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• CDC's Office of Smoking and Health Eliminated

  04-04-2025 18:10 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The CDC's Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) was eliminated in its entirety during the mass layoffs at HHS this week, sources told MedPage Today.
  Hundreds of people who worked for the office have lost their jobs, according to...
  
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• One Bariatric Surgery Procedure Better for the Heart?

  08-05-2025 23:25 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- People who underwent gastric bypass had lower rates of major adverse cardiac events (MACE) than those who had sleeve gastrectomy, a cohort study found.
  Among nearly 40,000 bariatric surgery patients, MACE occurred in 1.9% of...
  
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• U.S. Infant Mortality Dropped in 2024. Experts Partly Credit RSV Shots.

  08-05-2025 23:18 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The nation's infant mortality rate dropped last year after 2 years of hovering at a late-pandemic plateau.
  Some experts think one reason for the drop could be a vaccination campaign against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)...
  
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• Smoke From Climate-Fueled Wildfires Contributes to Thousands of U.S. Deaths

  08-05-2025 23:04 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Wildfires driven by climate change contribute to as many as thousands of annual deaths and billions of dollars in economic costs from wildfire smoke in the U.S., according to a new study.
  The paper, published in Nature Communications...
  
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• Risk of Neurological Disorder Rises for People Who Live Near Golf Courses

  08-05-2025 22:46 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- People who lived near a golf course had higher risk of developing Parkinson's disease, a case-control study suggested.
  After adjusting for patient demographics and neighborhood characteristics, living within 1 mile of a golf...
  
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• Risk of Neurologic Disorder Rises for People Who Live Near Golf Courses

  08-05-2025 22:46 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- People who lived near a golf course had higher risk of developing Parkinson's disease, a case-control study suggested.
  After adjusting for patient demographics and neighborhood characteristics, living within 1 mile of a golf...
  
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• Multiple Cancers Occurring More Often in Younger Age Groups

  08-05-2025 22:31 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The frequency of early-onset cancer has increased for multiple types of malignancies, for reasons that remain unclear, a 10-year review of national statistics showed.
  Among 33 cancer types included in the analysis, 14 had a...
  
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• Trump's HHS Deputy Secretary Pick Breezes Through Senate Hearing

  08-05-2025 22:26 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- James O'Neill--President Donald Trump's pick for the No. 2 spot at HHS under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.--faced questions on vaccine mandates, HHS cuts, and even the hiring of David Geier to lead a new agency study...
  
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• Nurses Week Goes Viral; Ob/Gyn Reacts to Met Gala; 24 Hours in an Empty Hospital

  08-05-2025 22:17 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The following contains links to social media websites including Bluesky, X, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
  Happy Nurses Week to everyone in the profession, including RNs, CNAs, LPNs, NPs, DNPs, nursing students...
  
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• Oral IBAT Inhibitor Improves Cholestatic Itch in Primary Biliary Cholangitis

  08-05-2025 22:07 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Linerixibat, an investigational oral ileal bile acid transporter (IBAT) inhibitor, improved cholestatic pruritus in patients with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), the randomized phase III GLISTEN trial showed.
  Among 238 patients...
  
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• Here's Why Kennedy Says the Mumps Vaccine Doesn't Work

  08-05-2025 21:53 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- During an interview with Dr. Phil in late April, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made the bold claim that "the mumps part" of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine "has never worked."
  He went on to reference a whistleblower...
  
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• Ultraprocessed Foods Tied to Early Parkinson's Disease Symptoms

  08-05-2025 21:52 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Long-term consumption of a high level of ultraprocessed foods was linked with an uptick in nonmotor prodromal Parkinson's disease symptoms, a prospective study of nearly 43,000 U.S. health professionals showed.
  When extreme...
  
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• FDA OKs Combination for Low-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer

  08-05-2025 21:17 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA granted accelerated approval to the combination of avutometinib and defactinib (Avmapki Fakzynja Co-pack) for the treatment of adults with KRAS-mutated, recurrent low-grade serous ovarian cancer who have received prior...
  
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• Trump's Gain-of-Function Order Prompts Questions

  08-05-2025 21:01 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In the wake of President Donald Trump's executive order on gain-of-function research, questions linger on exactly how the order will be implemented and about its potential impacts on the study of infectious diseases, experts...
  
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• Plastic Stents on Par With LAMS for Pancreatic Pseudocyst Drainage

  08-05-2025 20:43 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- SAN DIEGO--For endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided transluminal draining of pancreatic pseudocysts, plastic stents appeared as safe and effective as lumen-apposing metal stents (LAMS) in a randomized trial.Clinical success...
  
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• Investigational Oral Microbiome Drug Safe, Tolerable for IBS With Constipation

  08-05-2025 20:27 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- SAN DIEGO--The oral full-spectrum microbiome drug EBX-102-02 was well tolerated with mostly mild gastrointestinal adverse events and a trend toward less patient-reported pain and straining in those with irritable bowel syndrome...
  
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• Should 'No Margin, No Mission' Apply to the AMA?

  08-05-2025 19:42 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- "The art of association then becomes, as I said above, the mother science; everyone studies it and applies it ... [and] after disturbing the State for a time, liberty of association strengthens it."--Alexis de Tocqueville...
  
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• Trump's NIH Already Cut 694 Grants: These Centers Lost the Most

  08-05-2025 19:15 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In the first few months of President Donald Trump's second term in office, a whopping 694 NIH grants totalling $1.81 billion were terminated across nearly all of the agency's institutes and centers, an analysis of NIH grant terminations...
  
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• Columbia Settles Sex Abuse Claims; Arrest in Nurse Murder Cold Case; Leapfrog Sued

  08-05-2025 19:09 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Columbia University and New York-Presbyterian Hospital will pay $750 million to settle hundreds of sexual abuse claims against former ob/gyn Robert Hadden, MD, who was previously criminally convicted and sentenced to 20 years...
  
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• Best Drug for Acute Severe UC? Genotypes and Liver Fibrosis; Boosting CRC Screening

  08-05-2025 18:35 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- What drug is most effective for acute severe ulcerative colitis (UC)? A meta-analysis weighs in. (Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology)
  Experts developed a consensus statement on diagnostic criteria for metastatic cutaneous...
  
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• Want Your Hospital to Give Back to the Community? Start With the Laundry.

  08-05-2025 18:07 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- PHILADELPHIA--How can urban hospital systems give back to their communities--and save money at the same time? Consider starting with your hospital's laundry.
  "It doesn't have to be perceived as an act of charity-...
  
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• More Inclusive LGBTQ+ Language Can Bring Tangible Benefits

  08-05-2025 17:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Using language that's more inclusive of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, and more (LGBTQ+) patient populations may help improve the patient-clinician relationship and make data from patient care and clinical...
  
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• Minor Papilla Sphincterotomy Did Not Reduce Risk of Acute Pancreatitis

  08-05-2025 16:50 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Minor papilla endoscopic sphincterotomy did not reduce the risk of acute pancreatitis in patients with acute recurrent pancreatitis and pancreas divisum, a sham-controlled randomized trial showed.
  Among 148 patients, 34.7% of...
  
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• Need Help With Lupus Nephritis Management? ACR Has Your Back.

  08-05-2025 16:10 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Over the past dozen years, treatment approaches in lupus nephritis (LN) have changed substantially, and this is reflected in a long-awaited update to the American College of Rheumatology's (ACR) official guideline on the topic...
  
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• Who Is Trump's Surgeon General Pick? Drug Cost Executive Order; Combo Flu-COVID Vax

  08-05-2025 15:28 via medpagetoday.com
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  Who is Casey Means, MD? A profile of the new nominee for U.S. Surgeon General. (AP)
  President Trump is expected to sign an executive order pushing down drug costs...
  
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• 'Armored' CAR T Cells Highly Active in Lymphoma After Prior CAR-T Failure

  07-05-2025 23:43 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A next-generation, anti-CD19 enhanced (or "armored") CAR T-cell product showed promising efficacy and safety in a phase I trial of lymphoma patients who had previously failed anti-CD19 CAR T-cell therapy.
  Among 21 patients...
  
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• White House Yanks Pick for Surgeon General

  07-05-2025 23:25 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The White House is withdrawing the nomination of a former Fox News medical contributor Janette Nesheiwat, MD, for U.S. surgeon general, marking at least the second health-related pick from President Donald Trump to be pulled...
  
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• RFK Jr. Unveils Autism Patient Database Project

  07-05-2025 23:14 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The NIH and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will build a data platform to conduct research across claims data, electronic health record (EHR) data, and consumer wearables, HHS announced Wednesday.
  The...
  
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• BCG Revaccination Hopes Dim for Tuberculosis Prevention

  07-05-2025 23:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) revaccination didn't help prevent sustained Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in initially uninfected adolescents without HIV in a phase IIb trial.
  Getting the BCG shot in the trial did...
  
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• House GOP Backs Off Some Medicaid Cuts as Report Says Millions Would Lose Healthcare

  07-05-2025 22:42 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- House Republicans appear to be backing off some, but not all, of the steep reductions to the Medicaid program as part of their big tax breaks bill, as they run into resistance from more centrist GOP lawmakers opposed to ending...
  
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