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• FDA Warns on CVS Gel After Serious Injuries Reported

  22-01-2026 23:25 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA warned on wound and burn care products from MediHoney and CVS after more than a dozen serious injuries were reported.
  "Integra LifeSciences identified packaging failures related to the MediHoney Wound and Burn products...
  
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• 'Just Unconscionable': Health Insurers Under the Gun at House Hearing

  22-01-2026 23:21 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- UnitedHealth Group is the "poster child for Medicare Advantage abuse," and the plan's practice of delaying or denying claims "looks like a business model" to increase profits, Rep. Kim Schrier, MD (D-Wash.), said Thursday at...
  
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• Study Questions Benefit of FDA-Cleared Device for ADHD

  22-01-2026 23:20 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A phase IIb trial in England suggested that a stimulation device cleared by the FDA in 2019 for children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may not be effective.
  In 150 children and adolescents, those treated...
  
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• Texas Probe Targets Pediatricians, Alleges Illegal Vaccination 'Scheme'

  22-01-2026 22:17 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation into whether pediatricians, insurers, and vaccine makers engaged in deceptive behavior by allegedly failing to disclose financial incentives tied to vaccinating children...
  
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• Autism Claims for Leucovorin Race Ahead of the Science

  22-01-2026 21:49 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Leucovorin (Wellcovorin), a drug used to treat cerebral folate deficiency, will be used off-label for autism without evidence, doctors warned.
  "There is no substantive evidence that cerebral folate deficiency plays a role in...
  
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• Webinar Jan. 23: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in the New Dietary Guidelines

  22-01-2026 21:28 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The Trump administration earlier this month released new dietary guidelines emphasizing whole foods and protein--elevating meat, fresh vegetables, and dairy, while downgrading overly processed foods, grains, and foods with...
  
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• Guinea-Bissau Suspends Trump-Backed Hep B Vaccine Trial for Ethical Review

  22-01-2026 21:20 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Guinea-Bissau is suspending a Trump administration-backed hepatitis B vaccine study on newborns in the West African country, pending an ethical review, the health minister said Thursday.
  A six-person ethics committee didn't...
  
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• Low Vitamin D Tied to More Severe Respiratory Infections

  22-01-2026 21:09 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Very low serum vitamin D was linked to a greater risk of hospitalization for respiratory tract infections (RTIs), according to a large case-control study using U.K. Biobank data.
  Over about 15 years of median follow-up, people...
  
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• Colon Cancer Now Leading Cause of Cancer Death in Younger People

  22-01-2026 20:46 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Mortality from the deadliest cancers has decreased among people younger than 50 over the last three decades in the U.S., with the notable exception of colorectal cancer, according to data from the National Center for Health Statistics...
  
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• Apple Watch Raises Afib Diagnoses in High-Risk Patients

  22-01-2026 20:22 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Smartwatches beat standard cardiology care when it came to detecting atrial fibrillation (Afib, or AF) in a high-risk population, the Dutch EQUAL trial found.
  Among older people with elevated stroke risk, Apple Watch screening...
  
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• 'Bonkers' Nurse Pay; Collateral Measles Disruptions; Brain's Master Clock

  22-01-2026 20:12 via medpagetoday.com
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  As the New York City nurses' strike continued for a second week, pediatric nurse Alex Kim, RN, revealed the...
  
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• Meat Intake and Ulcerative Colitis; AI for Bowel Prep; Is Liver Steatosis a Disease?

  22-01-2026 18:57 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Higher total meat intake was associated with an increased risk of disease flare ups in ulcerative colitis, a prospective cohort study found. (Gut)
  The prevalence of chronic opioid use reached highs of 8% in ulcerative colitis...
  
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• Death Comes With a Price Tag

  22-01-2026 17:32 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- I am going to be clear: as a physician in the U.S., I am terrified. There is no sugar-coating what is happening at the highest levels of our federal government. The administration's vaccine policies, led by Health and Human Services...
  
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• Fellow Nurses: What's Happening With the Nurses in NYC Right Now?

  22-01-2026 17:25 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Approximately 16,000 nurses across three of New York City's largest private-sector hospital networks are currently on strike, and as the signs many of the nurses are carrying on the picket line state, "If your nurses are on the...
  
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• Eye Practices Will Pay Feds $6M; Nurse's Sexual Assault Cases; Impostor Nurse

  22-01-2026 16:13 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Five ophthalmology practices will pay nearly $6 million to resolve allegations that they submitted false claims to federal insurers for medically unnecessary transcranial Doppler ultrasounds, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said...
  
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• Astronauts Say Space Station's Ultrasound Machine Was Critical During Medical Crisis

  22-01-2026 15:41 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The astronauts evacuated last week from the International Space Station say a portable ultrasound machine came in "super handy" during the medical crisis.
  During their first public appearance since returning to Earth, the four...
  
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• Screening Older Doctors Unfair? Fertility Clinic Mix-Up; Improved Gluten Labeling

  22-01-2026 15:38 via medpagetoday.com
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  Many late-career physician screening programs are designed unfairly, a group argued in the New England Journal of Medicine.
  South Carolina's measles outbreak could...
  
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• Employment and Arthritis: Natural Enemies?

  22-01-2026 15:20 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- People with arthritis face a dramatically shortened working life compared with other individuals, researchers found, putting numbers to a familiar phenomenon that hadn't previously been quantified.
  Using the long-running, U...
  
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• Mindfulness Interventions May Reduce Substance Use in Youths

  22-01-2026 06:01 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) may help reduce substance use in young people, according to a systematic review of 23 studies.
  Of these studies, which included nearly 2,300 participants, over two-thirds showed positive...
  
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• Long-Term Anti-Acid Drugs and Stomach Cancer: Is There a Link?

  22-01-2026 00:30 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Long-term use of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) did not appear to be associated with an increased risk of gastric cancer, according to a population-based case-control study in five Nordic countries.
  After adjusting for numerous...
  
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• ABIM Adds Path to Certification After Residency Abroad

  21-01-2026 23:36 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) recently launched a pilot pathway to certification for international medical graduates (IMGs) who completed residency abroad.
  Eligible participants must have completed at least...
  
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• Can This Cesarean Closure Technique Reduce Complications?

  21-01-2026 23:35 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- When Clarel Antoine, MD, of the NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York City, reflected on his decades-long career performing hundreds of cesarean sections, he realized his patients didn't seem to have the types of complications...
  
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• Health Groups Pleased With Proposed NIH Budget in Bipartisan Funding Bill

  21-01-2026 23:18 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Health groups praised many of the provisions in the joint House-Senate bill that would fund the NIH and several other agencies under HHS for fiscal year 2026.
  "Even in these challenging times, the bill increases the overall...
  
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• Are Nurse Strikes Ethical?

  21-01-2026 23:14 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Strikes by nurses are not common--but they do happen. The longest recent nurses' strike took place at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts during 2020-2021. That one lasted 301 days. In 2022, 15,000 nurses went...
  
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• New York City Nurses Strike Stretches Into Week Two

  21-01-2026 22:45 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) rallied with nurses Tuesday in Manhattan during the ninth day of the largest strike of its kind that the city has seen in decades.
  The democratic socialists...
  
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• Pregnancy-Related Stroke Tied to Fivefold Higher Mortality Risk

  21-01-2026 22:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Pregnancy-related ischemic strokes, while rare, boded poorly for the patient's short- and long-term prognosis, according to a nationwide Finnish study.
  Over a median 17.4 years of follow-up, excess mortality was detected among...
  
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• Gwyneth Paltrow Touts TMS; Postpartum Psychosis in DSM? Genes Tied to Schizophrenia

  21-01-2026 19:58 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A 45-year-old woman detailed her experience using a transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) system (ExoMind) that Gwyneth Paltrow promoted for perimenopausal brain fog and anxiety. The device is cleared by the FDA to treat depression...
  
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• RFK Jr. Links His Vocal Issues to Flu Shots

  21-01-2026 18:45 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. believes his spasmodic dysphonia could be due to taking flu shots, he told USA Today.
  In an interview with the outlet, Kennedy said he took annual flu shots until the mid-1990s, then stopped...
  
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• Insider Emails on Hep B Vax Study; Woman Died Awaiting Abortion; Drug Price Hikes

  21-01-2026 18:32 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Welcome to the latest edition of Investigative Roundup, highlighting some of the best investigative reporting on healthcare each week.
  How Kennedy's Team Pushed Controversial Hep B Vax Study
  An investigation in Rolling Stone...
  
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• Antibiotics for Uncomplicated Acute Appendicitis Still Acceptable at 10 Years

  21-01-2026 17:27 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- For patients who received antibiotics for uncomplicated acute appendicitis, rates of recurrence and subsequent appendectomy at 10 years indicated that the strategy is a safe and feasible alternative to surgery, according to follow...
  
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• Regular AI Chatbot Use Linked to Depressive Symptoms

  21-01-2026 17:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Regular use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) was associated with greater levels of depressive symptoms, a survey study showed.
  In sociodemographic-adjusted regression models, daily use of AI was associated with greater...
  
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• Minnesota Doctors Decry Fear and Chaos Amid Trump's Immigration Crackdown

  21-01-2026 16:30 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- There was the pregnant woman who missed her medical checkup, afraid to visit a clinic during the Trump administration's sweeping Minnesota immigration crackdown. A nurse found her at home, already in labor and just about to give...
  
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• Workplace health insurance claims hit record high amid NHS backlog

  21-01-2026 15:30
  Demand for employers to offer medical cover increases as workforce ages and employees struggle to access treatment
  
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• UK workplace health insurance claims hit record high amid NHS backlog

  21-01-2026 15:30
  Demand for employers to offer medical cover increases as workforce ages and employees struggle to access treatment
  
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• Recalled Tuna Hits Stores; Deadly Fungal Outbreak Sickens 30; Blood Shortage Worsens

  21-01-2026 15:28 via medpagetoday.com
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  FDA warned that cans of Genova brand tuna recalled for botulism risk were mistakenly shipped to stores in nine states.
  The South Carolina Department of Public Health...
  
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• Bill Gates and OpenAI back $50mn AI rollout in African health clinics

  21-01-2026 06:00
  Gates Foundation partners with tech group to ease impact of chronic staff shortages in Rwanda and other countries
  
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• Air Pollution Tied to Greater ALS Risk, Worse Outcomes

  20-01-2026 23:40 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Prolonged exposure to air pollution was associated with a higher risk of motor neuron disease, a group of neurodegenerative disorders mainly involving amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), in a nested case-control study.
  For...
  
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• Ixchiq Vaccine Pulled From U.S. Market Amid Safety Concerns

  20-01-2026 22:57 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Vaccine maker Valneva will pull its chikungunya vaccine (Ixchiq) from the U.S. market after the FDA announced it would take further action to investigate the live-attenuated shot.
  The FDA recently put the investigational new...
  
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• U.S. Is on the Verge of Losing Its Measles Elimination Status

  20-01-2026 22:31 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- It's been a year since a measles outbreak began in West Texas, and international health authorities say they will meet in April to determine if the U.S. has lost its measles-free designation.
  Experts fear the vaccine-preventable...
  
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• Parent-Led Intervention Started in NICU Boosted Executive Function at School Age

  20-01-2026 22:12 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A parent-led developmental intervention that began in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and continued through the first 2 years of life aided executive function in very preterm children, a secondary analysis of a randomized...
  
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• CAR-T Immune Toxicity Linked to Non-Relapse Mortality Risk in Myeloma

  20-01-2026 22:07 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy-associated immune-related adverse events (CirAEs) were associated with a high rate of non-relapse mortality in patients with multiple myeloma, according to a retrospective study...
  
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• Study: Helping Lupus Patients With Money Issues Improves Their Health

  20-01-2026 21:46 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Lupus patients with financial problems reported better health-related outcomes when they received help from social workers with such things as food stamps and drug costs, researchers said.
  Patient-reported scores for physical...
  
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• After My Breast Cancer Diagnosis, My Practice Became a Lab for Change

  20-01-2026 21:27 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- When I met the patient in my clinic, she was accompanied by her daughter and husband, who both looked completely frustrated with her. I went through my standard spiel about the necessity of radiation after a lumpectomy or a complete...
  
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• Medicare Paying Billions More for Medicare Advantage vs Traditional Enrollees

  20-01-2026 21:06 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will continue to pay more for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans--$76 billion more in 2026--compared with fee-for-service plans.
  That higher cost comes despite a policy...
  
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• CMS Paying More for Medicare Advantage Patients Compared to Traditional Enrollees

  20-01-2026 21:06 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is continuing to pay Medicare Advantage (MA) plans more -- $76 billion more in 2026 -- than if those same patients were enrolled in traditional fee-for-service Medicare...
  
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• Coming Radiotracer Shortage; Dedicated Cardiometabolic Training; New PFA Catheter

  20-01-2026 20:41 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Supply issues with key radiotracers for diagnosing cardiac amyloidosis are expected after this month, according to the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology.
  Large cardiology societies drew attention to environmental stressors...
  
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• Discussing Personalized Treatment Options in Breast Cancer

  20-01-2026 20:33 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In "Beyond Diagnosis: Breast Cancer," Cleveland Clinic oncologist Tiffany Onger, MD, and host John Mangels continue their conversations on communicating effectively and empathetically with patients across the breast cancer care...
  
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• No Link Between Water Fluoridation, Birth Weight, Study Shows

  20-01-2026 20:23 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- There was no connection between water fluoridation and birth weight in a large cohort study that analyzed outcomes before and after the element was added to the water supply.
  Analyzing more than 11 million singleton births over...
  
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• Next-Gen Alzheimer's Therapy; CGRP Drugs' Heart Risks; MS Role on 'Grey's Anatomy'

  20-01-2026 20:06 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- BioSpace highlighted four next-generation Alzheimer's treatment candidates that may have promise.
  A test to screen for Alzheimer's disease with a finger-prick blood sample will be evaluated in the Global Alzheimer's Platform...
  
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• How Abortion Coverage Threatens to Prevent a Congressional Deal on ACA Subsidies

  20-01-2026 18:38 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- There is broad bipartisan support in the House and Senate for reviving federal healthcare subsidies that expired at the beginning of the year. But long-standing disagreements over abortion coverage are threatening to block any...
  
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