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• Prompt Diagnosis, Management of Primary Biliary Cholangitis Key to Quality of Life

  23-12-2024 19:13 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) can deliver a significant blow to patients' quality of life, especially if they are not appropriately diagnosed and treated."PBC is one of those liver diseases where you can have cirrhosis...
  
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• FDA's Deadline Ignored in Nearly 30% of Device Safety Reports

  12-03-2025 23:30 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA has allowed a substantial amount of late reports and undated reports into its Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience (MAUDE) safety database, researchers confirmed.
  During a 3.5-year period in 2019-2022, there...
  
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• Better Diet, Better Brains

  12-03-2025 22:39 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Healthier diet and lower waist-to-hip ratio throughout midlife were associated with better brain and cognitive health in older age, longitudinal data from the Whitehall II cohort study in England showed.
  A better midlife diet...
  
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• Anti-Vaccine Activists Cheer Trump's Nominee for CDC Director

  12-03-2025 22:32 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Former Rep. Dave Weldon, MD (R-Fla.), had been out of the national spotlight for more than 15 years when he was nominated to head the CDC. But many anti-vaccine advocates knew him well.
  "He is one of us!! Since before our movement...
  
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• House Spending Bill Excluded Fix for Medicare Physician Fees. What's Next?

  12-03-2025 22:13 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Now that the House has passed a spending bill that doesn't include a reversal of the 2.83% cut to the Medicare physician fee schedule, congressional supporters and physician groups are trying to figure out their next move.
  The...
  
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• Fluorescence-Guided Lymphadenectomy Tied to Improved Survival in Gastric Cancer

  12-03-2025 20:46 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The use of indocyanine green (ICG)-guided lymphadenectomy was associated with improved overall survival (OS) and recurrence-free survival (RFS) in patients with locally advanced gastric cancer after neoadjuvant chemotherapy...
  
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• Prior Auth Requirements Did Not Reduce Costs in Total Hip Arthroplasty

  12-03-2025 20:16 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- SAN DIEGO--Prior authorization (PA) requirements for patients undergoing primary total hip arthroplasty did not reduce costs, but did delay procedures, according to a prospective, single-center study.
  Among 3,922 patients...
  
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• NIH Move to Centralize Peer Review Worries Some Experts

  12-03-2025 19:35 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A proposal to centralize the first stage of the NIH's peer review process has some experts concerned about cutting subject matter expertise in the name of efficiency.
  Last week, the NIH announced plans to centralize its peer...
  
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• 50% Staff Cuts at SAMHSA? ChatGPT Feels Anxiety; Delusional Disorders & Social Media

  12-03-2025 19:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Rep. Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.) and more than 50 colleagues in Congress sent a letter to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expressing "grave concerns" over reports that staffing at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration...
  
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• Universal Syphilis Screening in the ED Catches More Cases

  12-03-2025 17:54 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- SAN FRANCISCO--Using only targeted models of syphilis screening in the emergency department (ED) would miss large proportions of active syphilis cases as well as new HIV diagnoses and acute HIV cases, according to new research...
  
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• Doctors Sue HHS for Removing Patient Safety Papers

  12-03-2025 17:29 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Physicians from Harvard Medical School whose papers were removed from a government patient safety website have filed a lawsuit against federal agencies to have their work republished.
  In their complaint, Gordon Schiff, MD, and...
  
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• Louisiana Woman Pleads Not Guilty to a Felony in Historic Abortion Case

  12-03-2025 17:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- BATON ROUGE, La.--A Louisiana woman pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a felony, after allegedly getting abortion pills from a New York doctor and giving them to her teenage daughter to terminate a pregnancy.
  The woman's arraignment...
  
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• NIH Cancelling Grants on Vaccine Research

  12-03-2025 16:40 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The Trump administration is cancelling studies about ways to improve vaccine trust and access, a move that comes in the midst of a large measles outbreak fueled by unvaccinated children.
  Researchers with grants from the NIH...
  
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• Who Will Volunteer for Clinical Trials Now?

  12-03-2025 16:23 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Can anyone trust the U.S. government when it comes to their future health? For participants in clinical trials, the answer is a hard no.
  The Trump administration's decision to end funding for the U.S. Agency for International...
  
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• New Infection Prevention Strategies Similar to Saline in High-Risk Hip Arthroplasty

  12-03-2025 15:59 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- SAN DIEGO--Vancomycin powder, dilute povidone-iodine lavage, and a combination of both treatments were not superior to standard saline for the prevention of periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) in patients undergoing high...
  
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• H5N1's Growing Threat: Risks to Humans and Wildlife Are Increasing

  12-03-2025 15:51 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In this Instagram Live discussion, MedPage Today editor-in-chief Jeremy Faust, MD, speaks with Nahid Bhadelia, MD, founding director of the Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases, about the current state of...
  
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• CDC Vax Panelists Have Few Conflicts; CDC's Email Error; Cancer Comms Scrutinized

  12-03-2025 15:41 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Welcome to the latest edition of Investigative Roundup, highlighting some of the best investigative reporting on healthcare each week.
  CDC Panelists Have Minimal Vax Conflicts
  CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices...
  
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• RFK Jr.'s Warning to Food CEOs; House Passes Funding Bill; Billy Joel Postpones Tour

  12-03-2025 14:27 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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• Four Charged in Death of Young Boy 'Incinerated' in Hyperbaric Chamber Explosion

  11-03-2025 22:29 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Four people have been charged in the death of a 5-year-old boy who was "incinerated" inside a pressurized oxygen chamber that exploded at a suburban Detroit medical facility, Michigan's attorney general said Tuesday.
  Thomas...
  
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• De-Escalated Neoadjuvant Chemoimmunotherapy Shows Promise in Early TNBC

  11-03-2025 21:39 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Use of nivolumab (Opdivo) before chemotherapy was not associated with improved pathologic complete response (pCR) rates among patients with early triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), but a 12-week non-anthracycline regimen in...
  
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• Doctors Who Went on Strike for Weeks Hope to Inspire Others

  11-03-2025 20:51 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Physicians who were part of a historic strike in Oregon that recently came to an end after 46 days told MedPage Today they hope to be an inspiration to others in their field.
  The strike was believed to be the largest involving...
  
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• Hospital-at-Home Provision Included in Proposed House Funding Bill

  11-03-2025 20:28 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- As Republican House leaders finalize their stopgap funding bill, one item tucked inside is the extension of the CMS "Hospital-at-Home" (H@H) waiver program.
  The program, which currently expires on March 31, allows hospitals...
  
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• Hospital-at-Home Provision Included in Funding Bill Passed by House

  11-03-2025 20:28 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The stopgap funding bill passed Tuesday by the House included a provision to extend the CMS "Hospital-at-Home" (H@H) waiver program.
  The program, which currently expires on March 31, allows hospitals to provide hospital-level...
  
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• Brain Edema, Imaging Abnormalities Reported for Alzheimer's Drug

  11-03-2025 20:03 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Treatment with donanemab (Kisunla) raised the risk of amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA) in people with early symptomatic Alzheimer's disease, a secondary analysis of trial data showed.
  In phase II and III trials of...
  
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• Stress and Strokes; Gene Hackman's CVD Death; PFO Closure for the Nickel-Sensitive

  11-03-2025 19:04 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- An association between stress and cryptogenic ischemic stroke was observed in young women, but not young men, in a case-control study. (Neurology)
  Pooled cohort data suggested a likely causal relationship between stroke and...
  
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• Alzheimer's Research Funds in Limbo; X Chromosome and the Brain; Stress and Stroke

  11-03-2025 19:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- At least $65 million slated for 14 of 35 Alzheimer's disease research centers is in limbo, with funding expected to run out on April 30. (The Guardian)
  In a surprise finding, the silent X chromosome in female mice awakened late...
  
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• Endocrine Society's New President-Elect; Judge Stops Compounders; New GLP-1 Benefits

  11-03-2025 18:38 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The Endocrine Society elected Nanette Santoro, MD, of the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, as their next president; she will serve as president-elect for a year beginning in July 2025 and start her presidency...
  
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• Topical JAK Inhibitor Active in Itchy Prurigo Nodularis

  11-03-2025 18:10 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- ORLANDO--More than 40% of patients with longstanding prurigo nodularis (PN) had significant improvement within 3 months of starting topical ruxolitinib (Opzelura), according to a study reported here.
  After 12 weeks of treatment...
  
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• Hundreds of Scientists, Doctors, Activists Rally for HIV Research Funding

  11-03-2025 17:33 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- SAN FRANCISCO--At least 400 researchers, physicians, activists, and other concerned citizens gathered here Monday night to rally for science and protest National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding cuts for HIV and other medical...
  
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• Cancer Care Changes With the Climate

  11-03-2025 17:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The climate summary at the end of 2024 revealed that the Earth continues to experience significant and record-breaking heat. Like a pop album that remains steadfastly perched atop the top 10 list, frightening climate news will...
  
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