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GLP-1s Show No Increased Risk for Thyroid Cancer
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In the largest study of its kind involving a diabetic population, the use of glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA)...
Can MS Patients Safely Stay on DMTs During Pregnancy?
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Modern disease-modifying drugs (DMTs) have revolutionized the treatment of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS). However, their use during pregnancy has long been...
Rise of vaccine distrust – why more of us are rejecting jabs
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Getty Images Covid vaccines saved lives. Lots of them. Research by the World Health Organization (WHO) now puts the number at...
Patients dying in hospital corridors, say nurses
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Getty Images Patients are dying in corridors and pregnant women are miscarrying in side rooms as overwhelmed hospitals struggle to cope,...
Infrequent Zoledronate Infusions Reduced Vertebral Fractures Soon After Menopause
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Intravenous zoledronate (Reclast) administered once every 5 years reduced the incidence of morphometric vertebral fractures in early postmenopausal women, a randomized...
California Doctors Lose Homes and Much More to Devastating Fires
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Sion Roy, MD, was on cardiac ICU service at Harbor UCLA Medical Center last week when he got a call from...
FDA Finally Proposes a Nicotine Crackdown, Years in the Making
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On Wednesday, the FDA issued its long-awaited proposal to drastically limit the amount of nicotine in cigarettes and some other tobacco...
Novel Drug Eases Disease Activity in Dermatomyositis
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An investigational monoclonal antibody targeting interferon beta (IFNβ) led to rapid and pronounced reductions in disease activity in adults with dermatomyositis,...
Poor Mental Health Rising; Eating Disorder Uncertainties; Dementia Life Expectancy
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Three U.S. health surveys indicated increasing prevalence of poor mental health from 2011 to 2022. (JAMA Network Open) The FDA is...
FDA Bans Red Dye No. 3 From Foods, Ingested Drugs
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The FDA on Wednesday banned the dye called Red 3 from the nation’s food supply and ingested medicines, nearly 35 years...
Should Alcohol Be a Part of Medical School Events?
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Cordone is an emergency physician. Earlier this month, the surgeon general released an advisory on “Alcohol and Cancer Risk,” which recommended...
Supplemental Benefits Offer Few Advantages for MA Enrollees
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Even though almost all Medicare Advantage (MA) plans boast coverage of supplemental benefits — dental, vision, and hearing — enrollees didn’t...
Families failed by Covid vaccines tell inquiry of their pain
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Family handout Jamie and Kate Scott on holiday before the pandemic Families of those harmed by Covid vaccines told the UK...
Patisiran Shows Long-Term Benefit in Hereditary ATTR With Polyneuropathy
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Patisiran continued to demonstrate benefit in hATTR with polyneuropathy at 5 years. Measures of disability, polyneuropathy, and quality of life showed...
Chemicals in Sewage Sludge Fertilizer Pose Cancer Risk, EPA Says
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Harmful chemicals in sewage sludge that is spread on pasture land as fertilizer are causing cancer, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...
Study Finds Skin Microbiome Differences in Women With CCCA
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TOPLINE: A study identified significant differences in the scalp microbiome composition of women with central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia (CCCA) compared with...
Surgical Patient’s Face Catches Fire; Drug Prices Up; Slime at Boar’s Head Plant
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Note that some links may require registration or subscription. An Oregon patient’s face caught fire during surgery, a $900,000 lawsuit alleged....
Victims Recount Military Doc’s Sexual Abuse; UnitedHealth Doctors Questioned
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Welcome to the latest edition of Investigative Roundup, highlighting some of the best investigative reporting on healthcare each week. Victims Recount...
Contaminated Drinking Water Is a Growing Concern for Cities Facing Wildfires
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As fires continue to burn across Los Angeles, several utilities have declared their drinking water unsafe until extensive testing can prove...
Germany Has no More Cases Of Foot-and-mouth Cases, Says Minister
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BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany has not found any further cases of foot-and-mouth disease, agriculture minister Cem Oezdemir said on Wednesday, adding that...
Clinical Trials Underway for New Skin Aging Targets
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NEW YORK — Targeted at fundamental processes that control skin aging, several therapies are currently being tested for the promise of...
Shield Against Avian Influenza Pandemic?
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TOPLINE: In this prospective observational study, immune protection against H5N1 and H7N9 avian influenza virus (AIV) was almost absent prior to...
Why Pediatric Hypertension Is Underdiagnosed and Untreated
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Nearly half of adults with hypertension (HTN) are not aware of their diagnosis. But recognition is even worse in pediatric patients....
Flu, RSV, and Norovirus Are in Full Swing, While COVID Looms
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January 13, 2025 — Most US states are reporting high or very high flu-like activity, while COVID-19 rates remain lower than...
Med School Students Less Diverse Post–Supreme Court Decision
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Black and Latino enrollment in American medical schools has fallen sharply after the 2023 US Supreme Court decision effectively ending affirmative...
Empagliflozin Aids Weight Loss in Prediabetes and Diabetes
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TOPLINE: First-line empagliflozin, taken once daily for 3 months, leads to a significant reduction in weight, body mass index (BMI), and...
Golden oyster mushrooms may stave off signs of ageing
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Golden oyster mushrooms growing on a fallen log in Iowa Katie Flenker / Alamy Regularly eating golden oyster mushrooms protected heart...
Could Your Patient Be a Victim of Munchausen by Proxy?
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The term “Munchausen syndrome” was coined in 1951 by Richard Asher, who named it after Hieronymus Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Münchhausen...
Updated AD Guidelines Chart the Full Diagnostic Journey
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New evidence–based clinical practice guidelines from the Alzheimer’s Association provide updated recommendations on evaluating individuals suspected of having Alzheimer’s disease (AD)...
Is SBRT Better Than Ablation for Small Liver Cancer?
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TOPLINE: In patients with recurrent small hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) demonstrated superior local progression-free survival (PFS) and tumor...
Can Failed Drugs Work Again?
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TOPLINE: In a retrospective study of 315 patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, retreatment with previously refractory drugs achieved an overall response...
Repeat Testing of Indeterminate Thyroid Nodules ‘Useless’?
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Thyroid nodules initially diagnosed on fine needle aspiration (FNA) cytology to be indeterminate rarely have a change in management after repeat...
New Model Estimates HCC Risk in Patients With Chronic HBV
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A new prognostic model could potentially predict and stratify the risk for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) among patients with chronic hepatitis B...
Add Anxiety and Depression to CVD Risk Prediction Model?
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Adding measures of anxiety and depression to the American Heart Association’s Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Events (PREVENT) model may have...
Glucagon Prescriptions Still Fall Short of Meeting Demand
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TOPLINE: Glucagon prescriptions for severe hypoglycemia in Medicaid initially decreased from 2012 to 2018 but increased between 2019 and 2023 following...
Can Sea Lions Expand Our Knowledge of Epilepsy?
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In 2022, the Journal of Neurosurgery took the unusual step of publishing a case report of a nonhuman subject, in this...
PM1 Pollution Drives Respiratory Hospitalizations
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Air quality has a huge impact on health, with exposure to particles with an aerodynamic diameter of Respirology examined 408,658 patients...
Trump’s Return Puts Medicaid on the Chopping Block
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Under President Joe Biden, enrollment in Medicaid hit a record high and the uninsured rate reached a record low. Donald Trump’s...
Health Care AI Requires a Lot of Expensive Humans
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Preparing cancer patients for difficult decisions is an oncologist’s job. They don’t always remember to do it, however. At the University...
Chance to Educate on Link Between Weight Loss and Fertility
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Many Americans may be unaware that bariatric surgery can effectively enhance fertility, according to a new survey that suggests a significant...
To Combat Leukemia, Researchers Harness CD37
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TOPLINE: CD37, a surface protein present on most acute myeloid leukemia (AML) blasts, demonstrates unique internalization properties that enable targeted drug...
Fix Send now or risk a ‘lost generation’ of children, MPs warn
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Rachel Morgan Urgent action is needed to stop a “lost generation” of children leaving school without ever getting the support they...
Experts Pitch Major Overhaul to How Obesity Is Diagnosed
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Medical experts from around the globe proposed a more nuanced approach to diagnosing obesity that does not rely exclusively on body...
calls grow for miscarriage leave
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Anna Malnutt Anna Malnutt says a right to paid bereavement leave would have made a huge difference to her Parents who...
Global report urges more accurate definition of obesity than BMI
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Getty Images People with excess body fat can still be active and healthy, experts say There is a risk too many...
A new definition of obesity could help treat millions of people
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Measuring body fat more carefully could help treat obesity Halfpoint/Getty Images Rethinking the way we define obesity could help millions of...
Here’s What It Will Take to Grow HIV-Positive to HIV-Positive Transplant Access
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Hemmige is an infectious disease specialist. In late November, HHS issued a final rule updating transplant regulations to enable every U.S....
Major PBMs Inflated Drug Prices, Pocketing $7.3 Billion Along the Way, FTC Says
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The three largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) inflated the price of specialty generic drugs beyond their costs of acquisition, earning more...
USPSTF Unveils Final Recs for Osteoporosis Screening to Prevent Fractures
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All women ages 65 and older and at-risk postmenopausal women under 65 should be screened for osteoporosis to prevent fractures, according...
Medicare for Renal Denervation; Cardiac Telemetry App Recall; Stroke Flags in Eyes
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will review a potential national Medicare coverage policy for renal denervation for patients with...