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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, R, signed legislation raising the minimum age to purchase tobacco products from 19 to 21.

To reduce the population of mosquitoes that carry diseases, California scientists will release 20 million sterile male mosquitoes into two neighborhoods in Fresno County, according to Health News Florida.

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More than 50 percent of women who die of homicide are killed by intimate partners, according to the CDC's most recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Walla Walla, Wash.-based Providence St. Mary Medical Center predicts a 30 percent to 40 percent increase in its daily emergency department patients after Roseville, Calif.-based Adventist Health closed Walla Walla (Wash.) General Hospital Monday, Union-Bulletin.com reports.

Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health is set to move between 50 and 70 patients from its downtown Fargo, N.D.-based hospital to its new $494 million medical center in southwest Fargo, The Bismarck Tribune reports.

The National Institutes of Health's precision medicine effort, called "All of Us," established a working group to consider child enrollment in the project.

The House Committee on Appropriations approved legislation determining funding for global health programs under the CDC and National Institutes of Health July 19, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis.

CHI Memorial Hospital in Chattanooga, Tenn., part of Denver-based Catholic Health Initiatives, will close Westside Health Center on Aug. 1, according to the Times Free Press.

Members of the Albert Lea-Save Our Hospital group formed a steering committee to lead community efforts to prevent Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic from consolidating inpatient services between its Albert Lea and Austin, Minn., campuses, according to the Albert Lea Tribune.