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• How Many Health Workers Face Deportation Risk?

  05-04-2025 23:00 via medpagetoday.com
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• FDA to Phase Out Petroleum-Based Food Dyes

  23-04-2025 14:55 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA will phase out petroleum-based food dyes in the coming months, FDA and HHS officials said Tuesday.
  "For the last 50 years, American children have increasingly been living in a toxic soup of synthetic chemicals," FDA...
  
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• ‘Medical misogyny’: UK waiting list for endometriosis diagnosis hits nine years

  23-04-2025 06:00
  
  Delays to treatment of common women’s health condition criticised by doctors and sufferers
  
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• Risk-Based Vaccination Strategies Can Build Back Public Trust

  22-04-2025 22:03 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Last week, the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) resumed its meeting schedule following a concerning February postponement. The committee discussed, among other items on the 2-day agenda, recommendations...
  
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• The Truth About Electrolytes, According to a Nephrologist

  22-04-2025 21:15 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Welcome to Culture Clinic, MedPage Today's collaboration with Northwell Health to offer a healthcare professional's take on the latest viral medical topics.
  In an aisle where sports drinks like Gatorade once reigned supreme...
  
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• Pope's Fatal Stroke; Intravascular Catheter Warning; Cardiologist-Romance Author

  22-04-2025 20:55 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The Vatican announced that Pope Francis died from a stroke that was followed by a coma and irreversible cardiocirculatory collapse. (Vatican News)
  The FDA agreed to loosen patient eligibility requirements for mavacamten (Camzyos...
  
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• Early Risks for Alzheimer's; Parkinson's Stem Cell Trials; Digital Dementia Debunked

  22-04-2025 19:59 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In the U.S., key risk factors for Alzheimer's disease were tied to cognitive function as early as ages 24 to 44. (Lancet Regional Health Americas)
  A phase I/II trial showed that transplanting dopaminergic progenitors derived...
  
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• Isturisa's New Indication; Wegovy Pill Submitted to FDA; Type 5 Diabetes?

  22-04-2025 19:13 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA expanded the approval of osilodrostat (Isturisa) to include treatment of endogenous hypercortisolemia in adults with Cushing's syndrome for whom surgery is not an option or was not curative, said maker Recordati.
  The...
  
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• Fact-Checking RFK Jr.'s Claims About Measles, Autism, and Diet

  22-04-2025 18:48 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In just 2 months as the federal health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made sweeping changes to HHS--and its priorities.
  He's dismissed 10,000 public health workers, met with state governors who want to restrict unhealthy...
  
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• Could Trump's War on Harvard Spell the End of U.S. Leadership in Science?

  22-04-2025 18:08 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- I was on the frontlines when COVID-19 hit and it felt like a surprise attack. Many academic research departments closed, but the Wyss Institute at Harvard, which I head, moved into high gear. We raced to develop new ways to manufacture...
  
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• Rotavirus Vaccines Involve Several Special Considerations

  22-04-2025 17:44 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The rotavirus vaccine is the only live oral vaccine on the CDC's recommended schedule of childhood immunizations. This fact, along with differing dose schedules for the two available vaccines and the upper age limit, means there...
  
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• Autism Science Leader Reacts to RFK Jr.'s Misinformation

  22-04-2025 16:56 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In this MedPage Today video, Alycia Halladay, PhD, chief science officer at the Autism Science Foundation, responds to inaccurate claims made by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during his April 16 press conference about the...
  
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• Should Residents Attend Professional Meetings?

  22-04-2025 16:49 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Welcome to "Ask the Program Director," a column from MedPage Today where your most pressing questions about residency--from the application process to life as a resident--are asked and answered.
  Dear residency program...
  
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• Novel Smoking Cessation Drug Clears Last Hurdle Before FDA

  22-04-2025 16:27 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The novel plant-based alkaloid cytisinicline safely helped smokers quit, a confirmatory phase III trial affirmed.
  In the ORCA-3 trial, cytisinicline increased biochemically confirmed abstinence nearly threefold compared with...
  
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• Advanced Cancers Returned to Prepandemic Levels, According to a Reassuring Report

  22-04-2025 15:59 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Many Americans were forced to postpone cancer screenings--colonoscopies, mammograms, and lung scans--for several months in 2020 as COVID-19 overwhelmed doctors and hospitals.
  But that delay in screening isn't making...
  
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• FDA Suspends Milk Testing; New NIH Grant Rules; ICE Detains Cancer Researcher

  22-04-2025 15:25 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. MedPage Today is collecting stories of HHS staffers across all agencies affected by Trump administration cuts. If you want to share your story, please email MPT_Editorial...
  
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• SCOTUS Gives Mixed Signals on ACA's Preventive Care Coverage Mandate

  21-04-2025 23:32 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The word "independence" was heavily featured in Monday's oral argument before the Supreme Court on a case questioning the legitimacy of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) requirement that insurers cover certain preventive services...
  
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• Medicaid Often Restricts Access to Heart-Protective Diabetes Agents

  21-04-2025 23:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Medicaid plans often put up barriers around newer classes of diabetes medications that offer cardioprotection, according to a national study of formulary policies as of March 2024.
  Mainly driven by restrictive formulary policies...
  
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• More Pharmacies Offer to Speed Prescription Deliveries to Customers

  21-04-2025 22:17 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- America's two largest retailers want to deliver prescriptions to your doorstep in as little as a few hours.
  Amazon and Walmart are undergoing national expansions in same-day prescription deliveries. They're joining a trend that...
  
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• Common Intervention Lowers Dementia Risk, Trial Shows

  21-04-2025 21:53 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Reducing hypertension dropped dementia risk by 15% in the open-label China Rural Hypertension Control phase III (CRHC-3) trial of nearly 34,000 people.
  At 48 months, all-cause dementia among people with high blood pressure was...
  
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• Women Don't Want AI as Sole Reader of Breast Cancer Screenings

  21-04-2025 21:02 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Few women wanted artificial intelligence (AI) as the sole reader of their screening mammograms, according to a survey, though most respondents generally supported some use of the technology.
  Among more than 500 women who presented...
  
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• Ob/Gyns Mostly Stayed Put After SCOTUS Overturned Roe, Study Finds

  21-04-2025 20:26 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In the post-Roe v. Wade era, ob/gyns continued to practice in similar locations as before, according to a descriptive cohort study.
  From the quarter right before the June 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision...
  
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• EEG-Guided Anesthesia Reduced Delirium in Young Kids Coming Out of Surgery

  21-04-2025 20:01 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Electroencephalography (EEG)-guided management of general anesthesia in children ages 1 to 5 years reduced pediatric anesthesia emergence delirium (PAED), a randomized clinical trial found.
  Among 177 kids undergoing procedures...
  
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• Intracerebral Hemorrhage: Strict BP Control Not to Blame for Pinprick Brain Lesions

  21-04-2025 19:27 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The acute intensive blood pressure (BP) lowering recommended after intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) did not increase small-volume infarcts compared with looser control in a small randomized trial.
  Of 79 patients in the ICHADAPT...
  
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• Is Lung Cancer Screening as Effective Without Risk-Based Selection?

  21-04-2025 17:41 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Low-dose CT (LDCT) screening for lung cancer in an all-comer Chinese population ages 40 to 74 identified at least as many cases as would be expected from screening high-risk individuals, a study found.
  One-time screening flagged...
  
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• I'm in Medical School to Practice Healthcare Not 'Sick Care'

  21-04-2025 17:25 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- America does not have a healthcare system.
  I pulled back the curtain and saw a woman in her early 60s lying in the hospital bed. She looked emaciated--sunken eyes, a thin, narrow face, and quick, shallow breaths. Her husband...
  
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• Oral and Injectable Naltrexone Similarly Effective for Alcohol Use Disorder

  21-04-2025 17:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Daily oral and monthly extended-release injectable naltrexone were similarly effective at reducing heavy drinking days in patients with alcohol use disorder (AUD), a hospital-based randomized trial showed.
  Among 248 adults prescribed...
  
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• Mad Cow-Like Disease Deaths in U.S.; Measles in 27 States; Cannabis Potency Soars

  21-04-2025 15:24 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. MedPage Today is collecting stories of HHS staffers across all agencies affected by Trump administration cuts. If you want to share your story, please email MPT_Editorial...
  
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• Pope Francis Dies

  21-04-2025 14:30 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at the age of 88. Here are the key things to know about the death of the Argentine pontiff, history's first from Latin America, who presided over the Catholic Church for more than 12 years...
  
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• 'This Situation Is Unusually Chaotic and Costly': What We Heard This Week

  20-04-2025 22:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- "Organizational changes are not unusual, but this situation is unusually chaotic and costly."--Anne Schuchat, MD, former principal deputy director of the CDC, on the agency's mass layoffs and axed offices.
  "Without that...
  
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