Death in Doc’s Sex Trafficking Case; Docs Help Insurer Boost $; Insurers in Court
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Welcome to the latest edition of Investigative Roundup, highlighting some of the best investigative reporting on healthcare each week. Death of...
Doctors Worry That Iodine Deficiency Is Coming Back
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The 13-year-old boy came to the clinic with a rapidly ballooning neck. Doctors were puzzled. Testing ruled out their first suspicion....
Sleeping pills disrupt how the brain clears waste
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During sleep, the brain flushes out toxins that accumulate throughout the day Robert Reader/Getty Images Sleeping pills might help you doze...
Will genome editing transform our children’s health? Some have doubts
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The CRISPR protein (blue and pink) is hooked up to an RNA sequence (orange) that guides where to cut DNA (purple)...
Cheddar Cheese Recall; Army Doc Pleads Guilty; Physician Lobbies Against RFK Jr.
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Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Two types of Wicklow Gold cheddar cheese sold in five states were...
FDA Adds Guillain-Barre Syndrome Warning to Two RSV Vaccines
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The FDA issued a safety communication that warns about possible Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines manufactured by...
MRI-Invisible Prostate Lesions: Are They Dangerous?
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MRI-invisible prostate lesions. It sounds like the stuff of science fiction and fantasy, a creation from the minds of H.G. Wells,...
TBI May Reactivate Herpes Virus Leading to Neurodegeneration
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Mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) may reactivate latent herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) in the brain and contribute to neurodegeneration...
Mum told by 999 to give seriously ill son painkillers over ambulance delay
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Roisin Wilshaw Brian Rooney with his mother Isobel Benson – he collapsed at the doors of the Royal Victoria Hospital after...
Family Physicians See Culture Improve, Challenge RVU System
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Family care physicians are seeing steady or gradual improvements in several key aspects of running their practices, according to the “Family...
PSMA-PET Challenges Current Prostate Cancer Staging
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TOPLINE: Prostate-specific membrane antigen–positron emission tomography (PSMA-PET) detected metastatic disease in 46% of patients with high-risk prostate cancer previously classified as...
Loneliness and Social Isolation Leave a Mark on the Blood
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Social isolation and loneliness have long been linked to adverse health outcomes, including cardiovascular disease (CVD), diabetes, and premature death. However,...
Glass of milk a day cuts bowel cancer risk
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Getty Images A large UK study has found further evidence that people with more calcium in their diet – equivalent to...
Mental Health Tools for Kids
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A young boy with a habit of screaming when he didn’t get his way is among the patients Joannie Yeh, MD,...
Personalized Care Can Ease Preoperative Anesthesia Anxiety
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TOPLINE: Personalized interventions, including empathic conversations and educational videos, significantly reduce preoperative anxiety in patients undergoing elective surgery. METHODOLOGY: Researchers conducted...
Early Patching Benefits Kids Born With Cataract in One Eye
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TOPLINE: Children with congenital cataract in one eye are more likely to achieve nearly normal vision when their caregivers maintain consistent...
Politics in the Exam Room
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As political decisions increasingly affect healthcare, doctors weigh in on the changes and challenges they’ll likely see with the new administration....
Obstetric VTE Risk Rose Significantly Over Past Decade
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TOPLINE: Risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE) during pregnancy increased significantly from 2009 to 2019, with an average annual percent change of...
Choline Alfoscerate Has Modest Benefits on Cognition in T2D
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TOPLINE: Daily treatment with 1200 mg of choline alfoscerate for 12 months shows a modest yet significant improvement in cognitive function...
FMT Shows Early Success in Type 1 Diabetes With Bowel Issues
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TOPLINE: In patients with type 1 diabetes and severe gastroenteropathy, fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) demonstrates a favorable safety profile and is...
How Often Do Radiation Plans Need Peer Review Changes?
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TOPLINE: Institutional peer review of radiation therapy resulted in changes to treatment plans in over a quarter of cancer cases, according...
Cardiac Health Can Determine Breast Cancer Severity
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TOPLINE: Patients presenting with advanced breast cancer at diagnosis are more likely to have prevalent cardiovascular disease, and this association is...
Gabapentin Shows Lower Fall Risk Than Duloxetine in Elderly
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TOPLINE: Among 57,086 older adults, new gabapentin users demonstrated lower fall-related healthcare visits than duloxetine users, with a weighted cumulative incidence...
Merkel Cell Less Common, With Higher Mortality Than Melanoma
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TOPLINE: Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is less common and is associated with higher mortality rates than melanoma, according to a study...
Coffee Drinking Tied to Better Survival, but Timing Matters
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Lower risks of all-cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality were observed in people who mostly drank coffee in the morning. Study is...
Headlines About Doc Who ‘Catches’ Patient’s Cancer Are Popping Up Again
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Welcome to Culture Clinic, MedPage Today‘s collaboration with Northwell Health to offer a healthcare professional’s take on the latest viral medical...
Do the New CMS Rules on Prior Authorization Go Far Enough?
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The new CMS regulations on prior authorization have been heralded as a big step forward in reducing administrative burdens on physicians,...
Bodies Into Other Bodies | MedPage Today
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Trump is a writer and a professor of medical humanities. On December 23, 1954 — about 70 years ago — at...
Sugary Drinks Tied to 2M Diabetes Cases; Diagnosing LADA; Top GLP-1 for Weight Loss
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A total of 2.2 million new type 2 diabetes (T2D) cases and 1.2 million new cardiovascular disease cases worldwide in 2020...
Doctor Targeted by Deepfake Ad Scam
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A well-known endocrinologist in New Zealand was recently the victim of a deepfake scam, according to reporting from the New Zealand...
Herpes and Alzheimer’s Tau; Dementia and Autism; Extended Paxlovid for Long COVID
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A study of human brain organoids suggested a complex relationship between herpes simplex virus 1 infection and tau, suggesting that tau...
Wes Streeting says he is ashamed of NHS winter problems
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Getty Images The health secretary has said some patients’ experience of the NHS this winter makes him feel “ashamed”. Wes Streeting...
Does the ‘4% Rule’ Make Sense for Doctors?
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The “4% rule” is nearly universal in the personal finance space. My goal here is to explain the 4% rule and...
How AI Could Help Solve the Global Blood Shortage Crisis
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Kundu is a surgery fellow. Glatter is an assistant professor of emergency medicine. In many parts of the world, life-saving blood...
This Year’s Shkreli Awards: Here’s Who Made the List
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A CEO and former surgeon who pocketed $250 million as the health system he led went bankrupt and a Medicare Advantage...
FDA Limits Toxic Lead in Some Baby Foods
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The FDA on Monday set maximum levels for lead in baby foods like jarred fruits and vegetables, yogurts, and dry cereal,...
CVD Toll From Sugary Drinks; Migraine Tx and Heart Risk; Baby Heart Xenotransplant?
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An estimated 2.2 million new cases of type 2 diabetes and 1.2 million new cases of cardiovascular disease (CVD) each year...
What is hMPV, the virus spreading through China?
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Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) has probably been infecting people for centuries ROGER HARRIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Alarmist headlines that warn of China being...
FDA Unveils Draft Guidance to Improve Pulse Oximeter Accuracy Across Skin Tones
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Makers of medical devices that quickly measure oxygen levels in the blood would have to gather extra data to show that...
Intensive BP Control May Benefit CKD Patients in Real World
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TOPLINE: The cardiovascular benefits observed with intensive blood pressure (BP) control in patients with hypertension and elevated cardiovascular risk from the...
Medical Debt Barred on Credit Reports; Winter Storm Deaths; Steward Hospital Closes
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Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Vice President Kamala Harris announced a final rule from the Consumer Financial...
Should Doctors Make It Year-Round?
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For millennia in medicine, alcohol, particularly red wine, carried a health halo; in small doses, it has historically been thought to...
Royal Liverpool Hospital A&E patients waiting up to 50 hours
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Patients at Royal Liverpool University Hospital’s accident and emergency unit are facing waits of up to 50 hours. Liverpool University Hospitals...
New Ideas on PsA Pathogenesis May Drive New Treatments
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NEW YORK — Over the past year, new evidence has emerged in support of the idea that psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is...
Sjögren Subtypes Have Distinct Pathophysiologic Profiles
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TOPLINE: Sjögren disease (SjD) presents three distinct phenotypes ― B-cell active with low symptom burden, high systemic activity with high symptom...
Does Canada Manage Them Better?
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With the number of US drug shortages being one of the highest seen over the past 10 years, the American Medical...
Retatrutide Produces Greatest Weight Loss
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A systematic review of 26 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) finds that among glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists and co-agonists on...
Using AI to ID Osteoporosis: A Medico-Legal Minefield?
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Could an artificial intelligence (AI)–driven tool that mines medical records for suspected cases of osteoporosis be so successful that it becomes...
New Trial Seeks to Pin Down Pediatric PAH Treatment
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A new phase 3 study comparing mono and duo therapies may yield greater guidance and treatment options for children with pulmonary...
Hypermucoviscous K pneumoniae Shows Reduced Drug Resistance
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TOPLINE: Hypermucoviscous Klebsiella pneumoniae (hmKp) strains demonstrate a significantly lower prevalence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) production and slightly lower carbapenem resistance...