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  07-04-2025 17:47 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- About 2 weeks ago, in my regular hospital email, outside of the electronic medical record, I got a message from one of the home care agencies that services our hospital. The subject line was "Reminder: remember to sign" and then...
  
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• Taking Time for a Second Opinion About Breast Cancer Treatment

  06-05-2025 23:43 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Taking time to get a second opinion on breast cancer treatment did not significantly alter the time to treatment, which still occurred within the currently recommended timeframe, a retrospective cohort study showed.
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• Trial Helps Unravel Migraine-Depression Knot

  06-05-2025 22:49 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Fremanezumab (Ajovy) reduced depression symptoms and monthly migraine attacks in people with episodic or chronic migraine and major depressive disorder, the phase IV UNITE trial showed.
  The mean change from baseline in monthly...
  
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• H5N1 Bird Flu Cases Have Slowed in Animals and People

  06-05-2025 22:45 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Detections of H5N1 avian influenza have slowed in both animals and humans, but continued surveillance is warranted, CDC researchers said.
  In dairy cattle, cases surged over the fall and early winter but eased in January, while...
  
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• Vinay Prasad, Critic of COVID Measures, Picked as FDA's Top Vaccine Official

  06-05-2025 22:26 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, a frequent critic of the FDA and COVID-19 lockdowns and vaccination policies, will be the next director of FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), the center that oversees vaccine approvals...
  
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• AI Topped Docs in Quality, Empathy of Responses to Patient Questions on GI Cancers

  06-05-2025 20:43 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- SAN DIEGO--Research presented at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) included studies on the quality and empathy of artificial intelligence (AI) responses versus physician responses to patient questions about gastrointestinal cancers...
  
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• Depression 15 Years Before Dementia; Hand Movements and Autism; TBI Research Cut

  06-05-2025 20:19 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Depressive symptoms rose progressively in the 15 years leading up to dementia diagnosis, with the highest elevations occurring in non-Alzheimer's dementia, according to a case-control study in France. (Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery...
  
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• Banning PFAS Would Jeopardize Millions of Medical Devices

  06-05-2025 20:13 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A key component of life-saving medical devices has been placed in the crosshairs by government regulators, jeopardizing care for millions of Americans.
  State and federal policymakers are targeting a class of 15,000 chemicals...
  
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• Wegovy Pill Under Review; FDA Lifts Obesity Trial Clinical Hold; SGLT2s and Surgery

  06-05-2025 19:52 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA will decide whether to approve a once-daily, 25 mg oral formulation of semaglutide (Wegovy) by the end of 2025. If approved, it would be the first GLP-1 pill indicated for obesity, said maker Novo Nordisk.
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• Zoster Vax & Heart Disease; Jewel WCD OK'd; Carotid Revascularization for Low-Risk?

  06-05-2025 19:28 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In a nationwide Korean study, live zoster vaccination was linked with lower risks of heart disease, including major adverse cardiovascular events, heart failure, ischemic heart disease, and other outcomes. (European Heart Journal...
  
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• Most Babies Protected Against RSV During First Season Immunization Was Available

  06-05-2025 18:43 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- During the first respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) season in which a maternal vaccine and a monoclonal antibody for infants were available, most infants were immunized via either intervention, according to an analysis of Vaccine...
  
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• Blood Test May Predict MASLD Up to 16 Years Earlier

  06-05-2025 18:24 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- SAN DIEGO--A new blood test can predict the development of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) up to 16 years before it occurs, according to a retrospective cohort study analyzing proteomics data...
  
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• New Opioid Data May Not Reflect Harms Accurately, FDA Advisors Warn

  06-05-2025 17:20 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- New research about the harms of long-acting opioids may underestimate risks, members of two FDA advisory committees said Monday.
  Data did not represent large segments of the U.S. population and relied on varying definitions...
  
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• Sabbatical, Interrupted

  06-05-2025 17:02 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- It was October 2023 when I first began talking about a sabbatical. I had just stepped down from a 6-year stint as the director of disaster preparedness for Kaiser Permanente Northern California--an adventure that probably...
  
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• Trump Admin Asks Judge to Toss Suit Restricting Access to Abortion Pill

  06-05-2025 16:17 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The Trump administration has asked a judge to toss out a lawsuit from three Republican-led states seeking to cut off telehealth access to the abortion medication mifepristone.
  Justice Department attorneys on Monday stayed the...
  
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• Cuts Have Eliminated More Than a Dozen U.S. Government Health-Tracking Programs

  06-05-2025 15:54 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s motto is "Make America Healthy Again," but government cuts could make it harder to know if that's happening.
  More than a dozen data-gathering programs that track deaths and disease appear...
  
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• CDC Warns of Salmonella Outbreak; RFK Jr. Set to Testify; Europe Courts Scientists

  06-05-2025 15:27 via medpagetoday.com
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  The CDC warned of a multistate Salmonella outbreak linked to backyard poultry.
  Tomatoes sold in 11 states were voluntarily recalled due to potential Salmonella...
  
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• Early Rituximab Can Delay Need for Chemo in Follicular Lymphoma

  05-05-2025 23:44 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Long-term results from a randomized trial confirmed that early rituximab monotherapy for advanced-stage, asymptomatic, low tumor burden follicular lymphoma can substantially delay the need for further treatment.
  At nearly 15...
  
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• Time to Drop Confirmatory Testing for Primary Aldosteronism?

  05-05-2025 23:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A confirmatory test to verify a primary aldosteronism diagnosis had little clinical value, according to the results of an accuracy study.
  Among 156 adults with a positive screening result for primary aldosteronism, the seated...
  
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• One-Size-Fits-All Ranges May Be Misclassifying Thyroid Diseases

  05-05-2025 23:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Adjusting the reference intervals of thyroid function diagnostic tests--for age, sex, and race--reclassified many people into different disease categories when compared with current reference intervals, a cross-sectional...
  
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• 20 Attorneys General Ask Federal Judge to Reverse Deep Cuts to HHS

  05-05-2025 22:39 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Attorneys general in 19 states and Washington, D.C., are challenging cuts to HHS, saying the Trump administration's massive restructuring has destroyed life-saving programs and left states to pick up the bill for mounting health...
  
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• Paramagnetic Rim Lesions and Multiple Sclerosis

  05-05-2025 21:33 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- New evidence added to the literature that paramagnetic rim lesions (PRLs) may be a biomarker of disability accumulation in multiple sclerosis (MS).
  PRLs are thought to capture a subset of chronic active lesions with sufficient...
  
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• Who Are the Authors of the HHS Report on Gender Dysphoria?

  05-05-2025 21:16 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Noticeably missing from the 400-page report on gender dysphoria issued by HHS late last week were the names of any of its authors.
  In its press release announcing the report, HHS stated that the names of the contributors "are...
  
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• Is Injection or Surgery Better for Mixed Urinary Incontinence?

  05-05-2025 20:31 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- For women with mixed urinary incontinence (MUI) who have not had success with conservative treatments, intradetrusor onabotulinumtoxinA and midurethral sling improved outcomes similarly over 6 months, the randomized MUSA trial...
  
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• Medical Training Lags in Developing Countries. Technology Can Change the Game.

  05-05-2025 20:10 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) face critical shortages of doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals, a challenge that could deepen with the recent cancellation of U.S. global health aid. Beyond just the...
  
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• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Does It Flag Oncoming Rheumatoid Arthritis?

  05-05-2025 19:49 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Rates of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) were significantly greater in patients later diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), according to a large, long-running observational study.
  Among more than 1,300 people who eventually...
  
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• Why Ask the Question if the Answer Won't Help?

  05-05-2025 19:29 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- This past week we learned about another initiative coming down the pike: a requirement from the New York State Department of Health that all patients be screened once a year for social determinants of health, and an action plan...
  
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• Interventional Cardiology Frets Over Healthcare Policy Threats

  05-05-2025 19:13 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- WASHINGTON--Interventional cardiologists expressed frustration and pessimism for their field, and healthcare in general, in a perceived climate of financial instability.
  "It feels like a difficult time to be in healthcare...
  
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• SPARTAN Trial: Sparsentan Moves Up to First-Line in IgA Nephropathy

  05-05-2025 18:30 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A wave of new therapies is transforming care for glomerular diseases, and nowhere is the momentum faster than in immunoglobulin A (IgA) nephropathy. At the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) Spring Clinical Meeting, researchers...
  
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• Trump's First 100 Days: Gawande, Offit, Hotez, and Others Weigh In

  05-05-2025 18:22 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Short, candid takes from top voices in medicine and public health
  
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