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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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• More Benefits Reported With Crinecerfont in Adults, Kids With CAH

  15-05-2025 23:42 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- ORLANDO--New results from the randomized CAHtalyst trials shed light on the benefits of crinecerfont (Crenessity) for adult and pediatric patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), a rare genetic condition where...
  
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• Brain Dead Georgia Woman Must Carry Fetus to Birth Because of Abortion Ban

  15-05-2025 23:40 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A pregnant woman in Georgia was declared brain dead after a medical emergency and doctors have kept her on life support for 3 months to allow enough time for the baby to be born and comply with Georgia's strict anti-abortion...
  
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• FDA Grants First Approval to First-Line Therapy for Advanced Anal Cancer

  15-05-2025 23:30 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA granted a first-ever approval for a first-line therapy for anal cancer to the PD-1 inhibitor retifanlimab (Zynyz), the agency announced Thursday.
  The approval stipulates use in combination with carboplatin and paclitaxel...
  
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• Could 'T Time' Help Older Women With Hip Fracture?

  15-05-2025 23:04 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Adding topical testosterone treatment to a structured, high-intensity exercise program was no better than the exercise alone in helping older women recover from hip fracture, a randomized trial showed.
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• Alzheimer's Drug Used Mainly by Relatively Affluent, Urban White Men

  15-05-2025 22:33 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Uptake of lecanemab (Leqembi), a monoclonal antibody approved to treat early Alzheimer's disease, appeared to be marked by racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities, an analysis of Medicare data suggested.
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• SBRT Well Tolerated After Radical Prostatectomy

  15-05-2025 22:04 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The use of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) as salvage therapy after radical prostatectomy was well tolerated, with no significant differences in urinary and bowel patient-reported outcomes compared with observations with...
  
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• MD Reacts to RFK Jr. Hearing; The Roast of Casey Means; 'Unhinged' Healthcare

  15-05-2025 21:48 via medpagetoday.com
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  A senator accused HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of spouting vaccine misinformation during a hearing...
  
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• GLP-1s and Acute Pancreatitis; Yoga for IBS? MASLD Tied to Early-Onset Colon Cancer

  15-05-2025 21:40 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- GLP-1 receptor agonists for patients with diabetes was not associated with an increased risk for acute pancreatitis, a multicenter analysis found. (American Journal of Gastroenterology)
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• In a First, CRISPR Used to Treat Infant With Ultra-Rare Disease

  15-05-2025 20:09 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A tailored CRISPR base-editing therapy was given for the first time to an infant who was born with a rare genetic disease, with promising effects, researchers reported.
  After the baby, named KJ, received a diagnosis of severe...
  
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• Scientists give pioneering gene therapy to infant patient

  15-05-2025 19:34
  Child suffering from rare liver disease shows improved health after treatment
  
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• Missouri Lawmakers Approve Referendum to Repeal Abortion-Rights Amendment

  15-05-2025 19:22 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Six months after Missouri voters approved an abortion-rights amendment, Republican state lawmakers on Wednesday approved a new referendum that would seek the amendment's repeal and instead ban most abortions with exceptions for...
  
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• Make the Diagnosis: She Didn’t Need This During Her Pregnancy!

  15-05-2025 18:18 via medpagetoday.com
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• First-Line Immunotherapy Combo Boosts Survival in Unresectable Liver Cancer

  15-05-2025 17:43 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- First-line treatment with nivolumab (Opdivo) and ipilimumab (Yervoy) significantly improved survival compared with lenvatinib (Lenvima) or sorafenib (Nexavar) for patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the...
  
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• AMA Leaders: Advocacy, Action, and the Quiet Power of Democracy

  15-05-2025 17:35 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- As our nation and profession seek to better understand the forces shaping our government and the impact on public health, we must remember that advancements in medicine and science are seldom made in isolation. They are often...
  
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• Smuggling Charges for Detained Scientist; NY Doc Faces New Abortion Investigation

  15-05-2025 17:23 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Kseniia Petrova, the Harvard researcher facing deportation back to Russia, now faces smuggling charges. (CNN)
  Louisiana's attorney general is investigating a second case involving Margaret Carpenter, MD, the New York physician...
  
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• Senators Accuse RFK Jr. of Not Telling the Truth During Contentious Hearing

  15-05-2025 15:30 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Several Democratic senators demanded on Wednesday that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. explain why he has allowed billions of dollars and thousands of staff to be cut from federal programs, and challenged his tepid support...
  
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• UnitedHealth Under Criminal Investigation; New CDC Cuts; AI Radiologists?

  15-05-2025 15:28 via medpagetoday.com
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  UnitedHealth Group is being investigated by the Justice Department for possible Medicare fraud. (Reuters via Wall Street Journal)
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• NHS waiting lists in England rise for first time in 7 months

  15-05-2025 13:54
  Data is blow to government’s claim that delays in patient care are easing
  
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• England’s drug approval body resists pharma pressure to loosen processes

  15-05-2025 06:00
  Nice urges NHS to speed up distribution of approved medicines, showing economic benefits of efficient rollout
  
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• Similar Relief From Cancer-Related Pain With Two Radiotherapy Techniques

  14-05-2025 23:46 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Single-fraction stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) failed to improve cancer-related bone pain in a randomized comparison with conventional radiation therapy (RT).
  The complete response (CR) rate at 1 month improved from 25...
  
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• RFK Jr. Hammered on Funding Cuts, HHS Overhaul at House Hearing

  14-05-2025 23:42 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presented his department's fiscal year 2026 budget proposal to House appropriators on Wednesday, drawing praise from House Republicans for his work on nutrition issues while Democrats slammed...
  
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• House Committee Holds Marathon Markup for Bill That Includes $715B in Medicaid Cuts

  14-05-2025 23:40 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- House Energy & Commerce Committee members finished a marathon markup session late Wednesday afternoon for their reconciliation bill, which among other provisions included an estimated $715 billion in cuts to Medicaid and...
  
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• Here's How We Know Vaccines Are Safe and Effective

  14-05-2025 23:22 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Statements from a federal official about potential changes to the way vaccines are evaluated have left experts with more questions than answers.
  Earlier this month, an apparent policy change appeared in a statement to the Washington...
  
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• Staffing Woes Tied to Physician Burnout

  14-05-2025 23:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Nearly half of physicians surveyed reported burnout and said they sometimes worked on incompletely staffed teams.
  Criteria for burnout were met by 47.9% of 970 physician survey respondents; 26.4% indicated likely or definite...
  
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• Mucus-Plugged Airways Linked to COPD Outcomes

  14-05-2025 23:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Airway-blocking mucus plugs were associated with a faster decrease in lung function in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a longitudinal study showed.
  Decrease in the forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) marking...
  
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• FDA OKs New Drug for Lung Cancer With c-Met Overexpression

  14-05-2025 22:48 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA granted accelerated approval to telisotuzumab vedotin (Emrelis) for the treatment of adults with previously treated, locally advanced, or metastatic non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with high c-Met protein...
  
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• First Oral Therapy for Rare Adrenal Gland Tumors Gets Green Light From FDA

  14-05-2025 22:17 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA has expanded the approval of belzutifan (Welireg) to include certain types of pheochromocytoma or paraganglioma (PPGL) in adults and children.
  The action establishes belzutifan as the only approved oral therapy for PPGL...
  
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• Backup Drug Gains Footing for Resistant Hypertension

  14-05-2025 21:33 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A diuretic was able to match spironolactone for blood pressure (BP) lowering in people with resistant hypertension, a small randomized trial showed.
  Home-measured systolic blood pressure (SBP) was similarly reduced at 12 weeks...
  
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• Does It Matter if the U.S. Surgeon General Never Practiced Medicine?

  14-05-2025 20:26 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- President Trump recently announced the nomination of Casey Means, MD, to serve as the next surgeon general. If confirmed, her appointment would further signal the growing political influence of the "Make America Healthy Again...
  
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