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The Nancy Guthrie case is a nightmare for one high-profile family. It is also striking a personal chord with millions of Americans who are weighing their aging relatives’ desire for independence against the many safety concerns associated with aging in their own homes, writes Clare Ansberry.

Divergent diagnoses for the disease are the result of criteria that differ among medical professionals, writes Sumathi Reddy. Some doctors worry the differing approaches can result in patients going misdiagnosed, or worse, being prescribed medications with potential negative health effects.

• More Americans are dealing with memory decline at work.

The demand for estradiol patches—which deliver steady doses of estrogen—is soaring as women seek relief from symptoms of menopause and perimenopause. Now, many pharmacies can’t keep them in stock, and women are scouring pharmacies—and tapping their personal networks—to track them down.

New research shows what happens in the sleep-deprived brain. After poor sleep, the brain tries to compensate during wakefulness, triggering pulses of fluid that coincide with sharp reductions in attention, according to a recent study published in Nature Neuroscience.

The FDA refused to consider Moderna’s new flu-shot application after the head of the agency’s vaccine division, Vinay Prasad, overruled pushback from career staffers. The decision is part of a pattern of regulatory U-turns by Prasad, a Covid-vaccine critic.

Weight-loss price wars are breaking Big Pharma’s business model. Two years ago, a GLP-1 prescription could cost an uninsured patient more than $1,000 a month. Now, Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy pill starts at just $149 through cash-pay programs—an unheard of price drop that’s forcing companies to adapt.

New York City nurses reached a tentative agreement to end a strike at Montefiore and Mount Sinai hospitals on Monday. Nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center continued to strike, with staffing levels remaining a key issue.

The approximate share of the population that is estranged from a parent or child at any given time, research shows. WSJ’s Elizabeth Bernstein spoke to a leading expert on family rifts about what to do when a relationship between a parent and child is on the brink of breaking.

• Can GLP-1 drugs such as Ozempic cure addiction? (The New Yorker)

• Lung cancer in “never-smokers” is drawing new focus—and questions. (STAT News)

• A new method can find hidden eggs to aid in fertility treatment. (The New York Times)

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