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• Primary Biliary Cholangitis Incidence and Prevalence Growing

  15-11-2024 16:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) has typically been considered a rare condition, with a pooled global estimated incidence of two per 100,000 people per year and an estimated prevalence of 15 per 100,000 people per year. But...
  
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• How Often Do Doctors Use New Weight-Loss Drugs in Kids?

  15-11-2024 19:50 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- This story is part of a series called "Ozempic: Weighing the Risks and Benefits." It was produced in part through a grant from the NIHCM Foundation.
  When Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, attended a holiday party thrown by...
  
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• NMO Drug Looks Good for IgG4-Related Disease

  15-11-2024 18:13 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- WASHINGTON--Patients with IgG4-related disease appeared to benefit from inebilizumab (Uplizna), currently approved for neuromyelitis optica (NMO), in a pivotal clinical trial.
  Just 10% of patients treated with the drug in...
  
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• An Update on Therapeutics for COVID-19

  15-11-2024 17:45 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Although the general population now has at least some immunity against COVID-19, the consequences of severe disease are frequently overlooked for certain patient populations, such as those with comorbidities or immune compromise...
  
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• Group Sues Tennessee Over Racial Requirements for Medical Boards

  15-11-2024 17:16 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- A nonprofit dedicated to opposing diversity initiatives in medicine has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the requirements surrounding the racial makeup of key medical boards in Tennessee.
  The Virginia-based Do No Harm filed...
  
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• Nurse Suicides High During the Pandemic, but Feared Surge Never Materialized

  15-11-2024 17:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Female nurses' suicide risk remained higher but didn't worsen through the COVID-19 pandemic compared with other women, according to a large retrospective cohort study.
  Female nurses had 21% and 41% higher suicide rates than...
  
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• Big Comeback for Myeloma Drug; DIY Cancer Therapy; Gut Clues to Bladder Cancer

  15-11-2024 16:38 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- GSK announced that belantamab mafodotin (Blenrep) plus bortezomib (Velcade) and dexamethasone improved overall survival in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma as compared with daratumumab (Darzalex) plus bortezomib and dexamethasone...
  
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• MedPod Today: What Happens to Healthcare Under Trump?

  15-11-2024 16:33 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- The following is a transcript of the podcast episode:
  Rachael Robertson: Hey, everybody. Welcome to MedPod Today, the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories...
  
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• Confidentiality Clauses Are Killing Patients

  15-11-2024 16:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Our most egregious mistakes in medicine often become lawsuits. A common denominator of those lawsuits is that they should prevent these situations from happening to another patient. However, the worst of these cases are settled...
  
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• Are Doctors Costing Hospitals $300K Per Year?

  15-11-2024 16:24 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- With hospitals now "subsidizing" their physician workforce to the tune of more than $300,000 per doctor each year, current models of physician employment aren't sustainable, a new report suggested.
  In the third quarter of 2024...
  
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• Managing Primary Biliary Cholangitis Progression and Symptoms

  15-11-2024 16:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Once clinical suspicion has been established for primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), the "serologic hallmark" of the autoimmune disease are anti-mitochondrial antibodies (AMA), present in approximately 90% to 95% of all patients...
  
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• Why I Fight for Reproductive Rights in a Restrictive State

  15-11-2024 15:56 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) --
  Welcome to MedPage Today's "White Coat Chronicles," a short-form feature series where we follow Emilie "Mia" Mathura, DO, MSPH, during her first year of residency in ob/gyn.
  In this week's edition, Mathura shares her firsthand...
  
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• RFK Jr. Spurs FDA Resignations; Chatbot to User: 'Please Die'; Dating Apps and STIs

  15-11-2024 15:32 via medpagetoday.com
  
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  FDA staff members are considering leaving after president-elect Donald Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for HHS Secretary. (NBC News)
  Meanwhile, the stocks...
  
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• Larger Study Supports Safety of Tetracyclines During Early Pregnancy

  14-11-2024 23:27 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- The link between first trimester tetracycline exposure and major congenital malformations (MCMs) was not supported by a large cohort study based on Sweden's national registers.
  Incidence of any MCM diagnosed in the first year...
  
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• First Brain-Delivered Gene Therapy Approved for AADC Deficiency

  14-11-2024 22:55 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA granted accelerated approval to eladocagene exuparvovec (Kebilidi) to treat children and adults with aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase (AADC) deficiency, the agency announced Thursday.
  The treatment is the first approved...
  
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• Adding HIPEC Boosts Survival in Recurrent Ovarian Cancer

  14-11-2024 22:46 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Adding hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) to cytoreductive surgery significantly improved overall survival (OS) in women with platinum-sensitive, recurrent epithelial ovarian carcinoma, a phase III randomized trial...
  
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• RFK Jr. Selected to Lead HHS

  14-11-2024 22:24 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Donald Trump has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, the president-elect announced.
  The move is expected to send a jolt through the medical and public health community...
  
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• We Cannot Provide Care With Our Hands Tied Behind Our Backs

  14-11-2024 22:19 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- While pledging to "make America healthy again," President-elect Donald Trump gave former environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr.--whose curriculum vitae includes neither scientific background nor a medical degree--...
  
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• Evidence of Resistance to Standard Malaria Therapy for Severe Cases

  14-11-2024 21:47 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Partial resistance to artemisinin, the recommended treatment for Plasmodium falciparum malaria, occurred in Ugandan children with severe disease who were treated with the drug, and some treated patients had recurrence of their...
  
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• Debunking Fluoride Misinfo; Mummy Gets CT Scan; Come Quit My NP Job With Me

  14-11-2024 21:29 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- The following contains links to social media websites including X, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
  After Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on X that President-elect Donald Trump would push to remove fluoride from drinking...
  
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• Faricimab vs Aflibercept in Diabetic Macular Edema

  14-11-2024 21:18 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Intraretinal hyperreflective foci, intraretinal hard exudates, and epiretinal membrane formation were lower after treatment with faricimab (Vabysmo) compared with aflibercept (Eylea) for patients with diabetic macular edema ...
  
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• Doctors React to Texas Rule Requiring Them to Ask About Immigration Status

  14-11-2024 20:54 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- A new Texas rule that requires hospitals to ask patients about immigration status has raised concern about further straining trust between physicians and their patients, according to experts who spoke with MedPage Today.
  "As...
  
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• Accuracy of Skin Cancer Diagnosis Varies by Physician, Exam Method

  14-11-2024 20:33 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- The accuracy of skin cancer diagnosis varied by lesion type, physician specialty and experience, and examination method, with the greatest accuracy observed for dermatologists using dermoscopy, according to findings from a systematic...
  
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• New FDA Rules for TV Drug Ads: Simpler Language and No Distractions

  14-11-2024 19:01 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- The ever-present TV drug ads showing patients hiking, biking, or enjoying a day at the beach could soon have a different look, as new rules require drugmakers to be clearer and more direct when explaining their medications' risks...
  
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• Surgeons Billed $2 Billion for Unnecessary Spine Surgeries: Report

  14-11-2024 17:53 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- More than 200,000 Medicare patients with back pain underwent $2 billion worth of unnecessary surgeries, including spinal fusion and/or laminectomy or vertebroplasty, over a recent 3-year period, according to an analysis of Medicare...
  
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• $13M Award for COVID Vax Refuser; Doc Sentenced for Threats to Blow Up Hospital

  14-11-2024 17:45 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- A federal jury awarded $13 million to a former employee of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan who said she was fired for refusing the COVID shot. (CBS Detroit)
  Omar Marar, MD, who threatened to blow up a Michigan hospital, was...
  
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• Alarming Surge in Alcohol-Related Liver Transplants in Younger Adults

  14-11-2024 17:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Rates of alcohol-induced liver disease (AILD)-related hospitalizations and liver transplants surged over the past two decades, with particularly steep increases among younger adults in recent years, an analysis of U.S. data showed...
  
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• Birth Control and Abortion Pill Requests Have Surged Since Trump Won the Election

  14-11-2024 17:18 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Hours after Donald Trump was elected president for the second time, Clayton Alfonso, MD, had two messages from patients seeking to replace their intrauterine devices (IUDs). Over the next few days, three women inquired about...
  
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• 'Full House' Star's Cancer; Fluoride Fears Go Mainstream; Florida Doctor Arrested

  14-11-2024 15:35 via medpagetoday.com
  
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  "Full House" actor Dave Coulier, 65, revealed he has stage 3 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. (People)
  The latest tally of the McDonald's onion E. coli outbreak reports...
  
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• State Medical Boards Lax When It Comes to Doctor Discipline

  14-11-2024 15:13 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- State medical boards aren't doing enough to discipline potentially dangerous doctors, according to a report from Public Citizen.
  On average, the rate of serious disciplinary actions such as license revocation was 0.81 per 1...
  
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