNN)

Nothing to see here? Florida health officials are about the state's growing number of measles cases. (STAT)

A month after a cyberattack, most systems at Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago . (Chicago Tribune)

Pope Francis on Wednesday amid lingering respiratory and mobility issues. (AP via ABC News)

Doctors are charging patients for paperwork more often -- some are . (Fox Business)

An outbreak of psittacosis, a bacterial infection also known as "parrot fever," and sickened many others in Europe, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. (CNN)

Meanwhile, a WHO report warns of , a cornerstone of HIV regimens.

The FDA (APP13007) for post-operative inflammation and pain following ocular surgery, drugmakers Formosa Pharmaceuticals and AimMax Therapeutics announced.

And the agency approved the hyaluronic acid dermal filler (Juvéderm Voluma XC) in adults over 21, said maker Allergan Aesthetics.

survived a 3½-hour procedure to get her affected organs back inside her body. (People)

Digital tools to treat chronic pain , says Benjamin Lipp of the Technical University of Denmark. (Nature)

Has President Biden succeeded or failed on healthcare issues such as drug prices, abortion, COVID-19, and overdoses? .

Meanwhile, Biden for many drugs compared to patients in other industrialized countries. Is he right? (KFF Health News)

Former raw milk cheese manufacturer Johannes Vulto, of New York, to manufacturing cheese linked to a 2016-2017 Listeria outbreak, the Justice Department announced.

In other legal news, Barry Cadden, co-founder of the New England Compounding Center, in a case involving people who died of meningitis after receiving injections of mold-tainted steroids. (AP)

How should states spend their opioid settlement money? An addiction medicine physician to help them decide. (NPR)

Smoking is -- at the Oscars. (USA Today)

Global health donors pledged $600 million toward the . (Reuters)

Smith Medical is used for precise control of infusion rates, the FDA said; the correction (not a product removal) is due to issues with earlier versions of its software.

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    Joyce Frieden oversees 鶹ý’s Washington coverage, including stories about Congress, the White House, the Supreme Court, healthcare trade associations, and federal agencies. She has 35 years of experience covering health policy.