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• Lyme Disease Did Not Come From a Secret Military Lab, Contrary to FDA Chief’s Claim

  16-12-2025 22:22 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Claims that Lyme disease was developed as a military bioweapon and escaped from a government lab are flatly contradicted by decades of scientific evidence--despite what federal regulators have claimed recently, experts say...
  
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• 'Most Favored Nation' Pricing May Cut Drug Costs. It May Also Cut Off Rural America.

  16-12-2025 21:33 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Americans pay too much for prescription drugs. On that point, there is almost universal agreement.
  In 2019, the U.S. spent more than $1,000 per person on prescribed medicines--more than any other high-income nation. An Organization...
  
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• Autism Research Retracted; Alzheimer's Tau Mismatch; New Functional Seizure Guidance

  16-12-2025 21:20 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Publisher Springer Nature retracted and removed nearly 40 publications that relied on a dataset containing images of children's faces downloaded from websites about autism. (The Transmitter)
  Alzheimer's patients who had greater...
  
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• Third-Generation PCSK9 Inhibitor Approved for High Cholesterol

  16-12-2025 21:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved lerodalcibep (Lerochol) injections for the treatment of elevated LDL cholesterol in adults, maker LIB Therapeutics announced.
  A third-generation PCSK9 inhibitor, lerodalcibep is indicated as an adjunct to diet...
  
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• GLP-1 Microdosing and Longevity; Near 30% Weight Loss in Trial; 2025's Top Research

  16-12-2025 20:06 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- As part of a longevity push, telehealth company Noom is now offering microdoses of GLP-1 receptor agonists outside the labels' indications, including for people with a normal body mass index and no diabetes.
  In a phase III trial...
  
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• Cardiologist Found Dead; Biological Aging and CVD Risk; New Coronary Clot Retriever

  16-12-2025 19:19 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- An interventional cardiologist from Alaska--recently arrested for allegedly possessing child pornography and fired from his hospital--was reportedly found dead in a house fire. (Anchorage Daily News)
  The inflammation...
  
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• California Hires Ex-CDC Leaders Who Were Fired or Quit Under Trump

  16-12-2025 18:39 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Two former senior officials from the CDC, including one fired by the Trump administration, will join California as public health consultants, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday.
  Susan Monarez, PhD, was fired as the CDC's director...
  
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• Wound Care Scheme Yields Long Prison Sentences

  16-12-2025 18:08 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The married owners of several wound care companies in Arizona were sentenced to roughly 15 years in prison for their role in a scam involving false and fraudulent claims billed to Medicare and other insurance companies for medically...
  
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• Bispecific Antibody Induces High Response Rate in Metastatic TNBC

  16-12-2025 17:30 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- SAN ANTONIO--More than 70% of patients with advanced triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) responded to an investigational bispecific antibody targeting PD-L1 and VEGF-A plus chemotherapy, a preliminary study showed.
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• AI Model Stratifies Late Recurrence Risk in HR-Positive Breast Cancer

  16-12-2025 16:58 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- At the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, researchers presented findings on Clarity BCR, a multimodal multitask deep-learning algorithm that aims to estimate late distant recurrence risk in hormone receptor (HR)-positive breast...
  
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• Mosunetuzumab in DLBCL Shows Promise as Frontline Option for Elderly Patients

  16-12-2025 16:38 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- At the recent American Society of Hematology (ASH) meeting, researchers presented early data from a phase II study evaluating mosunetuzumab (Lunsumio) as frontline monotherapy for elderly patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma...
  
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• Don't Overlook Chikungunya: Prevention Tips for Physicians With Traveling Patients

  16-12-2025 16:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Dr. Marvin Bittner partnered with Bavarian Nordic to share these important health messages. Dr. Bittner was compensated for his participation.
  As global travel continues to heat up--even during cooler months--so can...
  
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• Nick Reiner's Struggle With Drugs; Mifepristone in Drinking Water; Vax Warning Nixed

  16-12-2025 15:40 via medpagetoday.com
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  Nick Reiner, who was arrested in connection with the deaths of his parents Rob and Michele Reiner, once estimated he had been in drug treatment 18 times as a teenager...
  
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• Higher Cost, Worse Coverage: ACA Enrollees Say Expiring Subsidies Will Hit Them Hard

  16-12-2025 15:18 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- For one Wisconsin couple, the loss of government-sponsored health subsidies next year means choosing a lower-quality healthcare plan with a higher deductible. For a Michigan family, it means going without insurance altogether...
  
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• Six Midlife Depressive Symptoms Tied to Dementia

  16-12-2025 00:30 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Six midlife symptoms of depression were tied to an increased risk of dementia, prospective research from the Whitehall II cohort showed.
  Depressive symptoms that emerged as midlife indicators of increased dementia risk were...
  
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