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• GOP Senators Amp Up Pressure Over Medication Abortion Safety

  15-01-2026 23:44 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The safety of medication abortion got a contentious Senate hearing Wednesday as Republican lawmakers put pressure on the FDA to return to in-person prescribing requirements for mifepristone.
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• New App in China Asks: 'Are You Dead?'

  15-01-2026 23:17 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In China, the names of things are often either ornately poetic or jarringly direct. A new, wildly popular app among young Chinese people is definitively the latter.
  It's called, simply, "Are You Dead?"
  In a vast country whose...
  
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• Experts Who Advised on Diet Guidelines Say RFK Jr.'s Version Is Full of Errors

  15-01-2026 23:02 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Some of the experts who advised on the development of the most recent national dietary guidelines told MedPage Today that their work wasn't considered, and that the final guidance is riddled with errors.
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• Trump Unveils Proposal Aimed at Cutting Healthcare Costs

  15-01-2026 22:57 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- President Trump unveiled a health proposal Thursday that he said would lower costs for Americans and give them more money to pay their own health insurance costs directly.
  "We're calling it the Great Healthcare Plan," Trump...
  
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• Liver Transplants After Mushroom Consumption; Baby Aspirin in IBD; Imaging for MASH

  15-01-2026 21:40 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The California department of health recommended that people avoid mushroom foraging, warning that death cap mushrooms have been linked to three deaths, three liver transplants, and 35 hospitalizations in the state.
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• Risky Drugs Still in the Mix for Dementia Patients

  15-01-2026 21:12 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- One in four dementia patients received a potentially inappropriate drug prescription, an analysis of Medicare claims data suggested.
  Overall, 25.1% of people with dementia and 21.7% of those with other forms of cognitive impairment...
  
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• Controversial CDC-Funded Hep B Study Halted

  15-01-2026 20:52 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A controversial study on hepatitis B vaccination in Guinea-Bissau that was funded in part by the U.S. CDC has been halted.
  Yap Boum, PhD, MPH, a senior official at the Africa CDC, said the study was "cancelled" during a press...
  
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• Yes, Doctors Use Emojis in Medical Records

  15-01-2026 20:24 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The use of emojis in electronic health record (EHR) notes shot up last year compared with recent years, according to an analysis from a single academic medical center, with hundreds of different emojis used in thousands of notes...
  
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• Permanent Telehealth Flexibilities Should Not Be Controversial

  15-01-2026 18:57 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- As yet another government shutdown looms, telehealth's uncertainty remains--and seniors risk paying the price.
  While headlines about the last government closure focused on insurance premiums, millions of seniors across the...
  
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• Pharmacists' Risk of Suicide Higher Than the General Public

  15-01-2026 18:46 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Pharmacists and female pharmacy technicians are at higher risk of suicide compared with their peers in the general population, a retrospective cohort study suggested.
  Using data from 2011 to 2022, pharmacists had a higher risk...
  
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• Share of Biologics Prescribed by NPs, PAs Grows Rapidly in Dermatology

  15-01-2026 17:56 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The share of medication spending attributable to physician associates/assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) for newer biologics to treat dermatologic conditions has tripled over the last decade, researchers reported...
  
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• Public Mistrust Linked to Drop in Donor Organ Donations and Kidney Transplants

  15-01-2026 17:55 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Organ donations from the recently deceased dropped last year for the first time in over a decade, resulting in fewer kidney transplants, according to an analysis issued Wednesday that pointed to signs of public mistrust in the...
  
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• Doctors Arrested After Newborn Deaths; Nurse's Fake Ozempic Charge; Surgeon Arrested

  15-01-2026 17:47 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Top doctors at a Russian hospital in Siberia have been arrested after nine newborns died there this month. (CBS News)
  A nurse in Chicago was charged for giving patients fake semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy). (CBS News)
  Michael...
  
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• Democrat Blasts HHS for Causing Confusion in Cutting, Then Reinstating SAMHSA Grants

  15-01-2026 17:19 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A top Democrat slammed the Trump administration late Wednesday for creating "uncertainty and confusion" in cutting thousands of substance abuse and mental health grants and then abruptly reversing course.
  House Appropriations...
  
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• Make the Diagnosis: Abdominal Pain and Dysuria Followed by Urinary Urgency.

  15-01-2026 17:09 via medpagetoday.com
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• Color Blindness and Bladder Cancer: A Bad Combination for Survival?

  15-01-2026 17:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- People with color vision deficiency--commonly known as color blindness--may have a higher risk of mortality from bladder cancer compared with those who can see colors, a retrospective cohort study suggested.
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• Fellow Nurses: Does Nursing Have a 'Mean Girl' Problem?

  15-01-2026 16:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Picture a nurse. What comes to mind? Perhaps a maternal, Nightingale-esque figure in white, a demure assistant to the physician. Perhaps a carousel of naughty nurse costumes, a TV RN capable of little more than giving doctors...
  
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• 12 People Hospitalized in Outbreak; Astronaut Medevac; ICE Detainees' Meds

  15-01-2026 15:30 via medpagetoday.com
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  The FDA and CDC are investigating a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium infections linked to Live it Up brand Super Greens dietary supplement powder...
  
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• Pulse Oximeter Failings for Darker-Skinned People Might Not Have a Simple Solution

  15-01-2026 00:30 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Pulse oximetry was less accurate for people with darker skin tones in two studies, one regarding home-use devices and the other hospital-grade devices, although with some surprising differences between them.
  In the EXAKT study...
  
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• U.S. Health Spending Topped $5 Trillion in 2024, CMS Says

  14-01-2026 23:40 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Healthcare spending reached $5.3 trillion in 2024, an increase of 7.2% over the previous year, CMS said Wednesday.
  This marks the second consecutive year of growth above 7%, following an increase of 7.4% in 2023, the agency...
  
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• CDC Just Downgraded Several Vaccines for Kids: Here Are the Risks

  14-01-2026 23:24 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- When Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a revised childhood immunization schedule last week, experts were quick to say that they'd be sticking with the old schedule.
  And there's a good reason to do so. The previous...
  
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• CDC's Reversal on Flu Shots for Kids Could Amplify Outbreaks

  14-01-2026 23:23 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Moving childhood influenza vaccination from a universal recommendation to one based on shared clinical decision-making endangers a group facing a high risk of flu complications, pediatric infectious disease experts warned.
  Earlier...
  
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• Autoimmune Anemia Is the Latest Condition Found Responsive to CAR-T Therapy

  14-01-2026 23:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Yet another non-cancer disease can be treated successfully with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, researchers showed.
  Eleven patients with refractory autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) were all brought into drug...
  
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• GLP-1 Drugs Tied to Mortality Reduction in Colon Cancer Patients With Obesity

  14-01-2026 21:43 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- SAN FRANCISCO--Patients with colon cancer and comorbid obesity treated with GLP-1 receptor agonists had lower mortality and fewer serious non-cancer complications, a propensity-matched cohort study showed.
  The retrospective...
  
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• FDA Approves At-Home Device for Treatment-Resistant Depression

  14-01-2026 21:28 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved a prescription at-home brain neuromodulation therapy as an adjunctive depression treatment for adults, maker Neurolief announced on Tuesday.
  ProlivRx is the first home-based prescription device to deliver focal...
  
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• FDA Calls for New Warning on Flu Shots

  14-01-2026 21:24 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA told influenza vaccine makers they should add a warning about an increased febrile seizure risk in babies and preschoolers the day after flu vaccination.
  The agency made the announcement in safety labeling notification...
  
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• Exercise vs Meds for Depression; Supplement's Suicide Risk; Grants Terminated

  14-01-2026 21:05 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A review found that exercise appeared to be as effective as psychological or pharmacological treatments for reducing depression symptoms, but the conclusion was based on a few small trials. (Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews...
  
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• U.S. Overdose Deaths Fell Through Most of 2025, Federal Data Reveal

  14-01-2026 20:47 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- U.S. overdose deaths fell through most of last year, suggesting a lasting improvement in an epidemic that had been worsening for decades.
  Federal data released Wednesday showed that overdose deaths have been falling for more...
  
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• What's in a Name? A New One Might Help PCOS Patients

  14-01-2026 20:44 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- During a telehealth visit last month, I met a 31-year-old woman from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, who recalled rushing to the emergency department with severe belly pain as an adolescent.
  "The doctors told me I had polycystic...
  
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• Cardiovascular Risk Score Shows Value in Predicting Future Eye Disease

  14-01-2026 20:20 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A cardiovascular risk score used in primary care helped to predict patients at highest risk of future serious eye diseases, a large prospective cohort study suggested.
  Among adults ages 40-79, those with the highest Pooled Cohort...
  
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• Flu Antiviral Use Among Hospitalized Kids Fell During COVID Pandemic

  14-01-2026 18:42 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Antiviral use declined among U.S. kids hospitalized with influenza late in the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an analysis of CDC data.
  Among 1,560 kids hospitalized with the flu, antiviral use ranged between 48.3% and 56.8...
  
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• Addressing Fear and Uncertainty in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

  14-01-2026 18:12 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In "Beyond Diagnosis: CLL," Cleveland Clinic hematologist/oncologist Allison Winter, MD, and host John Mangels explore how clinicians can communicate effectively and empathetically with patients navigating a chronic lymphocytic...
  
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• Intervention to Get Patients Off Benzos Succeeds in Trial

  14-01-2026 18:10 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Use of a self-administered electronic intervention led to cessation of benzodiazepines among long-term users, a randomized trial showed.
  Among 161 patients at Veterans Health Administration primary care clinics, those in the...
  
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• Louisiana Seeks California Doctor's Extradition, Testing the Limits of Shield Laws

  14-01-2026 17:49 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Louisiana pushed Tuesday to extradite a California doctor accused of mailing abortion pills, setting up a likely test of laws designed to protect telehealth providers who ship abortion pills nationwide.
  This is the second time...
  
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• Nonmedical Childhood Vaccination Exemptions Are Climbing

  14-01-2026 17:04 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Nonmedical exemptions to childhood vaccination requirements are on the rise, with substantial variation among U.S. counties and states, an analysis of county-level data showed.
  The median rate of nonmedical vaccination exemptions...
  
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• Pazdur Tells of FDA Turmoil; Surgeon's Data Questioned; MAHA's Supplement Boom

  14-01-2026 16:55 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Welcome to the latest edition of Investigative Roundup, highlighting some of the best investigative reporting on healthcare each week.
  Pazdur Tells of FDA Turmoil
  Former FDA drug chief Richard Pazdur, MD, warned of "chaos...
  
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• Fewer Americans Sign Up for Obamacare Plans as Costs Spike

  14-01-2026 16:29 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Fewer Americans are signing up for Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance plans this year, new federal data show, as expiring subsidies and other factors push health expenses too high for many to manage.
  Nationally, around...
  
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• Supplement Yanked Over Suicide Risk; 'Dilbert' Creator Dies; Full-Body Scan Lawsuit

  14-01-2026 15:31 via medpagetoday.com
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  Modern Warrior is recalling all lots of its Modern Warrior Ready supplement, marketed for boosting brain function, after the detection of undeclared 1,4-DMAA, aniracetam...
  
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• More People Survive Cancer, Report Shows

  14-01-2026 14:42 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The cancer mortality rate continued to decline in the U.S., falling by 34% since 1991, which translated to an estimated 4.8 million lives saved, according to the American Cancer Society's latest annual report.
  This decline was...
  
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• MicroRNA Tests Eyed for Flagging Heart Transplant Rejection

  13-01-2026 23:39 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The noninvasive diagnosis of allograft rejection after heart transplantation may be on the horizon, according to findings from the GRAfT cohort study.
  MicroRNA sequencing results, based on blood samples obtained at the time...
  
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• Experts Alarmed by USPSTF Work Slowdown

  13-01-2026 23:35 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Public health advocates are expressing alarm at the work slowdown happening at the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF).
  "I'm deeply concerned about the hobbling of the USPSTF," Miranda Yaver, PhD, coordinating committee...
  
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• 'Dry January' Offers a Shot of Stigma

  13-01-2026 23:27 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Social media is filled with declarations of "Dry January," a month without alcohol framed as a reset, cleanse, or personal challenge. Friends applaud the discipline. Employers promote it as wellness. The message is clear: choosing...
  
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• Worried About Liability After CDC Vaccine Changes? You Shouldn’t Be

  13-01-2026 23:10 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Physicians worried that the CDC's sweeping changes to the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule could expose them to new legal risk should continue to follow guidance from professional medical societies and "do the right thing" for...
  
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• Diabetes Risk Factors Cluster in Families

  13-01-2026 22:56 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Diabetes risk factors frequently emerged in more than one member of the same household, an observational study showed.
  In a cohort of adults with prediabetes, 75.9% of multi-resident households had at least one additional household...
  
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• Who Are the Newest ACIP Members Appointed by RFK Jr.?

  13-01-2026 22:48 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appointed two new members to the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), both of whom have championed issues close to Kennedy's heart.
  The new members are Adam Urato, MD...
  
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• Is There a Link Between Screen Use at Night and Suicide Risk in Kids?

  13-01-2026 22:13 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Recent research has focused on the troubling relationship between nighttime screen use and suicide risk in youths.
  A study presented at the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry meeting in October garnered media...
  
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• Rare Childhood Disorder Gets Its First FDA Drug Approval

  13-01-2026 21:47 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved copper histidinate (Zycubo) as the first treatment for Menkes disease in pediatric patients, the agency announced Monday.
  The treatment is a subcutaneous injectable formulation of copper histidine that aims...
  
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• FDA Says to Drop Suicide Warning From GLP-1 Drug Labels

  13-01-2026 21:43 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA requested that manufacturers of GLP-1 receptor agonists remove information regarding risks of suicidal behavior and ideation from drug labels following a detailed review of existing data, the agency announced on Tuesday...
  
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• Slow Heart Rate May Signal Xylazine Involvement in Opioid Overdoses

  13-01-2026 21:28 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Bradycardia on arrival at the emergency department (ED) appeared to be a positive predictor of xylazine detection among patients with opioid overdose, an observational study suggested.
  Among patients with opioid overdose, bradycardia...
  
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• Mystery Brain Disease in Canada; Alzheimer's Clinical Trial Lawsuit; Brains in Space

  13-01-2026 20:56 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Five hundred people in the Canadian province of New Brunswick were diagnosed with a "mystery brain disorder" that resembled prion disease; a 2025 study offered explanations, but some patients rejected the findings. (BBC)
  Adults...
  
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