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On Tuesday, a federal bankruptcy judge in Boston, city in Massachusetts, announced that he has planned to approve a plan to pay about $200 million to compensate victim of a deadly meningitis outbreak that was caused by a now-closed Massachusetts pharmacy, Framingham pharmacy. The lawyers involved in the litigation said the judge’s decision will be approved soon.

A new study conducted by researchers from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison has found that workers who work outside of a 9-to-5 schedule could be at risk of being overweight. According to the study, such workers usually experience sleep problems and could develop metabolic disorders. Such people were not noticed in employees who work conventional schedules, the study found.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed to expand animal drug data to include information about species.

Every year, the agency carries a summary of the information that the animal drug sponsors need to report every year by the Animal Drug User Fee Act (ADUFA), but the data is usually broken down by drug class.

The public health community is facing an issue that sales and distribution information is not directly correlated with how the drugs are actually used.

Christy O'Donnell is fighting for right to die as she doesn’t want to spend her last days in agony and fearing a painful death. She is suffering from terminal lung cancer and is of the belief that her death would come in the form of her left lung filling with fluid.

“If I get to a hospital, they'll very painfully put a tube in. They’ll drain the fluid from my lung, only to patch me up, send me home and wait until the next time my lung fills up with fluid. And they'll continue to repeat that process and drowning painfully until I die”, she said in a YouTube video posted this week by Compassion and Choices, the nonprofit aid-in-dying group that Brittany Maynard worked with before ending her life last fall.

A confirmed case of measles in an adult is being investigated by the Fairfax County Health Department and the DC Health Department. According to reports, the adult patient recently travelled internationally. The person has been discharged from Inova Fairfax Medical Campus and is free from infection now. According to officials, the adult went to multiple locations in both Washington and Fairfax County before diagnosis.

According to a news release, public health workers are making effort in an attempt to identify those who came in contact with the person affected by measles and are making the proper notifications.

According to federal and state health officials, a new strain of rabies has been discovered by scientists in southern New Mexico. The discovery is considered important in the scientific circles since it’s the first new strain that has been found in the United States in several years.

According to state public health veterinarian Paul Ettestad, the discovery has led to excitement among scientists and it is linked to another bat strain; it’s similar but still one of its kind, therefore the question is what the reservoir for this strain is.

When it comes to reservoir, it is actually animals that host the virus. These animals could be bats, skunks or raccoons in most of the cases. It is thought that these animals have regular strains of rabies so generally, they are not tested.